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> not having RMB-select is some kind of sacrilige

Blender still does have it as an option, in fact one of the few that are displayed front and center before you start editing when it first starts up.
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Lawrence of Arabia is also one of the most expensive and most insanely massively epic films ever shot - I am not sure it is a fair comparison. Dune is a massive massive movie today but I am not sure I agree the comparison.

Realistically yes we should just be doing more practical SFX but you have to realize it is not just some big hollywood exec deciding they want to ONLY do VFX - the available skill market for these things has drastically changed. In the 1980s there were lots of very skilled SFX people and studios that could do some incredible things. The amount of people with those skills has dwindled.

I think the best example of this sort of thing is the OG Jurassic Park. Everyone has an armchair evaluation of why it holds up so well and many are correct but there is a subtle difference most people never bring up. Years ago I worked with a guy much more experienced than me who had originally been a talented stop motion artist and then as the industry progressed moved on to doing animation for VFX. He did a lot of animation for the CGI dinosaurs - imagine the scene where the T-Rex is chasing the jeep for example. The big difference is that because his back story was in stop motion he had a much more direct and real world experience of how things and people move and how their weight is thrown around. One of the underappreciated things in Jurassic Park and why it seems to hold up so well today is simply that the dinosaurs move like they should as huge, lumbering creatures - it ends up a subtle difference that ends up making a huge impact on what we unconsciously accept as "real".
They do have access, just not with deere. So stop buying Deere.
Thank you for creating this app and NOT requiring an account / login just to check it out.

I’m a new dad with a 13 month old and look forward to using this app going forward!
Great point, thanks for bringing it up! True, I wasn't detailed on this point in the article, but I do agree with what you wrote - it's not either-or, there's good kind of criticism, too. I think I'll think about it a bit and rephrase that point. How would you talk about this?
Presumably it's to stop copyright infringement. People streaming shows and such.
"Imagine if forgotten reality was up for debate! Was your first car yellow, or yellow-green? Did chicken always taste like that?"

Imagined reality's memory is up for debate internally since your memories change over time, it is almost like the choice of debate is being taken away between the first version of a memory and subsequent versions as time passes while we keep retelling our memories to ourselves.
Are voting machines too vulnerable to hacking? Georgia's having that debate
We also have a second role with the same team for a sfwr engineer building tools for customer DevOps teams.

https://www.comeet.com/jobs/infinidat/D6.003/software-develo...
while that does make sense, i am in a pretty isolated region and i'd like to pick a specific different region.

also, while i am at it, i'd prefer a small group rather than one on one.
Python and C work wonders together.

I must admit that writing in C gives a more fun challenge.
I don’t get to play video games anymore as often as a couple of years ago. Then I was naturally informed about interesting titles (typically indie). Now when I have a couple of hours to kill and would like to play something new/original I usually give up after 20min of searching and grab a book.

I wish I knew some decent curators or magazines, but most of the stuff I come across is just too far from what I‘m looking for. Search engines don’t help much here either.
Every phone gets a /48!
You don't get better by waiting until you can be better, you get better by doing your best, falling short and discovering how to overcome your shortfalls.

You don't get a budget to 'try to build the battle of five armies perfectly and only then will you get to put it in a movie'.

Overambition is frankly BAKED into the movie industry and has from the beginning.

So yes, cutting edge effects will fall short, they have since the beginning of film. But the techniques are always getting better. When golum was introduced in the LoTR he was not perfect but you can see the improvement just within that series from movie to movie, he's always looking better... 'touch' interaction between cgi human actor also improves quite a bit but still lacks, the wrestle that frodo and golum have at the cracks has .. cracks.
What do you think it would cost to get a 750 square foot home built super quality in old style? I don't mean fireplaces from italy, I just mean stuff like real brick masonry, super well insulated, slate roof, hardwood floors, a real fireplace. Basically I want to build a house that looks like a brick house from 1875 but is energy efficient and structurally sound, with modern electricity, plumbing and climate control. Is that a thing that any builder would do?
> if you take extreme measures and eliminate all COVID, then there is no COVID.

This is false because COVID also has animal reservoirs. It will never get eradicated like polio or smallpox, which only had human reservoirs.

It appears that in 2022 it is now finally understood that COVID-19 will not get eradicated, the vaccines do not prevent transmission or infection (in fact, the original RCT never even showed it -- it was just assumed!), and that cloth masks have much more limited effectiveness than initially assumed. Omicron is highly contagious (but much milder!) so it appears that almost everyone will get it eventually.
The sign of a great writer
Compilers automated 99.9% of work already.
The punchline emerges from the complacent who will allow it to happen, while patting themselves on the back for how "pragmatic" they are - not from the "armchair outrage".
I would have said there is a ~0% chance of this happening within our lifetimes.
Presumably there should never be a queue of more than one, right? Unless they have very limited server capacity...
(full disclosure, work for Google but not on this)

>Assuming it is real however, this is another baffling decision Youtube has made in recent months... This is being done in the name of "small creators" but it seems apparent this will have the opposite effect.

