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progfix··on The MetaHumans: High-fidelity digital humans in minutes
This is just a Hollywood actor generator. I want a human generator that has an age slider that melts faces like aging does in real life. I want to control fat, folds, swollen skin, grease, bald patches, moles and skin conditions. Very few people have perfect teeth. In my dream human generator you should be able to remove, rotate and reposition every single tooth. All the marketing material of MetaHumans focuses on the head. There is probably not as much control over the rest of the body. We are probably decades away from a true human generator.
progfix··on Mitsubishi Heavy to build biggest zero-carbon steel plant
In Austria as well. https://www.voestalpine.com/group/en/media/press-releases/20...

EDIT: I should have read the article first.

progfix··on Cyberpunk 2077: How 2020’s biggest video game launch turned into a shambles
I hope they treat it like No Man's Sky and not like Anthem. They promised a multiplayer next year so that makes me hope they keep updating it the next couple of years.
progfix··on Super Wood (2018)
None of them use "Superwood".
progfix··on Europe's night trains are on track for a resurgence
If you don't give a shit about your environment then yes.
progfix··on Show HN: Design by Contract (tm) – C++
I don't understand what 'OLD' does.

EDIT: Apparently it refers to the variable with the value at the entry point.

progfix··on LinkedIn’s Alternate Universe
> Made myself a Senior Director of Engineering at a major company with an impressive background.

Is that even legal?

progfix··on Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft
They really try to own everything Python related. I fear in 10 years the only viable way of using Python is on a Windows PC with Visual Studio or some other Microsoft owned IDE. You have to be logged in with your Microsoft account and everything you type will be processed and sent to a Microsoft data center.
progfix··on First AI model that translates 100 languages without relying on English
> we're still a long way away from natural sounding translations.

DeepL makes perfect translations between English and German. Perfect in a sense that it looks like a professional translator translated it. Google, Microsoft, Facebook might be far off, but deepl isn't.

progfix··on Solar is now ‘cheapest electricity in history’
I'd rather see high sea, autonomous swimming wind and solar power plants that store the power as hydrogen which gets shipped to land.
progfix··on Hydrogen-powered train makes UK maiden journey
> because physics dictates using hydrogen will always be much less efficient compared to direct electricity use

You have to look at the whole system (and life-cycle) and not just compare single trains. I assume people with enough insight and expertise did the math and they don't just try this tech out for fun.

EDIT: Also looking at the video, the giant transformators you usually have in a Lok aren't there. That weight difference already could make hydrogen competitive.

progfix··on Blech Programming Language
> The German word Blech roughly translates to bare metal.

Not really. Blech means sheet metal or tin. Bare metal would translate to "blankes Metall".

progfix··on US Border Patrol says they can create central repository of traveler emails
Can't they just ask the NSA for the Emails?
progfix··on Declining eyesight improved by looking at deep red light
I am not sure if this is related, but I am heavily short sighted and facing the sun with closed eyes for a couple of minutes sharpens my eyes.

I suspect it is just because I tend to spend too much time in dark rooms and in front of screens and being in the bright sun "fixes" that for a while.

progfix··on Harry Potter and the Mnemonic Major System
These techniques are useful when you need to memorise a lot of information. It takes a lot of training to work with the system in a reasonable speed.
progfix··on Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is hurting independent developers
> there was some friction.

The friction is still there. Have you read the article?

> When SmartScreen was launched, nearly 7% of all downloads were later detected as malware by AV.

What about the other 93%? The vast majority gets unnecessarily blocked!

progfix··on CNN team arrested by Minnesota police on live television
Is it normal to immediately put handcuffs on someone that is arrested when there is no resistance at all?
progfix··on Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours?
I also thought I broke something. Since a couple of months it is absolutely unusable. It sometimes can't even find the calculator or even VSCode which I use every day.
progfix··on Weekly deaths in the US down by 7-10k for the week ending March 7
Ok, but with 150k covid infections already the numbers will rise sharply in the next couple of weeks.
progfix··on Pornhub's Premium Content Is Free All Month to Italians Stuck in Lockdown
No fun allowed!
progfix··on A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages
It's not that hard if you have experience in writing compilers.
progfix··on Pantone 448 C
I read "The ugliest colour in the world" before I saw the actual colour and I had the exact same colour in mind.
progfix··on The new Microsoft Edge is out of preview
Yeah, it was briefly on Windows 10 as well, it was my favourite PDF reader and now it's gone. Good job Microsoft.
progfix··on German expressions that don’t exist in English
I never heard anyone use it before, but 'überentwickelt', which is the antonym to the commonly used 'unterentwickelt', makes perfectly sense and should be understood by every german speaker.
progfix··on Gitlab was down
It's not a tool, it's an online service.
progfix··on Tunnel Boring Machines (2018)
You need complex ventilation anyway. Imagine a fire breaks out.
progfix··on Tunnel Boring Machines (2018)
The difference is we are building tunnels for many decades and making them smaller, reusing the ground material are not ground breaking ideas.
progfix··on Ask HN: What are some good cities to live in while hacking on a project?
You don't need to learn German necessarily, I know quite a lot of people there that don't speak German. I was never in Berlin, but my guess is that it is better for developers (Vienna has no startup culture) but at the cost of quality of life.
progfix··on Ask HN: What are some good cities to live in while hacking on a project?
Vienna, Austria. Why? Because it's rather cheap (in comparison to other european capitals), according to expats it's the city with the greatest quality of life worldwide and it would be easy to get a dev job, if you need one.
progfix··on On the way to being the most downvoted post ever on StackOverflow:Meta
With "I see fit" I meant to use one that I assume is correct in the spirit of "I'll try my best".

English is my second language and I should have worded my comment differently.

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