Chazprime

Entertaining, or entertaining in a “US politics is like a car crash” way?

I have a hard time discerning myself at times.

I suspect that the MacBook Pro 16 will probably one of the first M2 offerings and it already offers up to 64g of RAM, so hopefully you’ll get your wish.

Training & tutorials for Pixar products used to be notoriously difficult (and expensive) to find, unless you worked at a studio that was paying millions for a site license of prman and engineers to integrate it with your studio pipeline.

It appears that Pixar is becoming a little more friendly to solo end users now that there are more rendering choices out there.

It’s a great tool for those times I need to familiarize myself with a new codebase, but for my own projects it just becomes a pain to keep updated.

I think it’s a given at this point that whatever Apple does, Microsoft is sure to emulate.

Toxic waste dumps?

April Fool’s is here again, I see.

I think looking for deeper motivations such as abuse will likely prove fruitless in these cases.

A few years ago the 14-year old old daughter of a coworker of mine got into a lot of trouble after being revealed as the person (cyber)bullying two classmates because they were "flaunting their new iPhones on social media too much". Anecdotal for sure, but kids can be mean and with the internet still offering a veil of anonymity, incidents like this are bound to happen.

Totally agree.

King's Quest III was amazing; when I went off to college I upgraded to a Quadra 840AV which allowed me to play the first three games (as well as the Space Quest & Monkey Island series) in color.

It was like the Wizard of Oz shifting into color for the first time… just amazing.

Anyone else remember Sierra games on a monochrome Mac?

Oh, the dithering!!

I think that's likely because the quality of electronic components coming out of China has improved considerably while still being less expensive than manufacturing locally.

I’m going to miss this place. The Burbank location was always a fun trip on a weekend.

> Its ridiculous that the narrative has shifted so much to blaming social networks. Social networks reflect society. Society is fucked up.

Society might be fucked up, but it doesn’t help that social media amplifies the crazier voices in it. I think it bears at least partial responsibility for what’s plaguing our culture and discourse.

We really need regulation for the large tech monopolies like Google.

There’s no recourse if you’re suddenly locked out of your account short of making the news or attracting attention on social media.

Literal topic?

Those quotes really don’t warrant the disproportional responses to his book nor the vitriol directed at him personally & professionally.

I think it’s time we start calling out the social media mobbing for what it really is: hateful.

While honesty is indeed an admirable trait, one should strive to include a healthy dose of empathy and common sense.

A software engineer asking “wtf is user/local/bin in $path”?

Sounds fishy to me.

Because companies like Twitter and Facebook have monetized the spreading of lies and disinformation.

> Can you quote specific rhetoric which was violent?

Does he have to use rhetoric specifically calling for violence in order to justify the banning? At the rally beforehand he said "we can't let this happen", are you surprised at the outcome?

What the leader of the country says and how they say it matters. He doesn't need to specifically instruct them to overthrow the government... he's been fueling the fire for a long time now suggesting the election was rigged. While it's an obvious lie, because of who he is some people are going to believe him lie or not... remember the people who ingested fish tank cleaner?

Fascinating read!

Almost makes me miss the days of getting to the graphics lab late and getting stuck with one of the old Mac SEs.

Almost.

Lucas had lots of help from Lawrence Kasdan and Steven Spielberg on the Raiders script.

This is a truly bizarre ad campaign for an expensive email client that’s...invite-only?

No thanks.

I think it’s time we consider that George Lucas is a mostly mediocre filmmaker who peaked in 1976.

How Spielberg let Lucas talk him into the fourth Indiana Jones movie is beyond me.

> What are the public threats that you are citing?

The threats she mentioned in her apology.

> And what is the recourse Anima has in this fight? Pedro tweets sexual innuendo about her porn habits, and truly, what is there to do?

As you suggested in your earlier post, she can choose to ignore a comment like that because it’s a silly argument.

And even if she doesn’t, his comments still aren’t justification for her behavior.

> The only way that free speech works is that people feel free to vociferously disagree. Given the volume of, say, Domingos' tweets, he certainly feels free to disagree. At this point the same can be said of Gebru and Anandkumar. Great! What's the problem here? Can't we just all just argue and get along?

Well, given that Anandkumar tried to publicly shame a number of people over these discussions, clearly we can't all argue and get along if this is what it devolves into.

And that's kind of the point. Why can't we have innocuous discussions that end in "let's agree to disagree" without someone deciding that public humiliation and threats to people's careers are now okay? Why are the stakes suddenly inflated to "the future of female involvement in STEM" in these squabbles?

We can go around and around over who said what, but clearly Anandkumar crossed an ethical boundary here, and it's important to call that out. Creating a more diverse and inclusive community does not involve public threats. I wish that didn't need to be said, but apparently it does.

I'm the author of a Swift framework for working with Tiled tile maps and want to thank you for your work; your site was invaluable in helping me wrap my head around hexagonal grid mapping & pathfinding.

There is truly nothing out there like it. :)

https://github.com/mfessenden/SKTiled

This.

I bought my Indiana Jones bluray set a few years back and promptly dropped the fourth movie in the trash with the wrapping.

CNN is reporting that this will be made available to other nations in November. I suspect Putin will offer the vaccine to the US and Trump will seize the opportunity to attempt to win re-election because the "radical Democrats" are balking at accepting a vaccine that's been in human trials for a mere two months.

Ugh.

>For example they believe that tens of thousands of women are shipped around the world for each Super Bowl to serve as prostitutes.

Absolutely no idea what you're even talking about.