VladimirGolovin

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by VladimirGolovin 4y ago
If you have any nature nearby, take walks. Take walks every day. I personally prefer evenings. An hour or two is perfectly fine. No headphones, no audiobooks, no music. Just you and nature. Normally, to deal with a burnout, I'd recomme
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by VladimirGolovin 4y ago
"It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child." -- Pablo Picasso.
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by VladimirGolovin 4y ago
Just wanted to add that Hermann Hesse is a wonderful writer, and that I thoroughly enjoyed his other works as well (except, for some reason, The Glass Bead Game).
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by VladimirGolovin 4y ago
“This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. Whe
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Here's a definition from Shane Legg and Marcus Hutter: Universal Intelligence: A Definition of Machine Intelligence https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.3329
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I knew Blender had a video editor, but I didn't know that Blender had a node-based image editor. Just did a quick Google search -- are you referring to Compositor?
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Unlike the effect layers, nodes can have multiple inputs. Also, in more advanced node systems, nodes can have types other than "Image", e.g. number, boolean, etc., and node inputs can accept those types.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Not having to redo the entire chain of image operations from scratch if you mess up one step. The ability to reuse the chain of operations on a different image. The ability to tune / tweak the settings of each step without having to re
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Looks very interesting. I tried the Windows build, but I can't get it to show any preview image. Tried selecting nodes and double-clicking them -- nothing. Maybe it needs to recompile the shader manually, but I haven't found any G
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
At home, with my wife and kid.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Pay for a year of VPN while your VISA / MC cards still work. Make a local copy of everything you have on the cloud (GMail, Google Docs, Google Photos, etc.) If you store passwords in a cloud-based password manager, make a secure local
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
"Tiger, Tiger" (or "The Stars My Destination" in the USA) by Alfred Bester.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I recently tried Blender for video editing and was very pleasantly surprised.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Same here with the muscle memory. It's nice to hear that Pixelmator is compatible with it. BTW, do you use it on Windows or on a Mac?
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I'm a long-time Photoshop user (since 1994), and my business, Filter Forge, started as a Photoshop plugin. Nowadays all my design work is done in Figma, which is fantastic. My Photoshop usage nowadays is limited to editing and enhancin
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
You can host it for free if you set it up yourself, on your own server.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
It's the same in my family, with one exception. We sometimes do have TV on in the background, but the only permitted channel is TV Kultura -- news about art, museums, exhibitions, theatre, humanities, arthouse cinema, etc.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Window snap is absolutely an improvement.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Dragging and dropping a file onto a taskbar app icon is often much faster than 1) opening the app, 2) selecting File > Open from the menu, 3) browsing to the file location, and 4) double-clicking the file.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
And in neighborhoods planned as concentric circles. My navigation module goes completely bonkers.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
"being able to walk around a city and not get lost" I have this module. You can fly me to a new country and drop me in a city I've never seen before, and I'll start navigating it on foot in a day. It worked for m
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I have a pet theory that smartphones and the mobile Internet are the primary reasons for the decline of violent street crime. People these days don't need to be violent to entertain themselves -- because they now have porn, dating, gos
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
I was reading Russian political Telrgram earlier today, and one of the better channels ("Толкователь") had a post about a scientific study on why people prefer conspiracy theories over scientific information. The study's summ
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
An artist is someone who makes art every day. Art is that which imparts feelings. So, make artifacts or performances that impart feelings, every day. Your output will be trash at first, but that’s expected. What matters is that you do your
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
>> Zotero and Obsidian is a killer combination. Could you elaborate on this a bit? I currently keep my Zettelkasten in Obsidian and my project journals in Workflowy, and I wonder if there’s a place for Zotero in my workflow.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
- Starship makes a successful orbital flight. - Russia won't start any overt military operations in Donbass, let alone Ukraine proper. - Modern GPU prices are still ridiculous. - Europe's opinion on nuclear energy will become a ta
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
A good éclair is certainly short in duration.
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Thank you :) I'll ping you when we have something showable :)
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Thanks for the kind words! >> How far along are you guys in development? Movement and gunplay are basically done and feel great. Graphics is looking pretty decent (the video is a bit outdated). Story / progression is being writte
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by VladimirGolovin 5y ago
Hey, looks like I'm not alone! I'm 49 and we (3 people, aged 30-49, with no prior gamedev experience) are working on an isometric sci-fi shooter-looter -- think Diablo meets Aliens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

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