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dp-hackernews··on Ask HN: What are the best resources (courses, books) to learn Blender and Krita?
I have watched some of the previous tutorial, but I don't have enough "need to know" to continue at the moment.

The donut tutorial does appear to be quite a popular means of learning Blender though.

dp-hackernews··on U.S. moves closer to filing antitrust case against Apple
IIRC the Blackberry Messaging app (BBM) was cross-platform.
dp-hackernews··on Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
As can Oxygen.
dp-hackernews··on Ask HN: What are the best resources (courses, books) to learn Blender and Krita?
Apparently, this is a good starting point... Good Luck!

Donut Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MK...

dp-hackernews··on Consumer Reports finds 'widespread' presence of plastics in food
Plastic pens

Plastic straws

Plastic Lilly sticks

Plastic tie-wraps

Basically anything that someone might chew on!

Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess. :-)

dp-hackernews··on What would you do if you were me?
Assignments are not there for you to be creative, they are there to test your ability to complete the task and produce the desired outcome.

All students are measured on whether they achieve the correct outcome - you get marked down for each incomplete or inaccurate outcome of the assignment.

Marking is therefore made easier for the professors etc if everyone turns in roughly the same thing with the desired outcome

If you go and get too creative, you make it far harder for the professors to mark your assignment because you end up masking the desired outcome in superfluous fluff that they resent having to wade through.

Your thesis is the time to be a pioneer and demonstrate your ability.

All assignments should be completed with as little effort as possible that achives the desired outcome.

Easy to mark, and easy to gain the maximum grade. Anything extra is a complete waste of time and effort for all involved.

I learnt that the hard way initially, until I worked it out.

You will have plenty of opportunity to be excellent after you get your grades - do it the easy way, then test yourself after in the real world. Although, even the real world usually has a pretty simple brief

If you want to do it your way, the only guaranteed way to do so is to ceate your own project on your own time.

dp-hackernews··on 100 tiny changes to transform your life
Or people that go to bed at a time that supports waking up at the desired time...
dp-hackernews··on John Oliver skewers Dr. Oz for his hawking of diet supplements
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38794068
dp-hackernews··on John Oliver skewers Dr. Oz for his hawking of diet supplements
Point in case:

Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-c...

dp-hackernews··on John Oliver skewers Dr. Oz for his hawking of diet supplements
Still relevant today - as supplements are still unregulated, and some can be rather expensive, and are full of various sugars to boot.
dp-hackernews··on Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products
Title should read:

"Awesome list of open-source startup alternatives to well-known SaaS products "

dp-hackernews··on Officials urged tough Covid messaging for 'white van man'
A man who drives a white van - think parcel delivery or small removals van driver etc.
dp-hackernews··on JetBrains forces AI freemium plugin that cannot be completely removed into IDEs
Did you manage to remove/disable it completely? If so, how did you do it?
dp-hackernews··on My Raspberry Pi Learns to Drive
This reminds me of "Big Trak"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Trak

dp-hackernews··on Cardiometabolic Effects of Omnivorous vs. Vegan Diets in Identical Twins
Is a Calorie a Calorie? Processed Food, Experiment Gone Wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyxcTZccsE

dp-hackernews··on Anyone else finally have YouTube force the adblock off? What works now?
I use uBlockOrigin and the now defunct uMatrix - I never see any ads or warnings related to ads.

uBlockOrigin may also work similarly with noScript - I've not checked.

Might be worth asking on the NewPipe repo on github how they avoid the ads on the server side.

dp-hackernews··on Bad eIDAS: Europe ready to intercept, spy on your encrypted HTTPS connections
Government turned Hacker, what a beautiful future!
dp-hackernews··on The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
And what about a public library, should they also require identification and proof of age?

How about a playground or park, should you be a certain age to use one, do you need to prove identity to do so also?

Censorship by way of restriction of resources. A cheap shot that will cost dearly in many ways, and far into the future - perhaps this is the kind of bill that guarantees an explosion of revolt in the future.

John Carpenter's "They Live" anyone?

dp-hackernews··on Bye bye passwords: Google and other tech giants steering users to passkeys
Alternatively...

https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm

dp-hackernews··on UK government launches free protective DNS service for schools
So, basically, a government controlled Pi-Hole / uBlock Origin project.

I'm confused, did I miss something?

Is this not just another way for the government to get a tighter grip on censorship, I.e. to control what the people have the ability to see, or to see only what the government provide? Seems like another pathway to those 1984 shenanigans.

Is the next step to impose MITM proxies that manipulate everything see in realtime.

dp-hackernews··on Safety benefits of roundabouts
Roundabouts are SHIT - especially so when they eventually acquire traffic lights - leading up to them, and finally actually on them...

In the UK its priority to the right, meaning if there's something coming around the roundabout, you must/should wait... Which only works of there is a gap in the flow of traffic big enough for you to jump into...

