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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I think that viability of an "option" is assumed. It's not viable in general today. I'd be surprised if there is even a single person that has actually fully replaced their conventional workspace with a VR desktop like t
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I suppose that's an alternative use case for the tech - to simulate and get an understanding of how to build UX that is friendly towards those with poor eyesight. Haha.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I have played around with it, and the resolution just isn't there. The desktop space in VR is ironically less than on a laptop, because every window has to be massive to be usable at all. In a future with 2x4K res or something in that
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
No, they'll all be working remotely in their own matrix-style cocoons. The nutritional paste will be delivered by Doordash.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I know exactly what you mean. Blender has a sort of reverse identity crisis. It does so many things really well , yet these things are overshadowed by its even more excellent 3D capabilities. It's by far the most powerful and versatil
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Krita has been a perfectly adequate replacement for me as a bitmap editor. It's more stable and more refined than Gimp in my experience. It's obviously not a carbon copy of PS, so if you depend on certain PS features ymmv.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Admittedly I'm only dabbling on a hobby level when it comes to video editing and composition. For what I've been doing Blender has been more than sufficient. It has a pretty good track editor a la Premiere and you can use the comp
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
As someone else mentioned, Blender is actually quite decent for vector animation. You might need to modify your workflow slightly, but using grease pencil, bone skinning and curve tools is enough for very decent 2D animations. A nice bonus
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Inkscape is fantastic. It, Blender and Krita has completely freed me from paying subscription fees for creative tools. I used to be an Adobe Suite (PS, AI, AE, PP) user, but I've yet to encounter a situation where I've felt limite
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Just curious, why would you keep putting the standby laptop in your backpack after this had occurred more than once? It sounds like hardware russian roulette.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
You're saying ~1 billion freely roaming bison in the US seems like a manageable and reasonable solution?
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
There is a significant dissonance there for sure. For example, most people would say that some wars are justified ethically, yet they might change their mind completely if a family member is killed in one. Emotional impact can be a signific
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Why stop there? Couldn't the mother be brain dead as well? It's a dystopian idea - breeding zombie cows that aren't alive on a cognitive level - but you can draw parallels to abortions and pulling the plug on brain dead human
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
> Ideas are your world. Wow, I feel that this describes me perfectly. I've never considered it before, but I tend to think in hypotheticals, generalized broad solutions or abstract concepts. I rarely spend brain power thinking of pr
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Admittedly hyperbolic, though the tech I was referring to was blockchains in general. Maybe you know something I don't, but I always thought the idea and core of blockchains to be pretty rad.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
But it's the clients fault for trying to communicate with a teapot. There's nothing wrong inside the teapot. You just tried to communicate with a teapot. That's silly. Here's a 418 for you.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Anyone surprised by this must be living under a rock. NFTs and crypto in general has turned into mostly an unregulated playground for market manipulation. It's sad to see these fantastic technologies falling into darkness. Same can be
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Anonymous is a meme in itself. Claiming "these are not the real Anonymous" is playing into the meme.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
const originalDollars = 30; const myDollars = originalDollars - 15; const fiveDollarsLess = myDollars <= (originalDollars - 5); const fifteenDollarsLess = myDollars <= (originalDollars - 15); console.log(fifteenDollarsLes
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Wow! One of those moments when you realize that someone is doing exactly what you have been doing. My hobby project was seriously called QRTX. And each data frame started with ###-- where # are padded frame numbers. Pretty much identical to
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
A v40 QR code can hold ~3000 chars/bytes. Isn't that enough for a GPG key?
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Yeah, I was experimenting with a similar thing a while back. The idea was to use camera equipped devices looking at each other to negotiate data transfer through dense QR-codes. Even with that substantially larger data frame support, transf
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Yeah. I transferred a music file at ~6mb. Sure enough a binary payload of that size is POSTed to their `/api/upload` and then downloaded from a CDN on the receiving side. This is basically an ordinary file upload service using sou
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
I think that we agree. My only point is that the warm feeling of aligning with a preferred image is still an implanted emotion.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Very interesting! Tangentially I've worked a lot with video streaming, and one technology that there was a lot of buzz around was to splice personalized ads into regular linear TV broadcasts. Basically it replaced the original broadcas
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Even though I understand that differentiating a strictly pavlovian conditioning with "cultural imprinting" might be interesting, the two proposed modes are still extremely similar. A "cultural imprint" is useless unless
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Fantastic stuff! I love the painted over pieces (assuming they are painted over). The pronounced details and refined features almost add another level of "dreaming" on top of the AI nightmare. Gloriously creepy and fun.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
If you want to use locked version deps from VCS you point to a specific tag, not a branch IIRC.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
IMO there are a lot of quality products in the gaming segment. The main problem is that the segment is bloated by so many "X but with LEDs and a higher price tag". You just have to do a bit more research before any purchase.
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by mekkkkkk 5y ago
Nitpick: You probably meant to write "endless scroll" or "infinite scroll". "Doom scrolling" is a verb for obsessively browsing bad news.

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