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I always post this link when Blender is discussed because it's so impressive. It shows what a single person can achieve in Blender. The visual effects and compositing have been created by Blender expert Ian Hubert. The video shows a (grimy) futuristic city scene. Green screen footage and the final shots created are shown side-by-side:

VFX Breakdown - Dynamo Dream Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFJ_THGj72U

The full short Dynamo Dream was posted a few months ago by Hubert on his YouTube channel:

Episode 1 : Salad Mug - DYNAMO DREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsGZ_2RuJ2A
Can u name a better alternative?
> Even the model kits are still just a box full of bricks--Lego abhors creating unique blocks unless they can be used in other sets.

I've heard this again and again, and I believe it used to be true. But is it still really the case? My daughters have been gifted a number of Lego sets in the past few years that are simply full of very one-off looking pieces that are hard to use for much else, with very few standard bricks.

I don't doubt that the molds can be repurposed for some other sets potentially, but as an example look at this set that we have and see if you really think it's "just a box full of bricks".

https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/anna-elsa-s-frozen-playgr...

What bugs me about sets like that is there's very little ability to build something completely different with it, which to me is what Lego used to be about. The most fun I had as a kid (and what my kids seem to enjoy most) is just building random things from a pile of bricks (which is why I buy them the generic brick packs rather than the sets like above).
It’s a cool piece, but triggers a question - do I have to be a crypto person?
Can you elaborate on the lingo, or point in a direction for learning?
Data-driven sparse skin stimulation can convey social touch information
Whatever. Why throw away 8% of your monitor's color gamut / dynamic range? Tip to the author, just turn up brightness on the monitor, or shine a desk light on it. Or get a monitor that bleeds some backlight or light from neighboring pixels. Unnaturalness fixed.

It's like saying digitized audio should never have complete silence in it because you rarely hear that in nature. Well, you rarely hear that in the room you're listening in either, or your own inner ear. Doesn't mean you have to add those sounds to the audio.
Walks, talks and time.
How do you tackle the problem of “alarm blindness”?

The moment I think about a ‘Butt Pomodoro’ I picture myself being 90% disciplined and 10% saying “ok yes but not right now: I’m (doing something with a critical deadline/in the zone/especially lazy)”

And after a few of those, the reminder becomes background noise.
People immediately jump to "yeah but what about this crazy edge case" because they know the law will be applied to hundreds of millions of people and that crazy edge case will actually happen many times.

And if you can't say ahead of time what a judge should do with that law against that edge case, you have a legal vulnerability. Something that will cause "hard cases make bad law." Something that will be abused by the rich and powerful and against the poor and vulnerable. You have a bad law.

What you're advocating for is not thinking about the consequences of legislation before passing it.
Yeah, but you couldn't buy tickets on ITA which made its special sauce only go so far. What's the point of building the best schedule if its unpurchaseable, or unpurchaseable without a travel agent?

Hipmunk actually let you use ITA syntax to search for very specific route constructions, which you could then buy.
It’s a strong assumption that humans are more rational than machines. Certainly typical customer service reps get bamboozled frequently, such as with SIM-swap scams. Even supposedly highly rational professionals like judges are often wrong. You might find that overall, human failures are worse than code-as-policy failures.
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Really? Alsatians have dreadful hip dysplasia, and look pretty wolfy.
Best advice for quality of sleep: Stop drinking.
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I've been through this the last few years before losing my parents. First the easy and cheap things. Get them a Ring to see who's coming and going. Get an Alexa video device for each floor - go with the Alexa ones because they are the only ones that let you to check-in without the recipient accepting the call. Get them Apple watches. Knowing that they just need to yell "Alexa, call johnny" and that you can peek in provides quite a bit of peace of mind.

Get a Power of Attorney for each. Make sure your understand their finances.

Go to Home Depot and get the bars for the bathroom. Check into the stair lifts, they aren't super-expensive and some Medicare plans cover them.

Do they still drive? If feasible, get them comfortable with Uber while they're still driving and the transition will be easier.

Talk to their doctors. See if you can get the doctor the prescribe home nurse visits and PT visits. It's another care vector that's covered by Medicare.

Start cleaning the house out now. I really didn't go through dad's stuff when he died, and then when mom died, I had to sort through everything. Figure out what's important while they're still around.
According to the wikipedia link, both of you are correct. One was about his own brand, the other was about him using "Lego" to refer to the bricks of other brands (which he only started doing after they sued the first time).
It really depends on how well the offering matches the need. My personal experience is that outsourcing core bits where vendors don't match exactly the needs ends up causing more overhead that if we had written the service ourselves.
> When I first tried it out I was instantly taken aback at how MS had used full black for their darkmode. Not suprising, considering their inability to implement reasonable design, but ridiculous nonetheless. I can't fathom how no one on their design team stepped back and thought 'maybe there's a reason dark mode is usually a dark grey instead of black'.