Don't worry USA, you'll soon regret your decision to introduce roundabouts.

Stick with your sensible "right on red" logic, and your sweeping circular on/off ramps (yeah, you and Canada have plenty of space to do those) - they are genius for maintaining traffic flow (not so convinced about the traffic lights leading onto the freeway though at rush hour times!)

If you fancy a giggle of what mayhem roundabouts can cause, try searching for "spaghetti junction" near Birmingham England, or "the magic roundabout" of Swindon England fame - they are priceless!

Enjoy! ;-)

dp-hackernews··on Do You Need to Shower Every Day?
Even though that body odour is natural - too many people have been conditioned to think that we should smell of deodorant or perfume. Granted, some people do have hygiene issues, or other issues that cause them to have more odour, but generally having a splash of water regularly is better for your body.

Our skin is trying its damnedest to keep itself in balance and all people are doing is stressing it out, no wonder people end up smelling when the skin is over compensating due to being stripped of all its natural protective oils. Not to mention all the sugar and refined carbohydrates people consume - their body is screaming with inflammation, when all it wants is balance from a good source of healthy nutrition. But we humans know best right... sigh

dp-hackernews··on Do You Need to Shower Every Day?
This video may explain a few things about why being too "clean" is making you ill...

https://youtu.be/4SCm4_N7uLM

dp-hackernews··on End-to-End Encryption is under attack [video]
Our basic expectation of private conversations using End-to-End Encryption is under attack.

The UK just passed the Online Safety Bill and the intent is to zuck us by bypassing encryption via client side scanning.

But we can fight back with Linux?

dp-hackernews··on SQRL (Secure Quick Reliable Login)
https://github.com/kalaspuffar/secure-quick-reliable-login
dp-hackernews··on A little-known pollution rule keeps the air dirty for millions of Americans
Natural fires have been happening naturally for, what millions of years? All of the rest of nature seems to be able to cope with that, and even we've survived up until today...

The seas also get "polluted" by underwater volcanic vents, amongst other natural things, constantly...

It makes no sense to stand over a fire and inhale the smoke, or to drink the water from too close to those vents, but are we really trying to change the nature of the planet?

I mean, who's going to stop the sand from the Sahara Desert making it's way over to the UK for everything that breaths air to breath in, not to mention leaving a layer of red dust everywhere, especially on vehicles and the like, caught by the dew that happens naturally when the temperature changes.

Shouldn't the focus be more on what industry is doing to the air and water and soil, and what we seem to be inadvertently supporting with the present lifestyle?

dp-hackernews··on Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
That is likely down to the type of "food" that you are eating. Or you are eating more than is necessary.

A diet that contains a high nutritional content will prevent you from over-eating due to satiety signals (unless you have a hormone issue) rather than eating to the point of feeling "stuffed" - if someone is eating to the point of feeling "stuffed" then it would suggest that they are not eating food with a high nutritional content, or that they have some disorder that is interfering with their normal eating process.

If you look to the animal kingdom, the lion kills the zebra, feeds then walks away, the next in line feeds, then walks away, etc, etc... no animal eats until they are "stuffed" - if they did then they would become another animals prey because they are too "stuffed" to move!

No wonder some countries consider it rude to clear your plate of food. (too bad the Brits do this the other way around!) lol

dp-hackernews··on Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
I would argue they are not "gaining" fat, rather they are "balancing" the amount of fat the body considers normative. Of course you can easily acquire more fat with an inappropriate diet consisting of too much sugar, but a healthy diet will see your body maintain the ratios that are optimal for your current requirements.

It never ceases to amaze me that we think that we know better, and yet the human body, as with other animals etc, have been around for quite some time now. Even if we had all the data from the past that we think is important now, we still wouldn't know better.

There was a post the other day regarding "The prosecutors fallacy" that might fit well with this sort of subject matter.

dp-hackernews··on Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
"Even when you’re sleeping at night, the brain consumes roughly as much energy as it does during the day."

https://www.brainfacts.org/brain-anatomy-and-function/anatom...

Does this change over time also?

dp-hackernews··on Daily energy expenditure through the human life course
* Extreme events reveal an alimentary limit on sustained maximal human energy expenditure.

"We compiled measurements of total energy expenditure (TEE) and basal metabolic rate (BMR) from human endurance events and added new data from adults running ~250 km/week for 20 weeks in a transcontinental race. For events lasting 0.5 to 250+ days, SusMS decreases curvilinearly with event duration, plateauing below 3× BMR. This relationship differs from that of shorter events (e.g., marathons). Incorporating data from overfeeding studies, we find evidence for an alimentary energy supply limit in humans of ~2.5× BMR; greater expenditure requires drawing down the body’s energy stores. Transcontinental race data suggest that humans can partially reduce TEE during long events to extend endurance."

https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.aaw0341

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