PetitPrince

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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
"he has the same mod" is downplaying it. He's adding VR for games with widely different engines. Same functionality yes, but vastly different codebase.
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
Fun false fact that I just invented : the Monty Python briefly considered to have Johann Gambolputty de von Ausfern-schplenden-schlitter-crasscrenbon-fried-digger-dingle-dangle-dongle-dungle-burstein-von-knacker-thrasher-apple-banger-horowi
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
Clever ! I was thinking of something like a sugar dispenseur (turn the container to fill a volume, and this volume becomes you serving), but your solution is way more economical and space efficient.
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
Man, is this still sexy science ! In a parrallel universe, I am still be working in that domain (I was in Silvestro Micera's lab (he did similar kind of feedback for the hand) for my Master's thesis - also a long time ago; it did
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
My significant other uses her touchscreen laptop as a consumption device (for video and prose; a lot of fanfictions!) in the bed (a beefy tablet with a built-in stand resting on her belly, if you will). In that context she's very happy
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
> HTMX would work well with jQuery. Note that HTMX is supposed to be Intercooler 2.0, which is itself using jQuery https://intercoolerjs.org/ .
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by PetitPrince 9mo ago
> Like take the Resident Evil example FTA: Launched in 1996, 2000-2023 not available (i.e. not for legal sale). The Resident Evil IP is still alive and kicking though (with the latest installment trailered during the game awards a few we
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by PetitPrince 10mo ago
My D7 lost its mapping capability (including markerless no go zone) a few weeks ago due to the new owner pulling the plug early on their server. An enthusiast is jerry rigging an offline solution thanks to a vuln in an earlier firmware, but
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by PetitPrince 10mo ago
I think the best we have at the moment debugger view; in other words a snapshot of the state of the system. Maybe with a dashboard you can see some progression over time ? (I somehow though of the videogame Factorio and of that thing called
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by PetitPrince 10mo ago
> imagine a spinning display like those of the article but somehow tuned so that they are only visible when exactly head on I don't understand: doesn't defeat the purpose of a volumetric display (seeing what is displayed from
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by PetitPrince 10mo ago
An elaborated version of this idea is called "rollback" where you let the local client predict and execute the game state at time t+1 and will "roll back" the state of the game if it received another game state than the
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by PetitPrince 10mo ago
From the paper: > The ink used for the proof of extrusion demonstration is a ready-to-use, polyethylene oxide–based training bioink purchased and used directly from the vendor (Cellink Start, Cellink) > The ink used for the honeycomb
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
Fortunately while Squarenix is still important to Playtstation (and Tetsuya Nomura to Squarenix), it's not the juggernaut it once was in the early 2000. (for those who don't get it: Tetsuya Nomura is a director at Squarenix and kn
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
The Swiss Weather Office official app has a crowdsourced photo gallery: https://www.meteosuisse.admin.ch/services-et-publications/ap... Look at the pictures from 3AM onwards on the 12 of November: you'll have a ni
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
I think the only stickers I saw on cars in France and Switzerland are the "baby one board" and "<stick figures of the members of a family>".
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
> nd it's near-impossible to make a falling-tetromino puzzle game without making it look and behave like Tetris. What's more is that you cannot release a Tetris game if you follow the exact gameplay specification the Tetris Com
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
HL3 kinda happened though, but it was called Half-Life Alyx. And while it wasn't a conventional FPS like HL1 and 2, there's absolutely no trace of GaaS in it.
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
Steve Jobs "bicycle for the mind" analogy is more potent than I initially thought. When got past the bicycle phase where we augment our body with technology but still leave room for our body to improve. We got into the automobile
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
As a member of the western community of player who practice Tetris the Grand Master (a series of arcade version of Tetris that focus on speed) since its beginning in 2004-ish, I can attest that the Tetris effect happens when you're beg
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
On the other hand blood samples degrade over time depending on how you store it. This makes DNA sequencing more difficult and/or impossible. Presumably the ROI (in a non-dystopian society) of storing those sample long-term doesn't
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
It would be probably very difficult to engineer a good dissolution rate that takes into account the different length and water temperature of the pre-wash cycle of the many many different dishwashers out there. So no, as the video in the si
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
What you feed your cattle change how their milk taste; where I live there's a noticeable different between summer (where cows graze on alpine meadows) and winter (hay) milk.
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
Different countries have different tastes (Coca Cola has a different syrup mixture for each countries for instance). There's a YouTube video from a franco-japanese guy who interview a Japanese cheese maker. He was trained by a Swiss pe
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by PetitPrince 11mo ago
I see that a insulated (triple layer) window around 100 euros [ https://www.leroymerlin.fr/produits/bauplaza-fenetre-en-pvc-... ]. Let's assume this retailer makes a 2x margin, so real cost is 50 euro. A webcam on
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Glass is not a good thermal insulator, and is more expensive than plastic.
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
I agree. Practicing photography on a smartphone is terrible compared to a dedicated device; in both ergonomics (hard to get a good grip, unprecise shutter actuation due to the touchscreen, and sometime unreliable software) and quality (gran
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
"Don't judge a book by its cover" indeed (and litteraly in that case), but also "first impression matters". In that case throwing a generated image without touch up shows the lack of care of the author for a work th
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Yes, plus the rest of the article makes it clear this link was done in sarcasm.
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
> They were highly optimized so for a language change we only had to switch the black cylinders. What an ingenious solution; I bet very few people would notice that everything is written in black(1). "Good design is invisible"
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by PetitPrince 1y ago
Another happy X-T3 owner here (I had in my hand a Nikon D40X, D300s, D810 before getting a X-T1 and then upgrading to X-T3 ; thanks dad). Yes, this is a very good camera. I love UI of Fujifilm cameras; and by that I do not mean the menu sys

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