A few months ago, people with under a thousand subscribers couldn't livestream at all. I think for 99% of situations, "livestreaming with limitations" is going to be a step above "no livestreaming" (unless you think livestreaming in general is bad, and I can see the merits of that viewpoint)
It also holds up so well because it had some damn good compositors working it. An underappreciated realm in the VFX world.
What?! You should check your facts. It was way more immersive because they had way more time to do it and didn't had turmoil in the direction of the movie. LOTR is an example of great CGI done in almost every shot of the movie
What you’re saying is simply not a fact.

It’s a hilariously wrong assertion that could generously be regarded as an opinion, albeit a racist one.
I don't think people know why they "like" or "dislike" a certain look. Take a look at cinematography, it's all "anamorphic this"¹, "24 fps that", "digital is too harsh" etc. The article:

> But it gave us the feeling we had been picturing a certain texture that’s painterly but feels timeless…The film has softened the edges of the digital. It gave us something that film acquisition couldn’t give us, and it gave us something that digital acquisition couldn’t give us

Cinematography still has clearly a long way to go. It's currently in the "we don't know what perspective is" phase of painting.

¹ anamorphic lenses are, generally speaking, horrible. It's extremely obvious when they're used, which is probably the main reason why there has been a huge anamorphic filmmaking craze going on for a few years.
The same way I convince them to learn an employer's large code base that will be useless to them after they leave too: by paying them.

That's a real, non-facetious answer. Another facet to the answer is that many people see value in learning a different language to help give them perspective on the existing ones they already know.

I generally don't consider it a net loss to ever learn a new language.
Sony was forced to cripple the "night vision" feature of some cameras because it was too easy to abuse to see through clothing.
the strength of the new Dune was in its sound design. At least that was the decisive factor that gave me goosebumps (I think). But the CGI deserves a shoutout wrt the design of the flying vehicles.

On the whole I agree with the article, earlier movies (and Tarantino movies) felt more real due to them being filmed in real life.
I wonder if the reason for there being no C language conference is: It's generally accepted that C is "dead" or should become dead. In fact at C++ conferences you will see many anti-C talks:

* https://youtu.be/YnWhqhNdYyk

And also talks promoting proselytizing to C programmers and bringing them to C++:

* https://youtu.be/D7Sd8A6_fYU

And of course, now, Rust is supposed to supplant C.
This was one of the first articles on HackerNews in a while to genuinely make me laugh and enjoy the web. Thanks for posting.
The TikTok Doctors and Nurses Debunking Pandemic Lies
I want to be surprised, but after all the hype by FSD boosters, I'm prepared to be disappointed.

I'm skeptical because San Francisco is probably the worst city in North America to do this. I could believe this in San Jose with it's wide flat boulevards and I'm suspicious it's not San Jose first. San Francisco is unique in that the city planners decided to ignore that they had mountains in the middle of their city and laid a grid plan over the mountains. Most other cities lay roads that gently circle around and up a mountain. Not San Francisco. You go a straight line up and then straight down at an extreme angle.

The only way this can work is if they've cherry picked the safest streets and geofenced the cars to those routes. That's not what most people imagine about robo taxis. Not glorified light rail without the rails.
says fox watchdog
I think we definitely need some additional rights listed to account for digital. GDPR seems like a good start to give people more ownership of their data, but in the US we still have basically no data rights or protection against searches of digital content that you don't physically host.
That is incorrect. You can save requests inside Collections in the Scratchpad and send requests without an account.
Seems incomplete. Maybe let's add multi-user functionality, and upvotes, and... hey wait a minute.
Yes it supports variables, don't know about KV store, see: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=humao.re...
"Now imagine there was an algorithm that received signals about your beliefs, and refreshed your environment into something that aligned with them. The algorithm would decide, if you felt that there was a truth about the universe, to show you things consistent with that, and nothing inconsistent with it."

you just described recommendation engines lol
It's only that when they can't use cgi because it's impossible. But let's be clear wirework has the exact same problems.
Thanks for the reply. Very much appreciated.

I'm about to move our tiny startup off AWS, onto NextPAASPlatform and had both fly and render shortlisted. The latter just bumped a few notches higher.

