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by diskzero 4y ago
Colorado and Utah are last remainining states with such agressive policies. All other states allow the collection of water for domestic use. Additional permits are needed if you want to drink the water or use it commercially. Some states en
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by diskzero 4y ago
Tucson resident here. It did make me feel a bit better setting up my harvesting system. I collect about 10,000 gallons that I use to irrigate my thirsty grapefruit and lemon tree. If I didn't have to collected water, it would cost me a
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by diskzero 4y ago
Thanks for the super informative reply. I am hoping as there is more activity on the space station, that more information will be coming out. It would be nice to be able to see something similar to the ESA, NASA and even Roscosmos launch fe
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by diskzero 4y ago
I suppose it could lead to a race to build a new generation of heavy lift vehicles or other propulsion systems. Maybe a return to the NERVA[1] engine! That technology was an interesting story point in the "For All Mankind" series
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by diskzero 4y ago
Space stations and exploration can be a difficult proposition to justify to any economic system; democratic, socialist, communist, etc. For China to want to "beat" us, building bigger and better space stations would somehow have t
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by diskzero 4y ago
Does anyone know to what extent China has advanced the state of the Soviet technology that they have (I assume) licensed? I have been to the Russian Star City training facility, Baikonur Cosmodrome and been in the full-size Mir training mod
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by diskzero 4y ago
I'll agree with you that there are still techniques to be discovered. I also agree that most humans manage to drive in challenging conditions, but their margins for error become slimmer and slimmer. I personally want my autonomous robo
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by diskzero 4y ago
A LIDAR sensor is a complex device with spinning motors, mirrors, lasers and more. Costs are coming down and less-expensive and more capable devices are coming to market. Once the price-points come way down, I wouldn't be surprised to
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by diskzero 4y ago
As someone working in the field, I would never choose to eliminate the information provided by radar, lidar and any other sensor technology. Depending only on camera information would be too limiting.
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by diskzero 4y ago
I am a principal engineer for a major autonomous vehicle company. You can break this statement down into two components: Adding more sensors slows his team now more than it improves system performance I'll take his word on this. It i
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by diskzero 4y ago
Being on the ground and dealing with MOPP gear was no fun either. The Army certainly took the risk very seriously. The MOPP gear receded into the background on later deployments. While all the shots may be a slight concern, I am more afraid
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by diskzero 4y ago
Call the main switchboard at DWA? 1-818-695-5000 When I was there, there were actual live humans answering and sending calls to people.
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by diskzero 4y ago
Cool. I hope your students are finding places at some good studios. Not only did DWA have bloopers, there are entire sequences rendered and ready to go that didn't make it in the final movie. There is also some shorts and an entire fil
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by diskzero 4y ago
I think I need more counseling to share a lot of them. Let me just say that Steve could be quite brutal. His level of brutality seemed to increase with the level of expectation he had of you. I never saw him be mean to any employee he rando
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by diskzero 4y ago
The "original" Toothless was not Toothless. There were several other Night Fury designs. One amazing part of working in a studio (please try to tour one if you have any friend or reason to get on campus at Disney/Pixar/D
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by diskzero 4y ago
It can be real pressure cooker. Developers who come in not from the game development world are often shocked by the brutal hours. The artists have it the worst however. They tend to get laid off in droves as productions ramps down. Direct
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by diskzero 4y ago
Yes, the recordings get done over many times. Sometimes we lose someone due to story changes or some other circumstance. This is a bummer, as there is more than the voice that is lost. While it is easier for some stars to drive over to Glen
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by diskzero 4y ago
I don’t know about that. I would need more info. The PDI tool chain used for Dragon used the same clamped p-blend curves that had been used for several generations of movies. Technology was almost never the issue for delays. It was usually
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by diskzero 4y ago
You could try reaching out to Kate Swanborg. That sounds like some sort of partnership deal that she may have been involved with. Worth a try!
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by diskzero 4y ago
I think we made How to Train Your Dragon three times at DreamWorks. So many rewrites, director changes, character redesign, etc. If you ever wonder why a feature length animated film can cost over $300 million dollars, this is one reason.
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by diskzero 4y ago
Right. If I have to be honest, I don't think I have recovered from the PTSD caused by all of those Thursday Steve UX meetings. Oh the stories that could be told...
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by diskzero 4y ago
The first version of the driver was written by Be's VP of Engineering, Steve Sakoman. Steve started the "Big Newton" project at Apple and his experience with the AT&T processor was the reason the first BeBox prototypes us
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by diskzero 4y ago
The loss of that library was sad, but didn't all the books go to the Stanford Apple archive? I also grabbed a book on parsers. I know some people from ATG found places to stay if they really, really wanted to, but unless you could dire
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by diskzero 4y ago
The development team was very small. I worked on audio mixing code, capturing video encoded from Bt848 cards, audio and video codecs, anything related to audio and video timing. Several great programmers were there and continue to do amazin
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by diskzero 4y ago
I agree. Larry Tesler is no longer around to write such a retrospective. I am not sure who else might be able to do it. One of my favorite ATG project was the Dylan[1] programming language. Larry was working a lot on what would become Stage
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by diskzero 4y ago
Steve loved black, until he loved glossy pastels, then rich Corinthian leather interfaces and then brushed aluminum. This was one of the most very frustrating things about designing user interfaces for him; once you figured out his internal
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by diskzero 4y ago
When I came back to Apple in 2000, I remember walking to visit a friend from Eazel (John Harper) who was working on CoreAnimation and seeing your office. I was totally star struck, way more than having to deal with Steve every week. I mean,
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by diskzero 4y ago
I have a fairly interesting perspective; I was there when Steve first returned, left after a few months and then returned in less than eighteen months. I initially joined as a refugee from Be, as it became obvious the PowerPC would no longe
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by diskzero 4y ago
Thanks for that observation. You are totally right. Having learned to dive into framework headers and map idioms from one to another is totally something I learned at Apple, especially in the early days of creating a lot of the frameworks t
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by diskzero 4y ago
I may be an anomaly, but most of the Ask Apple topics wouldn't be terribly useful for me. In general, I haven't had much difficulty figuring out how to use the various frameworks and features as they are released. I don't wan

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