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by Wistar 5y ago
I started using 3D as a lark. I am a long-time on-line editor and VFX compositor and had access to 3D in the various studios I worked when commercial 3D packages became a thing, starting in about 1983 or so. More importantly, I had access t
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by Wistar 5y ago
Yes. 2.8 was the big UI change which made it a lot more familiar to folks used to the "mainstream" 3D suites/apps.
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by Wistar 5y ago
Probably to stick with 3D Max. I really like 3D Max a lot. It was my tool of choice for about 18 years but, as I stopped doing much 3D professionally, I just decided to give Blender a shot and, once I got over some of the weird UI, most of
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by Wistar 5y ago
I think VRSC is similar to ARRR and Pirate.
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by Wistar 5y ago
"IRS offered $625,000 bounty to anyone who could 'crack' Monero; no one succeeded" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25752042
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by Wistar 5y ago
v2.7 was, for me, the version that got me to slowly move from 3D Max to Blender. Now, I can hardly remember 3D Max.
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by Wistar 5y ago
Odd that the creators of the drone bothered with a flashing light.
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by Wistar 5y ago
What claims have been made? I have owned, and dealt with, dozens of UPSs in both personal and commercial settings (animation studios, mostly) and Pournelle's article led me to research, and eventually buy, a Falcon. I have been much ha
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by Wistar 5y ago
Wow! Great and useful insights. Good point that big box skus are often different than the dedicated sellers.
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by Wistar 5y ago
After suffering through the APC and TrippLite crap, I bought a Falcon SSG1.5K UPS a few years ago for my animation workstation and network stuff. It has been fantastic. It does have a fan but it isn't noticeably loud. https:/&#x2
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by Wistar 5y ago
Exactly. I have, personally, spent more than $10K repairing damage from a $2 piece of crap CPVC pipe that burst in the wall.
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by Wistar 5y ago
The $5 Levitons rather than the $1 Levitons. They have an ever so slightly larger handle and a significantly heavier "throw." They are built way better. They are available at Home Depot. Lutron builds the best outlets, they'r
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by Wistar 5y ago
A friend of mine is a chief pilot for an (astonishingly) wealthy family. One day he toured me through their 2-year-old Bombardier Global Express jet. I asked how much one of the somewhat flimsy-looking passenger-cabin seats cost and he said
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by Wistar 5y ago
No specifics. It was just a thought we had when my brother was remodeling his house. The idea went nowhere.
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by Wistar 5y ago
Can I ask: What grind do you use for your Moccamaster?
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by Wistar 5y ago
OMG. I have battled the grinder static thing for… years, decades, and did not know this. Thank you
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by Wistar 5y ago
I apologize as I wasn't clear enough: I was not focused on the appliances themselves but, rather, the water valves, and hoses, used to supply the water. The small but really important stuff. Crummy valves break. Most builders use the c
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by Wistar 5y ago
I have been, over-time, retro-fitting my home with pro/commercial-grade infrastructure items such as: quarter-turn marine-grade ball valves for the water-main; toilets, clothes washer, fridge and dishwasher; recessed sillcock valves; o
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by Wistar 5y ago
Although I haven't personally tried it, I have friends outside of the US that rave about Sensodyne Repair & Protect original with the "Powered by NovaMin" badging. NovaMin is composed of special ceramic particles that c
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by Wistar 5y ago
Mark Twain dictated some 2,000 pages for his autobiography. "Twain first tried dictating into Thomas Edison's new recording machine but didn't like it -- he was a man who strutted stages all over the world, delivering extempo
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by Wistar 5y ago
"Being able to spin lies about a topic you've no understanding of and turn that into a marketable skill is a dark potent for the future of America." At once such a great, and terrible, sentence.
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by Wistar 5y ago
"Being able to spin lies about a topic you've no understanding of and turn that into a marketable skill is a dark potent for the future of America." At once, such a great, and terrible, sentence.
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by Wistar 5y ago
I imagine not as many people get in car accidents responding to email as they do responding to text messages, but, I could be wrong.
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by Wistar 5y ago
[adds "team" to vocabulary as the term of venary for hogs] Thanks!
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by Wistar 5y ago
Here's a very so-so promo site for The Bit Player. I saw it about a year ago (Curiosity Stream) and thought it was pretty decent. I somewhat sheepishly admit that, for a while, I thought that they had somehow interviewed the real Claud
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by Wistar 5y ago
Sorry, I missed this comment. Actually, I have sold two homes without a realtor. Both times were flukes more than anything I really planned. The first time I mentioned to a co-worker that I was thinking about selling my (first) house. He sa
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by Wistar 5y ago
"Time Machine" are the only words that come to mind, alas.
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by Wistar 5y ago
The exception is RI's Andrew Szydlo. His lectures are… well, kind'a nuts. Too entertaining to be soporific.
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Spring 1993 to Spring 2001.
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Oh, man. I do this, too, but mostly with youtube. I have discovered that Jim Al-Khalili, Brian Greene and Hannah Fry are too interesting to fall asleep to but that there are plenty of Royal Institute lectures that serve really well and have

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