It is most likely due to AMOLED and their big investment in mobile technology (Surface, etc.) I imagine a lot of them have AMOLED screens, so a pure-black dark mode pays off here. Nevertheless, I can't imagine it would be hard to just let people choose the colour of the dark variant, like GTK / Qt theming systems do on Linux.
cheaper cars are a magnet for thieves looking for getaway cars for a larger heist.
I have that issue, and I've tried with anything from 5 minutes to 30 minutes. Regardless of the time frame I wake up feeling confused, sleepy and my head hurts.
Oh yeah, it's not that the new kids on the block need to be better than the old guard on all dimensions, but if we're really going to switch (rather than just having the disruptors as the occasional mistress), the switch has to be worth it. This is why I don't worry that crypto is going to release some kind of monster that can't be put back in its cage.

To value something is a choice. People are going to chose to value whichever network/token/whatever is actually worth switching to.
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The key question is this: how are votes enforced when they impact non-blockchain related actions?

That is, Who pays the taxes on the people that get hired? How is non-blockchain income distributed? Who do you sue if a vote violates a labor law? How does the DAO purchase or pay for services from non-blockchain entities?

If a DAO token is "equity" then it will fall under security regulations of various nations. In addition, it cannot be equity unless the DAO is also a registered company in some jurisdiction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon#The_Western_...

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1274808/
Looks like :)

https://github.com/ovh/the-bastion
I thought that was the ploy the first time I heard about legacy games, too. But these things cost more than a hundred bucks, and typically offer 40+ hours of play. I don't think they're expecting many repeat buyers.
> What I find interesting is that dogs are way better adapt at living a “city life” or an “apartment life”

This is certainly not the case with some of the herding / working dog breeds (GSD, Malinois etc) - it is borderline cruel keeping them in an apartment in some cases, and dangerous in others.

I lived with a presa canario for a year in an apartment (roommates dog) - it was not a good situation for the dog or anyone else. After I moved out, I learned the dog attacked someone and was euthanized.
> Generally you want your dog to be smart enough to read your queues and work around you

Great write up. Btw, in that context you want "cue" instead of "queue".
> everyone has a different idea of dark gray.

There are a few factors causing this:

* People have monitors with different gamma curves, and even if you try to match them slight different output for top white and bottom black. Heck, on bad monitors these things can vary across the screen or if you aren't sitting perfectly head-on.

* People are working in different environments so ambient like that they are seeing the screen against (home & office lighting, light from windows, reflections of those off home/office decor, and so forth) will vary.

* Peoples eyes vary in a considerable number of ways, even ignoring those with variations significant enough to be considered “defects” from the norm.

* These things can all vary over time, over different cycle times.

It doesn't just affect blacks and grays: on a simple dashboard I've created pastel colour backgrounds are used as subtle highlights (used to separate things, guide the eye a little, to indicate status of things (though there are other, less subtle, indicators when this is significant), and to just make it look nicer (as coldly objective as I can sometimes be, even I appreciate a bit of effort there)) that are useful (you miss them if they go) but don't want to be attention grabbing. I've needed to tweak the colours chosen because while they did the job on my screens they were too similar or too almost-not-there-at-all on other people's.
"Lack saufen", or "chugging varnish" is a common German (internet?) saying for people who are just crazy.
I played a legacy game with a group of friends and loved it. We got together every week at the same time for about 15 weeks (I forget exactly). Each week, the core mechanics were similar, but the board changed and there were new goals and such.

You put "replayability" in contrast to "legacy" but honestly we played that game more times (15) than a lot of traditional board games.
The first option looks good. Would you be interested to check if you can transfer to a more exciting but less pragmatic STEM degree - pure mathematics, physics, astronomy? Maybe, you can find more interesting people there?

Also, remember to be pro-active and be an interesting person yourself :)
> It is subjective but 3D max interface is much more intuitive.

The most intuitive interface is the one you're used to.
I take the notion of "resolution" to relate to things such as the range of visible color, complexity of shapes and sounds. If you agree with that assumption (and you don't have do) that details are of that nature, you can always conceive of less, but not necessarily more.
don't forget (c) cashing out and running away before it all falls apart so somebody else is left holding the bag.
ITA and kayak were organizationally close in a lot of ways. Kayak brought lots of useful data relationships to the table and ITA brought their technological wizardry. Google was a direct (and hostile) competitor to kayak, who led the anti-trust charge to stop the acquisition. The post-acquisition hostility is just the standard SV playbook stuff like prioritizing Google products in search results and offering amazing incentives to build market share.

