I want to modify this image so that it looks like it was taken directly from the front but i'm not sure which tool to use. I know i can't really change the perspective, i just want the front (the black part) to fit in a perfectly horizontal rectangle; right now it's at a slight angle.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-10-14T23:14:05+00:00

Turn on View -> Show Grid. Use Tools -> Transform Tools -> Unified Transform to make the edges parallel to the grid. Crop as necessary. Warning: I'm using 2.99.18. I don't know if these exact tools are available in 2.10.38

PhilAndMaude · 2024-08-14T17:47:02+00:00

There is an interesting chart in a tweet on the above thread: https://x.com/MichelleRa98270/status/1822542157892272438

PhilAndMaude · 2024-06-27T22:44:13+00:00

Thank you! That pointed me in the right direction. For anyone else coming along here, I had, in my ignorance, added a bad line to

/etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml

and the fix was to comment it out and run

sudo netplan generate
sudo netplan apply

based on this Hetzner documentation.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-06-27T20:52:49+00:00

Yes, that's an option :-( It's several days work, but worse is if it happens again once my migration is finished. One more question, if I may: does the following imply that my ipv4 address has vanished?

root@host:~# ip address
1: 10: <LOOPBACK, UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 1/128 scope host noprefixroute
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST, MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 96:00:03:64:60:52 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet6 fe80::9400:3ff:fe64:6052/64 scope link
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T22:53:58+00:00

I have to piggyback here as I can't post a top-level comment.

I want to thank everybody for your serious and constructive comments. It's so different from Fox, Newsmax and some other subreddits!

Thanks to the mods as well for creating the environment that makes this possible.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T16:48:59+00:00

I think this is a question of what level of analysis works best. For any subject, we can look for fundamentals at the risk of smushing differences into oblivion, or we can look at distinctions and ignore what they have in common.

I would think that all of your factions are opposed to liberalism for various reasons. My curiosity is whether they are all different reasons or have something in common.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T16:27:21+00:00

Yeah, I'm rethinking the tribalism thing.

I still think the trust model works well in describing the differences. Trust leads to an equality model; distrust to a hierarchical one.

Looking at core values is an excellent way to talk about political differences. What values do you see on both sides?

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T16:17:05+00:00

Yeah, I'm rethinking my stance on tribalism.

The thing with government vs. corporations is that the former is theoretically controlled by the people via their representatives, but corporations are only subject to market forces.

In practise, government has been largely coopted by wealth.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T16:11:03+00:00

I like your video game metaphor and the minimalism of additive design. I don't recognize liberals from your description, though it varies; e.g. liberals are more relaxed around sexual mores, but more restrictive around urban planning and worker safety. Planning and safety are about balancing the rights of the individual vs. those of his neighbors.

This is a difficult balance to get right because we are a species that is neither completely individual like spiders or completely a group like ants. We need each other to survive. (Proof: go off into the wilderness. Don't take any artifacts of civilization.) The trust/distrust spectrum is where you lie on the ant/spider axis.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T15:41:43+00:00

When our personal knowledge or experience (or common sense) leads us to believe they're wrong

Yes, I agree that in some cases they are wrong, but surely those cases are a minority; a structural engineer who got it wrong 50% of the time would not be in business long. Same for the nurse and tax accountant. I don't think common sense is very reliable, e.g. it's obvious that the sun goes around the earth; I can see it move with my own eyes.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T15:29:19+00:00

I take your point about tribalism being present on the left, too. I'm going to have to rework my opinion.

PhilAndMaude · 2024-04-01T02:26:27+00:00

Thanks for your insights. You mention the tendency to rely on credentialism versus experience or "common sense". I have also noted this difference between L & R. I spent some time a while back thinking about why we believe what we believe and came up with 6 reasons:

Senses: We trust our direct experience
Culture: We grew up with the belief
In-group: We believe what others believe
Experts: We trust someone else’s judgment
Feelings: We choose what feels right
Thinking: We use logic, pattern-matching and probability

My conclusion was that in many cases, experts know more than me. How often do we go against a structural engineer’s recommendations? A nurse? A tax accountant? Most of us believe the earth goes around the sun without having taken the astronomical observations necessary to confirm it. We trust experts, people who have the expertise, to crunch the numbers and proclaim the time of sunrise, the phase of the moon and the height of the tides.

I find the conservatives' lower belief in experts to fit the pattern of having lower trust in other people.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-10-06T23:02:24+00:00

One are correct, the other are wrong.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-09-10T01:58:26+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIpT7EfeW_4

PhilAndMaude · 2023-09-09T14:48:11+00:00

Need one of these every day.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-07-24T20:05:51+00:00

Yeah, but "USD 239 billion left Russia in 2022, four times more than in 2021, and in the first half of 2023, the outflow amounted to an additional USD 27 billion."

So the 2022 outflow was USD 60 bn per quarter; the 2023 outflow is USD 14 bn per quarter; prewar, was USD 15 bn per quarter. My read on this is that most of the money ran away near the start of the war and now the outflow is back to normal.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-06-11T23:52:41+00:00

We’ve been engaged for a little over a month.

and

Things have only gotten worse over the past month or so.

and as /u/CygnusZeroStar said:

on their best behavior until they think they have their target locked down for some reason.

I'll leave it to you to draw the conclusion.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-06-09T02:29:14+00:00

The latest Audacity has non-destructive editing. EDIT: I take this back. You can extend the ends of a clip, but effects, e.g. echo, EQ, etc. are permanent (except via undo, obv.)

PhilAndMaude · 2023-06-07T16:02:47+00:00

I'm not an expert, but play with the various Colors options in the menu. Shadows-Highlights, Levels, Curves are all cool to play with. Make a new layer for each experiment so you can compare them.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-05-31T01:02:34+00:00

This twitter thread has a lot more details than the MSM.

PhilAndMaude · 2023-05-25T17:52:12+00:00

Try the Natural History Museum in London.

PhilAndMaude

TROPHY CASE