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This is where I’m losing track of what’s going on here. I generally understand the principles from at least the first half of the video, the pinhole camera and lenses and can imagine how it works in real life, but this is blender. It’s not real life. How does this work in BLENDER? Is it because the underlying physics models in Blender are so accurate one can recreate even these increasingly convoluted things in real life?

What about the Nakatomi Plaza incident in 1988?

All these articles appear to be about the same incident. Because it doesn’t seem to be something that’s standard or even regular, my inclination would be to say that this is an isolated incident, possibly with an agent who got carried away or something.

I’m sure I could find a similar comment about cryptocurrency or NFTs. There’s always snake oil salesmen.

“RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:CHECK THIS OUT ABOUT MODERN WEB DEV LOL!”

People may drop more money on PC than the average console person drops on their co sole, but the number of people doing this to their PC is vanishingly small. So per capita it’s better, but in aggregate spending a bunch of dev time on such a small market isn’t smart.

Put succinctly: even if this hardware advantage were available on PC, game devs wouldn’t optimize for it.

I feel you, I was chatting with my dad and he said something similar. Your framing as either or though isn’t quite right. I’ve found that the Model S is quite comfortable and quiet inside.

I also think it would be a very cool experience to drive a race car on a track, and I’m glad you get that experience. But I don’t see my interest in that extending or being prioritized enough to make the time and financial investment for such a specific thing. But your framing is again problematic, probably unknowingly, because having a car that can go fast and “going Plaid speeds on public roadways” with the race car comparison conjuring images of irresponsible drivers is almost entirely orthogonal to actually owning such a car.

I did not know this! They didn’t have that option to my knowledge when I got mine. Probably doesn’t matter at this point as I’m mostly used to it, but good to know.

Speaking for myself, but although I loathe Elon and deride Tesla’s build quality, there’s truly nothing like driving around a Plaid Model S for it’s absolutely tearjerking speed. The weird steering wheel continues to annoy, however.

Stepping back though, one can get a performance Model 3 very inexpensively, relatively, and as far as I can tell or have seen, no other manufacturer outside of Porsche (with BMW making some minor inroads) has electric cars close to as fast.

So if given a choice between a ridiculously fast Tesla and a, say, much slower Volvo for the same or more money, I’ll go with the Tesla. Not that I base the entire purchase on acceleration performance, but all else being relatively equal I will be driving a Tesla until others catch up.

I am very open to being wrong about the ingredients in a martini, so I checked. I can’t find any reference to any ingredient other than the two mentioned, plus maybe a garnish if desired. Ice water is never listed, so it sounds like you’re having nonstandard martinis, which is totally fine but a little unfair to the bartender if it’s some test. I was thinking that some water does make it into the martini as an artifact of the catalyst (ice) used to make it cold, but then you seem to reference actively diluting it with straight iced water. I think we’re probably just referencing different drinks, I am specifically referencing a “classic martini” from the original post.

I get the sense that this is just a hyper specific hobby of yours, so won’t begrudge you being exacting to the standards you’ve created. Just like some people really, really get off on leather shoes or suits or whatever, hobbies are fun.

Agree with cheese pizza, and will add plain cheeseburger. But with a martini one normally specifies the ingredients (or at least the base) as the orderer, otherwise it’s just well alcohol. So I would normally say something like “vodka martini” and they would give me whatever is on well with whatever the vermouth is, and I guess olive juice if I specified. Otherwise I’d order a “X Brand vodka/gin martini” and they’d do the same but with the specified brand. So this isn’t really helpful to determine anything about the bartender. Unless you’re telling them to surprise you, but then you’re likely just testing if their preferences match yours.

Furthermore, the recipe specifies the proportions. Whatever ounces or whatever ingredient. I would argue that them deciding the proportions outside of the recipe is bad.

I think your romanticizing martinis too much and reading too much into them. Martinis are good btw, just saying they’re the most basic drink.

It depends on noise level. You’re right though generally. One can safely listen to 85dB for 8 hours before hearing loss starts. Up that to 91dB and you have just two hours. 97dB quarters it again and one can be exposed to only 30 mins. But once one gets to loud sounds like sirens, gunshots, firecrackers in the 120-150dB range onset of permanent hearing loss can be instant.

A martini only has two ingredients. If you’re trying to test a bartender you might consider doing something like a frozen pina colada or a gin fizz.

No

I freely give out my information when I choose to use Facebook, Instagram, MySpace, google maps while logged into google, sweetgreen for ordering for pick up, Uber eats while ordering for delivery. There are myriad of cases where people choose to give out their personal information — and yes before you protest: I can live without having my Sweetgreen ready when I arrive (versus ordering at the terminal when I arrive) or without Uber delivering my meal (I can go to the restaurant).

I acknowledge there are cases where it’s effectively impossible in modern society, such as with giving out your info to get a cell phone, but believe by verbiage “freely giving out information” accounts for this.

