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  1. Re:There's already a program for that... on DeepMind Self-training Computer Creates 3D Model From 2D Snapshots (ft.com) · · Score: 1

    I was surprised, because I'd read that it was difficult. Specifically it was about creating a bump map from a photo of things like those decorative carved panels you sometimes see on buildings.

    It's something humans can do quite easily.

  2. Fucking millsters and hipennials on Adobe is Reviving the Stunning Lost Fonts of the Bauhaus (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if you're not a designer, you've probably heard the phrase "form follows function."

    You're more likely to have heard it if you're not a designer.

    If you said it to the Gnome group they'd all be like "Uh ... what's function?"

  3. So how much do South Africans pay for New Yorkers?

  4. Ride sharing is nothing to do with whether it's part- or full time.

    It's a ride share if the driver was going there anyway.

  5. Re: What about pet waste? on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    We don't have a waste bin in our apartment; there are communal ones - roughly beer keg sized - in the basement. We used to use the plastic bags that brought the shopping home to transport the garbage down to them. It's nice. There's a sort of symmetry to it. Now, we have to buy new bags made of new materials for that.

    Now we could buy a medium sized bin, and use it with no liner (because that's another sodding bag, and it'd just be duplicating the council approved ones in the downstairs bins that you have to use or they just leave it there and/or fine you), but then we'd have to scald/bleach the fucker out at least once a week in winter and once a day in summer which is polluting and using resources too.

    I don't see the saving for the environment, at least if you're not a twat who throws them away in the street.

    I think the greenest thing to do is just die. And some ratbastard would probably complain if you did that.

  6. Re:Billion oddities. on Chile Becomes First Country In Americas To Ban Plastic Bags (ewn.co.za) · · Score: 1

    it's not as bad as detractors would have it

    I'm a detractor and I say that it's like Latin with the grammar tooked out.

    Are you saying it isn't?

  7. Re:Amazon on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. people don't just want to own a house, they want to own the last house.

  8. Re:This is lies from Trump on Seattle Repeals Tax That Upset Amazon (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    If supply is high enough then demand falls

    No it doesn't. That's absolute fucking rubbish.

  9. Re:What else would one do? on The End of Video Coding? (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Seconded. Let them fuck about with it in the lab all they like.

    There's already more than enough half-assed ones (or rather, ones with half-assed player support) out in the wild.

  10. Re:It has no intrinsic value on Bitcoin's Price Was Artificially Inflated Last Year, Researchers Say (nytimes.com) · · Score: 2

    *froth froth* fiat currency *froth froth* inflation *froth froth* tax *froth froth* Venezuela *froth froth*.

    (roman_mir is temporarily indisposed)

  11. Shocked, shocked is anyone?

  12. Is English considered to be the pivot language, or do all of these models product the same intermediate representation?

    Pragmatically speaking it's a good choice, since from the users' POV to & from English would be priorities anyway.

    Technically I'd say it's appalling. Irregular, words with multiple meanings, phrasal bloody verbs and did I mention it's irregular?

  13. Re:I forget who on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Back in 1903:

    somebody made a good point about this switch to them there new-fangled autermobeel doohickeys: it's going to crash the economy. [...] We've got massive amounts of investment wealth tied up in hoss breedin' & blacksmithery.

  14. Re:So you say the rate of installation has slowed. on Solar Has Overtaken Gas, Wind As Biggest Source of New US Power (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Not even close. I think it's going to double in about 7 Billion years or so.

  15. As for Republicans, they are roughly a non-religious version of European Christian democrats.

    I award you zero points, etc.

  16. And you describe anything you don't like as socialist.

    What's your opinion on broccoli?

  17. Re:New Model Army were right on Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Read the subject line, you fat cunt.

    I doubt they got played much over there, since they straddle about three genres which would confuse the fuck out of the tiny-minded shitcocks who assemble the playlists.

  18. Re:Simple solution: "law and order" on Chinese City Gets 'Smartphone Zombie' Walkway (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I suspect the article is using the British meaning of pavement, which is the exact opposite of yours.

  19. Nietzsche says on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    Nietzsche says that if they do, agile should abandon them.

  20. Re:One problem: no normative definition of "Agile" on Should Developers Abandon Agile? (ronjeffries.com) · · Score: 1

    LOL, I nearly put that about having it in two formats, but I thought I'd keep it short.

    Nobody had asked the guys on the loading dock what they wanted. You know why? Because it's bloody cold out there, that's why.

    My example was roughly based on a true story, before tablets were even a thing, and in a place not famous for its pleasant climate. I wasn't in-house, but I'm pretty good at imagining what I would want if I was doing the job.

  21. Re:Why is /. reporting on this idiocy? on The One-Name Email, a Silicon Valley Status Symbol, Is Wreaking Havoc (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    They dropped the "news for nerds" slogan a few years back. Were you away on hajj?

  22. Re:The ultimate in Nerd Idocy on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    What you need is someone who can steer a power-mad and basically unbalanced person into doing something you want them to do, to point out how it's really in their best interests also.

    Slight correction: you need two of them.

  23. Re:Yes there are specific examples on In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    They have warheads. They have missiles. So they can deliver the warheads with the missiles?

    There's a bit more to it than nipping down to B+Q and getting a blister pack of bolts.

  24. New Model Army were right on Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Even though the government already curtails freedom of expression, the ECHR limits how far they can go. Once it's gone they will be unrestrained.

    Don't worry, the first amendment covers that.

  25. Socialism was quite popular at the time. The word was added by the marketing department. These days, they'd be the blockchain party.

    In other news, Greenland is actually mostly white.