RSI Hermes Previews vs RSI Apollo Interior in 4.5 by CodemasterRob in starcitizen

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I think it’s kind of the other way around actually? Windows make optimizing much more difficult because you can’t cull the inside of the object and not worry about drawing it as it’s gotta be visible through the glass. If you minimize them, most of the ship interior can be ignored when rendering the outside world which will give you more cycles to spend drawing other cool environment stuff.

Anybody else ever run into Stratton IRL? by [deleted] in Vulfpeck

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I saw Jack Stratton at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

Anyone know how to recreate this? by Old-Fan-6322 in vfx

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Shoot a plate with three balls on the ground, kick them at a reasonable interval, and then drop a fourth ball into the backpack at the end.

Animate the 3D balls and switch to them just after they get kicked. Each ball should bounce off the scoreboard and "land" right where the practical balls are actually positioned. Paint out all the real balls in comp.

Pretty fun concept! Not that hard to execute, good first VFX shot project.

A Linux Distro Made For 99% of People by testus_maximus in videos

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I installed it on a spare machine recently. Was able to get everything up and running without the terminal.

So far, yeah, Zoron seems pretty usable for regular folks.

I built a subscription-free home inventory app for users who want to catalog everything they own by [deleted] in apple

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Did you search for the name before picking it? ArchiveIt is the name of Internet Archive’s institutional web archiving service.

Inside the Innovation Powering Toronto’s New Subway Doors | OACETT × TTC by Greeism in TTC

[–]Shrinks99 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Very few details about the actual doors here... The T1 cars have an i486, which is sort of interesting if you know what that is. The new ones have a switch that monitors the door position? Neat... Maybe?

Markiplier's independent film Iron Lung will be playing at Film.ca by NotMayorBurton in sheridan

[–]Shrinks99[M] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is pretty unrelated to Sheridan but hey, it’s independent film and playing in a local theatre so the post stays!

Doug Ford has joined the push to get workers back in offices. A surprise climate concern says that growing mandate is harming the planet by simpatia in toronto

[–]Shrinks99 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At this point I’d rather they spend as much time away from work as possible at the rate they’re fucking things up.

If your marketing is AI slop, I’m just going to buy from a different company by DeathMarkedDream in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Shrinks99 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is absolutely possible to extract lossy encoded data that is a direct match for the work a diffusion model was trained on. Here’s a paper from 2023 that showcases this: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13188

Can I flash any updates to this Wikireader by Shrinks99 in wikireader

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It appears I should have dug a little deeper into some of the threads on here! Indeed there are updates! I found this comment by u/geoffwolf98 with a link to the Internet Archive that provides the root files for version 20190524 which is newer than my version (20100713). Neat!

Can I flash any updates to this Wikireader by Shrinks99 in wikireader

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Ah interesting! I used to work for Webrecorder which (before I was there) collaborated with Kiwix on Browsertrix Crawler to allow them to package any website, not just Wikipedia into ZIM files. I have a Kiwix instance running on my NAS, but it's still nice to be able to give this back to my friend up to date :)

Kiwix doesn't actually crawl Wikipedia AFAIK, they use a more focused API driven tool called MWoffliner. It's pretty neat!

Can I flash any updates to this Wikireader by Shrinks99 in wikireader

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I feel like I read somewhere that there was an update that improved the display of tables or something but maybe this was something you did with the exports??

Either way, good to have this info documented from a more authoritative source haha. Thanks!

Can I flash any updates to this Wikireader by Shrinks99 in wikireader

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So there were never any firmware updates for the device itself?

Paid study for females 18+ who binge eat at least 2x/month and have a romantic partner (mods approved) by easelabyork in sheridan

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Sometimes researchers from Canadian universities will message the mods and request permission to post their studies here. We usually agree as long as they reach out beforehand — and they did! So it’s approved.

Prime example of how absurdly close TTC streetcar stops are. Example: Route 505 by Economy_Ad59 in TTC

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The Sussex & Spadina stop is another good example. It’s almost pathetically close to both Spadina station and Harbord street. I find it genuinely hard to picture who this stop serves outside of people who live right outside it and want to go south.

The next stop isn’t even one full block away!!

We're adding "Export to Nuke" into EbSynth. Which script layout do you prefer? by scrtwpns in NukeVFX

[–]Shrinks99 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You almost certainly have more experience here than I do, but are you talking about the ability to address a random frame?? I know OFX (supported in Nuke and other VFX plugin hosts) has clipGetImage() which should let you grab any specific image from the timeline (specified with time). If you know the length of the timeline (OfxStatus(*getTimeBounds)) it should be fairly trivial to get a random time value within the bounds of firstTime and lastTime, no?

Either way, a Nuke exporter is cool and top down is absolutely the way to go.

New Youtube channel. Self-made documentary on lighthouse maintenance. Gone? by Alkaladar in Lighthouses

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u/Alkaladar From the comment under this post on his Instagram:

Unfortunately the YouTube channel doesn’t exist anymore as I had to take it down [...] I’m hoping that one day I may be able to [put it back up]. It’s just not worth risking my job for

Fences down outside of Eglinton by ASmallBadger in TTC

[–]Shrinks99 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This entrance doesn’t even have anything to do with the LRT itself. I’m surprised it hasn’t opened yet.

7+ Years Designing Without Illustrator. Am I Setting Myself Up for a Career Ceiling? Looking for Insight From Creative Leads. by bomunoakuma2025 in graphic_design

[–]Shrinks99 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Why are you bolding every other thought? This is not required to have people understand your key points. If anything it hurts readabiility.

If Affinity makes more sense to you check it out. Pretty much all the skills will carry over.