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by knolan 5y ago
In fairness their attempt at building a PC was at least entertaining.
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by knolan 5y ago
I don’t mind the Touch Bar volume control, you just don’t lift your finger and drag the icon. Same for screen brightness. My only gripe is that my 16” MBP gets so hot using the touch bar burns my finger.
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by knolan 5y ago
I upgraded my original Switch to the revamped model with the new SoC a couple of years ago. GameStop were offering a really great trade in which cost €50 for the new model. It basically boiled down to a €50 100% battery life boost, and ne
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by knolan 5y ago
It’s a real jack of all trades, instead of moving media from package to package, such as animating something in Maya and combining with a camera track in After Effects, you can do it all in Blender. With the recent Eevee real time renderer
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by knolan 5y ago
There are some really good YouTubers that do great tutorials that are fully up to date. A lot of them might not be entirely child friendly (sweary language) depending on your daughter’s age.
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by knolan 5y ago
That’s the funny thing about Blender. Beginner tutorials are painfully slow for anyone who’s anyway familiar with the software. These videos and those by CG matter adopt this really fast style be use that how the work flow goes.
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by knolan 5y ago
The point is that two empty loops should not be let run the CPU to 100%. But yes, the concept is nice at least. I agree on NÍ hardware, it’s very solid. I’ve had good success using session based control with Matlab and also with Python.
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by knolan 5y ago
I really like the node based workflow used by Blender for creating materials, compositing and now for generating geometry. This is where I think visual programming works best, realtime interactive tweaking of something actually visual. It&#
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by knolan 5y ago
I was working on a so called finless cooler around the time this first rose to prominence. The idea was that a toroidal vortex would give better heat transfer than a lot of fins subject to viscous shear. Our cooler was simply a folded alumi
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by knolan 5y ago
I recently bought my first Apple TV after dumping our Virgin Media cable box. I still have an ancient 1080p LG smart TV that that the smart features are effectively unusable on. I’ll never buy a smart TV again if I can help it. I’ve always
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by knolan 5y ago
One of the better tutorials I remember was for the Blood Dragon Far Cry 3 expansion. It’s a tongue in cheek riff on 80’s action movies and games and the tutorial is silly fun because of it. Not the first game to make a joke of its tutorial
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by knolan 5y ago
There’s a favourite link at the top of the page on mobile just under the thread title.
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I mentioned an LTS version of Windows.
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I mean start from scratch as much as possible and rethink how a computer is used by most people. By all means keep Windows around for enterprise but build a new OS that is forward looking and eschews backwards compatibility when virtualisat
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by knolan 5y ago
That’s why I qualified with a comment on an LTS version of Windows. Keep something around for the next decade (or two) that keeps old hardware running. Allow virtualisation for everyone else. It does seem that Apple’s approach of aggressive
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by knolan 5y ago
Microsoft really needs to consider building a completely new OS that doesn’t have the legacy issues that plague Windows 10. It feels like the paint cracks off as you root around each generation of interface. By all means keep a LTS version
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by knolan 5y ago
I haven’t had data allowances that low in years. I pay €10 per month for an ‘unlimited’ SIM only plan. The fair usage limit is 120GB per month.
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by knolan 5y ago
This is a really interesting camera. A Phantom high-speed camera is going to set you back between $30k and $100k and aren’t always affordable depending in academia. They’re great cameras, very robust and I’ve had good experience with the co
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by knolan 5y ago
I’ve recently started to use Autodesk’s Fusion 360. It’s an abomination! It’s so user hostile and constantly getting in the way of getting work done. Years ago (2001 ish) when I first started to learn CAD I used PTC’s Pro/Desktop. It’s
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by knolan 5y ago
Just remembered another recent one. A couple of years after I had left, my former employer closed the regional site. I saw the writing on the wall I guess. A few colleagues from there have set up a new consultancy company, they’re going to
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by knolan 5y ago
I’ve checked the paper again and there is also some basic CFD analysis performed by a third author. He had some sample images he had taken and I used them to demonstrate the basic code. The figures in the paper are the ones I generated in m
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by knolan 5y ago
My stories are very minor. I did my PhD in a reasonably well regarded mechanical engineering lab. My area is experimental fluid mechanics. I ended up writing a lot of Matlab code while there and even worked with a spin out company from the
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by knolan 5y ago
When I first heard of cryptocurrency I was reminded of when people started idling in Team Fortress 2 to get content drops. It was such a daft cart before the horse approach, but of course those dropped items could be sold for fractions of a
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by knolan 5y ago
Its control F2 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204434
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by knolan 5y ago
My ebike. It’s a Specialized Turbo Vado 4.0. It’s so much more fun than sitting in traffic in my car or the bus.
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I read it as more of a “they’ve ruined it for the rest of us” whinge.
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by knolan 5y ago
For anyone interested in the development of rocket propellant and related fuel I’d highly recommend ‘Ignition!: An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants’ by John D. Clark.
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by knolan 5y ago
A laser sheet generated via a cylindrical, plano convex or Powell lens would be a good way to control the illumination and better visualise the the flow. A cheap diode laser would get the job done.
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by knolan 5y ago
You can use NFC on an Android device to read the owners details on a lost AirTag. The firmware was recently dumped so maybe someone will figure out a way to build an alternative network to Find my.
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by knolan 5y ago
Yes, you’re right. That’s what I get for skimming the article.

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