It is so obvious from the style and music that a demo group (The Silents) were behind this game. I'm still loving it to this day. Missing getting boxes of demo discs :)
The more any of these companies start to filter not-illegal content,the less it becomes justified to keep them exempt from liability for the things the _do_ allow. Because at some point we are reaching that 'have your cake and eat it' point.
Not sure what you mean by pharmacist but a real pharmacist aka 'Apotheker' has to do a full university study of pharmacy. The people selling the medication over the counter don't, but they aren't pharmacists.
I don't really have anything against it per se. It just had that Autodesk / Adobe feel to it that immediately provokes a kicking and screaming reaction in many :)
Yes, C4D is fast and more importantly, extremely stable. It's crazy how often I got Maya or even Houdini to crash, compared to Cinema (which basically only crashed due to Octane...)
The Cinema 4D licensing changed to subscription which caused many people to look for alternatives.
I'm not arguing against Blender being an alternative eventually, it has great features. It's just not there yet as a complete replacement. For me at least.
People are always talking about switching to Blender (me included) - but they don't. Because as sad as it is, once you start to actually work with it in serious projects, you noticed all the things that hobbyists who hail Blender as the second coming never care about.
I wanted to give Blender another got at replacing Cinema 4D for us (since their new licensing). I got used to the UI, though it's not nearlly as intuitive as C4D, but when I started working with larger scenes, it came out that Undo steps in large scenes could take 20 seconds easily. I mean...wtf? That is probably one of the most essential functions you can have in an editor.
Apparently they are working on fixing that. Eventually.
Install Wordfence. The free version is enough. Regularly checks the site for dodgy files, blocks spammers and offers 2FA for login. Big fan since it prevented multiple hack attempts to several of my sites.
I'm curious: if the male and female brain, from a neuroscientific perspective, are truly the same - can we assume the book's author would be perfectly fine with all neuroscience from now on be done on male brains exclusively and the results then applied to female brains without further research? Somehow I doubt this.
I use these kind of text based ui's for internal tools where dealing with a full graphical UI is often 50% or more of the actual work. It's easier for the novice user to use tools with basic text based user interface than to use command lines, but it's much faster to develop than a WPF app (and it's multi platform)
Despite this and as someone doing only "vanilla" non-controversial stuff in (afaik) any jurisdiction I can at the very least say that as a git gui client, it works really well. So there's that.
Having owned speakers in that range and listened to numerous pairs in the 5k range: a fair price is the price the speaker that sounds good to you costs. Measurable differences do not matter, what matters is your ear and your taste, both of which change over time. So whatever you do, don't buy anything based on reviews, go into a hifi store with a CD (or usb or whatever) with your favourite songs that you have a good idea of how you would like them to sound, and ask them to have a listening session with a number of different models. Then buy the pair that sounds best.
For what it's worth, I was using it for a Django project and it did speed up noticeably - but I also ran into mysterious crashes. Now, I can't pin it to pypy necessarily, might have been some Django lib not playing ball with pypy. Had no time to test it in depth because moving back to regular Python was "good enough".
With that amount of money one could afford a very sweet place to live easily, and still have plenty of spending money for intellectual pursuits or whatever.
Speaking English is no issue here, at least in the "hip" parts of town.
Would I say it's the best place to live? Probably not (Switzerland would probably rank higher), but one could do a lot worse. And with a decent IT job it's easy living. Dirt cheap compared to Silicon Valley prices.
I think it's still "easy" to find something if you are looking in terms of bespoke software for one very specific use case. Like in our company, I'm building business and pipeline tools that reflect specifically our workflow, so it is very useful for us - but utterly irrelevant for 99.9% of other people or companies, probably. Meaning, it's hard to find ideas that apply to lots of people AND possibly make money of, but it's relatively easy to find things to do that are bespoke. If you are just looking for ways to make your own life easier, not everyone else's.
I'm also always actively looking, and they look interesting, but their recent blog posts don't fill me with too much confidence (although they have to be commended on being so open about it). Any personal experience there?
I think that's more a thing of personal preference. Many developers (me included) consider working on UIs a chore compared to implemented new features. And since they are free to do whatever they want, they stick to the features.
Commercial apps are usually pretty far from "unlimited funds". However, they know how important a good UI is for applications when you ask people to pay money for it, so they pay people to work on the UI and not on anything else. It's out of their hands, thus, it get's done.
Not true. There is (or at least until now, has never been) a reason for video or 3D professionals in the "Arts" to use anything but GTX cards. 3D CAD and AI professionals on the other hand will profit from the Quadro cards.
The main difference between Quadro and GTX were amount of memory, clock speed, longevity and drivers.
GTX are faster clocked but relatively less reliable.
GTX are game optimized, Quadro drivers are CAD optimized (extremely so)
GTX are much cheaper, but may have a shorter lifetime (but who runs a render farm on 10 year old cards...)
GTX offer very fast single precision calculations, Quadro single and double. Almost all 3D rendering is done single precision.