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halfdaft

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    Comment #48967018

    Same - I make most of my living from Blender and I occassionally use 1 or 2 paid add-ons. With the recent improvements to the compositor and the editor, it has even replaced the la…

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    Comment #48192696

    For anyone that wants actually seamless switching of video and data, look to professional AV switchers and KVM. This Lindy 5x2 HDMI + USB KVM is the business [1]. I use one because…

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    Comment #47051044

    Had great fun with this today, thanks! Makes me think I'd love a compact hackable point'n'click glitch camera that you can load with glitch patches. Like a lomo and a guitar pedal …

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    Comment #46316622

    this on an e-reader would be lovely. perhaps limiting the adding / removal of the source list to once a week or month would add another layer of purposefulness to it. want!

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    Comment #46120321

    Hi HN, I recently launched this poster design and customisation project. It's built entirely from home with just my wife and I working on it. The idea came from us realising our of…

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    Comment #46087841

    Will definitely be using this - thanks!

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    Comment #45530528

    congratulations on the work so far - looks interesting, will try it out. reminds me of Microsoft’s Courier tablet [0] concept from 2009, which I was naively obsessed with for a whi…

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    Comment #44504802

    SideFX, makers of VFX software Houdini https://www.sidefx.com/ And Derivative, makers of video & interactive software Touch Designer https://derivative.ca/ (Both packages have a sh…

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    Comment #43967268

    It is! - except it's to hide the fly tower from the outside. The fly tower wasn't part of the original design. The first resident theatre company to be - the Royal Shakespeare comp…

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    Comment #41418190

    how about some riff on mark down / fill in. Maybe that's more of a tagline

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    Comment #40832625

    just a thought on B - being an island in Europe, it’s common for people in Ireland to refer to the rest of Europe as ‘the continent’. It feels like Irish people see ourselves as de…

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    Comment #38858679

    I had guessed it might be something like this, and that of course you'd have wanted this! Will definitely use this lots, thanks again

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    Comment #38857910

    This is the best version of this kind of thing, thanks! I like how a sound fades in over a second or two when you enable it, it might be nice if it also faded out when you disable …

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    Comment #34600393

    Series of short essays by artist David O'Reilly on plagiarism in light of recent developments in AI/ML image generation.

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    Comment #32837737

    One of the few closed-source applications I can't do without. They have a very fair pricing model that's designed with their user base in mind. Live productions are seasonal and / …

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    Comment #32642052

    lovely idea

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    Comment #32590947

    Since the free app is fully featured, I see the $8 as the paid version, as opposed to just for sync. But I think they're doing themselves a disservice listing it like this. I use S…

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    Comment #32112368

    This could have been done without software. Steam trains were speed limited. Imposing limits on machines so that they are safe seems very wise.

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    Comment #31992347

    Does exactly what I needed. Found this after rummaging around for an external drive one time too many. After pluggin / unplugging six drives, I realised I had moved what I was look…

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    Comment #31975260

    Apologies in advance if this is super obvious! I've tried apps to free up storage but now I just do two things: every so often, especially after completing a large project, I delet…