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bottle2on SpaceshipGenerator: A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships

Didn't No Man's Sky do this? I haven't played this so I'm not sure

I don’t know. I’m a tinkerer but if we think about phone ecosystem, then I just want my phone to work and not spy on me. I’ll tinker with my other devices, but after bricking one phone, I won’t do it again.

bottle2on Gallery of database schema diagrams of open-source packages

Hi! This is cool, and is something I wish I had when studying database normalization back in my CS days. If you're seeking more visitors, I would send nice emails to DB professors offering it as free class material. Students could study "current open source" DB patterns, and discuss (in online discussions) the characteristics or that don't make sense.

One comment: I can't figure out how to make the diagrams full screen, and I don't like viewing it in that small box. Perhaps offer a way to maximize or download for offline viewing?

bottle2on 'Spot': A Robot That Could Help Doctors Remotely Treat Covid-19 Patients

The main picture seems like something out of a science fiction nightmare

bottle2on Where Is Kim Jong Un?

I watched the video. It's basically 8 minutes of "we do not know".

bottle2on Google will require proof of identity from all advertisers

> Now I can impersonate you.

Or you could just use Edward Snowden's passport, or any of the other thousands of people's IDs that have been compromised.

https://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441386/ethical-hacking-o...

bottle2on Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

Same here. In a given week, I’ve opened files across 6 different {programming} languages

bottle2on Microsoft Word now flags double spaces after a period as errors

I don’t know. It sounds like you’re older and smarter than I, but whenever I see two spaces at the end of a sentence, I fix it to make it one space. It looks plain wrong to my brain

bottle2on Amazon May Have Misled Congress, House Judiciary Chair Says

> If Amazon is effectively a monopoly, so are Walmart, Costco, Target, and some others.

I looked this up. Walmart is bigger than I thought!

> Grocery sales account for 56% of Walmart's total U.S. revenue, making it the country's largest grocer.

bottle2on Nintendo 64 Architecture – A Practical Analysis

Ok thanks!

bottle2on Google wants to hire the creator of 'Killed By Google'

"Since your net worth is now tied to your RSUs, please show some ownership and delete your domain. Oh wait, you visited it while at work, so now it is considered work property and you mus hand over control of the DNS" - a fictional account of corporate conspiracy

bottle2on Head of Postal Workers Union Says Postal Service Could Be Dead in Three Months

How much does that cos? The post office is cheap for a lightweight letter (and I can use a stamp from home), but if I use FedEx I generally have to go to their local shop and pay a few dollars

bottle2on Shorting Home Equity Mezzanine Tranches (2007) [pdf]

> tried to dump the bonds

How did that go?

bottle2on E Ink smart screen puts a newspaper on your wall

I didn't see the NDA, but it has this forbidding message (which I think the author of the article ignored):

"(II) PURCHASER IS PURCHASING THE PRODUCTS FOR COMMERCIAL USE AND/OR IN A BUSINESS CAPACITY. ORDERS PLACED BY CONSUMERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED."