In other news today...
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@Dragoon anyone reading the IoS thread could have told them that without any study.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
there might be equivalent problems with the tax policies of some states in the US, but I don't know much about those
Every large company that isn't engaged in patent lawsuitery is incorporated in Delaware regardless of their headquarters or even whether they do business in Delaware, because Delaware doesn't charge corporate tax. The trolls are in East Texas because the judges there are friendly to troll lawsuits and they can hoodwink the jurisdiction rules.
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@boomzilla That’s going to be hilarious.
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@Cursorkeys said in In other news today...:
Dropped in via Apollo capsule is where it's at!
LOL
Did you NOT see Mars Attacks? You never know! Walk softly and carry a powerful explosive.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
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Wow, that is really well done.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Wow, that is really well done.
I remembered seeing that a while back... I love the comments that are sprinkled along the way...
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@dcon quoted in In other news today...:
Did you NOT see Mars Attacks? You never know! Walk softly and carry a powerful explosive.
I've seen the film. It's definitely walk softly and carry a recording of Slim Whitman's "Indian Love Call"…
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
Finally, a use for the free-spinning mode on my scroll wheel.
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
Finally, a use for the free-spinning mode on my scroll wheel.
Only now you find out that the mouse works vertically and not horizontally while the latter is needed. Foiled again!
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon anyone reading the IoS thread could have told them that without any study.
Except that that's not the point of the study. Instead their point is that if ⅕ of all the cars on the road are still running the vulnerable CarOS 7 or XP instead of the latest version then it should theoretically be enough to jam traffic:
"Randomly stalling 20 percent of cars during rush hour would mean total traffic freeze. At 20 percent, the city has been broken up into small islands, where you may be able to inch around a few blocks, but no one would be able to move across town," said David Yanni, a graduate research assistant in Junker's lab.
Better get yourself a good pair of walking boots...
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Anyone that has driven during "bad" weather, knows that it is far less that 20% to cause a complete gridlock. Hell, a few well placed idiots can cripple an entire city.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
Better get yourself a good pair of walking boots...
then a news alert on your watch tells you that hackers have paralyzed all Manhattan traffic by randomly stranding internet-connected cars.
From recent Manhattan experience, and to quote Douglas Adams:
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
Better get yourself a good pair of walking boots...
then a news alert on your watch tells you that hackers have paralyzed all Manhattan traffic by randomly stranding internet-connected cars.
From recent Manhattan experience, and to quote Douglas Adams:
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.While I applaud your reference of the great Douglas Adams' work, I'm slightly dubious if your use of the past tense is fitting.
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Anyone that has driven during "bad" weather, knows that it is far less that 20% to cause a complete gridlock. Hell, a few well placed idiots can cripple an entire city.
There's something special about bad weather though. Watching a city bus slide down a sloping road sideways on and praying that it hits the edge of the road before it gets to the intersection at the bottom, that's not an experience I'm keen on repeating. (It was a long time ago, but not long enough!)
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
Anyone that has driven during "bad" weather, knows that it is far less that 20% to cause a complete gridlock. Hell, a few well placed idiots can cripple an entire city.
The article you posted actually states that as well.
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I just skimmed the first little bit, not really suppose to be reading that at work :)
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@dkf said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
I expected better from them.
If it was accurate, the picture would be pretty much just black with a white-ish pixel for the Sun.
Finally, a use for the free-spinning mode on my scroll wheel.
Only now you find out that the mouse works vertically and not horizontally while the latter is needed. Foiled again!
Luckily the site developer (or Opera, or whatever) thought of that and scrolling vertically scrolls the thing horizontally.
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Blender changes its UI! For the better??
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Blender changes its UI! For the better??
I've been using it for the last week. It seems a bit less mystifying than the previous version, insomuch that I managed to do some small things in it whereas I couldn't even start before.
Still fucked up the model, but I fucked with more confidence!
My biggest peeve is that the viewport movement is nearly unusable for no apparent reason. I can't make the camera do what I want for life, liberty, or death.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
(around 1.3×10⁹ km):
When it comes to things like the age of the earth, the number of snowflakes in Siberia, the national debt... Those things are too much for our brains to handle.
