@GatorCosmist @ripplebrain Your thinking is short-term. Direct all money from fining gum spitters into gum production and gum ads.
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randomoneh ⏸️
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@ripplebrain If only Singapore directed all the money they collected from fining gum spitters into a drone and missile guiding satellite constellation program, they would be a superpower by now.
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Singapore fumbled a once in centuries opportunity by failing to anti-ship missilemaxx
Policy Tensor@policytensor
.@LukeGromen is right on the money and for the right reason. ft.com/content/461bdf…
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@SebAaltonen Have you ever seen a dev team with too much free time implement both parallax mapping and high-poly geometry, based on available power (chosen menu setting)?
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@randomoneh Adds a lot of details to surfaces. See the above video. Many gamers are complaining that Nanite-style microgeometry is too expensive and basically forces temporal upscaling. Parallax mapping is an alternative (more limited) way to get almost there.
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Question: Would you want proper parallax mapping in mini-engine? I could add QDM or POM or similar. Seems that parallax mapping is becoming popular again.
Thibault Hennequin@CameleonTH
I was inspired by the recent posts on Crimson Desert, so I added support for Parallax Occlusion Mapping to my engine this weekend. #gamedev #indiedev #CrimsonDesert #gameengine
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@BlackBerner2020 @ripplebrain You don't know if nukes have been used in Ukraine or not?
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@ripplebrain Have these type of missiles been used on Ukraine ?
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This isn't real, but I would love to hear someone explain how it could be done logistically. People don't understand how large the RS-28/36 are, there's no plane in the world capable of transporting them. Those things are around 35m (115) long, they have the highest throw weights of any ICBMs ever made. You could put them on a ship but how would you hide you're moving an ICBM?
Gordon G. Chang@GordonGChang
Putin has transferred Satan intercontinental ballistic missiles, with warheads, to Iran, @CPTArmageddon just told me.
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@BryanNHolt @MarcPearson74 Are these outsider misconceptions about needed skill enough to create such a downward pressure on wages that entry level people give up and pursue something else?
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@MarcPearson74 Whats interesting, is it is having the opposite effect in the VFX industry as a whole. The bar for entry has skyrocketed in terms of quality demand and expectations. Which makes sense when you think about it. Talked about it here:
instagram.com/reel/DW4dlB-Cc…
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This is the cold hard truth. Not just animators, but FX Artists. The results are far more important to your livelihood than how you "feel" doing the work.
It sucks. I know. But this is what separates commercial artists from fine artists.
I am going to get a lot of hate for this. But I stand by @JosephKahn here. My wife has said similar statements to me.
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@Elvick @ReviewsPossum Look into how TTS is developed. It's absolutely ML or AI.
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@ReviewsPossum People have been calling text to speech AI lately too. :'D
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Remember when I pointed out that stupid people call all special effects "CGI" even when they're not?
Stupid people are going to call all CGI "AI".
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@GrantTheNa1 @JosephKahn Were they disappointed that there is so much manual labour involved compared to "idea" work?
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@JosephKahn This is a LOT more of a common perspective than people think.
My family had zero idea how game development or how 3D animation worked until I showed them my process on my own game
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@EthanSegal99 @dccommonsense You *are* an irrational actor. You proved it - among other things - by using nuclear weapons twice (2x)!
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@dccommonsense If you are a realist then you should be for America in conjunction with every other nuclear power imposing this restriction on the rest of the world.
How long will it take for a nuclear weapon to get into the hands of an irrational actor? What if a terrorist gets one?
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1. This "do you want Iran to have nukes?!" argument wonderfully obscures the much thornier larger question:
This is an 80 year old weapons technology that (ostensibly) no one who doesn't already have it is allowed to. How long is that a tenable situation? Permanent inferiority?
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@Molson_Hart @rossiadam I'm equally perplexed both by
1) Praise of sucessful repackagers who want lower taxes but get rich on government contracts
and
2) Claims that all employers are leeches and one shouldn't run a bussiness if they can't pay their employees some specific amount
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@rossiadam not only do people not understand how hard it is
they denigrate it
reminds me of the ant and the grasshopper
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Raise a glass 🥃
Total respect for anyone who starts and builds a business.
You will sweat blood. It will take you to the limit.
And most of the time, it doesn’t work out. Statistically only 34% make it to ten years.
You know the odds are against you. But you do it anyways.
Will Watters@WillWatters
After 12 years, we're closing Western Rise. Not pivoting. Not "sunsetting." Closing. Kelly and I started this in 2014 with zero apparel experience. None. Here's what 12 years of building a brand from nothing actually looks like.
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@sethharpesq How about the fact that two phones that are next to each other or two computers that are next to each other can't just seemlessly and obviously communicate without jumping through the loops or involving data-stealing servers god knows where?
