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by dorkwood 5y ago
This guy has made a bunch of custom pie menus, which seems to be the kind of thing you're describing. https://github.com/HEAVYPOLY/HEAVYPOLY_Blender
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by dorkwood 5y ago
They can also fit more ads into a longer article. That's arguably the most important thing.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
Medium-sized company for me, but same here. As long as my code works, there's really no one breathing down my neck or telling me what to do.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
No worries! I probably shouldn't have put it in parentheses at the end...
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by dorkwood 5y ago
That's why I wrote "as long as they're unit vectors" in my definition.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
What sort of 3D animation do you want to do? If you're talking about shaders, you might be doing yourself a disservice with the bottom-up approach. In my opinion, learning to use math functions as tools rather than having a deep unders
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by dorkwood 5y ago
You're getting downvoted, but you're not wrong. Here's a comment thread from 2016 with people making the same "early next year" claim. > Ethereum hopes to do away with mining by early 2017... They're switchi
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I've seen this quote before, but I haven't been able to find it myself. Which text is it from? Here's one from a letter to Lucilius. Seneca is easy to misquote. "Indeed, no man can be good without the help of God. Can on
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by dorkwood 5y ago
In California there were lots of people walking around outside after curfew. And you were always allowed to leave your home at any time to exercise. There was often a police presence down at the beach, but they didn't enforce anything.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
For me the worst thing about the Quest 2 is the lack of adjustable eye-width options. The original Quest had an adjustable dial, but they replaced it with I think 2 or maybe 3 different widths to choose from. Because of this, my experience
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by dorkwood 5y ago
To me, this sends another signal. One that says "don't work at Mini". If something like this is able to make it all the way through design, production and testing -- with no one raising a red flag along the way -- what other
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I think there's a logical explanation for why being born at a particular time of year might have an effect on how your personality develops, and that's that the time of year you're born determines where you are placed within
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by dorkwood 5y ago
True! But I also feel like local newspapers would be more likely to put the word 'ad' in the name of their advertising jpegs, in which case adblockers would still pick them up.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I can't speak to hiring practices at larger companies, but if my experience working at smaller companies is any indication I think things might be shifting. At my last job, they were focused on hiring for diversity to create a more des
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by dorkwood 5y ago
In terms of vaccination coverage, they're doing poorly (just a few ranks below Brazil). They're also currently in lockdown, dealing with their first true spike of cases and struggling to contain it.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> Of course it won't last, but it has a psychological demotivating effect. It's lasted more than my entire lifetime so far. Is anyone predicting a reversal?
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by dorkwood 5y ago
The claim comes from Chia devs themselves, who recommend not using consumer-grade drives due to their low endurance. > The one thing in common will be that you need high endurance, due to the fact that it take almost ~1.8TB of writes usi
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by dorkwood 5y ago
You can do this, too. To dilate your pupils, defocus your eyes. Let things go as blurry as possible. To constrict again, focus on a small detail in the distance.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
This isn't obvious to regular people, though. I can recall seeing a conspiracy get traction on Twitter a few months back, where it was claimed that a photograph of a famous person was actually a body double. Someone used an ML upscaler
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> A lot of the content was obviously fake, and much of what was not obviously fake was significantly exaggerated for obvious reasons, with the method of exaggeration varying according to the genre of content. I think when you see one of
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> The curtain finally came up on the Segway personal transporter in December 2001, just under a year after the proposal leaked—when Kamen, in his jeans and work boots, went on Good Morning America. “It’s sort of like putting on a pair of
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by dorkwood 5y ago
If you get $10m aren't you, like, finished? You escaped the game. It's over. Why does investing matter anymore?
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by dorkwood 5y ago
You just need to make an IRC channel that contains everyone in the world.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
From his perspective, all of his friends and family are now going to treat him differently. Some of them will be resentful. Some will wonder why he isn't being more generous with his money. Fortunately, you don't have to think abo
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I found people in the US to be just as nitpicky about certain things. Oh, you thought you could cross the road there, even though there are no cars around? You shouldn't do that. You should cross at the stop signs. Oh, you thought you
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> Nobody is bothered by this lack of video, once you get used to audio-only, it works great. I mean we are all adults here, if any doubt or unclarity, why being afraid to ask? There are no stupid questions as we all know. Why do you assu
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by dorkwood 5y ago
The story was written by the journalist, Sarah McDermott, and not by John Corcoran himself.
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> Chewing on plastic, or popping it all over your face, doesn’t appeal to youngsters I didn't realize that chewing gum was made of plastic. It seems I've been successfully hoodwinked by the manufacturers who refer to it as &quo
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by dorkwood 5y ago
> There should be no requirement to have the camera on, it really adds very little over voice alone While I agree that people shouldn't be required to have their camera on for the first reasons you mentioned, I disagree on this poin
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by dorkwood 5y ago
I've had dreams where I'm lying in my bed, trying to fall asleep. I wouldn't have known I was even dreaming if I didn't stop to check. For those wondering how to check if you're dreaming: pinch your nose closed with

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