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(and around 3.75×10⁹ km):
Is the known universe 99.9999999999999999999958% empty? Or is it 0.0000000000000000000042% full?
Carefully note the significant digits of the second number…
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
. A web-app won't work to show your boarding pass when offline,
Uh, yeah, of course it can.... I've literally done just this by saving a screenshot.
OK, sure, I should have said that a webapp makes it difficult for non-tech savvy and forward-thinking people, i.e. the majority of customers, to have their boarding pass available offline.
Although to your , it's not the webapp that was showing the boarding pass in your case, but rather the photo gallery app (or whatever you used to view the screenshot, which might have been your browser but it certainly wasn't the web app), so technically I was still right.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I've been using it for the last week. It seems a bit less mystifying than the previous version, insomuch that I managed to do some small things in it whereas I couldn't even start before.
Need to try it out. My biggest worry is that all the online resources/tutorials etc are outdated. Again. But if stuff is more discoverable without googling every tiny bit, it's maybe an overall improvement still.
My biggest peeve is that the viewport movement is nearly unusable for no apparent reason. I can't make the camera do what I want for life, liberty, or death.
Tried fly mode s(Shift-F in old blender) if that still exists? I pretty much always ended up using that, because the default viewport controls sucked balls.
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@remi I would just note that the time I was forced to install the Vueling app, it saved them as pictures. Them, as the ticket had two people on it, and then I transferred the second image to my spouse's phone (over bluetooth file transfer). Since web application can tell the browser to save the target, it would have worked just as well (if it didn't have phone number verification that didn't accept international numbers).
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@Bulb Could you still access the pictures directly from the app, or was the only way to see them to go to the gallery (or other picture-viewing app, but not in the airline app)? In the former, I'd say that this beats hands-down a webapp, because having seen users such as my mother struggle with their phone, they can remember "my boarding pass for flight with company X is in the app for company X", but would never remember to look into their gallery app.
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@remi I think you still could access them directly there, though I don't really remember. It was not practical due to the need to transfer it to the other phone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDbv0W6YUHo
How to turn a simple ticket into multiple felonies in a few easy steps!
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@remi said in In other news today...:
Although to your , it's not the webapp that was showing the boarding pass in your case, but rather the photo gallery app (or whatever you used to view the screenshot, which might have been your browser but it certainly wasn't the web app), so technically I was still right.
I also used the "download for offline" button in Chrome to save the page. There's nothing technically different from what said web app couldn't do.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
Although to your , it's not the webapp that was showing the boarding pass in your case, but rather the photo gallery app (or whatever you used to view the screenshot, which might have been your browser but it certainly wasn't the web app), so technically I was still right.
I also used the "download for offline" button in Chrome to save the page. There's nothing technically different from what said web app couldn't do.
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Blender changes its UI! For the better??
The Gimp UI, which is the second worst offender when it comes to powerful but unusable, actually changed for the better when they gave up on their "multiple windows are better!! Here's a penny, buy a decent WM!(1)" whargarbl. But it's still easier to draw a circle in MS Paint than to look up how to trace paths.
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I've been using it for the last week. It seems a bit less mystifying than the previous version, insomuch that I managed to do some small things in it whereas I couldn't even start before.
Still fucked up the model, but I fucked with more confidence!
My biggest peeve is that the viewport movement is nearly unusable for no apparent reason. I can't make the camera do what I want for life, liberty, or death.Oh look, it says
mouse and tablet interaction got a refresh with left click select as the new default.
It's really impressive to see the screenshots of what you can do with it. Every time I used it (because I don't have CAD tools) it took me 30 minutes to create something like a square pyramid.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Need to try it out. My biggest worry is that all the online resources/tutorials etc are outdated. Again.
Most of the keybinds are still there I think, which is fortunate because most tutorials tell you what buttons to press instead of click.
@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
My biggest peeve is that the viewport movement is nearly unusable for no apparent reason. I can't make the camera do what I want for life, liberty, or death.
Tried fly mode s(Shift-F in old blender) if that still exists? I pretty much always ended up using that, because the default viewport controls sucked balls.
It's now shift-tilde (in qwerty layout). It still sucks and is janky as fuck.
