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I worked on a UT99 mod back in the day and was invited to the Raleigh office back in 2003 or so after our artist was hired by them. He still works there. Hard to believe how far the company has come.

This reminds me of something I discovered when implementing a request from a user that cheekily wanted to use "enhance" to zoom in on a map. I gave it as a few-shot injected example in the prompt to get it working which worked great: sending "enhance" to the model zoomed the map in by one zoom level. I noticed typing "enhance!!!" would zoom the map in by 2 or 3 levels!

Here's the one I like by The The Aquaerials, the piano packs an emotional punch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww1CqDfIGfs

And by the same artist in a similar vein:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uw0cO19e6A

Well, I deserve all the downvotes. My apologies to Fred! I love the video.

I'm pretty sure it's AI generated. For a couple days I was falling asleep to this one anyway, not much content like it about Eve elsewhere (other than the book that was written).

I got into music production when the pandemic hit. I've been obsessed with it since March. I've been playing guitar for over 20 years though. I found I enjoy making electronic music with a lot of orchestral and piano elements. If you are kind enough to give me a listen, check out Dark Matter and Dark Energy, these are the ones I am most proud of. I still have a lot to learn though, mixing the music properly is very difficult.

https://soundcloud.com/emmets-music

Not sure what exists out there, I started over 25 years ago. A good first step is to learn chords, starting with major and minor versions of each chord. Get comfortable switching between them. This is where most people quit as a lot of chords are not friendly to untrained fingers.

What can help with this is a concept called the "1, 4, 5" rule (it's actually called the I, IV, V rule but let's keep it simple). Basically, you start in a key, say the key of A, assign that to 1. The 4th and 5th chords from that starting chord always sound good with the 1st. So for the key of A, the 4th and 5th are D and E. Notes start over after G, so if 4 and 5 go past, like with G, you start over at A. In the key of G, the 4th and 5th are C and D respectively, for example. This is at the heart of blues music. For me, the easiest three-chord progression for my fingers to learn was G, C, and D.

There are a lot of little "rules" like that in music theory and it can be fun to learn them and experiment. If you find that you are really getting into it, I recommend dropping $300 or so on a decent acoustic guitar. There is something to be said about an instrument you can just pick up and play and not have to worry about wires and interfaces.

His Unreal Engine C++ course is especially great.

Duh! Thanks!

This is awesome. I wrote a Terrain-RGB to greyscale PNG converter and would love to play around with this in a demo map for a 3D preview or something. How are you rendering the mesh in your notebook? Threejs?

Game development is more than just programming.

"Our SLAM algorithm is notable for being able to run in real time with not just one, but three Ouster OS-1 devices at the same time, on a typical desktop computer CPU."

What SLAM algorithm is that? Anyone know?

We actually use both. Discord is great for "pinging" fleets, i.e. sending out a bat-signal to all members that a fleet needs to form for whatever reason. It's also good for general text chat (talking about market/industry/memes). If the corporation you joined was small and not a member of a larger alliance, then they may not have needed Mumble.

However, if you join a large alliance/coalition, fleets can easily get to 100+ player counts, and a single discord voice chat room becomes unusable. It is extremely important that you follow the fleet commander's instructions during a fleet. That is where Mumble shines with the fleet commander residing in a top level voice channel, with other members in lower-level voice channels that he cannot hear. It also allows for lower-level members to join voice channels designated as "quiet", so you don't have to listen to the chatter of 100 drunk Eve players during a Friday night fleet.

We live and die by Mumble in Eve Online. The hierarchical chat room setup is essential for large fleets.

This is an interesting theory. Perhaps you could expand on it and form a new social science called "Cosmic Sociology".

I have a similar email address. Signed up for gmail early on. A lot of people are surprised that AM doesn't verify emails, but it doesn't surprise me at all. I am signed up to 100s of newsletters and other services through no action on my part. I can say with certainty that Plenty of Fish also doesn't verify emails (at least at first,perhaps they inactivate accounts after a period of time). I had to add them to spam. It's too bad, some guy in Australia with my first letter/last name was getting a lot of attention from the ladies.

It's just a framing device for the article. Office parks are a very American thing so why not work in a founding father somehow. You could swap out the whole bit with a quote and vignette from the life and work of Henry Ford. Perhaps it could have been related to the lingering notion of Manifest Destiny. I could go on and on.

It has a great name too.

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Seems like some journalistic backscratching. This American Life is trying to push Serial, and the Startup guy recently had a piece on This American Life, and if I remember correctly, is somewhat affiliated (could be wrong about that). Anyway, whatever. Serial is excellent and should be promoting itself however it can, and This American Life's quality goes without saying.

I don't know about other phones but streaming is an option with the Windows Phone podcast app. I like to download mostly because I have a data cap and I set the app to download only on WIFI. If I find myself away from a hotspot and want to listen to a show, I can always just stream it.

I recommend people take a look. The video is indeed well-produced and the style reminded me of the director of Love Actually and About Time. It was not what I was expecting.

Pre-internet, if you wanted to peruse music, toys, books, movies, and/or video games and software, you essentially had to go to a mall. Or at least you wanted to because it was so convenient to access one or more of these sources of entertainment. Now it's pretty much only a good source for clothes.

This will be nice for my common-name gmail account: <first initial>.<lastname>@gmail.com. It's fairly unusable right now because of all the newsletters Bob, Bill, Brandy, Briana, Brian, etc sign me up to.

I have a Lumia 920 and I find the turn-by-turn navigation to be abysmal. It gives distances in yards and the vocabulary does not extend much past "keep right", "keep left", and "follow the course of the road". It's also flat our wrong more often than not where I live. Google tells you street names and exit numbers, which is vital in large metropolitan areas.

Also, map searching is no where near as good as Google Maps.

I've found non-fiction audiobooks to be good when you can't devote full attention. I do find that fiction audiobooks are ok on interstates, though, for especially long drives.

That's very interesting, didn't know that. Thanks.

Incredible image for an Earth-based telescope. I wonder what we could get from space?

Both TV shows and the movie studio entered into a licensing agreement with the Conan Doyle estate, it's all in the article.

Labdien. You are not kidding. I lived in Riga for two years and can attest to this. Latvians had a funny sense of humor though. I once heard a joke about teaching an Estonian the proper way to address a woman in Latvian, something like "Skaistas kājas"? Sorry if I got that wrong, it's been awhile.