I’ve been looking for an excuse to try this tool. https://github.com/ToumaKamijou/Yugens-Terrain-Authoring-Toolkit It’s FOSS and looks really usable. It has the paint requirements you mentioned but I’m not sure about exporting splatmaps.

It’s even shit by U.S. chocolate standards, just to give you a sense of how bad it is.

Really loving the drawable texture objects. Such a nice, simple, wonderful idea.

The part that really depresses me is that folks will point at this and say, “See!? Renewable energy isn’t economic!” Completely ignoring that it’s cash flow positive and has only failed because they cancelled projects before they could make their money back. If a solar farm costs $100 to build but makes $1/day and your cancel it on day 50, of course it’s going to lose money.

Can confirm. I think I’ve had to go there once in the last twelve months.

For the folks who are trying, even small steps help to push back against Bezos. Cancel Prime. Try to cut back to a single order per month, then every six months, etc. And importantly, good is good enough. If you discover something you need and can’t get it elsewhere, don’t kick yourself for needing a one-off purchase. Just keep trying to do a little better.

I bought a tool on eBay and it arrived at my doorstep… fulfilled by Amazon. I was so pissed I wrote to them. They replied saying Amazon did all of their fulfillment.

The real kicker is it was and is used in productive and constructive ways. It was just invisible until very recently. The ability to search for other photos of your pets in your photos app, the spam filters that keep your email (relatively) usable, the special effects tools that let artists paint out wires were all possible because of machine learning (used to refer to the subgroup of AI) and were made better by transformers.

If this same tech were released in a post-Capitalist society there would be no need for every single company to ham fistedly shove it into every product that doesn’t need it.

I mean ‘g’. 1g is 9.81m/s^2. c is a speed, not an acceleration. g is acceleration.

Not coincidentally, it’s the acceleration you experience from Earth’s gravity, but it doesn’t have to come from gravity. Astronauts routinely experience 3gs during takeoff from their rocket boosters.

If you were in a rocket that accelerated at a constant 1g it would feel like Earth’s gravity, even in space. We don’t have any rockets capable of producing 1g for years.

If we could accelerate at a constant 1g, flip, and decelerate at a constant 1g, the trip would take ~152 years… from Earth’s perspective. If you were onboard, time dilation would make the trip about 10 years.

Do I have to wear the lace all the time? I don’t look good in lace.

And honestly probably not; not because I have any objections to her being the breadwinner or have any weird ideas about who raises kids, but mostly because I’m not sure I could do it. I’d be a pretty shit father.

Going from Photoshop to GIMP 3, it’s just not the same. I have a lot of respect for the project, but there are so many rough edges that it’s demoralizing at best.

Here’s an example: in Photoshop, I select an object with the smart select brush (not available in GIMP), copy and paste it and it ends up on a new layer. I can drag the new layer around and draw on it. In GIMP, I paste a rectangle and the layer bounds are exactly locked to the paste area, so if I do something like feather the edges or try to draw on it I get a block of pixels. Without looking it up, can you tell me how to make the active layer size match the canvas size? And if I drag that layer, will it move the pixels or will it offset that layer and force me to rerun the “layer to document size” process?

Not that Adobe hasn’t done a ton of Enshittification, but CS6 was pretty great for me.

Perhaps the parent commenter has apps they need to run for work? I know Microsoft Authenticator isn’t supported on Graphene, which is admittedly bullshit but it’s a requirement if you work in the government or high security industry like utilities. If that’s the case they should be given a work phone, but companies don’t do that most of the time in my experience.

Or perhaps they’ve had a bad experience with an older version. I know that Ubuntu Mobile couldn’t even make calls on a lot of devices for a while. I recently had an experience where DTMF signaling didn’t work, which meant I couldn’t navigate phone trees to do things like get prescriptions filled.

Point being, there are lots of real reasons folks are stuck in their predicament.

The temptation to be snarky is strong, but we risk hurting imperfect allies instead of fighting our real enemies.

Agreed. And someone on this side of the Atlantic with the teeth to bite Apple’s face off when they pull shit like they did with right to repair or not allowing progressive web apps.

“You need to let end users be able to repair your devices.”

“Okay we will sell a $700 repair ‘kit’ and each replacement part is $1000 and also they’re hardware locked to the original device so you can’t reuse older devices for parts. BTW you need our certification.”

Mass and volume are distinct, so a lack of euclidean geometry is not a big deal as long as your scale is bisecting the physical plane and 100% of the objects mass is acting perpendicular to it.

Great question. There exists a univeral speed limit ‘c’, from which the sea-anemone gets its name. In a vacuum that value is about 3.0*10^8 m/s.

You can derive the expected speed by dividing the speed of light © by the refractive index of the medium.

The refractive index of air at sea level is 1.00027717. Because it’s ‘air speed velocity’ and ‘c-level’.

Dividing out we get 299709km/sec.

Draw goes to the player who moved second?

I know you asked for CSV but it wasn’t showing up right so I saved it as PDF. Can I send that to you?

No no. I’ve been embarrassed and ashamed of plenty of them, but this one is especially malevolent.

I was just explaining to some of my overseas friends how embarrassed and ashamed I was of the current administration, domestically and abroad.

Less than 24 hours later, this fucking disgrace.

I can think of a few potential cut offs, taking differential calculus to be basic.

Integral calculus. Multivariate calculus. Differential equations. Epsilon-Lamba calculus.

But that’s just my opinion.