I have no particular insight here beyond a general interest in the industry though.
Not something we've directly worked on yet but there is a lot of interest and other groups/companies doing ML at the edge utilizing things like GPU PCI passthrough with co-processors attached. That way you could isolate say ffmpeg in one unikernel, your inference app in another, maybe a stats app that shoots rollups to the cloud, etc. I think as costs keep coming down this will get ever more interesting over time. You can for instance already run multiple unikernels on a single rpi4 with ARMv8. The one that ships with v9 will be really nice.
Manned Mars Landing Presentation to the Space Task Group [pdf]
I think this research shows a lot of promise when paired with current work being done at FRL (Reality Labs) with regards to haptics[0][1]. Having overall multisensory integration and proper proprioception will be very important to reaching realistic AR/VR, especially in situations demanding real-time feedback.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9bbbYcgMqQ

[1] - https://tech.fb.com/inside-reality-labs-meet-the-team-thats-...
I've been using Hasura extensively and love it. I'm curious what the delta is between the two. It's so simple to run Hasura on dokku and instantly get an amazing UI for postgres with the bonus of graphql. It would take a lot for me to switch.
I own a Boox Note Air 2.

Bought it when I was looking for a large screen eReader for the technical epubs and pdfs I’ve amassed over the years that require a big screen (big pages on the pdfs)

pros and cons of this company are pretty clear

Pros are that they have large eReaders and support any file format

They also run android so if you use an app like Pocket or an RSS feed to read articles, they work well enough

Cons:

The company’s documentation is more or less broken. Google how to fix something and their docs are missing, outdated, and often in broken english.

The screen itself is big but slow to refresh and in most modes leaves traces of the previous pages. They have a manual button to full refresh the page, but a user shouldn’t have to do that.

It’s not a certified android device so you have to jump through a bunch of somewhat insecure hoops to get the play store installed and log in.

Privacy: There privacy statement basically says “lol we promise to be private k?” So I want to run this thing through wireshark to see how true that is. My only skepticism is that it’s a Chinese company, and that might not be fair, but given the information I have on my device it would be good to confirm.

All that said, they have a color eInk screen that’s coming out soon that looks wonderful.
Oh shit oh shit, so I don't have to use prerelease versions to use my new nodes setups anymore soon.
This 2012 advice has aged poorly, and as with all absolutes, fails to consider context, capabilities, and functional goals.

In the specific case of e-ink, where colour is usually nonexistent (there are some colour devices, these are the exception and have limited rendering), where greyscales are limited (16 shades on high-end devices, and often less), and total foreground/background contrast is limited (restricted more by the dark "white" than the light "black"), the advice to avoid saturated blacks is quite poor.

This is most applicable to text, where the most frustrating experience is reading a greyed-out or coloured text, often on a shaded background. Firefox's Reader Mode is a lifesaver, as is the EInkBro browser. High-contrast text and black-on-white themes are strongly preferred. Ironically, I use the Dark Reader extension to force light themes on numerous websites. The fact that the extension itself features a dark theme for its controls is ... unfortunate.

Generally for e-ink, I'd suggest:

- Use solid blacks and high-contrast whites where possible. This should always be the case for text if at all possible. Reversed white-on-black should be reserved for controls and emphasis.

- Line art and etchings render wonderfully. There's a reason Onyx features these in its marketing and screensavers, they look truly delicious on the devices. See for example: https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03... and https://www.e-readerweb.nl/test/data/articles/images/lightbo...

- For photographic and shaded images, halftoned or dithered images are an improvement over shading which is at best posterised. The high DPI (200--300 on most screens) achieves near-photographic quality at a modest viewing distance.

- For icons and UI elements, line- and solid-block art is much clearer and more distinctive than shaded or coloured elements. The top four lines of icons in this image are Onyx-provided applications, the lower rows are third-party apps. Onyx's icons are much better suited to the device: https://sm.pcmag.com/t/pcmag_au/review/o/onyx-boox-/onyx-boo...

- Yes, there are some colour devices available. They're the minority, saturation is limited, and hue fidelity varies markedly from original art. See: https://www.liseuses.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/onyx-boo...

Keep in mind that all display systems offer limited ranges of darkness, intensity, hue range, and saturation, and that their best capabilities can be severely degraded depending on viewing conditions. Emissive displays achieve their best results under dark ambient conditions, and become difficult or impossible to read under bright light or sunlight, whilst e-ink devices shine (or more accurately, reflect) at their brightest under direct sunlight.
What about SEO, a11y, i18n?
I've only ever had one complaint about Lego instructions, and it goes way back to the first big star destroyer set. Early on you're assembling a triangular frame that is the core of the model. After what felt like 50+ pages, you're finally complete and ready to move on to the next part. Except the last page has a 'x2' indicating you need to make two of the bloody things, only at the end rather than the beginning so you can't build two in parallel as you go along.

