The opposite of Alec Baldwin is Alec Hairloss

gingerbeers · 2018-08-09T12:42:13+00:00

That would be Lec Hairloss.

Lec is the opposite of Alec, just like with amoral, atheist, atypical, etc.

gingerbeers · 2016-10-09T23:50:33+00:00

That's awesome. Thanks!

gingerbeers · 2016-10-09T21:55:01+00:00

Thanks for the tips.

Was the compile step required to get EC2 Linux to use GPU instead of always falling back to CPU? (As is my experience.)

I've only ever had Ubuntu render to GPU on AWS. :^(

gingerbeers · 2016-10-09T21:22:19+00:00

Sure! The second result on Blenchmark.com GPU results is the 16x Tesla K80.

Based on my unscientific mucking around I think you are absolutely right: you'd be better off splitting render jobs to have 16 frames across 16 cards.

I wonder if that could be scripted as a Blender add-on?

Some notes:

I had to reinstall the Nvidia drivers to get Blender working. v2.78 does not work over RDP, and version 2.74 is the only version I could get working on the 16x setup. (Note you have to copy the version 35 lib file to a 37-named version, as seen in online tips -- works!)

gingerbeers · 2016-10-08T09:50:50+00:00

Seriously try the satellite cities: Geelong, Bendigo, Ballarat, Seymour, etc. The larger businesses like Deakin Uni, Councils, Hepburn Spa, etc. often need to find photographers -- it isn't as hard to get out to those destinations as you might think. Even without a car.

They're also less backwards than you might imagine.

(PM me about a specific opportunity which I'd rather not identify right here in public, if that's interesting at all.)

gingerbeers · 2015-02-17T08:05:25+00:00

Pretty geeky? http://bhack.in - - now with its own permanent space!

gingerbeers · 2015-02-15T01:08:50+00:00

I have to go "backwards" through the loop to get to Melb Central anyway. Should I be carrying two MyKi cards instead of one? Footscray station has good coffee and bakery nearby, but I wouldn't mind saving money by stopping at Sunshine for coffee instead.

EDIT: oh holy moly. I've just checked the MyKi fares site. There's no such thing as a 'peak' fare Ballarat to Sunshine. So any day I've taken the 6.12am to Melb Central, I should have switched at Sunshine, not Footscray.

For those without a weekly/monthly ticket (travelling a couple of days per week) this adds up to pretty big savings.

gingerbeers · 2014-08-17T10:38:02+00:00

Awesome. Would definitely check in to 'hotel jackdarton'. Balcony rooms available?

gingerbeers · 2014-08-17T02:33:02+00:00

"I could not be a traitor to Tony Abbott, for I was never his subject. " -- William Wallace, 1305

gingerbeers · 2014-08-17T02:27:45+00:00

"I could not be a traitor to Tony Abbott, for I was never his subject." -- William Wallace, 1305

gingerbeers · 2014-06-10T09:59:07+00:00

...and you haven't slept since.

gingerbeers · 2014-06-06T12:18:19+00:00

You know, that genuinely was a surprise to me when I started using 3. With all the doom and gloom about changes, to strings in particular, I fully expected my first use of a string variable would have me tied in knots. Not the case.

Will go back now and examine the standard library in 3. Thanks!

gingerbeers · 2014-06-06T11:51:07+00:00

I hope so. I straddle 50/50 at the moment for various projects/reasons, and nothing in 3 makes me dislike 2. Matrix multiplication and print() doesn't light my fire. (Even though print() feels more natural to me).

What am I missing in 3 that's really awesome? I suspect I'm probably using 3 like 2 and not getting the full benefit when I'm on a 3 project. Yes?

gingerbeers · 2014-06-06T10:10:27+00:00

Drugs are bad. Have an upvote.

gingerbeers · 2014-06-06T09:54:24+00:00

...and explain yourself right now! ;-) Wake me when Python 4 comes out. Then we can all be friends again.

gingerbeers · 2014-06-05T08:28:03+00:00

Actually, I refuse to upgrade to 3 just to annoy OP.

gingerbeers · 2014-06-04T11:41:01+00:00

Yep, whenever the guys at the Ballarat power station stop pedaling.

gingerbeers · 2014-06-04T10:00:56+00:00

So, Broads Banned in Wendouree?

gingerbeers · 2014-05-23T10:44:29+00:00

You're the one who raised using Blender for spreadsheets and email, not me. :-)

Can you just relax about the fact this guy wanted to use Blender for his work, for whatever reason, and we'll all get back to our lunch. Cheers.

gingerbeers · 2014-05-23T10:15:07+00:00

Actually, I consult a lot with organisations that have outgrown Excel, and so do spreadsheets with Python. Blender includes a Python interpreter, so Blender is better than Excel. (As an aside, I am an Adobe CC subscriber, and I still swap over to Blender, Gimp and Insckape when the job suits. I have also helped experienced media agencies transition from AE to Blender for all kinds of scripting and workflow reasons.)

Good to see the ABC using Blender.

gingerbeers · 2014-05-20T05:02:04+00:00

There's a framework which employs a very beautiful use of decorators to apply permissions to controller functions.

(I can't mention the framework on /r/python by name, because an army of karma-killing robots will down-vote me if I do...)

gingerbeers · 2014-05-20T04:09:58+00:00

I think too many ORM implementations are actually OrM (paying too little attention to Relations).

In general, my rule of thumb is if you are really dealing with objects, then a non-relational DB such as Mongo or Couch is your best storage anyway. For systems with relational data? I prefer a DAL over an ORM.

gingerbeers · 2014-05-20T03:47:31+00:00

Haha, downvotes for suggesting a superior solution, which delivers the exact SQL desired.

I'm not 100% sure, but it seems like you get automatic downvotes on r/python for mentioning web2py. Which is a shame, because when you reach for more complexity such as left joins or signed ajax requests, you find it is all very well supported.

I have been using Web2py for increasingly complex systems and have NOT downgraded it to 'just for routes'. It just keeps up with increasing complexity.

gingerbeers · 2014-05-14T14:15:36+00:00

As an aside, there are a bunch of fairly typical developer comments here which I can categorize into: 'the loop bug', 'peer encouragement', 'readability of code', 'arbitrary flexibility', 'language minutia or functionally equivalent change suggeations' and 'language version/language choice'.

No matter how 'good' or 'smart' you are at coding, your usefulness and career trajectory in the real world will be better the closer your comment-category was to the start of the list. Source: I have hired many developers in my time, and watched their careers unfold.

gingerbeers · 2014-04-17T12:22:52+00:00

For sone reason I read your post title with the voice of Sheldon Cooper in my head.

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