flowerbeater

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by flowerbeater 4y ago
What if you needed to link to a paper on your company's website? You'd link to sci-hub?
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by flowerbeater 4y ago
Or Google Buzz!
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by flowerbeater 4y ago
> Even at the larger sizes, a vector won't always look great. If the renderer doesn't fudge vector edges to snap to pixel edges, you'll end up with blurry edges instead of clean, sharp ones. Do you have an example? Text is
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by flowerbeater 4y ago
Why do you think so? 20 years ago, everything was clearly in 1X. Now, the Windows default for many resolutions is 1.5X and my Macbook is 2X by default. iPhones and Androids are at least 2X scaled by default. iPhones in the last 2 years (lik
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by flowerbeater 4y ago
Pixel art is a fun retro hobby, but as the article acknowledges, "we create work for high-resolution HDR screens." Icons, logos, and illustrations in general should be vector-first, so they will show up cleanly on HiDPI and in the
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by flowerbeater 4y ago
There's also an academic capital, New England (Boston), with Harvard, MIT, Yale, Brown, and two dozen top liberal arts colleges.
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
Wouldn't the manufacturers just take over, and only survive in the lowest cost place for manufacturing? The inventors/designers would get nothing and no one would want to do that anymore. What would be the incentive to share your
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
Seeing the amount 50k written out like that today, it seems like a pretty good deal. It looks like less the amount of annual equity that an entry level software developer makes. It's the price of a used truck, a kitchen remodel, a real
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
I think the fundamental question that everyone avoids answering is whether it's possible to tell race from appearance. If the answer is yes, then there should be some specific unspoken criteria that exists, so what are they? If no, the
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
I've heard this trope before, but it doesn't seem true to me. The federal government's day-to-day services include universities (through student loans and grant funding), travel (domestic and international), the quality of fo
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What they don’t tell you when you translate your app(ericwbailey.design)
173 points by flowerbeater 5y ago|230 comments
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A generation of American men give up on college(wsj.com)
397 points by flowerbeater 5y ago|778 comments
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
The employer pays the same social security and medicare taxes as the employee and also has a cap on the social security part, plus in some cases an unemployment tax. If you want to include employer taxes, to calculate if the employer wants
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
The 37% and 13.3% are on marginal income, as I'm sure you know. The effective tax rate is much lower. California and some other states also have required disability insurance that is taken out with the state income tax. It's 1% in
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
But there's a survivor bias in picking US blue chips. Wouldn't it make more sense to look at the rate of return for equity markets around the world? For example, the Japanese blue chip stock market has been stagnant.
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'Unprecedented' fraud penetrated rollout of Covid-19 small business loans(abcnews.go.com)
1 points by flowerbeater 5y ago|0 comments
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
I feel like there should be more outcry for credit bureaus and ISPs having even more life-affecting information than what is listed.
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
Yeah that's totally understandable. I'm not advocating for removing/demoting major media stuff or bumping up obscure sites, not even saying anything about the scoring algorithm should change. Rather I think obscure sites shou
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
Yes I agree. Like original content takes a lot of work to produce, and could get an extra chance by default. Whereas news articles, tweets, and content from large tech companies have their own promotional campaigns. I'd rather have ecl
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
Looks like you made a calculation error or misunderstood your units. A credit hour is 3 hours of work, as a credit hour is "(1) One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out of class student work
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
There's a wide range of degrees between "unfoolable" and "can be done by a persistent student". I think the impression (at least my impression) used to be is that it was possible before but quite unlikely without st
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The NYPD is sending its controversial robot dog back to the pound(theverge.com)
1 points by flowerbeater 5y ago|0 comments
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by flowerbeater 5y ago
This is a reasonable and balanced analysis of the situation. In retrospect, it seems like the reversion of the 190 patches was an overreaction that ended up causing a lot of confusion: many people even on HN misinterpreted the comments on r
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
In my life, this was an aggressive employee we hired who was not performing but also passive-aggressive to everyone, and at the beginning we were obligated to give them the benefit of the doubt (due to their explanations that they're s
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
I'd be a little careful with your one-line dismissals of fields. Each field has hundreds of people dedicating their entire lives into it. It'd be offensive to them that someone who hasn't even done any research to think they
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
I think it's just about to take off. Browser support across the board is coming by the end of the year. PNG also took a while to become fully supported, so we just need some patience.
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
Not for me. I'm in the United States in an urban area and mobile data is 1 cent per megabyte (my provider is Google Fi). Decoding is nearly pretty fast for me, but the time for page elements to download is in the seconds (not even mi
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
Just curious, do you think what you paid is the actual cost to provide you that education?
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
Seems a bit low. Isn't a drink already $7 a beer, or $12 a cocktail there? That's $10 and $15 with tax+tip respectively, leaving very little for the entree plus appetizer...
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by flowerbeater 6y ago
I don't buy this. At a fast food chain, drinks are $1 with free refills. A burger is $3 for the fancy ones, $1 for the dollar menu ones. The windows also have all sorts of 4 for $4 or $5 value meal deals. So $5 without any coupons at W

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