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Re:Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @01:53AM (#29171876)
Unity is betting big on VFX Virtual Production, what a huge step this is. Unreal is of course ahead in this space, with major productions like Mandalorian to back it up. This is very interesting and exciting to see what will happen. Weta is so beloved in the industry, and has so much expertise, hope nothing is lost in this transition.
Re:Unity acquires Weta Digital on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @05:27PM (#29168380)
Unity is betting big on VFX Virtual Production, what a huge step this is. Unreal is of course ahead in this space, with major productions like Mandalorian to back it up. This is very interesting and exciting to see what will happen.

Weta is so beloved in the industry, and has so much expertise, hope nothing is lost in this transition.

Re:Going back to office (English subtitled) on Saturday October 09, 2021 @05:18AM (#28808252)
Adult humour, not sure how hackernews will like it. But this sketch tries to touch (in a sarcastic way) some of struggles of going back to office. I think they did a great job, and raise some thoughts/discussion around new ways of working
Re:OS/360 on Hercules: Overview (2003) on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:55PM (#28791926)
Project homepage link in the article is outdated and points to a sport bets website.

Wikipedia article includes a good link: https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/

Re:HelloSystem on Sunday October 03, 2021 @04:47AM (#28735576)
It mentions and links to Haiku in the wiki as Hello done consenquently. Does this means Hello is the concept and Haiku the implementation? Should I install and try Haiku instead https://www.haiku-os.org/
Re:What Happened to Treehouse? on Saturday October 02, 2021 @03:57PM (#28731532)
Years ago, Treehouse had a refrenshingly easy to grasp, with great content, curriculum around web technologies. The tutors were super friendly and enthusiastic while retaining a good technical level (for the target) - I really praise their introductory courses. Shame to hear this, definitely some better communication was needed, but IMHO personal life details only take the real failures out of focus - business and people involved deserved much better out of the whole process.
Re:Leaving the Apple ecosystem behind on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @05:58PM (#28622484)
Very personal opinion here: Apple innovated as hell, pure lab of goodness and years and years ahead of any other OS. Sad reality is that they are now a 100 billion mega megacorp, user is second in the money dance. I don’t see them as innovative, freedom (not as in free beer) means a lot and they don’t contribute to it at all, if anything even more closed ecossystem - long gone the days of OpenDarwin. Most people I know switched back to Windows for better drivers support. UX is still second to none in Apple, but at what cost? In the end, you want to press a button to turn on the system and get things done. I think there’s more than just Apple nowadays - but unique strengths in different contexts for sure
Re:Flash Is Responsible for the Internet's Most Creative Era on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:44PM (#28610389)
This is so true! Watching the new york philharmonic musical experiences in the subway, or yugop mono*crafts or v2 playing with physics, Hillman Curtis God is in the details, or the never ending games revolution (globulus, get the glass some of my favourites). Every website was a new experience to be discovered.

There were multiple attempts to bring Flash runtime back using webassembly (faster, secure), maybe we’ll see Flash content yet again… or maybe we don’t need it, but it was definitely a fun era.

Brilliant
Re:Docker compatible open source: Containerd nerdctl on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:27AM (#28431622)
Thanks, I wasn’t thinking only about docker desktop, but also more specifically docker cli and compose (but now makes sense)

btw for mac there’s Containerd + Lima https://medium.com/nttlabs/containerd-and-lima-39e0b64d2a59

Re:Docker compatible open source: Containerd nerdctl on Monday September 06, 2021 @01:01AM (#28430450)
It looks like a good drop-in replacement for docker?

“ Docker extracted its container runtime out into a new project, containerd. This includes Docker’s functionality for executing containers, handling low-level storage and managing image transfers. Containerd was donated to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in order to provide the container community with a basis for creating new container solutions.”

from “What Is containerd, And How Does It Relate to Docker and Kubernetes” -https://www.cloudsavvyit.com/10075/what-is-containerd-and-ho...

Re:Firefox lost 50M users since 2019 on Sunday August 01, 2021 @02:48AM (#28024334)
Firefox is a breeze to use with great dev tools. Don’t even have Chrome installed atm, but may have to soon because of lighthouse.

Definitely pushing for Firefox to be part of default installation at workplace, we need to fight monopolies.

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