Being an excited kid I might have missed it on the first page of instructions for that assembly but I sure was annoyed when I saw it.
Have 4 seven-day weeks, with an extra "holiday" every month for the new (or full) Moon consisting of alternating one and two days. Average month: 29.5 days.
An extension is the best next thing to native support and in my opinion a better place for such functionality.
I've only even ran Nvidia on Linux, is the AMD driver really worse?
I mean nix is in Cpp so uh... technically...
My youngest (7) has watched Ninjago, but if he got a Ninjago set, I'm 100% sure he would build it once according to the instructions, then after a little while, take it apart and incorporate all of the pieces into a new creation from the bucket. It's his original creations that end up being displayed on a shelf.
Ah, thanks! Now I finally get it.
I want to use blender and I'm sure they would get a lot more acceptance if they fix the one thing people have been complaining about for YEARS! That's great for your son but no credible agency will use GIMP. Krita is awesome and I love it and comes the closest to an open source alternative to PS, it is much better than GIMP in everyway and is actually usable.

Unfortunately the industry doesn't care if he doesn't care about photoshop, it cares about it and if he wants to be a part of it he should start learning to care unless his work is beyond amazing and he will only be freelancing then ignore everything I said.

Photoshop is not impressive but it gets the job done quickly and smoothly with minimal friction and that's why it is number one.
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The vaccines as they are would have been perfectly fine if the wild type of SARS-Cov2 were everything we had to deal with. At least you seem to be referring to that because of the level of efficacy you mention. Unfortunately the pesky Delta variant appeared and threw a spanner in our works. Now there is the Omicron variant which seems to be even more infectious.

As much as I understand that people would prefer if the world were simple and solutions obvious but it just not is this way. It's messy and things change and that means that yesteryear's statements just might no longer be true. We need to deal with that and please do not make things more complicated than they are anyways already.
At some period of human history, breeding for some traits probably made sense, functionally. Dogs that could hunt well or track other animals for you all made sense in a survival situation.

The mess we got into was when we started this whole selective genetic manipulation based on visual appearances and at the cost of their health. As pets, to me, it doesn't make a lot of sense to do all this nonsense selective breeding and inbreeding that perpetuates clear genetic issues that would resolve with a bit natural diversity. I never want to have a 'pure' bred dog both in principle against the idea and because more diversity means my pet has a better chance of moving away from bad generic traits or moving their pups into that direction (and a potentially longer, healthier life).

My sibling owned a pug at one point when I was young and she was incredibly cute and sweet but at a cost to her health. Her facial wrinkle folds were prone to bacterial infection and had to be cleaned regularly, she suffered a lot of food allergies, had clear breathing problems, but fortunately didn't suffer from any sort of eye problems pugs are prone to. She ultimately died of cancer.

I'll take rescue pets which are most often not selectively bred any day over encouraging the breeding nonsense. All of my rescue pets have lived long and healthy lives into old age with almost no issues, just by avoiding inbreeding for at least one level of lineage.
The graph problem is huge (NP-complete in the full case). You can't reasonably cache things because segment availability changes a lot. Latencies on searches through the GDS may be much higher than you're used to in other domains. Due to all these factors and more, cost per query is quite high. And then on top of all that, conversions for flight searches are quite low and the reward for converting a search is on the order of single digit cents.
That is hilarious. Ferriss is an interesting guy, but there's something funky going on when you're trying to "hack" century old concept. It's basically Schwarzenegger telling you to sleep faster.
Is it really abusive if it's up to you to choose "Work at company X, make ~10% more but you have to be on-call for 1 week every 8 weeks" vs. "Work at company Y, make ~10% less, but never be on-call"?

Honestly, I'm not even sure how it's even remotely possible to draw a parallel between slavery and that. When negotiating a salary you'll have to take these things into account. Not worth it for the pay? Find another place to work. Jobs do grow on trees for people in our industry.
In other words, code should be eloquent, it should be as easy as possible to understand why it exists and why the way it is written is correct (or give information as to why the author thought it was correct).

Likewise, with regard to modularity, I like the take on codebases that optimize for deletion and not abstraction (after all, abstraction is only a tool, not an objective).

These two together make up for the best code IMO.
You theoretically could, but since water is incompressible, you get arbitrarily high pressure for free in a sufficiently strong pressure vessel assuming zero air content. Doing the same with air would require a lot of energy and an intricate feedback loop. Beyond that: compressing air causes it to rise in temperature, which further complicates things.