mikebelanger

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by mikebelanger 8y ago
Part of the reason for the decline in self-built in homes is advancements in modular home building. They're much better, and more economical than ever before. Even my Dad, who self-built two large homes himself, admitted it doesn&#x2
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by mikebelanger 8y ago
Yeah definitely. A phone is considered much more necessary for basic functioning in a modern society - whereas the computer is a little 'extra'. Naturally poorer people only invest in the more basic, cheaper thing. I believe pro
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by mikebelanger 8y ago
Unfortunately I get this impression too. I teach digital multimedia (even that's a dated term) workshops to young adults (mostly early 20s) with mental disabilities. We use 'old fashioned' computers with a mouse and keyboar
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
Agreed. Its too complex an issue for it to boil down to "Generation A has it easier than B".
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
I know, plus its also being used as a term for coding tutorials in twitch. Kind of annoying.
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
I thought the same thing about that quote. What's fueling the opioid epidemic is a combination of cheap, easy-to-prescribe drugs, doctors who are unwilling to treat chronic pain cases with more diverse methods, and depression. Of cou
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
I dunno the first language I ever managed to figure out was TinyScheme (running on Gimp), which is considered functional. I actually found more OO-style languages to be harder to understand. But that might just be me.
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
You're right, in the scheme of things it doesn't bring down a college education cost that much. But it's one of the relatively simpler ways of reducing the overall cost.
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by mikebelanger 9y ago
Cool thanks for sharing the name. I've been thinking a lot about functions that operate across multiple modalities (modalities as in visual, auditory, etc) lately. Good to know someone else has thought about it too, and looks like we
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Wow - harsh assessment! Yes its true that Canada's housing market is getting overheated, and it has been for a while. In sticking with our sheep analogy, may I ask which greener pastures have you've roamed to?
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
I know this is meant as a motivational/instructional article for finding a career, but I found this says more about Greece's economy than anything else. The motivating part for me, is that here (in Canada) things aren't near
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
How so?
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Have you thought about Canada? In particular, Montreal has a vibrant tech scene, and they have a connection to French culture that might work in your favour. Canada needs lots of working-age people!
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Non-destructive editing is overrated imho. If a user has been saving files all along reverting back is easy. They can even import certain layers if it's only a 'partial reversion'.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
That's why I think the only kind of pensions that should exist are public pensions -- something all citizens get access to. Work-specific ones, especially in the public sector are prone to these sorts of issues. Yes, there's sti
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Easy for such a small country to say. Canada's population is much more spread out, over a much larger space.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Memorization and definitions go hand in hand. After all, you need a certain amount of memory to understand that epi means 'upon' or that mono means 'alone'. If I retain that, is it my understanding, or my memory? That
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Because welfare of any kind is seen as a moral failure by many. UBI is just a more streamlined version of moral failure. I don't agree with this sentiment, but many hold it. As far as alternatives to UBI go, a lot of people have the
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Right -- you won't find a 'brick wall button' in the default Blender, because that isn't a simple idea, and there's variations of brick walls one could make. You can probably accomplish a brick wall by stretching o
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Not a click, but in default keymap, hit the spacebar while in the viewport, and start typing in whatever you want to add (ie Cube, Sphere, etc...)
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Presumably it would be energy intensive, especially at Mars' temperatures.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
That's where all the real innovation is going on: marketing terms. I'm amazed at the effect it has on perceptions.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
That's a good question, one that the article didn't mention. Plus, a lot of stuff is now made through prison labour -- which is substantially lower-paid than the normal minimum wage. This could translate to less opportunities for
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Non-destructive editing is overrated imho. In fact, one of the reasons I used Blender to model instead of Maya was its destructive editing features. Even though I had a full, legal access to a Maya workstation through college, I preferr
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
I don't have an opinion on the Three.js editor as I've never really used it. In fact I've only really played with the basic Three.js code. Looks pretty cool though -- who knows, maybe that's the next big open source 3d
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
While Blender doesn't directly support WebGL, there is a very popular add-on that exports to WebGL called blend4web. www.blend4web.com.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Its funny, whenever I do Blender workshops, I introduce Blender it as the Emacs/Vim of 3d -- kind of for the reasons you mentioned. Yes, like Emacs/Vim, Blender has a very unusual interface, but you can become wildly productive i
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
It is an incredible amount of features, but Blender goes through a lot of updates with mostly bug fixes as well. I know a lot of the added features in this release (Spherical Stereo, Bendy Bones) underwent development for quite a while, an
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
The next industrial revolution doesn't even have to automate jobs to kill them. It just has to make them all so specialized that it will be highly improbable that there's any people who have that specialization.
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by mikebelanger 10y ago
Add one kickass meteor impact to your list of things that could bring us to extinction.

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