What I want is something like Unreal Engine's controls, but failing that:
- middle-drag: viewport up-down and left/right,from the perspective of the viewport.
- middle-drag+ctrl: forward/backward and left/right, from the perspective of the viewport
- middle-drag+alt: pan and tilt, from the perspective of the viewport.
This is apparently impossible. I wouldn't mind if there was a way to "unlock" the viewport for this, but nothing I try does it. The viewport is always looking at some random point that I can't choose or alter, and that to me is horrible.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
took me 30 minutes to create something like a square pyramid.
Seems I'm in a minority of "people who have only minor difficulty using Blender", because making a pair of square pyramids took me very little time indeed (those holes on the other hand…). "Viewport controls" are certainly not high on the list of "things I'd take issue with".
Suspected this might have warranted its own topic, but seeing myself in the topic list too much feels like I'm talking to myself...
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@remi said in In other news today...:
Although to your , it's not the webapp that was showing the boarding pass in your case, but rather the photo gallery app (or whatever you used to view the screenshot, which might have been your browser but it certainly wasn't the web app), so technically I was still right.
I also used the "download for offline" button in Chrome to save the page. There's nothing technically different from what said web app couldn't do.
FTFY. why would I read to the end of the thread to see if I would be ?
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
took me 30 minutes to create something like a square pyramid.
Seems I'm in a minority of "people who have little difficulty using Blender", because making a pair of square pyramids took me very little time indeed. "Viewport controls" are certainly not high on the list of "things I'd take issue with".
I tried the simple task of taking a repeating mesh and copying the segments a few more times to reach the desired new length. Motherfucker broke in the most arcane ways and now the UV map always makes it turn black when baking lights because fuck knows why,, and I just can't waste another week doing something a toddler with Legos could in a few seconds.
Suspected this might have warranted its own topic, but seeing myself in the topic list too much feels like I'm talking to myself...
Doesn't stop me.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
now the UV map always makes it turn black when baking lights because fuck knows why
That's easily explained: UV looks black to the human eye.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
It's now shift-tilde (in qwerty layout).
(I guess it makes sense for a US layout, but on my preferred keyboard layout, tilde is on the
leftright edge of the keyboard and requires alt-gr.)It still sucks and is janky as fuck.
Eh. I found it relatively useable, but it's also quite close to the camera controls that I normally use for debug cameras and so on. But, YMMV.
What I want is something like Unreal Engine's controls, but failing that:
middle-drag: viewport up-down and left/right,from the perspective of the viewport.
middle-drag+ctrl: forward/backward and left/right, from the perspective of the viewport
middle-drag+alt: pan and tilt, from the perspective of the viewport.I wouldn't mind that either. (Although I still want the fly mode with WSAD+EQ+mouse.)
Edit: doh.
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I made a prediction I unfortunately didn't share with anyone: that someone would post about Blender 2.80 in the news thread and then people would start discussing it and then the mods would have to create a new thread.
So far we're just missing the last step.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The viewport is always looking at some random point that I can't choose or alter, and that to me is horrible.
Don't know about 2.80, but the version I have (gathering figurative dust) has the user settings Zoom to Mouse Position and Rotate Around Selection. There's also an Auto-Depth setting, I have no idea how it works.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
The viewport is always looking at some random point that I can't choose or alter, and that to me is horrible.
Don't know about 3.80, but the version I have (gathering figurative dust) has the user settings Zoom to Mouse Position and Rotate Around Selection. There's also an Auto-Depth setting, I have no idea how it works.
I've toyed with them. The one that was almost (but not quite) usable was the rotate-around-selection setting. It still sucked cockroach balls.
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Breaking..
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I find this discussion about Blender controls funny, because I've been using tools with 3D visualisation (in a specific domain that includes some CAD but not in the way you're thinking) for at least 20 years () and almost each and every release or new software introduces some slightly different way to manipulate the view, and everyone seems to believe that whatever tool they're using most is the "standard" that other tools should follow, and everyone is always infuriated as to why other software can't see that their way of doing things is naturally better.
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Strangly enough some good news from a data breach.
but not all of you!
I promise I'll stop cluttering this thread with this shit.
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Ha! My quest for a cat girl wife is back on the rails.
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Another entry in the "You don't say" department: