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Re:The deception of “buying” digital movies on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @05:05PM (#33086876)
Is there a legal definition to "buying" in consumer law? Can't Amazon be sued for this?
Re:Arcane director of animation on how they did it on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @11:19AM (#29319612)
Just what I was looking for. IMHO Arcane marks a milestone progress in Animation technology.

Also glad that the article confirmed that they don't use MoCap. It was such a great choice. I recently watched another visually exquisite animation movie on Netflix (the one in the Bright universe). There they used completely flat shading to achieve toon look for characters and environment, but made the characters move with MoCap animations. It looked very eerie.

Re:LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser on Monday August 23, 2021 @10:47AM (#28276585)
Great concept. Making music is hard. Such experiments with visual manipulation of music can help make it easier.
I agree. The article smells of confirmation bias.
Re:Life at the End of American Empire on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @05:26PM (#22049880)
Good read. America today looks like the crumpling world described by Ayn Rand in `Atlass Shrugged`. Ironically the reason of this downfall is the adoption of naive form of capitalism that Ayn Rand popularized.
Re:Ask HN: Are books worth it? on Saturday January 04, 2020 @05:40PM (#21958125)
A general rule of thumb is the older the written word, more valuable it is. Accordingly, the books that have been around for a while and are still well-known they give highest value from the time you invest in reading them. The content on Internet is mostly about current events and it lacks the depth that old books have. News or opinions on current events will most likely become irrelevant and obsolete. The stuff worth reading will survive the test of time and you can read it in future. Staying up-to-date with current happenings is overrated, because most of those things don't happen our daily life. Therefore best invest your time reading meaningful books.
Re:Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward on Sunday December 22, 2019 @09:15AM (#21857193)
Next step: Controlled flip!
Inspirational story, but let's not forget about the nutritional value of the Cheetos (or lack thereof)
There is a more serious impact of downgrading if you were hosting a static website from a private repository on github with a pro account. Apparently that's not supported with free account. My personal website went down as soon as I downgraded to free. I didn't mind making the repo public, so it was an easy fix, but may not be same for others.
Re:Living Alone Can Be Deadly on Thursday February 07, 2019 @07:35PM (#19110155)
The news item is based on single study performed in single country of small size with 3346 men as sample set. Hardly representative.
Re:$4k Renault compared to Tesla Model 3 on Wednesday July 19, 2017 @08:46PM (#14809244)
Why comparision with Model 3? It's not electric. The blogger seems to have only anti-tesla agenda.
Re:Babylon.js 3.0 on Thursday July 13, 2017 @10:48AM (#14761692)
I believe there's not much value in making games that run in browser and served from website. But real value of Babylon like Javascript libraries lies in their portability. I would use Electron like framework to create desktop app for my Javascript game created using Babylon, then sell it on Steam. Unity and Unreal are good portable options, but they lack the complete open nature of web technologies. They have their own private scripting languages that are not portable. A game engine written in Javascript is therefore more valuable.
If cryptocoins are equivalent to shares in the company, what is the equivalent of dividends?
Drone Uses AI and 11,500 casualties to learn How to kill terrorists ... coming soon /s
Are they sure it doesn't shit plastic back?
Re:“When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.” on Sunday March 05, 2017 @11:37AM (#13796763)
Despite Gödel's incompleteness theorems?
Re:Automatic desktop integrated webapps via Electron on Saturday March 04, 2017 @10:28PM (#13794422)
It's not Electron that has performance issues, but the apps aren't probably coded properly. I've been developing my app using electron for a year now and haven't seen it hog cpu/memory unless it's a bug in my application.
That must be the fault of the app than the Electron framework itself.
Re:Staying Motivated as a Software Developer on Wednesday January 25, 2017 @11:41AM (#13482922)
This is an advertorial. No real answers.
Re:Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook [pdf] on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:27PM (#13465677)
The title made me picture Mark Zuckerberg diving into facebook user data like Scrooge Mcduck
Re:Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:49PM (#13447242)
In public forum, anonymity is achieved by pseudonimity (one has to go to a trouble of creating account under fake name). But a service that doesn't have logins, the anonimity is default and easy.
Re:Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society on Friday January 20, 2017 @03:55PM (#13446910)
But they are not one-on-one. They are public. They are not anonymous.

Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society

When a user visits this website, he/she is asked a random political question from a pool of questions. The question has Yes/No answer. For example,Do you believe US should build a $4bn wall on its border with Mexico?If the person answers Yes, he/she will be put in a chat room with a person who has answered No. Both of them will be anonymous to each other. The chat room will be private and only...

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