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by mxfh 7y ago
Doesn't need to be censorship, maybe just personal preference of the owner who didn't like the comparibly explicit allegoric theme of Vermeers earlier work, compared to the "open" interpretation of the letter without the
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RePaint aims to faithfully recreate paintings using deep learning and 3D Print(news.mit.edu)
1 points by mxfh 8y ago|0 comments
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by mxfh 8y ago
"The effect of layering is so powerful that it has transcended its roots in painting with oils and is now incorporated into all professional digital illustration tools. If you use Photoshop, or Illustrator, or any other computer graph
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by mxfh 8y ago
"Reddit, like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter," ... "It was a place to form anonymous communities around niche interests" Huh? None of these platforms got established as primarily long tail platforms. They were meant to b
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by mxfh 8y ago
VR is a high friction/opportunity cost setup clutch and not a casual setup and interaction thing as TV. The biggest issue with VR is that it's by nature not a passive/low energy thing in it's default mode, it's way
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by mxfh 8y ago
The VR adoption got slowed down quite signifanctly by the artficial price inflation through the cryptomining boom happening in the same period over the last 3-4 years. Before that high-mid to high end GPUs were in a range of USD 200 to 500,
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by mxfh 8y ago
Guess I have to adjust my border between casual and mid-core ;) You can have a hypercasual core loop with midcore meta/economics mechanics on top, think Merge Planes , any match 3 game with stuff tucked on. Pure hyper is normally fine
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by mxfh 8y ago
It's all about the play situation. It's a genre adapting to one-handed interaction and 30-second engagement loops or shorter. If you can't play it on a public transport commute, it doesn't qualify. Yet somehow the majori
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by mxfh 8y ago
I think the bigger issue is removing the context and cropping the complete work here, which quite likely is already a grave deviation from Minards intent (note the Northing of the Hannibal map to align with Napoleon's). It’s originally
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by mxfh 8y ago
"The Mercator projection is often held to be an imperialist distortion of the globe, and that's what traditional latitudes and longitudes use." There is a difference between a projected coordinate system (like Mercator) and
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by mxfh 8y ago
That UTM/MGRS even exits seems to be lost on most pitching W3W. For great circles the metric ratio is close to 40000km/360. A simple trick would be converting to 400gon first¹, but even using 111 Km per degree is a useful approxim
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Geizhals.eu(geizhals.eu)
1 points by mxfh 8y ago|0 comments
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by mxfh 8y ago
For EU prices also check https://geizhals.eu/ they got acquired by Heise Gruppe some years ago and are my goto-service for model comparison and extended filtering, also very useful outside EU. Haven't seen a comparabl
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by mxfh 8y ago
Is there some life cycle assessment (LCA) writeup somewhere on the whole plastics issue? From what it looks "recycling" was big lie due to no accountablity? So all consumer facing regulation in societies with a working waste dispo
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by mxfh 8y ago
Oh boy: https://www.goldennumber.net/golden-ratio-of-earth/
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by mxfh 8y ago
In this case, it's all about how triangles behave on a unit sphere, if one edge gets close to the length of π, or half a circumference. For Earth and Miles, r is 3963 and r * π = 12450, which is awfully close to 12446. We are effectiv
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by mxfh 8y ago
Also were talking spheroid surface distances aka geodesics here. So unless three places lie on a great circle their distances are not cummutative, since they form a geodesic triangle.
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by mxfh 8y ago
The project is now in it's third decade. I heard about first around ten years ago or so. Here is an interview with Ari Versluis from 2012: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/gqnevx/fashion-uk-intervi...
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New Map Projection Meets Cartographic Needs and Desires [Equal Earth](esri.com)
2 points by mxfh 8y ago|0 comments
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Valve Updated SteamVR Tracking Because ‘Beat Saber’ Players Were Too Fast(roadtovr.com)
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by mxfh 8y ago
If even the developers of highly sucessful games come to the conclusion that whaling is basically exploiting a few psychologiaclly gameable people against their best interest. Even worse if happening with minors. Not all companies are in th
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by mxfh 8y ago
In most legal systems contracts/transactions with minors are void to begin with and not enforcable. It's beyond me, why transactions beyond a limited monthly allowance are even possible, if the game is clearly aimed at minors. The
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by mxfh 8y ago
The GOES satellites took pictures continously since 1975. Looks pretty full disk to me. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geostationary_Operational_Envi... The list of MEO to GEO satellites with imaging sesnsors capable of
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by mxfh 8y ago
As a customer tipping culture is highly annyoing to me, I don't want to be upsold three times per dining at least. The attention given, coming form european non-tipping culture, just feels absurdly fake to me. I feel sorry about this,
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by mxfh 8y ago
Some people like to be in control, that's ok. Tipping bundles a simple service task to the in most jobs needless component of giving the customer the illusion of attention. If you're a waitress by choice and tipping works for you
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by mxfh 8y ago
Tipping is the "trickle down"-myth's small scale cousin. It doesn't only take away responsibility of paying, but adds emotional and mental load cost to the customer. It's hilarious that people accept that in exchang
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by mxfh 8y ago
There are some slides explaining the restoration process: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/media/school-of-chemistry/event... If you want to print a copy, I would recommend fetching the high resolution scan of a later
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Rayshader – An open-source R package for producing 2D and 3D hillshaded maps(rayshader.com)
150 points by mxfh 8y ago|21 comments
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by mxfh 8y ago
First it signal's "I don't do superfluous effects and scratches even if I wanted." The boutique type mixer has a whole different niche market than most comparably mass market mixers. Also with faders it's easier to
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by mxfh 8y ago
Also funny, that the orginal Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule now ETH Zürich during Einstein's student time was probably much closer, as a european Polytechnicum in the (not-neo-yet-) liberal french tradition, to an agricultura

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