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    Boardroom Miscellaneous Thread

    I've never seen that at a single place I've ever worked. The only way to find out is to ask other employees when we're out at lunch or having drinks
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    How does a VPN/VPN Service work?

    Thanks for the helpful info
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    How does a VPN/VPN Service work?

    This is probably a very basic question. If I login to a site while browsing through a VPN, is there any way for the VPN company to get access to my login credentials? I don't think so, because that's what the encryption is for between my computer and the VPN provider, but I don't know if...
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    How often do you drop your phone?

    My partner had some sort of cheap Nokia smartphone. She has no case and drops it all the time. While it would get cracks and such, it managed to keep working. Then she dropped it into a puddle of cold, highly salty water in the salt flats in Bolivia. It promptly turned off and would not turn...
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    Ah yeah I totally agree with your points. I should have made it clearer in my previous post I was only referring to film, and not games for what is currently possible.
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    < start paragraphs with more detail than is necessary > That's not quite true, although it definitely depends on the project and/or company. Photorealistic famous actor full screen with a static camera and full dialogue, probably not. Photorealistic main or side character who moves through...
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    Jelly Jar Science

    They have the same issue but with jam jars instead of jelly
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    School lunches!

    For a 90s punk band take on this, Pizza Day was the best View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lTtzAvbIAvw We were allowed to leave the school for lunch once we hit junior year. We all piled into someone's car and went to get taco bell, burger king, or local hot dog places. Because of, well I...
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    As far as I'm aware, large destruction type things are still pre-made as a combination of 3d objects, 2d animated sprites, and GPU shaders. Then during the game, combinations of those pre-made things are played in the engine. An exception of this could be the player interacting with items...
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    Gaming thoughts, bite-size chewables - new orange flavor!

    That's not really true, at least for Unity. A vast array of game types can be written within Unity. Unity has lost a lot of focus over the years, and certainly doesn't have as good of graphics, geometry management, and other things that Unreal has. But there are lots of games made with Unity...
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    James Webb Telescope

    In the full news release there's this extra fun bit.
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    Researchers find North Korean spy apps hosted in Google Play

    It is apparently very difficult for Google to even enforce unique names on their apps. Searching "File Manager" gives multiple results with the same name. I'm aware that the one mentioned in the file shouldn't be available officially anymore. But this is another reason it can be difficult to...
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    I want to achieve financial independence, and (maybe) retire early! The FIRE thread

    Well one part of this is taxes. If you're a US citizen you have to file taxes no matter where you live in the world. Which means that you need to file taxes twice a year. Once for the US, and once for the country you're living in. That can make some things a bit annoying if the tax years...
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    Blood Typers is a terrifically tense, terror-filled typing tutor

    It's worth mentioning there's a free demo on steam that seems to give a good idea of how the game plays
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    Smoothing noisy sensor data in real time

    Would you be able to convert your Vector3s back and forth between quaternions? That should help with any gimbal lock issues. Also, are there any assumptions about the Up vector you can make? Like are your robots always horizontal and up is towards the sky? That could also help narrow down any...
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    I'm desperate: What is a Skype alternative that doesn't suck and isn't iMessage?

    I have no idea. I still have the number that I signed up for it on, I just know that once you're signed up if you change sim cards it still works. And yes, both Signal and WhatsApp have the ability to change which phone number they reference
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    RIP Gene Hackman

    If you're doing that, it's worth seeking out the Donner Cut. It's closer to what was originally intended for Superman I and II, before the studio changed director halfway through the second movie
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    I'm desperate: What is a Skype alternative that doesn't suck and isn't iMessage?

    I believe that once you sign up the first time to these services with a phone number, it doesn't matter if you no longer have that number on your phone. I have Whatsapp and Signal registered with one country's phone number. And when I go to a different country, and get a local sim, I can...
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    What happened today that you liked?

    What about writing a column for a local paper?
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    have you ever had a bagel?

    Huh, maybe it's an Australia thing then. Over here there isn't any cilantro. And everything is just called coriander