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throwmeariver1··on The computers used to do 3D animation for Final Fantasy VII in 1996
In another life I worked on a SGI Onyx for Print PrePress of Rotogravure Cylinders. Now I am working in VFX and sometimes I read up on the history of it usually the Onyx pops up and even if I did something completely different than the VFX artists at the time I get nostalgic.
throwmeariver1··on I stopped advertising and nothing happened
Good advertising works, good advertising is hard so hard that even advertising agencies are not able to produce it most of the time. It's more a question of time and space I always go for opportunistic advertising is there something in the aether or is there a trend coming up which my product perfectly fits? That's the time to ramp up ad spending. There just is no need to have campaigns running just to produce background noise. Nobody cares about it most of the time not even yourself.
throwmeariver1··on Minifree is selling freedom. coreboot-preinstalled ThinkPad T440p. now with BSD“
The t440p is a tank and with a 4core i7 still a capable machine and one of the only mobile machines that you can properly tripple boot with Linux, Mac OS, Windows each on a physical HDD. (1x m2 and 2x sata ssds). You can get one for 120 bucks and update nearly everything (don't get the one with Nvidia graphics), spare parts are cheap and plenty. I run a 2560x1440 IPS panel, 16GB RAM, i7 4710mq, 3 disks and a t480 touchpad (needs a slight mod). The only downsides are the missing usb-c and form factor if you are used to ultrabooks.
throwmeariver1··on Ask HN: Why is visual programming so popular for game programming?
It's mainly because of the history of VFX tools and pipelines. A lot of game studios adopted tools from ILM and Pixar. One of the first notable presentation on compositing must be from the 1984 SIGGRAPH held by Porter and Duff. They both went and implemented a node based workflow through the whole pipeline at ILM and later at Pixar. Visual Programming also is a lower barrier of entry, at VFX and Game Studios artist need to proficient in the underlying architecture to get optimal performance and visual fidelity it's easier to give them tools like node base shaders or blueprints instead of code. Most visual programming is also realtime which makes it a lot easier to understand for non programmers.

https://keithp.com/~keithp/porterduff/p253-porter.pdf

throwmeariver1··on Closure of 3M chip coolant plant could upset semiconductor sector: analysts
Externalizing your costs to the public a 3M speciality.
throwmeariver1··on Turo Requires a Driver's License Number and Credit Card to Show Full Price
It’s primarily a US problem if you don’t trust them let them copy and paste it from somewhere else…
throwmeariver1··on My ( OlaElectric) E scooter dream was short lived
No, he did not read the manual to something that could be life threatening if used incorrectly otherwise he would have known that the action he took would put the scooter in reverse. It even displays it on the screen so he did not read the manual, did not look at the instruments and did not turn the scooter off despite not riding it. It's on him.
throwmeariver1··on How Disney Became a Nuclear Power
What? It's really simple he was not a member of the NSDAP or "nazi party". It matters to be factual in your statements because otherwise people who know that you are misinterpreting one fact don't know at how much face value they can take the rest of your writing.
throwmeariver1··on My ( OlaElectric) E scooter dream was short lived
It's working as intended maybe he should have read the manual.
throwmeariver1··on How Disney Became a Nuclear Power
> is a former card-carrying member of the Nazi Party.

Haber was not a member of the NSDAP... he certainly was a nazi but why see the need to make false statements?

throwmeariver1··on Twitter has been working on an Edit button since last year
That’s what I would say when I just stole an idea from a Musk poll./s

I could swear we heard something about editing or edit buttons since 2009-2011 and it was always just 6-12 months away. If someone working in design at twitter reads this: Wtf is your startpage about either it’s a 5 year old picture with login or a searchbar that doesn’t really work when not logged in. Does it really perform better than showing trending tweets or something useful for new users?

throwmeariver1··on 2021 saw more attempts to ban books than in any year since 2000
I believe in general people would think that a banned book is bad, comes quite natural with the word banned…
throwmeariver1··on One-click checkout startup Fast is laying off its staff
They deleted the good stuff like the ceo skydiving to a keynote presentation :(

He still has a nice compilation twitter https://twitter.com/domm/status/1423346248329879554

throwmeariver1··on One-click checkout startup Fast is laying off its staff
Their YouTube account was a guilty pleasure of mine it always looked like straight out of Silicon Valley… the tvshow. Straight cringe inducing marketing bro culture bullshit.
throwmeariver1··on Elon Musk to join Twitter’s board of directors
But now they are contained to one entity wouldn’t it make more sense with your reasoning to keep them together?
throwmeariver1··on America's internet is splitting along party lines
Yeah, you don't want that because if they get regulated that either their user must be identifiable or that they are responsible for what's written on the platform there won't be a platform for much longer or with serious restriction on what you can topics are allowed on these platforms and as long as corps have one incentive alone and that's maximising profits they will subdue unpopular but loud minorities.
throwmeariver1··on America's internet is splitting along party lines
Ok just stop with the one sided arguing gab, parler and all the "freedom of speech" titled social networks are worse in censoring than your primetime twitter or Facebook they at least pretend to be neutral.
throwmeariver1··on Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
We are in Germany and switched to a heatpump system 4 years ago through incentives over the "Marktanreizprogramm" we got over 45% of the costs reimbursed. It's not even only on the supply chain crisis it's simply ramping up production and training installers because everyone was totally fine with just doing oil and gas for a long time but now everyone scrambles. Shortsightness not only from the state but everyday people and businesses. Thank god for being Links-Grün versifft.
throwmeariver1··on Germany has seized control of Gazprom Germania
You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth.
throwmeariver1··on Hackers breach MailChimp's internal tools
With the active recruitment of low level support/engineering insiders as saboteurs what is the right way forward? More security or a better work environment?
throwmeariver1··on The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Stop being so pernickety of course it's meant subjective and not for everyone. There just isn't a system for everyone.
throwmeariver1··on YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube
OK, Metamate.
throwmeariver1··on Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in the post-natural infection world
People that get infected more often are probably people that get infected more often not because the virus is more effective on them but because they are living a higher risk lifestyle. I have friends that go out clubbing often and they are the ones who had more than one infection...
throwmeariver1··on Two key tech execs quit Truth Social after troubled app launch
He wants to believe.
throwmeariver1··on Elon Musk owns 9.2% of Twitter
I guess somewhere but with how the world goes we might never know.
throwmeariver1··on Trump's Truth Social app branded a disaster
I would not take the waiting list at face value. The onboarding flow is at such a distinctive rate that you can test it yourself by joining it with different accounts and ask yourself if the rate can be this steady over a 24 hour period…
throwmeariver1··on Mataroa blog – Naked blogging platform for minimalists
Yeah, sadly the only demo sites you see anymore are mostly for b2b services.
throwmeariver1··on Contra Chrome [pdf]
Why would I need to make a comic if I spent 80% of the comic close up in someone's face with text all around him.
throwmeariver1··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
The opposite goes for offering the storage with traffic. AWS, gcloud, azure everyone had price adjustment last year especially on the storage side of things.
throwmeariver1··on What are you doing, WordPress.com?
They were abused as DDL warez host that's mainly why they dialed back on the storage.
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