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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My quest for a cat girl wife is back on the rails.
Have you met cats?
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
My quest for a cat girl wife is back on the rails.
Have you met cats?
Don't ruin my sordid fantasies.
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This shit is getting ridiculous.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
everyone is always infuriated as to why other software can't see that their way of doing things is naturally better.
I'm not infuriated that "my way" is better. I'm infuriated that there's no way for me to adjust or customize it in a software the seems to price pride itself on flexibility and customizability. And the recommended workaround is an awkward chord-press that doesn't actually do what I need.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I'm not infuriated that "my way" is better. I'm infuriated that there's no way for me to adjust or customize it
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
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@Carnage No need to worry, all your
filesmoneyz are exactly where you left them.Visa [said] that it was "not a scalable fraud" which it would expect to see criminals employ, but it did not dispute the existence of the vulnerability.
In a statement to Sky News, it said: "Visa takes all security threats to payments seriously, and we appreciate industry and academic efforts to harden payment security. Consumers should continue to use their Visa cards with confidence."
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@remi said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I'm not infuriated that "my way" is better. I'm infuriated that there's no way for me to adjust or customize it
Six of one, half a dozen of the other...
I'm sure I could do it (it's all Python code, right?) but
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Goodbye floppy drive
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I choose Apple products because security
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@boomzilla Do the challenges include deciding what to do when there's one or five people tied up on the track?
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@PJH
Just to be sure I just at a portion of nuts
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Do the challenges include deciding what to do when there's one or five people tied up on the track?
No, only if there is an infinite number of people on the track
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That was discussed a couple of times in Garage threads. I don't care enough about that to dig those threads, so it'll just go there.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I thought there were already some automatic railroads in Australia, moving coal/ore from mines in the interior to the ports on the coast (and through some utterly brutal desert country with a population of basically zero). Hmm… *reads article…* Yes…
Already, mining giant Rio Tinto is using fully autonomous trains in Australia to deliver iron ore from 16 mines to ports hundreds of miles away. By the end of last year, the company said it had safely completed almost 3 million miles of autonomous travel.
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@dkf Automated railroads are also fairly common in suburban transports, see e.g. the DLR in London or at least one metro line in Paris. I'm sure there are more elsewhere (even excluding tiny shuttles that are often found at airports).
Sure, the environment is not quite the same, in particular in terms of potential obstructions on the line (the Paris metro line is fully enclosed, including at stations, the DLR is mostly on high above the ground tracks), but they've been running for years (decades?) and don't seem to have major issues, so they show that it's not a new idea.
I'm actually surprised that automated trains are not a bigger thing, given how easy that should be. I guess one reason might be that given the cost of running a train, having a human on board isn't really costing that much (compared to e.g. road transport where the cost of the drivers is very significant)?
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When are people going to learn that if you put your stuff on someone else's lawn you don't get to complain when their cat pisses all over it. I like how incompetent facebook's support looks in this article and how they lend credence to what we all suspect. Facebook doesn't delete anything. They switch the visibility flag to false.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised that automated trains are not a bigger thing, given how easy that should be.
It would be easy if there was uniform signalling system. That's why it can work in metros and similar isolated networks where there is one, but the general railway has variations and in places still relies on just visual signs. And given the cost of trains, nobody wants to trust that to image recognition just yet.
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@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
So, GoA4 for freight trains then?
I wouldn't know.
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@remi said in In other news today...:
I'm actually surprised that automated trains are not a bigger thing, given how easy that should be. I guess one reason might be that given the cost of running a train, having a human on board isn't really costing that much (compared to e.g. road transport where the cost of the drivers is very significant)?
TFA mentions that the unions are fighting pretty hard against this. Terms like "featherbedding" were created due to railroad unions.
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Read the thread
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@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/
bites is
Yet alternative, faster typing methods in English, like ShapeWriter or Swype that let you swipe through the letters of the word in one motion, have struggled to catch on outside of early adopters. Plain old QWERTY is good enough.
