I’m imagining moving verticies on the spinning apple with proportional editing now and it seems like a very quick way to ruin an apple.

I think I’m pretty good at having music in my head, although the problem is that even a very realistic 4 measures stuck in your head is still just 4 measures stuck in your head.

Also, the longer I go whistling or singing something from when I heard it the more it becomes like the sung or whistled version with fewer details.

When I was like 5-8 probably I used to not know how maglevs worked and assumed that the magnets just pushed them forward without any electricity. The maglev perpetual motion generator worked very well in my head though.

JXL is badly supported but it does offer lossless encoding in a more flexible and much more efficient way than png does

Basically jxl could theoretically replace png, jpg, and also exr.

Not going to surprise anyone but Windows Mixed Reality VR headsets aren’t great on Linux, at least with controllers

Although that is improving!

There are very few habitable places in the world not susceptible to airstrikes. The bombs dropped on nuclear facilities last night are claimed to be able to penetrate 60 meters of earth before exploding.

George Floyd protests had more than that (closer to 8%) and they didn’t really change anything.

I have this chromebook that has some weird keyboard setup where depending on the keys you’re trying to press you might be able to press 7 or you might just be able to press two out of the three. IIRC your scenario probably would have worked fine, I think they probably gave it better abilities in that area of the keyboard.

Anyways, there’s always autohotkey for setting up macros

The giant is easy. The ground is easy. The lava though… Do you want the particles to stick together? To visually connect? To collide with each other? To interact with dynamic objects?

Yea idk listening to the clip it’s probably not a new idea of his, just thought the cover was kinda funny

Anyways, he literally says in the clip that the American dream (of at least middle class prosperity) was mostly real for the baby boomer generation so I don’t really know why they titled it that

Went there once when I was like 12 or smth. Was cool to see snow in the summer, where I lived we normally only got snow for like 2-3 days a year

10/10 great mountain

I don’t think that’s how it’s supposed to display, they disappear instantly in sequence for me

The shadows and perspective make absolutely no sense if they’re upside down.

Computers are still advancing roughly exponentially, as they have been for the last 40 years (Moore’s law). AI is being carried with that and still making many occasional gains on top of that. The thing with exponential growth is that it doesn’t necessarily need to feel fast. It’s always growing at the same rate percentage wise, definitionally.

lol I had no idea they use H in some places

it seems a little weird but I guess the exact placement of letters isn’t really all that impactful when you aren’t in c major anyways (where the alphabet would correspond to a scale)

I think the general idea is that the ar/vr stuff would be non invasive

The startup here is making stuff for medical conditions, not games.

Medicine in the US is very expensive. There is a lot of money in helping with neurological conditions or paralysis.

I recently switched to Android. IPhones work great, the hardware is all there, the software is probably more polished, etc… but on Android you can get the phone to do basically anything with a bit of effort. There’s an app that lets you easily install most linux packages, and one that can emulate most Windows apps and games. There’s a ton of open source software, and you can actually find apps that don’t shove in-app purchases in your face (because devs don’t have to pay $100 a year just to stay on the store)

I got PrusaSlicer to work on my phone, through the Windows emulator, and sliced one relatively complex 3D model with it. For some reason it crashed every time I tried to start it after that, but it’s still pretty neat that it worked at all. PrusaSlicer has a linux build for ARM so whenever I find the time to set up one of those linux desktops on my phone I’ll probably try that.

Fedora and Arch both work pretty well on 4gb. Plasma and Gnome were surprisingly decent, and xfce was great but a little uglier. Blender, FreeCad, Minecraft (with performance mods), Celeste, for example all worked perfectly fine, with maybe a few browser tabs in the background as well. You couldn’t do anything too heavy, but it was pretty usable (I was using it as a travel laptop mostly). I’d say 2gb is where it becomes too little to live with.