pzone

Joined 11 years ago

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Economics, Finance, Emacs
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Comment · 2 years ago
If you have mobility issues that prevent you from exiting your building easily then you can move somewhere else. We don’t need to make every apartment building in the country more expensive for this extremely specific scenario.
Comment · 3 years ago
This puts aspartame in the same category as aloe vera. It is classified as less risky than drinking hot beverages or eating red meat.
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Adobe halted development of painting and illustration features in Photoshop a number of years ago. Their goal seems to be to get people to use Illustrator for illustrations and Fresco for painting.
Comment · 3 years ago
They are not a sign of a strong American dollar. They are a roadblock that limits the yuan's usefulness for anyone outside of China.
Comment · 3 years ago
To continue your analogy: the two major competitors also have serious flaws. The Euro is like Mastodon. Its decentralized leadership prevents it from offering the features and convenience of Twitter. The Chinese Yuan is like Truth Social. Tight restrictions on what you can do there mean it is not a useful alternative for most people.
Comment · 3 years ago
“One can debate the merits of any of these objectives. But larding already-uncompetitive businesses with crippling new costs to advance completely unrelated social goals is simply at odds with the stated purpose of this law.”
Comment · 3 years ago
How about funding vocational training, building more housing, rejoining the EU and courting the tech industry by any means necessary?
Comment · 3 years ago
I find ASMR videos about as pleasant as nails on a blackboard.
Comment · 3 years ago
Living in the middle of a dense city does improve quality of life for many people via access to amenities and jobs with a very short commute. A hypothetical 50 story skyscraper can provide these benefits to 50 times as many people as a single story building could.

You're right that light and sky visibility are finite resources that require more land. 100+ story buildings can feel oppressive to people. The question to ask then is why we allocate so little land to mid-rise development and force it all into Manhattan and small downtowns. That's the biggest reason we have such tall buildings there.

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A few differences compared to other commercial iPhone-based capture techniques:

- Whole-clip solve instead of noisy frame-by-frame streaming - Automatically generating a face model to calibrate the rig - Solving from raw sensor data instead of Apple ARKit pose data

VFX studios typically develop proprietary solutions a few years in advance, so it can be hard to say what is truly "new and different."

Comment · 3 years ago
Because it’s the best city in the United States

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