That's still (usually) QWERTY. Either way, it's just a variation on regular typing.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Dragoon said in In other news today...:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/11/chinese-computers/504851/
bites is
Yet alternative, faster typing methods in English, like ShapeWriter or Swype that let you swipe through the letters of the word in one motion, have struggled to catch on outside of early adopters. Plain old QWERTY is good enough.
That's still (usually) QWERTY. Either way, it's just a variation on regular typing.
We also do have something similar, the predictive typing. Typing with the pin-yin input method is rather similar to that, because you key in the pronunciation (in pin-yin, which is the official transcription to Latin) and get a list of possible characters from which you choose, usually using numeric keys. Every Chinese can type like that, but it is pretty much like typing English on predictive keyboard. As far as I can tell the methods that are unambiguous and actually faster than typing in Latin script require some typing training, which is a skill that is learned at the cost of opportunity to learn some other skill..
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@Bulb and from what I've heard, the shape input methods only work if you know the stroke order and the character you're looking for. Which means a lot of words are really hard to get right, because the character is obscure or complicated.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Pandora's box is about to be opened.
Pandora, eh? I suppose the animal is called Manuel Ferrara then?
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@kazitor said in In other news today...:
Blender changes its UI! For the better??
Well, Shiite. It may be an improvement (no opinion; I haven't downloaded it yet), but I'm so thoroughly familiar with the existing one (at least the bits I use regularly) that I'm probably going to be, if not flailing like a noob, at least making a lot of misclicks out of habit.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
My biggest worry is that all the online resources/tutorials etc are outdated.
Undoubtedly. Heck, most of them still refer to 2.6x, or even older.
Still, if the rendering/physics/whatever engines themselves haven't changed too much, just the UI, you can probably adapt. If you can find the right panel in the UI, the frobinator settings should be pretty similar, and it should be reasonably easy to mentally map the UI widgets in the old tutorial to the widgets in the new UI.
I hope.
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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
Select the thing you want to look at, Numberpad .. Your viewport is now centered on its center (and zoomed to fit, unless the selection is a single vertex in edit mode).
If you ever have Blender questions, feel free to ask me. I don't know everything, not by a long shot, but I know a lot.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
If you can find the right panel in the UI
When it comes to blender, that's a pretty big "if". Like
(not to scale)
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
I'm probably going to be, if not flailing like a noob, at least making a lot of misclicks out of habit.
You're in luck! They got rid of 70 percent of the buttons!
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@HardwareGeek 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
Select the thing you want to look at, Numberpad .. Your viewport is now centered on its center (and zoomed to fit, unless the selection is a single vertex in edit mode).
If you ever have Blender questions, feel free to ask me. I don't know everything, not by a long shot, but I know a lot.
Will try, but I don't want to orbit a selection. I effect, I want to orbit like I selected the viewport's camera.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
If you can find the right panel in the UI
When it comes to blender, that's a pretty big "if". Like
(not to scale)I learned how to do that!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
I want to orbit like I selected the viewport's camera.
I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. You want to view from a fixed position and rotate the view around the camera? That's probably possible, but I don't know how; I've never (intentionally, at least) tried to do that.
Any further discussion should be split into a new thread.
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
Any further discussion should be split into a new thread.
It should have been quite a while ago, but nobody has been brave enough to flag...
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The new study shows that even the most remote areas of the planet can be repositories for pollutants and sheds light on how pollutants travel around the globe, according to the study's authors.
The Himalayan glaciers contain even higher levels of atmospheric pollutants than glaciers in other parts of the world "because of their proximity to south Asian countries that are some of the most polluted regions of the world," said Xiaoping Wang, a geochemist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and an author on the new study.
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@TimeBandit quoted in In other news today...:
Greenland Is Melting Away Before Our Eyes
"Everybody look the other way!"
That's unfortunately a little too close to truth.
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Status: bitch, you better be clean!
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1984, US version
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@TimeBandit Also
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Mr Brazier claims he was so distracted chatting to nurses he didn't realise he was getting a different procedure until it was too late.
I, personally, thought the presence of the Mohel should have given the game away
(For those wondering, the botox injections were for his bladder, not his face.)
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TLDR : Google's homepage somehow takes up about 420kb of data and it isn't all the image.