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by samplatt 8y ago
I recently replayed through KQ5 (and for the first time ever, finally completed it). The provided youtube recording of the oasis theme MIDI is way way WAAAAYYYY nicer quality than the original game. Is this deliberate? Is this what we'
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by samplatt 8y ago
Currently riding the train for my mum who is doing fairly well after ~9 years with one recurrence, and my dad who isn't doing so well @ 4 years and two recurrences. There's another xkcd strip that, while not as optimistic, is just
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by samplatt 8y ago
Interesting. At first I thought you meant Bentley Descartes, the CAD/BIM/GIS/photogrammetry reality modelling software. It's entirely different, though, and interesting that the two are sort of related and have the same
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by samplatt 8y ago
Not at all, but it's important to know that they're not universally bullshit. The last two companies I've worked for (both <1k people) have genuinely valued their mission statements, and finally incentivise results that ex
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by samplatt 8y ago
Yes, they will. Not even counting cryptomining, universities and big-businesses use NVidia-powered supercomputers with 5000+ $10k cards in them, for AI deep learning or for astrophysical modelling or other things. Previously those cards hav
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by samplatt 8y ago
* home territory (I get corrected on that all the time.)
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by samplatt 8y ago
Interstate travel (especially here in Australia) means that sometimes the soonest someone can get there will be DAYS , purely from the tyranny of distance. Some of the things these trucks transport is required for very large & expensiv
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by samplatt 8y ago
A fly-by-wire system can't fix a blown tyre or an improperly-secured load, both of which are very common occurrences.
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by samplatt 8y ago
The thing we've been learning over the last 50 years is that catastrophic failure of one biome usually causes failure of other biomes. Even discounting feeding 8 billion humans, just the maintenance required in keeping Spaceship Eart
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by samplatt 8y ago
One of the main reasons for the anime groups obsessing about the comparisons is that it's a lot easier to measure final quality on anime, with it's clearly-delineated artwork, instant transitions, and (comparatively) simple backgr
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by samplatt 8y ago
As a native to south-western australia, this all reads pretty accurate. The animal certainly is alive and strong in hearts and minds, if not real life. There's all the usual local country-town big-creature legends, and a bit of 50-year
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by samplatt 8y ago
I'm a biased observer, sure. But I feel very confident in saying that VR is never ever going away, let alone already dead like OP was saying, or even remotely comparable to 3D TV. It's not (as it stands) going to be adopted as t
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by samplatt 8y ago
I work alongside civil/acoustic/hydraulic engineers. We use a whole bunch of tools for various productions, but I spend most of my time in 3DSMAX, Unreal Engine and Visual Studio.
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by samplatt 8y ago
Most of our video is rendered down to ordinary video that gets reprojected, driven mostly by a requirement to be able to be played back on lowest-common-denominator hardware and platforms; nothing near as cool as what Carmack's article
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by samplatt 8y ago
You can keep believing that, sure. I'll just be over here, continuing to earn my living delivering interactive 360 video and VR demonstrations for our clients :-)
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by samplatt 8y ago
Distortion visible in cube maps goes doubly so when viewed in VR. Cube maps are easy but not optimal.
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by samplatt 8y ago
Lytro's light-field camera technologies have huge potential for 360 content and the photogrammetry industry, but they effectively sat on the technology doing very little with it (compared to their competitors), until Google hired som
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by samplatt 8y ago
"Plebs are needed!" is still a phrase between my brother and myself whenever we need an arbitrary increase of effort.
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by samplatt 8y ago
That's fine. I was simplifying for the purpose of illumination. No disagreement on your points.
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by samplatt 8y ago
Even low gravity will keep your atmosphere close to the surface. What causes atmospheric erosion is solar wind, and the reason Earth isn't affected (much) is that we still have a powerful magnetosphere, powered by our spinning molten i
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by samplatt 8y ago
A technological organic reproduction replacement in a world overrun with carcinogen-induced infertility combined with ever-longer lifespans? I'd accept that Timelord headcanon.
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by samplatt 8y ago
I could tell what phase of booting/loading Windows my 486 was at, from the sounds of the HDD.
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by samplatt 8y ago
I've tried the Blue a few times. It regrettably tastes the same as everything else from Johnny Walker - that signature JW flavour profile, but otherwise uninteresting and (extremely, given the price) rough. Very little holdover flavour
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by samplatt 9y ago
The 'locking the door' metaphor is just flat-out incorrect. A public-facing webserver is simply not a place to store your shit.. A closer analogy would be two tables out the front of your house covered in fruit, with a sign saying
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by samplatt 9y ago
Our photogrammetry generation machine has 64GB of RAM and this is much MUCH lower than we want. Most of our models crash we try to generate them on 16- and 32-GB RAM machines; the workflow for our target quality/size models has 64GB as
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by samplatt 9y ago
4KW power supply for $128k? I understand a lot of engineering went into making that & needs to be recouped, but it still sounds on the high side. I wonder how hard it'd be to build one, if required.
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by samplatt 9y ago
Reddit used to be like that; it was the main reason I switched from Digg ~10 years ago.
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by samplatt 9y ago
As someone that's been there, that's an excellent metaphor, and as close to a description of the freezing, sweating, spiraling manic terror that polite society will allow.
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by samplatt 9y ago
>It is the successor to the highly popular custom ROM CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016 when Cyanogen Inc. announced it was discontinuing development Oh. My. God. Thank you. Around about the S5/S7 era I stoppped
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by samplatt 9y ago
Informed decisions require evidence-supported proof, if we're ever to move forward. "Everybody already knows this" is perfectly applicable but ultimately useless. Common sense is a myth.

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