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by chefandy 2y ago
I’m setting aside UE because Blender isn’t and was never trying to be a game engine. When it comes to high-end physics sims of any kind— particles, pyro, rbd, liquid, cloth, hair, etc– blender isn’t close to Houdini. The blender toolkit wil
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Worth noting that Gimp just made a separate UI design repo and seem to be doing a great job at confronting this systemic problem in the project.
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You're making a lot of assumptions about who's doing what, what problems they're trying to solve by doing it, and why. The discipline of UI design is figuring out how people can solve their problems easily and effectively. If
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Normally in this rant I specifically note that non-software technical people are still technical. For genuinely non-technical software, what are the most popular end-user facing FOSS-developed applications? Firefox, signal, blender, Inkscap
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Houdini is a fast-moving target, but it seems like both blender and unreal engine— even in core features, not just in plugins— are gaining on it. For my particular use case, Blender is the least useful of the three (unless I need to do scul
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In many problem spaces, software developers are only happy with interfaces made for software developers. This article diving into the layers of complex logic we can reason about at once perfectly demonstrates why. Developers ‘get’ that comp
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> exactly my point Ok, so you’re saying that because bad things would happen anyway then it doesn’t matter if it’s illegal? So you’re just going to ignore how much worse it would be if there were just no laws at all? Corporate scumbags w
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> If you don't have laws against dumping in the commons, yes people will dump. You can’t possibly say, in good faith, that it think this was legal, can you? Of course it wasn’t. It was totally legal discharging some of the less
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But the whole point of a capitalist society is that competitors that do things better/cheaper start taking customers so the capital moves to the best and most efficient system.
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If there were no ads, how would people know that products existed? Would they just see the products on store shelves? What about services? Would labels be ads? Would how stores merchandise things be advertisements? Could businesses negotiat
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If that’s the only data point you look at in American industry, it would be pretty encouraging. I mean, surely they’d have done the same if they were a branch of a large publicly traded company with a big high-production product pipeline…
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Let’s see… of the top of my head… - Air Pollution - Water Pollution - Disposable Packaging - Health Insurance - Steward Hospitals - Marketing Junk Food, Candy and Sodas directly to children - Tobacco - Boeing - Finance - Pharmaceutical Opia
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I don’t think that’s true? Tons of stuff from that era had been digitized, even before newer more relevant stuff and older rarer stuff, because the acid paper had a short shelf life and there were so many ads in printed stuff then. I might
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Ads range from a (necessary, in a capitalist society) nuisance to a scourge, and people justly put up increasingly thick boundaries to shield themselves from their influence. When waning cultural relevance or whatever dilutes that influence
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I think the real key is figuring out how to turn the hand-wavy promises of this making everything better into policy long fucking before we kick the door open. It’s self-evident that this being efficient and useful would be a technologica
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If there are any fully-autonomous cars on the streets of nyc, there aren’t many of them and I don’t think there’s any way for them to operate legally. There has been discussion about having a trial.
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Sadly, we live in a society where those executives would use that impunity as carte blanche to spend no money improving (in the best-case scenario,) or even more likely, keep cutting safety expenditures until the body counts get high enough
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We’re talking broad-stroke statistics here.
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I’m not an HR person, but I’d be surprised if the ATS bouncer algorithms even have access to the eeo information, and making assumptions about ethnicity based on name seems unlikely to be a feature. Sure, someone could code their own soluti
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I haven’t researched that but I have read there is significant comorbidity with a low tolerance for “kids these days.”
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Not commenting on the rest of their assumptions, but to be clear, auto-rejecting candidates that could reasonably fill roles in your company isn’t a defense against incompetence accusations— it supports them.
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It’s surprisingly common. Additionally, it can develop as a secondary symptom when temporary neurological impairments induce self-exposure to YouTube comments sections.
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This is not my area of expertise. Do these models have an explicit notion of the end of a conversation like they would the end of a text block? It seems like that’s a different scope that’s essentially controlled by the human they interact
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I respect the ambition. I thought I was combining chocolate and peanut butter a few times, but after sinking a few days into it, realized I was building a Homer car. All of those projects were driven by my desire for some way of interacting
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> Well, you take up the lawsuit with not much. You get most of the evidence during discovery. And this is quite a common thing someone says "This happened to me" they sue and get discovery. So this universe. > I said if _ALL
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Nah. They're trying to eliminate the threat of content creators, artists, designers, animators, etc getting paid for their art and hard won skill instead of google.
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It's got a lot of potential as a way for google to get paid for other people's skills and hard work instead of the people that made all of that "data".
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Nobody in this space gives a fuck about anyone or anything further upstream than the file sitting in their ingestion queue. If they can see it, they 'own' it.
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Yes, that dichotomy is present everywhere in the real world. You need lye to make proper bagels. It is not merely harmless, but beneficial in small amounts for that purpose. We still must make sure food businesses don't contaminate foo
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Few things frustrate me more than so many developers’ compulsion to baselessly assume that their incredible dev ultrabrain affords them this pan-topic expertise deep enough to dismiss other fields’ experts based on a few a priori thought ex

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