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I disagree with the implied notion here that Internet art is any more ephemeral than physical art. Physical art, whether it be a statue or a painting, will eventually need to be preserved and maintained to ensure it is available for future generations. Transferring a digital art file to a different media or changing the storage protocol or making backups in case of data loss is just another form of art preservation.

Maybe they're interested in it?

I'm okay with the 30-minute Wi-Fi policy, but the loud music just makes it unpleasant to be in a restaurant even for a short date/meeting/chat. If restaurants really want to make sure customers aren't staying for too long, they should just make it a matter of policy instead of ruining the experience entirely.

I think the context matters here. The ISP is demonstrating the dangers you've pointed out in site blocking by blocking a site that opposes site blocking -- that's genius. Why wouldn't people cheer? Clearly this is indicative that the ISP wouldn't support any kind of block in the future, even for material that doesn't support its views.

If your argument is that this should be put into law and enforced, I imagine this ISP would also agree with you.

Not to lean either way, but it would be nice if it was possible to criticize Israel without it being conflated with antisemitism. Criticizing Saudi Arabia, for example, doesn't typically cause people to assume I'm criticizing Islam.

I think the difference here is that the person they're responding to doesn't seem to have read the article they were being cynical towards, otherwise they would have immediately realized their source of skepticism was directly addressed. I think you can forgive them for being harsh.

If the application is gaming, I feel that if a prop is far enough away that this quality of model is acceptable, then you're better off just using a flat texture for efficiency. These generated 3D models aren't necessarily low-poly, despite being somewhat janky.

While I can't personally see much application for this in its current form, the technology is really impressive nonetheless. I'm very interested in seeing how far this can go.

A CS education, for better or worse (in my opinion - for the better), is grounded in theory and foundational knowledge. Introductory CS classes are designed to ease people into programming, yes, but also to give a taste for concepts that they'll eventually have to become very comfortable with later on.

I don't think Python is a bad first language to learn, but I think that it's important to consider the audience of these introductory CS classes. These classes aren't really designed JUST to teach you programming (I say this as a person who never coded before CS31). This is why the UCLA Computer Science faculty recently introduced CS97, which is actually an introductory programming course taught in Python for absolute beginners. That way those who are already comfortable with coding can ease themselves into learning about lower-level implementation they may not have been exposed to before, and absolute beginners can supplement their introductory _Computer Science_ class with an introductory programing class as well.

What if the filename is a mixture of underscores and spaces?

I'm interested. Here's my wallet: xrb_143o34yte8m893ua91jtnt6gk4owo8wnwojjcpmq1gmsohqtt5e6ibcj8uzw