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mikhailboltonon HomeOS – A self-hosted family dashboard for a kitchen touchscreen

So... not an OS.

mikhailboltonon Ask HN: Why is there no P2P streaming protocol like BitTorrent?

BitTorrent Live did this, too:

https://www.bittorrent.com/blog/2016/05/17/bittorrent-live-m...

mikhailboltonon Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

First time a video game moved me emotionally. Lola getting sprouted. It blew my mind.

mikhailboltonon Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf]

There was a GDC presentation by the iMUSE team (Michael Land, Peter McConnel and Clint Bajakian) in like 2000 or 2001 that I wish I could relive and share. They showed some of the iMUSE interface and how they would mock up the interactive soundtrack.

They started with cornering Tim and getting him to describe each area/room, including the soundscape, and then they would temp in music and sound effects and then went and got a lot of SF street musicians to record a lot of the music.

I remember them showing a build of the game that had Tim describing each scene instead of the final audio.

It was amazing to see behind the curtain.

mikhailboltonon Disney Combines CGI with Neural Rendering to Tackle the ‘Uncanny Valley’

It will be interesting to see if the better results they are getting is from being able to generate their own superior training data (ground truth)

mikhailboltonon C++ Is a Lie

This reminds me, in spirit, of http://cppclock.org

Who knows.. Python 2 didn't die until there was a countdown to tell us all to switch.