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Chazprimeon Twitter Takedown Targets QAnon Accounts

> Should they be censured?

Well, look at what happened with Alex Jones and his Sandy Hook theories.

If they cause measurable harm to others, then yes media companies have a responsibility censure people on their platforms who spread conspiracy theories.

Chazprimeon Why Facts Don’t Change Our Minds (2017)

I think you've just described religion ;)

Chazprimeon Making Blurry Faces Photorealistic Goes Only So Far

They already did that in No Way Out, way back in 1987:

https://youtu.be/0zLL_XdqxmQ

Chazprimeon macOS Big Sur Preview

The Catalina beta was a sh!tshow on my MacBook Pro, as was the first (upgraded) release. A fresh install made most of the issues go away.

Chazprimeon macOS Big Sur Preview

Hopefully they'll have an option to reduce the corner radius of windows & views... it looks a bit too bubbly for my taste. Brings back memories of the "candy" widgets of the first OSX release.

Otherwise, it actually looks okay to me.

Chazprimeon Source code of “Delores: A Thimbleweed Park mini-adventure” released

Fun fact: Pirates of the Caribbean began life as a film adaptation of Monkey Island at ILM.

Quite a few details survived the script rewrites...remember the jailhouse dog with the keys in its mouth in the first Pirates?

I believe Gilbert has petitioned Disney a few times now for the rights to Monkey Island to create new games, though I don’t think they’ve responded.

Chazprimeon Security Flaws in Adobe Acrobat Reader Allow Gaining Root on macOS Silently

Nope.

Adjustment and FX layers don't translate, as well as some compositing and blending options.

Chazprimeon Do not Draw a Penis

Chicken penis??

Chazprimeon Ray Tracing Essentials Part 7: Denoising for Ray Tracing

I think the argument here is that creating quality assets with those levels of detail is expensive, not that you can create large and unwieldy meshes by not understanding how to model efficiently... that goes without saying.

Chazprimeon Nintendo’s Philosophy: Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology (2015)

What strikes me about Nintendo is that their hardware quality is rather lacking. Maybe I'm spoiled by Apple et al., but my Switch feels quite the opposite of premium in the hand.

I'm not sure quality is the issue, all of my old Nintendo consoles still work years later (SNES, GBA SP, Gamecube), they simply seem to eschew cutting-edge (and often less reliable) technology.

I've owned four Xbox 360s, three PS1s, two PS2s and two PS3s...there's often a price to pay for packing too much new technology into a game console.

Chazprimeon Ask HN: What skills will be useful during an upcoming recession/depression?

Start by learning how to be a good listener.

Beyond that, remember to relax and be yourself. In my experience, people aren’t judging you nearly as much as you think they are.

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I remember a time when I still enjoyed using Facebook, and that ended around the time the platform started pushing “news” into our feeds. I think in order to stay competitive, news organizations began shoveling bombastic, click-baity, out-of-context crap onto the site… and I think pushing back on this trend is the only way forward.

Chazprimeon Ebola co-discoverer Peter Piot on how to respond to the coronavirus

There’s a paywall on this article, is there an alternative source?

Chazprimeon Corona: Free Cross-Platform 2D Game Engine

Really interesting...though the timeliness of announcing anything called “corona” related right is unfortunate.

Chazprimeon Morons Funding the Fight Against Morons

Telling gay people that they’re “morally unacceptable” is a textbook example of hate.

But sure, as long as she claims she has no problem with gay people, she’s probably a wonderful and misunderstood person.

Chazprimeon Anita Sarkeesian Looks Back at GamerGate

I never paid much attention to this the first time around because it seemed that everyone involved seemed to be genuinely insane. I can’t imagine it being any more interesting now.

Chazprimeon #include </etc/shadow>

Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21810287

Chazprimeon Peloton's new holiday commercial perplexes the internet

Without even opening the story, I'm guessing that there's a link in the story to either a Gawker or Vice News site and that "the internet"is probably a random sampling of a handful of Twitter users.

Chazprimeon Twitter hates me. The Des Moines Register fired me. Here’s what happened

I believe I lost my job unfairly. At the same time, I firmly believe that people, especially those in power, should be held accountable for what they say and do.

And apparently he’s learned nothing from this experience.

Chazprimeon I tried to hack my insomnia

My insomnia is a little different than the author's; I fall asleep easily but wake up three or four hours later. And when I'm up, I'm wide awake.

I tried just about everything discussed here....meditation, podcasts, watching television, reading before bed but nothing really helped me consistently. I even bought a treadmill and started running every day which does help, but the thing that actually did the trick best was a few puffs of marijuana about an hour before bedtime. It was sufficient to take me "out of my head" enough to get a better night's sleep without feeling foggy the next day.

Chazprimeon Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

Read the article; it's stated quite clearly that this is just a way to combat climate change.

Chazprimeon Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis

We can't just plant a bunch of trees and keep living like before, growing to 10 billions and beyond.

I don't think that's implied here. Clearly there's a lot to be done, this is just a good place to start.

Chazprimeon Twitter launches its ‘Hide Replies’ feature in the US and Japan

I believe Jack Dorsey when he says he wants to improve the quality of discourse on the platform, but I'm not sure this step will help anything. If people are being harassed, Twitter should deal with harassment. Adding the ability to hide replies simply allows people to handwave away discussion or criticism that they don't like, which seems detrimental to rational and reasoned discourse.

Chazprimeon Ask HN: It's 2019. Why start a new project in anything other than Rust?

It's a little unclear... is this actually a question or are you here to make inflammatory statements?

Chazprimeon I Quit Social Media for a Year

I don’t think Reddit fits the criteria of “social media” as most users don’t know the people they interact with in real life. I think of it more as a news aggregator as it’s easy to get current events linked from different sources in a single UI.

I routinely bounce back and forth between Reddit & CNN to get updates.

Chazprimeon Stop Infinite Scrolling

I’d say that Facebook’s feed is very difficult to use, and often finding an item that you were looking at earlier in a session can often be very difficult, if not impossible.

Chazprimeon Beyond Meat and KFC partner to test fried plant-based ‘chicken’

You can buy breakfast sandwiches with it at Tim Horton’s now in Canada.

Chazprimeon Ken Silverman's Voxlap Engine

I’m remembering how fun Ace of Spades was, especially the zombie mode.

Chazprimeon Japanese anime studio Khara moving to Blender

You'll find it anywhere someone wants to use it. Some effects people still love doing quick simulations with nCloth, for example.

Chazprimeon Google Employee Writes Memo About ‘The Burden of Being Black at Google’

You have people who start political mailing lists on gender pronouns and technicalities that nobody on the street has ever thought about, but then that same person talks about homeless people in front of the office with a sort of callousness and elitism that is pretty breathtaking.

I can't agree with this more.

I sat through a discussion a few years ago that really opened my eyes... a group of younger artists - that normally discussed things like a lack of racial diversity in the company, transgender rights etc - passionately cheering on the owner of a trendy brunch spot who was on the news for tossing out parents with a crying infant. It struck me that their seemingly endless compassion for humanity might not actually be all that genuine after all.

I thought that being interested in social justice would at the very least require some basic human compassion and empathy, but perhaps that's where I was wrong.