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tsturm

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Programmer, photographer and writer. Now go outside and look at the sky.

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virtualbri, to scifi
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https://youtu.be/RU1QyAYa60g

Any sci-fi trying to do something different gets my attention. Francis Ford Coppola self-financing his story for sure gets my attention.

I'm intrigued.

tsturm,
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@virtualbri That trailer looks wild. It's one of those movies that will either magically work or fail in a spectacular and extremely colorful way.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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That Blender is completely free is amazing.

tsturm,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 Yes! Itโ€™s such an amazing tool. And it has an incredible amount of featuresโ€ฆ I find new things it can do even after years of using it..

lauren, to random
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I think today's a good day to watch "Goldfinger" again. Of course, any day is a good day to watch Goldfinger again.

tsturm,
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@lauren Itโ€™s a true classic, ageless and at the same time aged like a fine wine.

tsturm,
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@lauren Gert Froebe was so good as the villain. He really gave us a prototype for all future movie villains.

djsundog, to random
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what's your favorite weird, non-conventional, absurd, sketchy, or otherwise interesting group of folks you ended up involved with, and what makes it your favorite?

tsturm,
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@djsundog The FidoNet community of the early 1990s. We had a fully community-funded global network over phone lines with world-wide and regional discussion groups. I ended up being one of the moderators of one of these global groups and it was exhilarating to exchange messages with people from around the world within 48-72 hours.

It was actually a very similar feeling to hanging out on Mastodon, but 35 years ago. ๐Ÿ˜Š

benjancewicz, to random
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More Cybertrucks for sale daily and they are not selling.

tsturm,
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@benjancewicz LOL

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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If you had never seen a camera before and had no idea of the concept what would you call a camera lens?

tsturm,
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@MattMerk @Adam_Cadmon1 Or, if one assumes a pre-telescopic society stumbling over a time traveler with a camera, they might call it an eye.

tsturm, to random
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The desktop wallpapers provided in OSX were too low-energy for me today... and then I realized I can make some in Blender. Not sure why I never thought of this before...

Here, in case someone else needs fresh wallpaper. ๐Ÿ˜Š

FlockOfCats, to random
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Second poop of the day. Always underpromise and overdeliver!

tsturm,
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@FlockOfCats ๐Ÿ˜

davidaugust, to random
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If I wanted to buy TikTok, how many supreme court justices do you think it would cost me?

Like if I bought the justices who have been bought from their current owners, could I then trade them for a controlling interest in TikTok?

Congress would be ok with it, because congress doesnโ€™t care who owns justices.

tsturm,
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@davidaugust Supreme Court Justices are actually surprisingly affordable, some of them can be had for the price of a large RV and a few flight tickets. They are very collectible though, so current owners might hesitate to sell, no matter what the offer.

tsturm, to random
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I mean, who among us hasn't met Kim Jong Un?

ifixcoinops, to random
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Damn I love trash night

tsturm,
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@ifixcoinops Oh wow - nice catch. That looks like a perfectly fine bike.

ramsey, to random
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Whatโ€™s up with 19.2 fl oz beer cans? I mean, I like the size, but itโ€™s not an even amount of anything. It equates to 567.81 ml.

Yes, I know American units are wonky, but sometimes theyโ€™re weird because they actually equal to an even metric number. For example, they sell 16.9 fl oz water bottles because thatโ€™s a half liter.

So, what gives on the 19.2 fl oz / 567.81 ml measurement for these tall cans?

tsturm,
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@ramsey It probably is an even divider to a football field.

cstross, to random
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Welp, looks like the next global pandemic just dropped: https://www.etvbharat.com/en/!state/jharkhand-two-doctors-six-others-quarantined-amid-bird-flu-outbreak-in-ranchi-enn24042801155

tsturm,
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@angusm @cstross That article also shows in rather careful undertones that nobody in charge wants to mass-test the herds. Better not upset the agribusiness donors. What a giant shitshow only four years after Covid. Weโ€™ve learned nothing.

tsturm,
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@simon_brooke @angusm @cstross The lets-not-test issue is - predictably - happening with the giant agro-businesses in the US. Pretty sure that farmers in the UK and the EU are testing, at least for the basics.

