Whale biologist!

~15-20% is nothing to sneeze at, but hardly dominance

I really need to try to learn Resolve. There just seems to be so much effort required to make a good NLE and such a relatively small market that it’s just not conducive to a robust FOSS project.

If I’m understanding the article correctly, not making copies seems to have been a condition of the sale.

“doesn’t seem like the soundest legal strategy” seems to be this guy’s whole way of life

Wow! I’m paying 10.5¢/kWh for electricity at home here in the US; it’s a little below the national average but not dramatically.

I can’t comment on Linux, but IIRC SMB was best for situations needing both Mac and Windows, so I’d guess that’s the choice. Totally off memory, though.

Can the Stream Deck be used with other VR systems? I’d just assume not so I’d never looked at it for that.

I really hope to get one of these at some point

I’m still confused on what happened with OpenOffice. Is it not good now that it’s with Apache?

I’m 40 and just started medication for ADHD. When I was in school there were some kids diagnosed with it, but they were the kids bouncing off the wall. I was just told I was a daydreamer, lacked concentration, just needed to focus more because I had so much potential if I could do the work. Instead I just skated by as a B student largely on testing well, but not turning things in. That’s not to say you do or don’t have it, just don’t assume you don’t have it because no one ever mentioned it when you were young.

The likes of Amazon and AliExpress have given us a false sense of how expensive things should be.

I think that’s a strong point, especially when you look at devices like smart speakers with voice assistants or TV steaming sticks. Those devices should not be $30. If you consider a 3x markup over the cost of parts to be a pretty standard rule of thumb to remain profitable for a consumer electronic product those devices should be a lot closer to $100. When they’re not it should be raising red flags about the company using information gathered from you to make their profits.

I suppose there’s no guarantee that Apple isn’t also collecting that data, but the pricing on those devices in a competitive market seems a lot more consistent with a company that needs a product to make a profit in a more traditional manner. Of course, they take a cut on subscriptions sold through the device, but I suspect that’s not as reliable per-device as a game console collecting a license fee for every device sold.

This is perhaps the best analogy for what he’s doing that I’ve seen. The only thing I could add is that for creative projects like movies (or books, paintings, sculptures, etc.), especially ones you are trying to release and get paid for, at some point you have to stop yourself from making tweaks or adjustments to the product and decide it’s good enough to release, because there will probably always be something you think can be better or you just aren’t sure you’ve chosen the best option. In fact, the longer you look at it, the more likely you are to second-guess even correct choices you’ve made because you’ve stared at it for so long.

The other thing a creative person needs to do once it’s released is to let it go. You can’t go back and keep second-guessing yourself. You also can’t look back 20 or 30 years later and think with all the experience you’ve gained in the intervening years or the new tools that are now available you could do it so much better. Accept it for what it is, a product of that era and that stage of your career. And there’s no guarantee that the new tools or experience will actually yield a better product. Sometimes the limitations force us to be more creative and the solutions end up being better than if we had no challenges.

Wait, this app is free, has no ads, and does not give any info to the developer? It seems like it’s basically a hobby, created by a guy who wanted the app and decided to learn how to code so he could write it himself?

I received a Quest 2 as a gift. It is fun playing games, but ends up being very much a solo activity. It used to be possible to use Chromecast functionality to share what the user is seeing with other people, but that hasn’t worked for me in a long time and that seems to be the case for others. That was useful when letting others try the device, but without that VR can be a pretty isolated activity. It would be interesting to try something with other people with headsets, but we’re not paying a couple hundred dollars for additional Quests, never mind thousands of dollars on a Vision Pro.

I don’t even know what icon is on the right

Is this the only game you’ve tried it with or do these settings seem to generally be a good starting point with Windows games?

Do you also have the Mac version of Steam installed on your computer? I’m wondering if having the two versions on the same account causes any issues, like if I should install the Whisky version under a different account on my Mac than the main account I use.

Had that one come on a lot last year. Turns out some Kias (and Hyundais) burn oil. A lot of oil. They’ll replace them under warranty, but the car has to be burning more than 1 quart every 1,000 miles to qualify. I started checking it on my own and it was progressively getting worse, but when it finally reached the point where it was burning over that level it just killed the engine altogether a couple days later.

This was a fascinating read. It’s funny to think that 50 years ago western engineers would’ve been very interested in reverse engineering this unit, whereas nowadays it’s purely for historical interest.

It’s also interesting that its limitations were being felt fairly quickly and the cosmonauts were pushing for a replacement but that didn’t come until 2002. I suspect that’s a reflection of the financial situation of the Soviet space program in the 1970s and especially the 1980s, and then the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

I followed the link to Fandango but either I’m using it wrong or there are no showings near me. The runtime is listed as 20 hours 22 minutes, though.