FWIW: I'm moving off AWS because it is expensive in many ways: it's costing me dear time which I should spend on my product. And it's costing serious baseline costs: Just a CI pipeline, building a static site, a react app, and deploying a Ruby (not rails) backend to Beanstalk Staging and Production costs over $100/month. Before any traffic and scaling. And building and maintaining it costs me upwards of 90 hours now. I consider this wasted investments.
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To be fair, though, the Hobbit had a lot more issues than just that, chief among them being a ridiculously large and undifferentiated ensemble cast + the fact that there was nowhere near enough main story material to fill a 10 hour runtime.

The Critical Drinker has a good take on the failures of the Hobbit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il-0pW6BNSs
well, it's the New York _Times_ after all... it can't use Garamond. It's in the header
Not at all. Programmers will simply become the people instructing the AI on what to code/program. Just as higher level programming languages "eliminated" or "automated" programming in machine code...
The GP said "The simplest thing would be to just get rid of the temporary speed limit and set it to 25mph at all times. 25mph is fast enough."

The reason why the speed limit drops to 25 mph during certain times around schools is because that is when children and adolescents are traveling to or from the campus grounds. It makes sense that you would want the speed limit reduced during a period of increased chaos. But it doesn't make the same sense to keep that reduction when the school is out of session, or when classes are taking place and the attendees are almost entirely contained within the campus.

And, in real terms, no one likes dropping down to 25 mph on a road that is normally 45 mph at all times. Like it or not, most drivers are not as anti-car as the folks on HN and they absolutely will complain to the city about the low speed limit or just ignore it. At which point, they will go back to conditional 25 mph limits.
So now they're probably patching their vulns, or at least they're aware of them, resulting in an overall better security for NK.
I count myself lucky in that I rarely have to use those 'productivity' tools. When I have to write print-quality documentation every other decade, I (dreadfully) re-learn the subset of LaTeX I need for the task at hand. When I needed to write a bill however last month, I fetched a template for LO (Ubuntu 18) from the web. Last night I wrote a second one, which to my dismay resulted in a quite different looking PDF: the alignment was off and the fonts were wider. I spent then quite some time to realign the fields. A quite underwhelming result.
Next time 'round will be LaTeX again ...
There is a 3D animation union. M.P.S.C. #839

Representing animation artists, writers and technicians since 1952.

https://animationguild.org/

Now, that only covers a small number of studios. So, of course, not every studio can be part of it. But it is a union and it does drive some of the industry standards and expectations.
I'm not questioning how easy it is for humans to apply schema.org vs. meta tags. It doesn't matter for SEO noise. The only thing that matters is whether content farms can generate them, and they can, in both cases way easier than humans can.
How does it discern that its a HN user?
> AlphaCode placed at about the level of the median competitor,

In many programming contests, a large number of people can't solve the problem at all, and drop out without submitting anything. Frequently that means the median scoring solution is a blank file.

Therefore, without further information, this statement shouldn't be taken to be as impressive as it sounds.
GPT-NeoX-20B will be publicly downloadable from The Eye on the 9th of February.

The Eye as in the-eye.eu? That site has been down for a long time.
Having used Copilot for a while, I am quite certain it will replace me as a programmer.

It appears to me that when it comes to language models, intelligence = experience * context. Where experience is the amount what's encoded in the model, and context is the prompt. And the biggest limitation on Copilot currently is context. It behaves as an "advanced autocomplete" because it all is has to go on is what regular autocomplete sees, e.g. the last few characters and lines of code.

So, you can write a function name called createUserInDB() and it will attempt to complete it for you. But how does it know what DB technology you're using? Or what your user record looks like? It doesn't, and so you typically end up with a "generic" looking function using the most common DB tech and naming conventions for your language of choice.

But now imagine a future version of Copilot that is automatically provided with a lot more context. It also gets fed a list of your dependencies, from which it can derive which DB library you're using. It gets any locatable SQL schema file, so it can determine the columns in the user table. It gets the text of the Jira ticket, so it can determine the requirements.

As a programmer a great deal of time is spent checking these different sources and synthesising them in your head into an approach, which you then code. But they are all just text, of one form or another, and language models can work with them just as easily, and much faster, than you can.

And one the ML train coding gets running, it'll only get faster. Sooner or later Github will have a "Copilot bot" that can automatically make a stab at fixing issues, which you then approve, reject, or fix. And as thousands of these issues pile up, the training set will get bigger, and the model will get better. Sooner or later it'll be possible to create a repo, start filing issues, and rely on the bot to implement everything.
>If you make developers 50x more efficient, won't you need 50x fewer developers?

Developers today are 50X more efficient than when they had to input machine code on punched tape, yet the number of developers needed today is far larger than it was in those times.
I assume they're talking about all the OS research done at places like XEROX and Bell Labs that never really came to fruition, but formed the basis for modern OS's.
I hear that.

