Yes, the poor European settlers out there raping and a pillaging, burning and a looting,destroying cultures and entire people's to build their shiny palace on the hill. Remove the beam from your eye septic
Yes. America had no empire. Except for the giant land empire that was, and is, America. Or does invading and occupying thousands of square miles of land, annihilating entire nations, and enslaving and slaughtering the natives, a process that was still very much ongoing between 1860 and 1890 not count as empire building?
No they probably do mean the jump between the interface in 2.49 which was somewhat unique and very, very different to the current UI, to that in 2.5 which the current interface mostly resembles. 2.8 was a smaller jump that introduced left click select as the default, along with various cosmetic enhancements and a rework of the depsgraph.No idea what you're talking about with contexts being selected in the middle of the screen etc. I suspect you're using "context" in a way unique to you
Amoral literally means "lacking a moral sense; unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something." Generally this is considered a problem if you are designing something that might influence the way people act.
I do this all the time and have done with every boss I've had over the past 25 years. None have ever objected. The phrase I use with my current CEO is "I'm not sure what you're asking for, can you clarify?" With my line manager this is shortened to "huh?" But then again I don't work for Americans who seem to be much more into hierarchy in the workplace and not asking questions.
Can you give me a single example of people creating games/movies/books/music etc. bia ML that are of much better quality than those churned out by AAA?
Not the op, but it's the opposite, at least in the UK. I worked in hospitality as a yoof, was manager of a small hotel and a receptionist in big (independent) 5 stars. I absolutely did care about extra bookings because I got a big commission on walk-ins and a smaller commission on phone bookings. I also had leeway to discount rooms on a sliding scale down to "barely covers the cleaning costs" levels on the night. As a booker if I have the time I still call places up and can usually get a decent discount if they have availability, especially off season or last minute.
Unity is cheaper only in certain circumstances. UE5 is free and then you pay a 5% royalty on gross revenues over $1m. This avoids a lot of the issues faced by indie developers with the new pricing model (having to pay for copies you give away, having to pay a flat fee that eats the profit margin of 99p games, needing to pay for a subscription up front etc.)
Do it in a country with much laxer KYC laws for a haircut and then use one of the myriad other methods of transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth across borders that existed prior to cryptocurrency and which continue to be widely used. Frankly at this point tof you're transacting in cryptocurrency most banks and governments are going to assume that you are either an idiot, a conman or a criminal and treat you as such so the entire chain is already "tainted".
Not the patent but... incredibly environmentally destructive by design. Utterly privacy violating as you're publishing every transaction you make for the world to see on a public ledger so now your neighbour (and government) get to know about your badger fetish. Non reversible transactions are an invitation to fraud and theft and make routine errors like overpayments and payments to the wrong address potentially disastrous. Not to mention the "problems" it claims to fix like instant, fee free transactions and easy international transfers have been fixed for many years in countries with modern banking systems (i.e. not the USA) Etc. Etc. Etc.
According to the US Bureau of Labour Statistics the mean hourly wage for cabinet makers and bench carpenters as of May 2022 was $20.25 per hour. Even in San Francisco the mean hourly wage was only $26.37. Lesson for today - your instincts abiut whay real world, non-dev jobs pay are totally out of whack with reality
Do you not use POs? Much easier, allows you to approve spend if necessary and means the person paying I voices doesn't need to have an encyclopedic knowledge of your employees and keep up to date with which ones have ledt
Ummmm under sixteens have had free bus and tram travel in London for years. Or do you not want them to interact with members of the public and live in a sanitised bubble consisting solely of you and your nanny?
Hire a couple of technical writers with experience and let them get on with it, and then make your devs document every new feature and change. Nothing passes code review unless it is accompanied by updated documentation. Getting your devs to document the existing codebase when you've inherited a shitshow like this will pull them away from their jobs for too long.
Practice! Also group crits. While the format differs from place to place, in art / CGI / illustration / animation a crit (critique) is a session where everybody lines up their work and then you go around the room and each person critiques each others work, saying what you like about it, what you dislike, what you would change etc., while the person being critiqued takes on board or pushes back against the criticisms. Because you're taking it in turns to critique and be critiqued, and are doing it in person, there's social pressure to be polite and constructive, however it is still very uncomfortable to begin with. But do it every week for a few years and you end up with a very thick skin. You can take lessons from the process into other areas of your life and even introduce something parallel when developing where you do group code reviews.
As far as I can tell there is no information provided about what information security measures are in place to protect this hugely juicy target full of commercially sensitive info, and an explicit disclaimer saying "hey folks we offer no guarantees about reliability, uptime or whether we'll disappear in a puff of smoke with all your contracts." Bit worrying
This is one of the major reasons google glass failed - people objecting to "glass holes" filming them and making their objections felt physically.
I suspect that if the type of people likely to drop several thousand quid on an Apple product have to run the risk of being assaulted to use it, then it won't be a success.
There's also a strong possibility that using a constantly recording AR device is illegal in a lot of countries (France I think fits in this category) where you can only photograph / record people with their consent that potentially reduces the total market.
There's even an argument that something like this violates GDPR and it could be illegal EU wide. While this is by no means certain, expect law suits.
You're defending an argument that is blatantly self contradictory within the space of two sentences.
A) "anything he suggests should be categorically rejected because he’s just not in a position to be trusted."
B) "If what he suggests are good ideas then hopefully we can arrive at them in some other way with a clean chain of custody."
These sentences directly follow each other and directly contradict each other. Logically you can't categorically (the categorical is important here. Categorical means something like "treat as a universal law") reject a conclusion because it is espoused by someone you dislike, while at the same time saying you will accept that conclusion if arrived at by some other route.
"I will reject P if X proposes P, but will accept P if Y proposes P." is just poor reasoning.
This is essentially the Oxbridge tutorial system where you have an hour(ish) meeting once(ish) a week with one or two other students and your tutor and talk over what you've learned, are set an assignment or three and have to answer any questions about the last week's assignments. A slightly more scalable version is the seminar system where you have up to 10 students and a tutor and you do roughly the same thing. It only works if participation is mandatory, missing seminars / tutorials is penalised and tutors are given leeway to adjust grades based on semina performance or flag students who do really well on their essays but appear incapable of explaining or defending what they've written.
I'm sorry but most ChatGPT output is functionally indistinct from a pg "quality" essay: Make banal observation about recent technological development. Explain it's "disruptive potential" for legacy industry. Express mild concern about possible social impact on group. Conclude that such concerns are overblown and that tech workers / investors can make shit loads of money while making the world a better, happier place for their chums. Be sure to only use a 9th grade vocabulary.
If I had to ask why pg is concerned I'd say it's because ChatGPT threatens to disrupt the thought leader-industrial complex that he sits at the heart of. When anyone can generate his type of vacuous prose what point pg?
But the things you listed are all quintessentially 90s. Sure they might still be around, or like zines had a bit of a revival recentlt6, but they're hardly novel or "counter cultural" in any way, unless you call gen-x nostalgia counter cultural?
No. What is the point? Mind maps are for clarifying your thinking and exploring ideas. They are an incredibly poor method of communicating ideas to others. I've never had someone present a mind map to me where I haven't then had to ask them to explain what is going on in prose.