this program was great. I referred one person (the maintainer of an open source music player for OS X that I contributed an interface redesign to) back in the early or mid 00s and they've been paying me for it ever since.
unlike OP though, I had set up those rewards to cash out automatically. so once a year $35 would appear in my PayPal account and an indie dev or content creator would earn a sale.
I have Firefox set up to always ask for permission to play DRM protected content. This happens way more often than I ever expected. it seems that a lot of video ads have DRM. maybe that's what you're running into?
not sure why it should be surprising that an artillery-heavy force in the middle of an artillery-heavy war is producing more shells than air and naval focused forces that aren't in the middle of a land war.
You should have led with your shocking stuff. My thoughts are the same as the parent's - none of this is shocking or unexpected. Everything in the article conforms to basic expectations of Russian doctrine, for all the good it has done them winning wars the past 70 years.
When are you writing a socioeconomic addendum with the conscription estimates?
Or does that damage your "materiel is strength" narrative somewhat? It must be hard to argue that Russia has enough drones to flatten Dnipro when they can't find enough warm bodies and BMPs to occupy Pokrovsk. You'd think that Russia's "total victory" would include fewer bombed refineries and burnt Tu-95s if their military-industrial complex is firing on all cylinders, no?
Systems admin for live events. think the Olympics, F1, PGA, etc. A lot of these have centralized information (stats, analysis, A/V, etc) distribution that journalists, teams, and sponsors rely on, plus all the timing and scoring systems.
I was curious about this too so I dug into it a bit. it seems that the point placement has to be optimized to ensure they have roughly even spacing while still being randomly placed.
the naive algorithm is O(n^2) where n is the number of pixels in an image. tiling and sampling pregenerated noise is O(n), so that's what most people use. the noise can be generated on the fly using a FFT-based algorithm, though it still needs to be applied iteratively so you'd typically end up with O(k n log n) s.t. 10 <= k <= 100.
this has been neat stuff to read up on. my favorite nugget of learning: blue noise is white noise that's fine through a high pass filter a few times. the result of a high pass filter is the same as subtracting the result of a low pass filter from the original signal. blurring is a low pass filter for images. since blue noise is high frequency information, blurring a noised up image effectively removes the blue noise. so the result looks like a blurred version of the original even though it contains a fraction of the original's information.
Whoever thought "Transcendent Mobility" was a good name for what's nothing more than a consumerized version of the standard ride app ebike design needs to get out of their bubble more often.
There are some good ideas here, like the removable battery that doubles as a usb-c power bank, but making it all depend on a phone app is such a massive turn off for me. Considering this thing's price tag and on-board compute, the decision to not include a key fob for offline/phoneless use had to be 100% intentional.
At least when Fiskar went under and took their cloud environment offline, the vehicles could still be unlocked and operated independently. This thing will be nothing more than an expensive brick on locked wheels.
unlike OP though, I had set up those rewards to cash out automatically. so once a year $35 would appear in my PayPal account and an indie dev or content creator would earn a sale.
best pyramid scheme ever.
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