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by kipchak 7y ago
Sometimes it can go the other way too. My Grandparents had little interest in "babysitting" or living nearby us when we were young.
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by kipchak 7y ago
If research is something that might be considered work during the day you could hop on Sci-Hub and read some interesting papers.
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by kipchak 7y ago
If you're interested in concept Epcot and Disney design philosophy in general "Walt and the Promise of Progress City" might be worth a read.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Designing around it is possible in some cases too. In Gorn your weapons are floppy so it makes sense when they bend when hitting an enemy, and in Superhot VR you punch through or shatter enemies when hitting them giving more of a sense of b
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by kipchak 7y ago
The Void experiences do a pretty good job of this, with a mix of physical props/effects like switches and heat fans and hand and body tracking. Another fun one is the skyscraper plank at VR Zone Shinjuku, complete with wobbling and a p
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by kipchak 7y ago
The haptic feedback on some VR controllers (think Iphone 7 home button or switch joycons) is surprisingly good at imitating resistance or passing through something. Games with dedicated peripherals (racing wheels, flight/mech sticks) w
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by kipchak 7y ago
I've had very different experiences with different games too. I thought playing sims or Jet Island and being fine was proof I'd gotten my VR legs, but Boneworks and it's bouncy camera got me pretty good.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I think performance in terms of keeping things consistent and smooth is really important, but visual realism or duplicating reality is overrated. Not only do you get into uncanny valley territory but more stylized art is often more compelli
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by kipchak 7y ago
As a historical note Newegg was bought by Hangzhou Liaison Intrctv in 2016 which kicked off the whole marketplace thing.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Most of my textbooks were international editions or a few editions back, for me that listing is an issue as the international is cheaper elsewhere. On Abebooks (which is great for searching by ISBN) It's $17.41 - not a big difference,
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by kipchak 7y ago
I've never personally had this happen but I've seen it alleged that items listed sold by Amazon occasionally get fakes in the mix or shared as common stock in Amazon warehouses for items like MicroSD cards.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Maybe the approach is the more people watch, the more they talk about the (Netflix exclusive) shows with others who don't have Netflix and they hopefully buy in?
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by kipchak 7y ago
I think a lot of the AI functions like smell, Grunt AI and houndeye group behavior rely on this. A lot of it is easy to miss, like Vortigaunts fleeing, hiding and not attacking below a certain health. Houndeyes for example will react differ
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by kipchak 7y ago
Not calling it Half Life: 3 seems like a great way to temper expectations a bit. Curious how much focus is put on the knuckles/Index versus generic headsets.
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by kipchak 7y ago
The 2018 palm phone is interesting but probably too small for its own good.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I can't quite get a read on Anno. Sometimes he'll answer a question like who's his favorite character almost flippantly with "Asuka, because she's cute" and sometimes he'll describe Eva as being almost aut
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by kipchak 7y ago
I suspect this may be short sighted on Blizzards part in the long term, if they don't capture the Chinese market and wind up losing western marketshare.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I like the idea, but I don't think there's any cost savings here compared to a smart TV due to the lower volume and a relatively low incremental cost of adding in "smart" hardware and ports and speakers to every tv. It&#
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by kipchak 7y ago
Maybe I'm over-projecting due to reading it in modern times, but the version of "Gilgamesh" seems to be from after the end of Uruk and more bleak than other ancient works. It begins and ends (while Gilgamesh is talking to the
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by kipchak 7y ago
Generally speaking Toyota is conservative in terms of rolling out new technologies and sticks with what's proven. For example the base Camry has a 2.5L engine and 8 speed auto transmission and the base Accord a 1.5 turbo and 10 speed a
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by kipchak 7y ago
Thanks! Trying it on a few links it worked on a newer video from a terminated account but no dice on old stuff. It looks like they remade their account so that's definitely a win!
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by kipchak 7y ago
Ah, good idea! I had figured the odds of it being indexed were unlikely but it's there from 2011. Seeing older YouTube is always nostalgic.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I hate how removed videos don't retain a title. It's one thing for a video to be taken down, it's another to see a mystery box taunting me from my favorites playlist. What forbidden knowledge (cat video) is forever lost to ti
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by kipchak 7y ago
Squirrels and birds seem to have a selected desire to horde nuts in a similar way to people hoarding extra resources for lean times. Cache Spacing or having various hordes of food spaced around in hidden locations seems like a rough analogy
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by kipchak 7y ago
I wonder if it's a bit of a race between how much you can spend versus how much you loose to corruption, like filling a barrel with holes in it by adding water faster. Supposedly the US's classified intelligence program budget is
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by kipchak 7y ago
For my library and classes we were more likely to use something like JSTOR than hunt through the racks. The overlap of being common enough to be available but obscure enough to be interesting was fairly low. For example writing about Henry
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by kipchak 7y ago
I don't have any numbers, but on the brand point I'd figure Tesla might be in a stronger position than Porsche in the younger demographics.
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by kipchak 7y ago
I think in the forward to my copy of the series he tells a story about lying in a muddy field stargazing when he comes up with the idea for the hitchhiker's guide and promptly dozing off and forgetting about it for the next 10 years.
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by kipchak 7y ago
Quantum mechanics and waveforms collapsing when they're "observed" still sounds like a rendering trick in a videogame to me, like having objects that aren't in your field of view not be drawn.
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by kipchak 7y ago
For anyone curious, she posted a few entries on her blog with corrections regarding The Verge's article. https://engineuring.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/corrections-to-... Personally Sci-Hub was invaluable

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