knolan

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by knolan 2mo ago
For those of us who can’t afford a Vision Pro try the Reality Composer app for iOS. You can create a scene and place 3D models on walls or the floor and then navigate in AR. It’s useful for placing furniture in your home. The IKEA app used
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by knolan 2mo ago
We don’t have smart appliances but I’ve recently switched to an electricity plan with a really cheap night rate for charging my EV (1 cent per km!). We often fill and then schedule our Bosch washing machine and dryer to come on at 2am. No a
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by knolan 2mo ago
I’m not a libertarian. I’m not opposed to helmets and I and my family wear helmets while cycling. I fully support vaccines. Mandatory helmet laws have the consequence of reducing the amount of people cycling. There’s no justification for th
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by knolan 2mo ago
On the contrary I fully support vaccines and I wear a helmet while cycling. The mandatory helmet law in Australia backfired pretty badly by reducing the numbers of people cycling. Those who promise mandatory laws for bicycle helmets tend to
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by knolan 2mo ago
Like enforcing mandatory bicycle helmets in Australia, this law is either massively misguided or serves another purpose. While politicians are often stupid, they can’t think we’re that stupid? If you don’t want your kids accessing certain w
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by knolan 5mo ago
We used PoE hats for a bunch of Raspberry Pis once. It’s definitely a great idea.
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by knolan 5mo ago
I love that Blender can be a powerful scientific tool. Unlike a lot of software build for research, Blender is fast and user friendly, even if it has a learning curve. The addition of geometry nodes adds so much more capability too. I’ve us
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by knolan 6mo ago
I found 4D Golf a great game to explore higher dimensional space.
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by knolan 6mo ago
It works really well with the AR viewer on mobile Safari.
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by knolan 9mo ago
There is the Journal of Open Source Software perhaps: https://joss.theoj.org/
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by knolan 1y ago
The Dutch model is frequently cited by campaigners here as how things should be done. Unfortunately, as you point out, our government doesn’t really care. Investment is a patchwork of half arsed attempts here and there depending on local pr
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by knolan 1y ago
I feel like a bit of a failure when it comes to transport. I tried for many years to cycle to work in Dublin covering 25km on an ebike, but gave up after several nasty incidents that almost resulted in serious injury (for example my head al
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by knolan 1y ago
Where I grew up in rural Ireland there was a haulage company based down a narrow single track road. You’d take your life in your hands going down that road at the best of times, never mind meeting a speeding articulated lorry. Eventually th
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by knolan 1y ago
Meanwhile here in Ireland the culture is going the opposite direction. There is a clear lack of roads policing here and a recent report has confirmed this[1] with many Gardai simply not interested in doing their job. Our police force is mas
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by knolan 1y ago
Just for reference I’m running 4.5 with the Vulcan backend and sculpting a 6.3 million vertex object completely smoothly and Blender is using 4 GB of RAM and 2.5 GB of video RAM. Granted my system has a 9800 x3D and a 5070ti.
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by knolan 1y ago
How does it compare to blender 4.5 with Vulcan enabled?
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by knolan 1y ago
Open a new blender file and select Sculpt and you start with a high poly sphere. The default cube is not suitable for sculpting unless you subdivide it several times. You can create whatever start up file you want. Other approaches include
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by knolan 1y ago
Meanwhile in Europe we’re starting to get affordable retro styled hot (well warm) hatches like the Renault 5.
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by knolan 1y ago
The Tree of Life was one of the only films I’ve ever considered walking out of, I hated every moment of it. I’m delighted to hear you were spellbound by it.
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by knolan 1y ago
This reminded me. There was an episode of Modern Family made entirely on Apple devices.
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by knolan 2y ago
It’s a really basic engineering problem that was studied extensively in many studies and we teach it at undergraduate. When I made the point that there is no scientific novelty here they insisted that their PhD was a ‘generic’ one and that
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by knolan 2y ago
Ugh you’re a tiresome culture war poster. I’ve no Interest in you or your hobby horse.
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by knolan 2y ago
Yes indeed. I’ve seen similar there too.
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by knolan 2y ago
You’re arguing about highly specific cases while the vast majority of institutions get on with the job of educating large numbers of students and doing what research they can.
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by knolan 2y ago
Your anti intellectual bias is showing. There are problems in all domains. I’ve seen plenty of arrogant fools in industry too. They’re using an industry tool to do well trodden industry problems that were solved by academics decades ago. I’
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by knolan 2y ago
This individual is pretty unique in this regard. I’ve never seen anything like it. Most students will acknowledge that I know the literature and will accept guidance. This person seems to think they know everything but their work is the equ
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by knolan 2y ago
I’ve seen this with a PhD student publishing several rapid fire papers in MDPI journals. They are repeating well understood physics work done 50 years ago using off the shelf commercial simulation software. They don’t cite any papers older
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by knolan 2y ago
Tap on it . Arrow keys to move and space to shoot. It’s annoying because you can’t strafe.
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by knolan 2y ago
I was tempted to gut it and stick in a display driver board but that comes with a risk of destroying the thing. It’s still running fine and I could find use for it elsewhere. But you’re right. It’s a damned fine display.
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by knolan 2y ago
I went from a 2560x1600 27” 2012 iMac to a 5K 2015 iMac. The 2015 model was the first not to offer target display mode, so it’s even worse than you say. For a while I ran the 2012 as a second display for the 2015. The 2012 iMac is long gone

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