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Comment · 8 months ago

Wood block print maker David Bull produced NEW wood block prints based on these sketches: https://mokuhankan.com/subscriptions/reborn.html

He streams regularly on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/japaneseprintmaking

Comment · 10 months ago

A work being in the public domain just means that if somebody claims that they have the copyright and sue you for distributing that work, you will prevail in court.

Restoration itself does not grant a new copyright. Other elements included in a restoration may be copyrighted e.g. new music or the graphic design of intertitles. A new translation is also copyrightable; essentially it's only the "original elements" that enter the public domain. Working around the anti-piracy measures of a blu-ray might be a crime, idk, but that's irrelevant to the copyright discussion; once you have a copy even if it came from an 'illicit' source, you're free to copy & distribute as you wish.

But yes, you need to acquire a copy first; if you can't find a work at all, how would you copy it, practically?

Comment · 5 years ago

... you mean for consulting services ... you can do pure FP in normal scala and without the cryptofascists

Comment · 5 years ago

Scala implicits are used in a few different places, predominantly in library code where they can for example be used to derive instances of type classes. e.g. in circe:

  import io.circe.syntax._
  List(1, 2, 3).asJson

Where `asJson` requires an instance of an `Encoder`[1] and this Encoder can be derived with the help of implicits.

For you as a normal user, the two common places where you might use implicits are (1) for implicit classes providing syntactic sugar:

  // original
  def doSomething(a: A): B = ???
  val a: A = ???
  val b = doSomething(a)

  // with implicits
  implicit class AImplicits(a: A) {
    def doSomething: B = ???
  }
  val a: A = ???
  val b = a.doSomething

and for (2) implicit conversions. These are a foot-gun, so should be used in limited circumstances. At work, we use case classes in data pipelines then convert these to avro classes on save; there's lots of ways to do this, but as an example if you have an `Optional[Int]` and your avro constructor requires a nullable java `Integer` then `JavaConverters` won't save you and you'll need something like:

  implicit def optIntToInteger(optI: Option[Int]): java.lang.Integer = optI.map(Int.box).orNull

[1] https://circe.github.io/circe/api/io/circe/syntax/package$$E...

Comment · 5 years ago

If what this guy is saying is true, that is clearly terrible. There are however thousands of people who aren't gaming the eviction moratorium and need the protections provided by it.

Also just an aside here to say that both the NY DOB and NY landlords are shockingly terrible in pretty much all possible ways.

Comment · 5 years ago

> as demand from new arrivals far outstripped supply

This is mischaracterizing what is going on. There is rampant speculation by multinationals buying up old housing stock and attempting to do the New York City model of hyperluxury renovations at the expense of existing residents.

Comment · 6 years ago

ITT: a bunch of people who think there is a distinction between life and politics and are privileged enough to be able to pretend the status quo is ok for everybody

Comment · 6 years ago

What about other people's abhorrent behavior?

Comment · 6 years ago

The web has been around since the early 90's and Django was first released in 2005...

Comment · 7 years ago

No questions, but thank you for making it marginally more difficult for tech companies to avoid responsibility for whom they work.

Comment · 7 years ago

> literally concentration camps

They're not death camps but they are literally concentration camps.

Comment · 7 years ago

9_9

Comment · 7 years ago

leftist orthodoxy lol. No leftists own major media outlets.

Comment · 7 years ago

Leave the small town attitudes and pervasive small town social control. Live in close contact with people of many backgrounds and experiences. Learn to be your own person. Earn substantially more in the city, so pay a smaller percent of your wages for basic services and staple foods. Have access to a set of services which are unsupportable in sparse populations. Have your parents become assholes as they are propagandized into xenophobia by a giant foreign corporation.