tsturm, to random
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This is pretty cool: Astroscale's first spacecraft has approached a abandoned rocket stage in a 600km orbit for testing of de-orbit operations in the future. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68903801

tsturm, to random
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Well, this doesnโ€™t sound great. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/opinion/bird-flu-cow-outbreak.html

joesteel, to random
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(Walks into the sea)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/why-you-cant-get-a-restaurant-reservation

tsturm,
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@joesteel Whatever place this app recommends I don't want to be seen in.

elizabethtasker, to random
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From worlds where stars do not twinkle, to lands where you must outrun the sun-rise to survive, "Alien Earths" by Lisa Kaltenegger is packed with truly delicious visuals of what we might find on the surface of an exoplanet.

Kaltenegger gives a personal account of what it's like working at the cutting edge of uncovering the nature of these alien worlds, with many amusing anecdotes such the perils of interdisciplinary work!

My book review is here in Science Magazine ๐Ÿ”—! https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ado1465

Computer graphics visualisation of a planet seemingly made of glass. The text is an anecdote from "Alien Earths", saying: "When geologists talk about glass, they mean a cooled magma. When astronomers talk about glass, we mean the see-through material that comprises the vessels we pour liquid into. When I called it a 'Cinderella glass-slipper planet' the geologists understood what the astronomers were thinking. A lot of teasing ensued."

tsturm,
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@elizabethtasker Nice video for a great quote!

tsturm, to random
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Got a new Mac and it's quite a difference to the previous machine.

This Blender scene renders in 246 seconds on a high-spec Intel i7 MacBook from 2020 and the new M3Pro Macbook finishes the exact same file in 36 seconds.

Almost 7 times faster than a Mac from 4 years ago. ๐Ÿ˜ฒ

cc @elizabethtasker

tsturm,
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@santiago @elizabethtasker From what I remember reading a while ago, Apple is now donating engineering time to Blender, so the Mx GPU drivers come from Apple.

I have no other comparison, but from what I saw today, Blender goes like a rocket on the M3 Pro.

elizabethtasker, to random
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So I'm in work on a Saturday because I wanted to create a graphic of a glass planet.

(Please blithely accept this to get to the punch line of this tale.)

The reflections with Blender Cycles were squishing my home computers flat, so I went in to try my new work Mac Studio.

And may I just say...

SWEEEEEEET.

GPU-intensive work usually shouts "windows machine" but the Studio is crushing it. It's a pity it won't do PCVR.

A second view of the glass planet, with the star around the other side (and out of view).

tsturm,
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@elizabethtasker I saw your post literally while shopping for a M3 Pro MacBookโ€ฆ canโ€™t wait to try Blender on it!!!

My old Mac is still Intel-based, so way overdue for an updateโ€ฆ ๐Ÿ˜…

dan, to random
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We did it. We fixed the Oscars. You're welcome.
https://mastodon.social/@defocused/112300487201895056

tsturm,
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@dan @joesteel Would love to hear your opinions about Godzilla-1.0 - enjoyed your discussion on The Creator in the previous podcast and was surprised it didn't win at the Oscars. For me, Godzilla is the better movie of the two, but The Creator was much more SFX heavy.

It seems Godzilla won because of how much was done with a very small budget in some sort of industry vote against the way SFX is (mis-)used/valued in Hollywood.

lmc, to random
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They're making announcements at Jack London Amtrak station that there's a system wide delay (I don't think ๐Ÿคž my train is affected) that because of a stuck drawbridge, wondering where that would be. also this is the closest I've ever been to missing a train (other than the time we missed our stop and were carry-bys).

#Amtrak #CoastStarlight #Tรฅgskryt

tsturm,
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@burritojustice @jef @lmc I once spent an afternoon watching Don Johnson standing on the roof of a cable car in North Beach going through a Nash Bridges scene over and over.

Looked totally realistic to me.

spaceflight, to Astronomy
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๐Ÿ”ญ is likely to be the fifth largest ๐Ÿ“ ๐Ÿช in the ๐ŸŒŒ https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nine-planet-solar-system-b2500389.html

tsturm,
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@spaceflight @nyrath Iโ€™m pretty confident that weโ€™ll be messing this planet up to a point where even in a few million years itโ€™s obvious weโ€™ve been here.

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