I don’t like the government being able to do this, but common sense seems to dictate that in cases where the user has freely given out their information and where a private citizen can go buy that information, the government should be able to buy it.

Still get blisters on the outside of feet/toes with one layer, though not between toes. The second layer gives an additional protection and then no blisters. It’s like the double layer method Wright Socks use.

The “toe socks inside regular socks” is the secret to me never getting blisters on marathons (once I started doing that)!

Not to worry, you can still search google/etc., which scrapes Reddit, or Reddit itself through its native search. No need to use an API explicitly to access content like that.

Sorry just seeing this, HN of course isn’t designed for back and forth discussion. I used the phrase intentionally because looking at the developer’s side of what happened, my takeaway is that while yes it would cost a lot to continue operating, out of the many options available to them they chose to just shut down. That’s “taking their ball and going home” in my opinion. Of course they’re free to do so, but it was far from the only option to take and they’re basically leaving a lot of Apollo fans in a lurch because they didn’t feel like putting in the effort to make a workable solution. Reddit also handled the rollout of fees poorly. All this is of course just my opinion and I don’t expect everyone to agree.

To me “boycott breaker” is a much more self-important framing than this deserves. It’s framing it with picket line crossers or scabs. Happy to boycott, protest, and use my resources for things that are acutely important to humanity: human rights issues, unionization and pay issues, environmental issues, among others — and I have done so, including physically standing in solidarity. Third-party API access to a private company doesn’t merit a blip on the radar in my opinion.

However while I’m not happy about the access being shut down, nor am I happy that Apollo dev took his ball and went home, I am fully supportive in spirit of the unintended consequences. Notably: lots more diversity on the front page (meaning less reporting dreck from the same oversized subreddits over and over), and maybe even a clamp down on the self-perceived sway of mods, a position that tends to attract the worst, most power-hungry people, and their “moderating” of literally hundreds of subreddits simultaneously.

My guess is that, as I’ve previously posted, this will go something like the last boycott of the chat feature. Main subreddits will shutter, new subreddits with similar names will pop up to fill the void with identical content. In any case, Reddit is under the VC gun at this point and I doubt they have a choice here, in my experience with large VC-backed companies.

The way I use Reddit is to subscribe to small subreddits for thoughtful engagement and just do r/all when I want to mindlessly engage with whatever is hitting the top.

So far aside from a couple random “we’re protesting” or whatever banners from the former main subreddits, my experience has remained unchanged, except that I’m seeing some welcome diversity in what’s at the top pages of r/all. Meaning: it’s not just r/pics or r/videos or whatever hitting the top, because they’ve neutered themselves, and now it’s pics and videos from slightly smaller subreddits that don’t normally hit.

So far I’m liking this change, though not engaging through Apollo will be a bit annoying in the future.

Small subreddits are largely not participating. Large subreddits I just browse from the All or Popular. I’m thinking if the large subreddits don’t inject things into the All subreddit than largely identical content will be injected and this will be a blip as small as the last protest that only saw the main subreddit names change and nothing more.

Something like this maybe? The website claims 6,000m depth (20,000ft), which is more than enough to do the job.

https://www.anduril.com/hardware/dive-ld/

They seem to be discussing the more complex, business- and customer-driven aspects of technology, not the simple process of building a CRUD application. DoNotPay.com is one of these examples. It's a straightforward CRUD software where one enters parameters to establish a contract; however, despite claims to the contrary, a human being actually creates the contract form and sends it back 24 to 72 hours later. The entire enterprise embodies the idea of a Mechanical Turk.

Running a business openly seems to me to be what people do when they are Amazon sellers and discover a brand-new, lucrative niche before Amazon (or dozens of Chinese sellers) steal it and start selling it for themselves. Running a startup publicly, in my opinion, essentially validates ideas for others to do better, with more resources, with a competitive edge, or whatever.

This was demonstrated lately using the AI Stable Diffusion Portraits. A thousand rivals arose right away after the original author stated their money was derived from doing nothing more than setting up a website connected to steady dissemination on the backend. It increases competition even if none of those rivals are inherently superior.

This sounds like a lot of work to me to address a problem that only impacts 0.1% of players, and KeyboardEvent.code looks pretty obscure.

We briefly utilized a product similar to this, however the issues you mentioned remained and it was awkward to explain that meeting notes were going to some rando saas. The situation became even more embarrassing when it started joining arbitrary private meetings that were scheduled. We immediately got rid of it and won't again use another product like this.

Lots of my friends have been discussing and thinking the same things. Sounds like you’ve been feeling it too. Something is off. Plus everything you said, I feel like my clothes never wear as well the next day from the past, my hair never falls in quite the same way, and even my coffee tastes...wrong. Our institutions are crumbling, nobody trusts their neighbor anymore, and we stay up at night wondering to ourselves...How can we go back?

I'm curious what techniques you might employ to give this a shot. There have been at least a few double-blind trials that have yielded results that are no better than random, according to the wiki entry on the topic, which I had to read to even understand what dowsing was.