overzeetop

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[–] overzeetop 5 points 10 months ago

Exactly. They all have to have hardware ids and starlink already geofences the consumer versions.

[–] overzeetop 3 points 10 months ago

XL feels like using cheat codes.

[–] overzeetop 5 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I read that as “we haven’t been offered enough money to retire to a private island on huge yachts yet, but we’re not closing any doors”

[–] overzeetop 17 points 10 months ago

On the flip side, global banking processes something like 5+ orders of magnitude more transactions than ETH, so even at the low end it’s 1000x more efficient than the most well known POS coin.

[–] overzeetop 5 points 10 months ago

I had nothing to do with it, damnit.

[–] overzeetop 3 points 10 months ago

The revitalization seems so exciting. But then I remember how terrible the FPS module is, how many wasted hours are spend on step-and-fetch/farming for engineering, and how there is no narrative thread that a commander can play (as an individual). I’ll likely go back and play it once a year for an hour or two just to remind myself how beautiful the game is, and how little of interest there is to actually do.

At this point, and without some real narrative content, it’s the gaming world’s most beautiful loading screen simulator.

[–] overzeetop 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you print with incompatible filaments (materials which don’t bond/adhere) you can get cheap, nearly perfect breakaway supports. I’ve done some rocket parts on my PrusaXL and it’s certifiably magic.

[–] overzeetop 7 points 10 months ago

TBF, if you’re really, really good at throwing feces, civilization sounds like a poor way to maximize the value of your skill. 🫤

[–] overzeetop 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You could say the same for a finite element model. A junior engineer with just 4 years of training can solve, explicitly, the deflection at the center of a slender, simple-simple beam of prismatic section and produce an exact (if slightly incorrect) answer. Building a FEM of the same can solve the problem and take longer (to make the model) with similar accuracy, both of which are good enough for design work.

Only a fool wouldn’t have a FEM around though, as it can solve problem that would take centuries for a human to solve. They may as well make a cartoon with the child digging a 3” hole in beach sand and then showing a backhoe making a jagged edged hole of the same size.

[–] overzeetop 8 points 10 months ago

This is the first half of a proper sentence. The second is personal charges against all directors or and/or major stockholders for the crimes had they been committed personally.

[–] overzeetop 3 points 10 months ago

A movie-set must have certain features (full, even, ready for shooting on schedule) and there are millions of dollars on the line - you don’t just plant a field and hope it meets spec - I would think someone was making case it would be ready for filming. That that’s time and effort. The movie industry unions have livable - one might say exceptional - wages, even for someone just checking to make sure the corn field is maturing properly, much less planting and tending the crop.

An un-referenced medium article says he invested $100,000 in the corn field and he generated $162,000 in revenue, with no indication of the expenses of monitoring or harvesting. The best result would be $62k (compared to the $20,000,000 Nolan was paid for the film) in profit if the “investment “ included all of the miscellaneous expenses I mentioned above (as well as the lawyers cost for acquisition, travel and time spent finding the plot and securing all of the contracts for farming and harvest) and wasn’t absorbed in the “film budget”.

[–] overzeetop 2 points 10 months ago

I have own a rift and Q1, 2, and 3 (plus some older, but polished, Cardboard products) but have NOT had a VP demo. The jump from fresnel to pancake lenses - for productivity purposes - is substantial and I expect the VP's moderately higher resolution to be enough to make the headset actually productive (Q3 is close but still resolution handicapped). I expect the tight integration with OSX to be useful and, if I were (a) on OSX (b) didn't already work on an 8K monitor and (c) was a digital nomad or had no dedicated office/room in which to work, I could see a use case for them. Having attempted to work in i(Pad)OS professionally as a remote platform, the standalone capabilities might be useful for a blogger or journalist but is utterly unsuitable for professional work, even less so without a dedicated keyboard and mouse/advanced multitouch track pad. Again, I've not used the VP hand-sensing for advance selection* but my expectation is that it is still in its infancy, even with (and perhaos hindered by) eye focus selection.

My hope is that $3500/pop will allow more research, more fine tuning, and advancing to vision limited resolution (Apple is still a factor of 4 short in pixel count, and a factor of 6+ short of my desktop monitor) for future headsets.

* multi-functional, 3D manipulation of, say, finite element model components or full building/industrial models in a program like Revit or multi-assembly models in Blender or Fusion360, where you have 4+ key modifiers plus 3 buttons and two scroll wheels for fine manipulation and hundreds of quick-key commands)

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/298938

Note exactly a ringing endorsement, but if you happen to be travelling to their destinations or are collecting points in certain programs, US Travel is offering first-come, first served deals. New specials are available each day this week.

Example: Today they have Choice hotel points for about 0.006/pt (various points from 14000 for $85 to 55000 for $285). Venetian Las Vegas has 3 nites in a suite for $1250; Omni is offering a $175 deal Getaway (2 nights) at - Charlottesville, VA, Houston,TX, Indianapolis, IN, and Providence, RI.

 

Note exactly a ringing endorsement, but if you happen to be travelling to their destinations or are collecting points in certain programs, US Travel is offering first-come, first served deals. New specials are available each day this week.

Example: Today they have Choice hotel points for about 0.006/pt (various points from 14000 for $85 to 55000 for $285). Venetian Las Vegas has 3 nites in a suite for $1250; Omni is offering a $175 deal Getaway (2 nights) at - Charlottesville, VA, Houston,TX, Indianapolis, IN, and Providence, RI.

 

The unexpected Scroll-Of-New-Content when browsing seems to be happening when a newly loaded community from another instance gets loaded onto the server. I'm not sure if this is a local instance setting or a global Lemmy issue.

Please move or delete if it's not appropriate for bringing up on the local instance, or it's been covered and I missed it. I'm still getting used to how Lemmy federation operates and I'm not familiar with the instance-side options.

 

I like the front page teaser as more oniony:
Woman found to be alive during her wake has died

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You don't say! (lemmy.world)
 
 
 

Edinburgh, Scotland, 2018

 

Just a reminder for those of you in town over the summer that downtown will close main street for the parade on the afternoon of the 4th. Recommended viewing is from the town Municipal Park (aka Caboose Park) at 920 Turner St. / 615 Patrick Henry Dr. (up near the Rec & Aquatic Center).

If you want to see fireworks before the 4th, Mountain Lake Lodge in Pembroke will be having free a fireworks show on Sunday July 2nd, bring your own chair. I'm sure they'll have drinks/food at their new outdoor bar facility.

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Does this count? (self.mildlyinfuriating)
 

Shot of Lane from some time in the 90s, taken on a flight around the area with my FIL (Corp of Cadets VT '66, USAF).

 

Since it seems the Fediverse doesn't collect identical communities across instances, should we put a link to [email protected] or invite them/the mod over here to try and consolidate?

 
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