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All the time you spend getting bluetooth devices to connect exceeds by a factor of ten all the time people in years past spent plugging in cords, and that is as succinct an illustration of the illusory nature of technological innovation in the 21st century as I can think of
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I've been worried about potential mass production of Lucas
Than I learned about the PJDAM (JDAM-ER) with a range of 400km that has already been tested
The Lucas, PJDAM and now this ous for cheaper mass produced AD is worrying if it takes off
BIG IF
But keep an eye on it
𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺🇮🇪@SMO_VZ
🤡 DARPA is begging for a miracle: Cheap missiles, built in hours The Pentagon just realized it's fighting a war it cannot afford to win. 📊 Why? Because stopping a $50,000 Iranian drone costs a $2 million American missile. Do that 100 times, and your air defense is empty. In a rare moment of honesty, DARPA — the Pentagon's own research agency — admitted its "wonder weapon" strategy has failed. Just a few days ago, the agency put out an urgent request for companies to help revamp US air defense missile production. In particular, they’re looking for cheap rocket motors built in hours or days, not months. Their own words: motor production is a "notorious bottleneck" in missile assembly. 🏭 Instead of designing the "perfect" missile first and then figuring out how to build it, the Pentagon wants to start with the assembly line. Mass producibility comes before combat performance. What America can make fast will now decide what America can shoot. This is a quiet confession. The mighty US military-industrial complex — famous for stealth bombers and smart bombs — is utterly unprepared for a factory war. The kind where victory goes not to the side with the smarter missile, but to the one whose machines run faster and cheaper.
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@BeijingDai @OopsGuess "You never wanna bet against the United States!" at the end there is relevant.
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I largely agree with all of Mearsheimer’s arguments, but it took me about 3 years to find out the only problem of his theory, that is: he actually greatly overestimates American power—or, perhaps deliberately, ignores the reality that the United States has significantly declined. He is a white old man anyway, it is understandable he doesn't want to face that harsh reality. Instead, he discusses his geopolitics theory based on his imagined version of America that remains as powerful as ever. I would be 100% with him if that America is real.
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Chinese audiences liked Mearsheimer for one reason: he stripped away the moral costume.
He did not say the US contains China because China is evil.
He said the US contains China because China is rising.
That is ugly, but it is honest.
What changed in just 3 months is that even this cold realist framework now feels outdated.
Trump’s Iran escalation, Khamenei’s killing, the Hormuz shock, allied hesitation, domestic breakdown, and falling global approval all point to the same thing:
the problem is no longer just American hegemony.
It is American instability.
Mearsheimer explained the empire.
Reality has moved on to explaining its unraveling.
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@AustinYoshino Maybe cryptocurrencies can finally be put to good use in cases like this.
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The turbine I built for my food assurance project was based on a design from an Iranian competition team. One of the engineers, a woman, selflessly consulted with me as I constructed it. Even though I wasn't able to send her money (due to sanctions).
j. austin yoshino@AustinYoshino
Iran has one of the highest percentages of STEM graduates in the world. More than half of whom are women. The only real barrier to advancement is the illegal and crippling sanctions imposed on them.
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randomoneh ⏸️ retweeted
The B1 bridge was bombed on the nature national day when Iranians all are on picnic.. as you can see many were around the bridge
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@Evan67747893 @VizierPrime @BeijingDai After the hypothetical collapse some lunatic with nothing to lose might choose to launch nukes at someone along with thousands of decoys making sure they can't shoot them all down. Maybe even a religious lunatic who doesn't care about retribution.
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@randomoneh @VizierPrime @BeijingDai 大部分是半个世纪前的产品，无论干扰还是击落都可以尝试，小部分战术核武器无法用于大国竞争。
那么看起来美国依旧领先，但🇨🇳已经有1000枚以上核弹头了，而且一部分是热核武器。
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I advocate for China to make certain economic concessions to the United States—such as purchasing soybeans, oil, and natural gas—to help Trump stable his position in U.S. politics in the next few years.
To be honest, Trump is truly the best gift God has ever given China. It’s hard to imagine that the United States, which was still very strong in 2016, has ended up in such a state today. China should help Trump continue to play his role in the U.S in next few years.
He’s our guy—helping him is helping China.
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@ColeSlawFuel @DuBoseDefense HIS office? Why would you complain to him? You complain to authority above him.
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Speaking as a private citizen and voter, this is not normal behavior. It must be stopped. Judge Milliron uses the authority of the bench to threaten people with jail for merely doing their jobs.
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@DuBoseDefense @Jeromie_Oney Sadly he's perfect for average american voter. "He takes no nonsense!" they'd say once they learn he's republican.
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@Jeromie_Oney That’s what concerns me.
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@CarlZha Why is text on signs popping in and out all over the video?
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@ZuLang1332 @OzmunC @Kawabi9 Absolutely irrelevant what Vince Gilligan claims he intended. Results are what matters. And results are that people idolise an "underdog" drug dealer.
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American TV promotes "anti-hero" degenerates who cook meth.
Chinese TV teaches nuclear physics while showing audiences how their fore-fathers built an atom bomb.
✝️🇺🇸C Ozmun🇨🇳☭@OzmunC
By translating a TV drama about China's nuclear weapons program I'm learning way more about uranium enrichment than I ever thought possible 😂
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