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by larusso 6y ago
Yes. When they started shooting Lord of the Rings they had already 3 years of preproduction done which means weapons and sets and buildings and all. The hobbit was a constant race against the clock. And they tried to make the goblins non CG
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by larusso 6y ago
My favorite theme/tune is in the song the Forest River from the extended soundtrack of part two. It only plays very shortly and comes back every now and then later in another track. It wasn’t in the first movie so I assume it belongs t
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by larusso 6y ago
Yeah because they had to throw that scene in and they had no music for it. If I remember correctly it was 2 minutes of movie means 2 weeks of sound work. Or something like that. And the hobbit was plagued with issues from the very start. I
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by larusso 6y ago
My other favorite example in Film is The Lord of the Rings. Especially in the first movie with the theme for the fellowship. It starts out as some single French horns and becomes this great theme when the complete fellowship walks the iconi
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by larusso 6y ago
I maintain a small fleet of CI machines (mostly macs) and run into this issue as well from time to time. The free space idea is nice but I ram into the problem that under very critical disk space I can’t even shh or when delete a file becau
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by larusso 6y ago
You can play Zelda II and A link to the past via the online subscription. And one could count the remake of Links awakening as well. But more to the small catalog. Nintendo has not the rights to just publish the old NES/SNES catalogue
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by larusso 6y ago
Just too bad when it matches the wrong version of an album or song. Happened to me and I already deleted my original mp3. So you need to rip the CD again. But I think it makes sense to match content and only keep the best version on the ser
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by larusso 6y ago
It’s sounds like pinning dependencies is just done because we developers are a lazy bunch that just want to guard against the rare case of a breaking upstream change. I was burned too often in the past by breaking changes or more often beha
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by larusso 6y ago
I can really connect to this problem. We used a 3rd party tool chain for a game (compiling obj-c to android) and some devs loved to complain about the state of the tools and that everything is buggy yadayadayada. The whole toolchain was ope
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by larusso 6y ago
Yes behavior is the other huge problem. I cover this mainly with integration tests. And whatever wasn’t covered by these specs is not part of the API. But there lies the issue. What if the developer forgot to add a spec or worth the tests r
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by larusso 6y ago
I maintain a batterie of libraries for my company. Managing dependencies is one of the hardest part even with internal only libraries. Our major pain-point is the dependency towards 3rd party software and dealing with semver. Semver is not
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by larusso 6y ago
I think he means the aftermath of the 6th and what happened to Parler and that Trump was blocked by Twitter etc. But I also think this doesn’t relate at all since Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon acted on their own.
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by larusso 6y ago
Thanks for this post. It’s been a while since I wrote a lot of rust code that needed more error handling. I used the error-chain crate like two years ago and was never really satisfied. The macro construct felt weird. I also split my applic
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by larusso 6y ago
As others mentioned gradle has a build cache. It works different to make as it doesn't take the mime timestamp of the input/output but rather creates hashes. In the early versions these caches were project local only. Later the ca
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by larusso 6y ago
I work a lot with gradle and had the same problems in the beginning. I overcome most problems by extending gradle through custom plugins and reading a lot of code. The documentation became clearer and clearer. Granted that is obviously not
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by larusso 6y ago
I build my first PC in 10 years this summer. My work machine is a 16inch MacBook Pro and since I had a laptop and I was not satisfied with the performance of my Mac I decided to build a PC. I have nothing against RGB as it gives me the poss
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by larusso 6y ago
Funny you mentioning „caffeine“ [1]as this is also an app for macOS which solves the same purpose as the one posted. But this one is not in the App Store. I just had a look and next to amphetamine we have taurine, theine and caffeinated and
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by larusso 6y ago
Every few years this argument pops again that flash is still not yet fully replaced. And then the same arguments from both sides start up that the one side either has a rose colored view on flash and the other side sees stuff to Linux centr
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by larusso 6y ago
I really love nix and nixOS and I‘m also using homemanager on my macOS machine and an WSL instance. But I decided to turn away from it. Using just the nix packagemanager on a distribution feels off and doesn’t bring you all the benefits. On
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by larusso 6y ago
I don‘t think this tutorials aim is to use this implementation in production. I can understand the security risks but it‘s easier to understand and maybe improve a technology when one takes it apart first.
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by larusso 6y ago
Sure. It was just an idea why docker was choosen :)
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by larusso 6y ago
I was also wondering why it starts with docker. But since this post is targeted for data science or becoming data science folk maybe the idea is to also support windows users?
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by larusso 6y ago
I use ddg exclusively on all my devices for over three years now and can‘t complain. I had no reason to switch to g! for any topic I needed results. So I wonder if I would solve issues in programming faster or not using google. I never had
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by larusso 6y ago
I‘m German and use English Layout. From time to time I have to write on umlaut. And I always type alt u u for ü. I think alt is the compose key here. Alt u just adds dots and the second u gets combined. This works the same with öä (alt u a,
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by larusso 6y ago
Not only mails. I had teachers printing out web pages before reading them because it felt more natural for them.
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by larusso 7y ago
Oh I love these detailed runs into the past. Also the fact that physics and chemistry where the main driver. Software became the most prominent figure in computing or at least that is how I perceived this growing up. I learned very late wha
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by larusso 7y ago
I honestly have no clue about Redux. I know a bit about react and used Mobx but I’m not a huge fan. When it comes to state managers and especially bigger frameworks with best practice patterns I get reminded a lot about PureMVC. This was th
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by larusso 7y ago
What about “vertüftelt”? “tüfteln” means to tinker around. The word means that you bring something into the state of being tinkered together or is complex.
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by larusso 7y ago
For me Rust keeps the perfect balance between having all these awesome functional concepts but still be a language that works on real world state problems. Don’t get me wrong. I like Haskells Monads etc. But they try to hide the fact that w
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by larusso 7y ago
We in Germany use the so called 99/66 style quotes. But in typography it’s also possible to use >>/<< style. But as a single font character. In the Field of layout the selection and usage of the right quote and space c

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