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This bootloader gives you some amazing features such as booting distros from different zfs datasets or snapshots and chrooting into your system. Really does make grub and ext4 feel like the stoneage.

As an aside I can heartedly recommend zfsbootmenu for anyone using zfs on linux:

https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu

As well as the already Davinci Resolve there is Natron:

https://natrongithub.github.io/

"Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics."

THere is winehq which attempts to maintain a database of how well software works in wine:

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...

Also their is protondb which tracks game compatibility:

https://www.protondb.com/

Should be required listening in business schools and for anyone thinking of starting a company. Its amazing to hear about all these behomoth companies, how they were once startups themselves, how they often lost there way after success, how they changed and morphed through history!

Each time I listen to an episode about a company I think I won't be interested in I'm blown away.

Their history of buying up the competition and shutting them down doesn't help matters.

The Acquired Podcast has a great episode on the history of Microsoft. Well worth a listen for any one interested.

https://www.acquired.fm/

The best CRT I ever had and kept well into the flat screen era was the Sony GDM-FW900. Released in 2002, 24" widescreen with a resolution of 2304x1440.

Speedrunning in CAD is a thing and some competitors do use Freecad!

https://www.tootalltoby.com/Leaderboard/

One of the best detailed sites on audio DSP that I've come across:

https://www.earlevel.com/main/

Got it for free at first, soon after paid for it. Love how customisable OsmAnd is, most maping programs are very much tailored to drivers, which is not my use case.

Photoshop 1.0 : February 1990

And yet without those high prices drug discovery and testing would progress at a far slower pace. The US does subsidize the bringing of new drugs to the market for the rest of the world, but as the richest nation that seems somewhat unsurprising.

I my mind the development of new drugs is one of the better uses for a nations capitol.

In the US as far as I recall the system is somewhat convoluted. Insurance companies buy their drugs through brokers who act as middle men to negotiate bulk prices with drug companies. No insurance company actually ever pays the sticker price on most drugs.

The patent system is what promotes R&D. Once your patents expire anyone can manufacture your drug without ever having done any of the initial work. Drug companies have a pipeline of new drugs going through the decade of studies and trials it takes to bring them to the market and the ongoing survival of the company depends on some of these being a success.

Would love to see some of the people here crying about obscene profits try their hand at investing in pharma companies. Its an easy way to lose a lot/all of your money.

This podcast provides some interesting color on the industry:

https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/novo-nordisk-ozempic

The Boring Company is still very much alive.

If you are interested in this you may also like the "Exit Suit" which is open sourcing their plans at the end of this month.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZiwrDfi9rw

Its a direct quote from tweet that Elon Musk just posted linking the page.

Given that Meta has been losing money on every headset they sell I think you should be buying up as much of their hardware as you can.

Multiple rooms works fine on my quest 2 and quest pro.

The hand tracking has seen continuous improvement and the depth correct passthrough is pretty good and I'm sure quite a feat to accomplish.

Its worth noting that much of that 10 Billion wasn't just spent on Horizon Worlds as critics off-handedly suggest, but has been sunk in to lots of acquisitions (hardware and software companies) and research, much of which has yet to be seen in released products.

I'm very impressed with the ambition of what they are trying to do and their committment to a longer term vision which is something that often is lacking in many companies. As an example Nvidia were working on AI tooling and hardware for a decade before it really started to pay off big.

Maybe you should try carving granite by hand, I assure you its entirely possible.

Rolling your own UI in openGL is very doable and can make a lot of sense for any application that will require non standard custom widgets. Use your preferred truetype rendering library to generate your text textures, blender uses freetype I think. Widgets can all be done with vectors and gradients, start with functions that create primitives such as rounded boxes or different line types and build from there.

VR ports for many of the quake and doom series can be had here: https://github.com/DrBeef

In June 1960 a key incident occurred: Eisenhower's government refused to export oil to the island, leaving Cuba reliant on Soviet crude oil. Cuba and the Soviet Union signed a trade agreement according to which the Soviet Union would provide 900,000 tons of oil to Cuba. The United States viewed the agreement as a provocation, and successfully urged Esso, Texaco, and Shell to refuse to process Soviet crude in their Havana and Santiago de Cuba refineries. On June 29 and July 1, 1960, Cuba confiscated the refineries.

This wikipedia enry gives a lot of detail which is missing from the comments in this thread:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_...

Like many actions taken by nation states it mostly resulted in the opposite of the intended effect. Cuba became closely aligned with the Soviet Union because of the sanctions which have been widely regarded as complete policy failure.

Changelog: https://twitter.com/cb_doge/status/1717668534078034024

Some good information on lime can be found here:

https://www.scotlime.org/

Most important preparation in my experience is to mist the substrate before application to prevent rapid drying.