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The feature list of Hacker News is similar to Reddit, but the content and the nature of quality control are entirely different, and his issues were about the content he saw on thos…

Not sure where in Europe you're from but in the Netherlands WhatsApp and the likes are just considered Internet usage, no special costs.

Ideally it would put the conclusions in the title: > The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom performance: 20 to 30 FPS on Nintendo Switch That would generally make it unnecessary…

I don't necessarily agree with his point but homosexuality (/sodomy/buggery) used to be categorized as a crime against nature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_against_nature

The inspiration for Newspeak is Basic English, which is much like Esperanto but with English words (at least it's described as such — I'm not actually very familiar with Basic Engl…

In "Polittico di Sant’Antonio" the cut-off shadow is at the edge of the painting, so I imagine that one might have just been an oversight from the painter. But in general, it is pr…

I don't recommend adding black to get shadow colors — you're not going to get pretty colors if you take that approach. Shadows have a bit of a color of their own. What you need to …

> Since most artists probably start with a composition in the 2d space of the artwork, there’s never really a coherent 3d space to place the light sources in or figure out those pr…

The paintings in the article are mostly 15th century, which is only early renaissance. The understanding of light in painting was still somewhat limited in those times. I think in …

> I very much doubt that. You can see his actual workflow on his YouTube channel. He shows his painting process there but doesn't show his sketching process, but I hope that you be…

First of all, those are only two works in a very large body of works of an artist that seems to work almost entirely from imagination, which already counters the claim that this is…

> when doing paintovers on copyrighted images (VERY common) What are you talking about? I've been doing drawing and digital painting as a hobby for a long time and tracing is absol…

The LAION-5B dataset is public, so you can check directly whether a picture is in there or not. StabilityAI only takes a very limited amount of information from each individual pic…

That's not true. As an example of a more recent copyright-protected work that Stability AI consistently reproduces fairly faithfully, I invite you to try out the prompt "bloodborne…

>I think a large part of outrage from the artists about diffusion model "stealing" art comes from a place of disbelief that machines can be this good without "stealing" I think whe…

I don't think there is a practical need for UTC to be synchronized with the rotation of the Earth for a long time, because although the error accumulates, it only accumulates very …

Thank you for your opinions. The point of my proposal was to keep the API entirely backwards compatible, so rewrites would not be necessary. The important part is the "Legacy Unix …

In short, Unix time is based on UTC. If there's a leap second at midnight, you start a stopwatch ten seconds before midnight and stop it ten seconds after, then there is going to b…

Large cloud providers are actually exactly the ones who argued that leap seconds should be abolished, so I presume there were enough use cases where this was an issue. I faintly re…

I agree that for many use cases the exact second is irrelevant, like submission times and things likes that. That being said, programmers do seem to expect, for example, that code …