Machine Learning also has a long way to go before it can take a long, rambling mess of a meeting and somehow generate a halfway usable spec from it. I mean, the customer says they want X, but X is silly in this context, so we'll give them Y and tell them it's "X-like, but faster". For example, SQL is "Blockchain-like, but faster" for a lot of buzzword use-cases of blockchain.
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I'm pretty sure I've shared this anecdote before - when I was working at Thomson Reuters at one point HR was doing some sort of reach out to accountants that used our services and doing like socializing stuff with them and at one of these social get togethers where HR was doing their best to get the accountants to be sociable one of them stood up and said "You do realize we didn't become accountants because we like people?"

When I heard about it I really felt a deep connection to that accountant. Sure hope I never meet him.
I have had success integrate Ring and Wyze cameras through Home Assistant. If you'd rather not go that route, there is a project that publishes Ring cameras over MQTT and RTSP links: https://github.com/tsightler/ring-mqtt
The DRS bot they use is also easily fooled. R/Gme_meltdown users regularly have false submissions accepted to prove the point.
Medicare for All would cost well over $4 trillion per year according to the Lancet. That would be going to privatized hospitals, doctors, big pharma, medical consultants, supplies, equipment, diagnostics, lab companies etc...

But I would point out to you that the military's budget is $700B regardless of whether the US is engaged in foreign armed conflict or not, and half of that is personnel costs like salary and housing allowance. Only about $300B goes to procurement of all types (weapons, clothing, food, cleaning supplies, fuel, paint, etc...)
And a lot of those shots (wolf of wall street) look fake-ish.
"The model of encouraging anybody to do a git push to send their local copy of a branch to production is a little sketchy on even a small team"

Does anybody still do that for major apps these days? We've used a custom chatops bot based on Hubot for all of our deploys on Heroku for the past ~8 years, and they've recently released their own chatops solution that I've used for smaller apps and enjoyed. Using their new chatops bot is extremely turnkey—you can set it up to autodeploy from a Github branch or deploy manually, just by connecting a Github repo
With sed instead of grep, and probably not much better, but in a single command:

cat hello | sed -n '/foo/{ /bar/{ /baz/ p }}'
On paper that all sounds well and good, but that completely discounts the power imbalance between large corporations and normal people.

When somebody wants to buy a good, if the only way to do that is to accept a one-sided ToS that makes them give up there rights, that's just eroding freedom.

The problem is, it's not a choice anymore. John Deere isn't saying "hey, want to sign up for our repair program?"

It's saying "If you want a tractor we actually control what you can do with it forever. Too bad you need this tractor to work, tough luck we own you"
Digital cameras replacing film has also ruined it. The dynamic range and depth of images that comes from film blows all digital images away...same for photography.

Much of the romance and beauty seen in old pictures and films is due to this difference.
No, the original thesis was solely to survive another console cycle. As I said elsewhere, the 2020 valuation implied Gamestop defaulting on it's debt in 2021, because most analysts didn't even expect gen5 consoles to have an optical drive. It all blew through the roof when Ryan Cohen stepped in and speculation on Gamestop entering new markets started.
Hmm, I will check it out, but I don't think my take is an uncommon one, for example:

"Spielberg and his effects teams succeeded in creating convincing visual effects because they didn't rely on CGI as their go-to tool. In fact, only four to five minutes of the 14-15 total minutes of dinosaur scenes were entirely computer generated. All the other visual effects were created using Stan Wintson's various physical dinosaur models. The legendary technician, responsible for creating practical models for Predator and Terminator, built everything from animatronic puppets, to to a full-size animatronic T-Rex, and even Velociraptor suits that could be worn by stuntmen. CGI was then used to build on top of what the production team had already created on-set. In other words, Jurassic Park's CGI still looks so good today because there isn't much of it in the film, which makes sense considering the limitations of the technology at the time.

...

But perhaps even more important than the breakthrough graphics was Spielberg's decision to still keep the CGI to a minimum. According to Dennis Murren, visual effects supervisor at ILM, once the director saw how convincing the digital dinosaurs looked, he actually rewrote the ending of the film to include the now-famous full-body shot of the T-Rex letting out a final roar in the Jurassic Park visitor center rotunda. But despite clearly being impressed by the capabilities of ILM, Spielberg still limited the CGI elements and retained the use of Stan Winston's puppets for much of the memorable dinosaur scenes viewers still love today. In fact, there's said to be a total of just 63 visual effects shots in the whole film, a tiny number compared to Jurassic World's more than 2,000 VFX shots."

https://screenrant.com/jurassic-park-cgi-still-good-how-expl...