maroonblazer

Love your site!

I googled your name and 'blender' but didn't find any training resources online. I'm a new Blender user and am on the hunt for resources beyond BlenderGuru's Donut tutorial (which is great, btw).

Do you create any Blender educational content?

> And, again, closer examination shows that it is. You will not find better support for the contrary position if you do your homework.

Can you share some resources for where would one start, if they wanted to do the homework?

Despite preferring Apple's ecosystem over all others, I've built up quite a robust collection of "Favorites" and "Want to Go" and 'Starred" places in Google Maps, which makes the switching costs to move to Apple Maps high.

Is there a way to export that data from Google Maps? Will Apple offer an import feature?

They link to Google's recent statement so I'd say they're not being vague at all :-)

> Some recent good examples of the designed-for-purpose approach include:

> FedCM. Third-party cookies have been used to support single sign-on. FedCM is a set of technologies built to support identity federation, without replicating all functionality of third-party cookies.

>CHIPS. The goal of CHIPS is to allow state, without supporting correlation or tracking between web sites which don't know they are collaborating, for example, when embedding third-party services like customer service webchat.

I've not heard of these two approaches. Can anyone vouch for their efficacy?

Can you share some examples of what you're describing. I enjoy blogs, have one of my own that I haven't added to in quite a while. I don't feel under any pressure, for many of the reasons stated in TFA, to update it regularly. But I'm now interested in exploring this alternative you describe.

I discovered Rosey via the wonderful "Free to be You and Me" TV special developed by Marlo Thomas. He sings "It's Alright to Cry". Hearing this song, in the mid-1970's, as an 8 yr old boy who never fit in with most of the other boys, was revelatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NfaXsSSVj8

Try again? I was able to access the Precalc/Trig book easily.

There's a documentary that gives the lie to the rumor that Kubrick was abusive to SD. I believe that she recalls fondly that the project was challenging but ultimately rewarding.

Also, his documenting his 7-day Caribbean cruise, aptly titled (IMO) "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again"

RAND is a pretty remarkable organization. I recently came across their proposal for an independent Palestinian state, dated 2005, referred to as "The Arc".

https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9119.html

The above links to a more comprehensive PDF.

I like how the body shapes of most of the nudes are more 'real' looking as opposed to what you typically find. Well done.

For others like me who aren't familiar with fooocus, there's a lot of ai-related sites with that name. I believe this is the one parent is referring to:

https://github.com/lllyasviel/Fooocus

Plenty of studies showing Khan Academy is effective.

https://blog.khanacademy.org/multiple-studies-show-khan-acad...

"Beginner" is a broad term which adds to the confusion.

I program as a hobby without any formal training. Despite doing it on and off for a few decades, I still consider myself an 'advanced beginner' for those reasons. So, having a lay of the land already, a resource like this is helpful when I'm looking for information in a specific area within front-end development.

Somewhat tangential: it's easy to drown in the surfeit of resources out there, to the point of paralysis. I've come to the conclusion that, in the end, you end up teaching yourself. To that end it almost doesn't matter what resource you start with. Just pick one and start asking and answering questions. For those questions you can't answer, the relevant resources will reveal themselves through your search.

+1 to the other commenter's suggestion that GPTs are a huge help in this regard, as long as you set a requirement for yourself not to use any code you don't understand. And GPTs are incredibly helpful with this meta step too.

"Ordinary People" is an incredible film, with top-notch performances by DS, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, and a young Timothy Sutton. Highly recommend.

RIP Donald Sutherland.

The Altman film came first, starring DS as Hawkeye. The TV show starred AA.

100%. I'd also add that it doesn't mean you don't have to make tough decisions that some people won't like. But there's a way to do that that leaves those people knowing that your decision-making process was fair and not capricious. That it's in the best interests of the team, project, organization, company.

I presume your course is in-person, otherwise you would've promoted it.

Can you recommend books or other resources that use your approach (or similar)?

The letter: https://images.pcmac.org/Uploads/Bellevue/Bellevue/Departmen...

I'm there (and then some) and hard disagree.

You're making a category error. Biden is the incumbent. The Party always runs the incumbent. Is that how it should be? We can debate that, but that's how it is.

Video games via ESRB, PEGI, et al.

Pen/Paper is better but I'm still distracted from the discussion. I've been following Dan R's work since he published. I've also tried Dialogue Mapping and it comes the closest to capturing the essence with minimal cognitive overload.

https://www.cognexus.org/id41.htm

I've listened to the clips and yes, while 4o Sky is more emotive, it's just that - a more emotive Sky. All the elements that people are pointing to - the husky/raspiness - were present in the pre-4o Sky.

I keep reading in the media that Sky was introduced as part of ChatGPT-4o, but that's incorrect. Sky's been around since they introduced the mobile iOS app.

While Sky's voice shares similar traits to SJ, it sounds different enough that I was never confused as to whether it was actually SJ or not.

Not to mention they seem to have also morphed into child daycare centers, at least the ones I frequent. Moms bringing their toddlers to run around and scream at the top of their lungs makes getting almost any meaningful work done impossible.

There's a lot to criticize about the current crop of LLMs, but one area where I've found it to shine is in transcribing and summarizing meetings (I use Copilot in Teams).

Wherever I've worked, as the meeting organizer you're implicitly the designated notetaker. I'm not smart enough to take notes and listen simultaneously so have always felt at a disadvantage when organizing meetings. Copilot summaries have been a godsend for me as I'm able to focus 100% of my attention on the discussion knowing that the salient points will be captured for us by Copilot. And because I'm attending the meeting I can verify the accuracy of the summaries. So far, having used it in countless meetings, I've never found a fabrication.

Agree. I watched "Her" recently and also "Under the Skin" so have SJ's voice in my working memory and Sky, while similar in some ways to SJ's voice, is different enough that this seems 100% defensible.

My mom was an RN and almost never took me or my brother and sister to the doctor when we got sick. Vomiting? Sip some 7-Up and rest. 24-48 hrs later I'm back outside playing at 100%. Same with practically every other malady.

I've adopted a similar mindset with my kid, now 18yrs old. Unless he'd broken a bone, is clearly in need of stitches, needs a vaccine or is otherwise laid low for more than a few days we'd try to stay out of the healthcare system.

He mentions the connection between creativity and 'play', which I think is spot on. We do this effortlessly as children and then it sort of gets 'bred out of us' as we get older and start developing more traditionally 'rational' skill sets and ways of thinking about the world.

This sense of play hit home for me when I was a late teen and bought a 4-track multitrack recorder in the mid-80's. I had no preconceived notion of a song I wanted to write/record. I simply plugged in my guitar and hit 'record' and laid down an idea. I may have had a few false starts but didn't sweat it. By itself it wasn't very interesting. I added a second track with the only goal of "it should work with the first track" and was surprised at how easy it was to achieve that goal. Suddenly, with the two tracks an idea began to emerge that wasn't present in the first track by itself. Rinse and repeat with the remaining 2 tracks and I had a musical idea that I never could've imagined I would have created.

I still use that same method to generate ideas today, and summon that same sense of 'play'. Of course the real work, much harder than creating, imo, is editing.