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Interesting article, but those videos aren’t. Not even pre-MTV quality.
While checking out the gallery, came across this image:
https://www.tryai.dev/gallery/d3725e9b-1df9-4c10-8a23-2fc705...
There’s something wrong with it, but I just can’t put my paw on the problem.
According to the store page, the cards were printed and bound in China. There are a lot of different card manufacturers there.
For very small runs of 1-10 decks, I've used places like makeplayingcards.com. The cards are print-on-demand quality, but far better than printing at home on cardstock. (My preferred home printing method for prototyping is to use custom labels and cheap Magic the Gathering bulk commons.)
We did a card game that was printed by Panda Game Manufacturing in China. Since we did about 5k units, they used traditional offset printing on 300gsm blackcore (similar stock to Magic the Gathering). But the minimum order quantity is 500 or 1000 units. Costs per deck were vastly cheaper than the print-on-demand decks.
There is a company in Florida called ShuffledInk that will do custom cards. I've used them for a 50 deck order. Cards were more expensive, but did save a little on shipping. It took a couple months longer than printing in China, but the print-on-demand card quality was higher.
For all of these printing methods, preparation was the same. Design the cards in Illustrator, and follow the printers directions to prepare the individual files (PDF or PNG, depending on the service). MPC has a tool that you use to upload the images and layout the deck. Panda and ShuffledInk take the PDFs or Illustrator files for layout, then send you a digital proof to approve.
It took me twice as long to read Hard Boiled as it should since I spent so much time looking at Geof Darrow’s intricately detailed art. Great story, but the illustrations are on another level.
Like T2, Jurassic Park is a blend of CGI with practical effects and animatronics. JP only had 63 CGI scenes with many more practical effects.
https://www.highbrowmagazine.com/20027-why-jurassic-park-s-s...
We live two hours from the closest Costco. We make a day of it once every 45-60 days plus shop at other stores we don’t have in our small town and see some family. We don’t have an Amazon account and maybe order something online once a month. We prefer shopping locally or waiting for Costco Day.
It would also be far cheaper to send that nuclear waste to Mars. It takes 55 times the energy to fly to the Sun than it does to go to Mars:
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-surprisingly-hard-to-g...
The T-800s HUD scene in the first Terminator used 6502 assembly from Nibble magazine.
https://www.theterminatorfans.com/the-terminator-vision-hud-...
Thanks to Wikipedia TIL Johnny Cash released a song about Sequoyah called "Talking Leaves". From the same album as the much more famous "Ballad of Ira Hayes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_Tears:_Ballads_of_the_A...
My parents are retired fire-fighters. They had an American pygmy goat named Bleve. Those goats commonly have very rotund stomachs[1] that look like they are about to explode.
[1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:American_Pygmy_G...
When I say something inappropriate on the phone or over Discord, I always tell the NSA guy listening it was a joke.
That was an excellent read for explaining why space isn’t just hard, but expensive.
I've seen Magic the Gathering fakes that are higher quality than the real cards.
The Jaguar catalog was mostly meh, but there were a few gems that I really enjoyed (Aliens vs Predator, Doom, Wolf 3d, Iron Soldier, and Tempest 2000). AvP alone was worth the price of the system.
I was a proud Turbo DUO owner. It had some fantastic multiplayer games, especially 5-player Bomberman. That got a lot of play, including tournaments at work. Dungeon Explorer is another one we played through multiple times.
I design boardgames and it's easy to write a lot of rules. It's more difficult to write concise rules. Most of my time is spent editing rules to their absolute minimum.
"I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter." - Blaise Pascal
The website has some more info on the biometric vs. password debate and legal situation:
Also Bambu the company mostly is fine, but there's some worry that they'll eventually lock people into using only their filament, but doesn't seem to have happened yet. So buyer beware.
I'm not sure how Bambu could actually do that. They use RFID tags to identify their filament type/color. I taped a tag from a used roll to some prusa filament and the printer couldn't tell the difference.
Just in case, my Bambus are LAN only and don't get updated. I use Orca Slicer instead of the Bambu slicer.
I'm reading this article and Weird Al's Don't Download this Song pops up on random play. Did Microsoft add Copilot to Media Player or something?
"Don't download this song (Don't do it, no, no) Even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong (You can just ask him)"
I don't need anything more than a simple text editor. Notepad worked fine for a long time, but the bloat is real. I tried a bunch of replacement editors, but none really scratched that Notepad itch. Surprisingly, I'm now a fan of MS Edit:
https://github.com/microsoft/edit
It's very simple and here's hoping they don't bloat this one out, too.
There's a saying in poker that if you sit down at the table and can't immediately find the donkey(1), you are the donkey. At some point, anyone playing around in a prediction without insider info will be the donkey.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_poker_terms#donkey
I had no idea such a thing existed until this post a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47631515
Very neat project and an extremely enjoyable read.
Or they were removed for other reasons than security.
In Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, we had a hidden animation of Captain Kirk's toupee jumping off his head and running out of the room. It was caught before release and they made us take it out since no one wanted to piss off William Shatner.
Yeah, my wife and I saw it earlier this week. I thought it was an excellent adaptation of a very good book. My wife, who hasn’t read the book, didn’t like it and took a nap. (I think that’s a pretty minority position for most people who have seen the movie without reading the book.)
My very first hard drive was for an Apple //gs. It was the size of a shoebox and was a whopping 5 megabytes. I was an Egghead employee at the time and after my employee discount, it was something like $600-$700.
They are very short range RFID tags that contain no personal information, just an ID number. They don’t make good tracking devices.
Some owners do use GPS trackers or AirTag like devices.
“It’s not the dog, it’s the owner.”
There is a self-selecting bias with pit bulls. People who buy and raise pit bulls often want a “mean” “tough” dog, so that’s what they get. You get a loving sweet pit bull if you raise them in a loving sweet way. Dogs are like children; they are very observant and pick up on even the tiniest of cues.
Although, like people, some dogs (of all different breeds) are born more aggressive. That can usually be corrected with training. It’s mostly nurture, and part nature.
Technology Connections did this with an EV battery charger:
Nope, an AI probably would have written a better comment. I misunderstood the link. Tinnitus has been getting worse, so this subject has literally been on my mind lately.
Oh, thank you for posting this. Just ran the Terminal command and it’s a vast improvement.