Ordering a cheese pizza is my standard method for determining if a pizzeria is any good. If they can't make a good cheese pizza, everything else is suspect.
You missed one.
At position # 103, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2850X at 3.50 GHz with a score of 2,211.
That's against # 1, Intel Core I9-9900K at 3.60 GHz with a score of 2,897.
For the single thread PassMark test, the Intel processor is 31% faster, and it's less expensive.
My home processor is i7-870, with a PassMark single thread score of 1,302. It's disappointing that in seven years performance has improved only 122%
There are very few animals for which wheels would be an advantage, due to the fact that most of the surface of the earth is not hard and relatively smooth. Also, there are technical difficulties: how do you nourish a living wheel, so that it can grow and self-repair?
1. Gimp is an image manipulation program, not primarily a drawing program. You're trying to mow a lawn with a shovel.
2. Think first. There are several ways to draw circles, using tools like elliptical select and/or the filled circle brush.
3. In the FX-Foundry plugin, FX-Foundry -> Shapes -> Parametric -> Ellipse. Alas, it's not very good.
4. Here's a direct method.
Make a new layer.
Choose the filled circle brush.
Click on the pencil tool. Choose a size (diameter).
In the image, click where you want the center of the circle. Remember that location. Now you have a filled circle.
Click on the eraser tool. Reduce the size by 2.
In the image, click on the center of the filled circle. Now you have a circle with a thickness of 1 pixel.
Merge down the new layer to put the circle on the previous top layer.
Reading it, it looks like a lot of work, but it's not. It takes less than 2 minutes. It's inconvenient, but it's easy and straightforward.
I've given this some thought; it's an idea I like. However, there are some problems. Rewriting gimp for Qt is a huge job; my estimate is that there's well over 100 Mbyte of source code. Once it's been written, all you'd have is a fork: it's unlikely that gimp.org is going to accept a completely rewritten program. The creator of the fork then has to maintain it, and he'll be missing all the improvements that were in process when the fork goes public but not yet incorporated in the final gimp product. And once it's done, who's going to use it, besides systemd haters like myself?
Gimp loads all the plugins at startup, one file at a time. This is perhaps a poor design choice, but it does give a lot of flexibility for the addition of new plugins.
Within the limits imposed by the GTK+ toolkit, it's pretty easy to change the gimp UI to fit your preferences; some of it can even be done without recompiling.
Many of the plug-ins are well written and can be modified by even mediocre programmers to have improved functionality and/or more accurate results.
It's obvious that your attitude is that you'd rather complain bitterly than do anything good.
"The world needs to be working on lots of solutions to stop climate change,"
Until such time as the sun goes out or gets so big that it eats the Earth, the climate is going to keep changing and cannot be made not to change. Just whom does Gates think he's fooling - or is he really that stupid?
The solution is one big landfill in a place few people would ever want to build. Nevada was ideal; opposition came from troublemakers and dupes.
Many small nuclear landfills is a bad idea. Some will be sited badly. Over time, some may be forgotten. Political pressure from developers will cause politicians in a couple of hundred years to allow construction in the buried waste. Most of the problems are minimized by having only one site, and that on federally owned land.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Modern windmills are actually rather elegant; you're just not used to them.
If the world were covered with nothing but grass, and genetic engineering created the first tree, I'm sure lots of people would consider it grotesque and ugly.
Money created without limit benefits 2 groups: the source of the money (who gets to buy with it without significant cost) and net debtors (who see their debt inflated into less real value.) Whether money that comes from the government is printed or acquired by theft, makes very little difference in the amount of damage it causes.
Popcorn popper: pan with lid. Even cheaper, a empty food can with the lid still attached.
More to the point: if you're poor, what are you doing eating popcorn?
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Ordering a cheese pizza is my standard method for determining if a pizzeria is any good. If they can't make a good cheese pizza, everything else is suspect.
Real food, like wormy walnuts. No thanks, I prefer food with all the animals dead.
https://dilbert.com/strip/1997-11-13
You missed one.
At position # 103, AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2850X at 3.50 GHz with a score of 2,211.
