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Comment · 5 years ago
One other difference between Germany and the Netherlands is that the Netherlands also has volunteers at the police. Those people often work 2 days in the week and get a small compensation for it. They are given the option to work fulltime and get paid fulltime when they do that for a few years. Next to that they must follow all the same trainingen en exercises as a normal police officers.
Comment · 5 years ago
An Example for your Example. Yes i'm one of those people who tried to keep his old electricity meter the longest time possible. I have 36 solar panels installed on my roof and the old disk meter just rotated backwards when I was not using all that electricity during the day. The new meter, that i could only delay a year or 2, is electronic and does not give me anything when I push energy to the net all day. The government in my country can give you money for that energy but that would be the raw price without any tax and the energy you use later on the day still has tax on it so that does not really help, The tax is also 80 to 90% of the price.
So I hope that gives some perspective why people may prever to keep an old system around and not be forced by a big company to change it.
Comment · 5 years ago
My bachelor study in IT / Sofware Engineering had a required communications class every semester. It was pretty useless it was all about conventions, What does a letter look like. How many words should be in a power point. Just the boring stuff. But one insight that I still remember and use nowadays is that if you find it hard to talk to people, then you should just use more conventions: Say hello more often to get yourself in a talking mood, having nothing to talk about anymore? just look around, observe something and say, hey i see ...
I do not have any book recommendations but I hope these tricks that work for my (tiny bit autistic) brain may help you.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nice tutorial. One small tip for the website maker. in the header you have the home button as <a href="index.html">Legion CPU</a> instead of <a href="/index.html">Legion CPU</a> so it gives a 404 because its appending it to the url.
Comment · 5 years ago
Based on the title the first thing that popped in my mind was https://www.aseprite.org/ there source code is freely available to anyone https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/ and if you search some more you can find how to install it at https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/blob/master/INSTALL.md But none of these links are easy to find and the installation is not that simple either. Is this way of doing things good/bad? I just do not really know how to feel about it. It's partly better then not having the option available, but, i just don't know to feel about it.
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm using an old version of codium. But thanks for the recommendation. I will check it out when I ever have to use VisualStudio again or when it gets added to vs code.
Comment · 5 years ago
A lot of IDE's and editors already support autocomplete, intellisense or something similar. I think AI generated code is never going to work but implemented as a autocomplete it can be helpful. I am using https://www.tabnine.com/ for vs code now and that works nice but its very limited The thing that i'm mostly missing are configuration for the aggression and length of the provided options.
Comment · 5 years ago
1: required health insurance: €120/month but I get 100 euro from the government so €20/month 2: a server at DigitalOcean: €5/month and domain names at TransIP €3.65/month 3: prepaid phone bill (€10 to €15)/year
In general I just don't like subscriptions. I prefer to pay only for things I use.
Comment · 5 years ago
If anyone is interested in making a Gameboy game from scratch. Tonc is basically the resource that everyone is using to do that. https://www.coranac.com/tonc/text/
Comment · 5 years ago
For chrome you have a flag chrome://flags/#enable-force-dark It makes thinks dark but for my tastes the contrast is too high so I combine it with DarkReader to smooth it out more. This flag is not perfect, QR codes are for example not readable anymore by any scanner.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/eimadp...
solo it works also great in FF https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/
When you open a new tab you may still get a white flash to prevent this you can use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whiteslash-white-b...
Comment · 5 years ago
the hand drown styles and specifically the old anime tv shows such as Pokemon always fascinated me. In the last 2 years I have been learning OpenGL and other general Graphics and I hope to do a master in that area after the summer break. In that master i would like to study how a programmers could recreate that style. If anyone has any suggestions or has links to games / resources where they try to recreate that old water color / gouache style than that would be very helpfull.
Comment · 5 years ago
I can recommend this very much. Together with https://learnopengl.com/ I learned most I know about graphics.
The same thread in 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19895218
Comment · 5 years ago
Go also has good support and Java has http://teavm.org/ and JWebAssembly. There is also the general https://wasmer.io/ for using web-assembly in any language. They claim they have good support for other languages like Python and PHP but I personally never tested that.
Comment · 5 years ago
The original source article https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/kamerleden-spra... has some interesting remarks. Because there are no video recordings its very hard to investigate this situation. The article also asks the question if it was: just an actor, a deepfake or an actor with general video altering software and that there is no way of knowing without the source material.
An other video in the personal time of the Dutch Prime minister https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/23/door-schrijver-gepublic... (disable JS for no paywall) there was a similar situation. Many people thought it was a deepfake or that the voice was altered or copied from an other video but later the government put out an statement that the video was real.
I wanted to share this because I saw multiple people claim that PGP may solve all problems but the problem is both ways. Real videos are also being labeled as deepfakes. So yes PGP will help solve a part of the problem but there is a bigger trust issue that needs to be solved.
Comment · 5 years ago
USD is the Universal Scene Description that pixar coined a few years ago. it wants to be gltf but more for exchanging files between graphics packages. The general idea is that many graphics packages do things a tiny bit different and that means every package has basically his own file format. So the idea for this format is to store anything you need to open a 3d scene and work on it in the file. So not only all the models and textures are there such as a fbx or gltf file would have, but also all the bones, animations, lights and light settings are in the file.
Because the files can become really big in the graphics world and because it one more standard on the pile of standard developers often use different names for USD. They might add the letter p in front for Pixar. but the most common is to use the USDz extension basicly the file is now a zip file just like a jar is.