That's against # 1, Intel Core I9-9900K at 3.60 GHz with a score of 2,897.
For the single thread PassMark test, the Intel processor is 31% faster, and it's less expensive.
My home processor is i7-870, with a PassMark single thread score of 1,302. It's disappointing that in seven years performance has improved only 122%
There are very few animals for which wheels would be an advantage, due to the fact that most of the surface of the earth is not hard and relatively smooth. Also, there are technical difficulties: how do you nourish a living wheel, so that it can grow and self-repair?
Doctor, heal thyself.
1. Gimp is an image manipulation program, not primarily a drawing program. You're trying to mow a lawn with a shovel.
2. Think first. There are several ways to draw circles, using tools like elliptical select and/or the filled circle brush.
3. In the FX-Foundry plugin, FX-Foundry -> Shapes -> Parametric -> Ellipse. Alas, it's not very good.
4. Here's a direct method.
Make a new layer.
Choose the filled circle brush.
Click on the pencil tool. Choose a size (diameter).
In the image, click where you want the center of the circle. Remember that location. Now you have a filled circle.
Click on the eraser tool. Reduce the size by 2.
In the image, click on the center of the filled circle. Now you have a circle with a thickness of 1 pixel.
Merge down the new layer to put the circle on the previous top layer.
Reading it, it looks like a lot of work, but it's not. It takes less than 2 minutes. It's inconvenient, but it's easy and straightforward.
I've given this some thought; it's an idea I like. However, there are some problems. Rewriting gimp for Qt is a huge job; my estimate is that there's well over 100 Mbyte of source code. Once it's been written, all you'd have is a fork: it's unlikely that gimp.org is going to accept a completely rewritten program. The creator of the fork then has to maintain it, and he'll be missing all the improvements that were in process when the fork goes public but not yet incorporated in the final gimp product. And once it's done, who's going to use it, besides systemd haters like myself?
Gimp loads all the plugins at startup, one file at a time. This is perhaps a poor design choice, but it does give a lot of flexibility for the addition of new plugins.
If it bothers you, try running gimp from a SSD.
Get source code.
Change all instances of GIMP to XKCD.
Compile.
Profit.
Within the limits imposed by the GTK+ toolkit, it's pretty easy to change the gimp UI to fit your preferences; some of it can even be done without recompiling.
Many of the plug-ins are well written and can be modified by even mediocre programmers to have improved functionality and/or more accurate results.
It's obvious that your attitude is that you'd rather complain bitterly than do anything good.
How about the ivory-billed woodpecker?
That's simply not true. Chicken and turkey are inexpensive and available minimally processed.
Until such time as the sun goes out or gets so big that it eats the Earth, the climate is going to keep changing and cannot be made not to change. Just whom does Gates think he's fooling - or is he really that stupid?
The solution is one big landfill in a place few people would ever want to build. Nevada was ideal; opposition came from troublemakers and dupes.
Many small nuclear landfills is a bad idea. Some will be sited badly. Over time, some may be forgotten. Political pressure from developers will cause politicians in a couple of hundred years to allow construction in the buried waste. Most of the problems are minimized by having only one site, and that on federally owned land.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Modern windmills are actually rather elegant; you're just not used to them.
If the world were covered with nothing but grass, and genetic engineering created the first tree, I'm sure lots of people would consider it grotesque and ugly.
Ever used a titanium razor blade? They go dull really quickly.
That is the goal of socialism, so obviously it works.
Money created without limit benefits 2 groups: the source of the money (who gets to buy with it without significant cost) and net debtors (who see their debt inflated into less real value.) Whether money that comes from the government is printed or acquired by theft, makes very little difference in the amount of damage it causes.
Honest people don't want it. Self-respecting people don't want it. Responsible people don't want it. Democrats do.
A working UBI will cause depression-era hardship.
You, on the other hand, breed outside your species. Say hello to Bossy.
Popcorn popper: pan with lid. Even cheaper, a empty food can with the lid still attached.
More to the point: if you're poor, what are you doing eating popcorn?
Set a paper bag down in a puddle and you'll discover why plastic is superior.
Says the guy who hasn't cut his foot on a shard of broken glass.