The thing is, you can now find good all year grown tomatoes in shops, just not in Croatian shops unfortunately. (speaking as a Croatian living in Denmark)
In Denmark, even Lidl now has premium tomatoes that have good taste and smell. They are "pricy", so they are on average x3 the default tasteless, unripe ones.
Considering they are properly ripe, part of the price is certainly just to cover much greater waste due to them going bad or getting bruised.
Can anyone knowledgeable comment on if farming insects, like grasshoppers that are apparently very efficient in turning feed to protein, will become a viable alternative for salmon and tuna farms?
There is a boom in this field in recent years, specifically for laser texturing using femtosecond lasers. What were 10 years back laboratory lasers are now being put on standard CNC machine gantrys.
Unfortunately, what I see lacking in high end laser CNC machine market is software and no separation between CAM programming and execution that exists for milling machines. There is no equivalent to G-code that can be generated on w/e software and then run on different machine. There are cases where this is impossible as due to the way it's done, it would quickly overload even large RAM memory capacities.
I grew up with a father who is/was an owner and director of a company that produces manufacturing printing rollers (gravure printing), mostly for packaging industry. He always competed against others on quality and flexibility as he couldn't on size, so having the best kit was important. The technology, even though the product is a discardable piece of packaging, is on NASA/CPU manufacturing level.
Even though, I myself was never involved directly in it, nor am I today, I know from him there were several trends:
1) Printing companies in Europe and elsewhere got bigger. What use to be 10 printing companies, now it's 1.
2) Equipment manufacturers for that industry got bigger. What use to be 4,5 equipment manufacturers in EU/USA, now there is one.
3) Lasers. Lasers got to a level where they can compete and surpass mechanical removal on quality and speed. This is true also for industry I'm in.
There is nothing wrong with 2 datums, the issue is that during machining this is not "a part" but an assembly that moves.
There are so many failings from my POV in the manufacturing process and verification of the part, which is summarized nicely by the following quote:
. Furthermore, initial inspections at the start of the production run were supposed to verify that the manufacturing process was creating products that satisfied the “design intent,” but the initial products were checked against the manufacturing drawings, not the design drawings.
I think we strayed away from my original comment and criticism, which was more aimed at lack of uniqueness of the games on the list, as judged from the trailers, than the quality. Additionally I'd like to point out that I read descriptions of every game on the list besides watching a trailer.
Of course, here I'm opening myself for a valid criticism which might be constructed as "even if a game uses elements of previously told stories and settings, it might do a different spin or do it on a such a new level of excellence (story wise) that it becomes incomparable with previous attempts".
You could also point out that trailer can be manipulated in such a way by a talented director, that would make the game appear new and unique.
The trailer is a deliberate choice of the authors on what content to put in order to sell the game and present "the idea of the game". Not only that, but a lot of trailers are in form of a presentation with audio or text (more common) by the authors, where they deliberately emphasize what they think are strong points of the game. So in fact trailers, even very short ones, can tell a lot more than it's immediately obvious.
Exactly. That game has raised by expectation on what a game could be in this day and age. This is coming from a huge fan of Fallout I,II, NV, Planescape Torment, old adventure games ect.
I just went over a list of "upcoming RPGs 2024". For my POV, all of them look the same and this is without dismissing the quality of graphics, gameplay possibilities, art ect. It might because I'm a gamer who puts a lot (too much) emphasis on story and how unique it is. I miss games being more "punk", having humor, being serious, being less serious, angering moms without being perverse...
Try a combination of taking screenshots and GPT4 image input. You would be surprised how good it is in analyzing part even without prompting. This is one of the things I'm investigating if it makes sense putting effort in. Just basic company process/rules following (for our own internal products).
Anything else, we are talking about computational design + AI for interpretability.
I haven't checked all the examples in the link posted, but I know AutodeskAI Lab has some seriously impressive papers out. (code too)
Questions to the author whom I see is reading the comments:
- What is the plastic used for the part (ABS, PC)?
- What was the material for core/cavity (tool steel)?
- What was the lowest tolerance on the part?
- Were US/EU manufacturers considered at all?
Points to high value in making your kids work a bad retail job in high school to build some character & experience this first hand early.
It also points that banning access to social networks is a right call until kids get to a (mental/educational) stage where they can judge these things in a similar manner.
Well put. I think the 5% is a combo of "low IQ psychopaths", narcissist and just assholes ("bad people"). The word insane IMO points perhaps to much to inability for rational judgment, while a certain % of 5% is very much aware of their impact. The most dangerous among the bunch are obviously high IQ psychopaths...
I feel as though you're taking a rather naive view of the situation. Currently Croatia isn't claiming the land as their own because it's part of a larger dispute, and if they do lay claim to it, they lose a larger chunk of more important land to Serbia.
You are right, I was being purposely naive in order to show the narrowness of thinking.
The "gray area" of the law could have worked in this case for both side. Croatia government didn't have to do anything besides close one eye, which they do ALL THE TIME, for people "who know the right people".
Feel free to google search the term "ilegalna gradnja" with Croatian location, to get a feeling of scale of it and how little a settlement like the one that was demolished really matters. There are too many of illegal settlements, usually in form of houses and luxury villas, that haven't been demolished for years, even even local governments pleaded to have them destroyed.
To be crystal clear, I didn't suggest giving land to anyone, just make an exception that is made constantly for the "right people".
Idiotic decision by Croatia, here I'm talking both as a Croatian, as well as someone supporting this kind of "liberal" experiments. Instead of seeing this as a fun experiment that wouldn't cost Croatian tax payer anything, the most politically controlled nepotistic organization full of "uhljeb's", Hrvatske sume, decided to act this way (under direction).
If Croatian government was smart, they could have tried reaching some deal proclaiming "Liberland" as a free zone, under protection of Croatians army until UN recognition is made (probably never). The potential touristic revenue to local areas could have been used to justify it to Croatian people.
Sad...
The fact smells, bad or good, act as strong triggers of memory should be indicative that this area is worth exploring in relation to dementia.
For me texture works to some extent in a similar fashion. I can remember the feeling of textures of different items that I haven't touched since I was a child and the act of trying to make myself remember the feeling of touching them, brings memory back in a different that is more "vivid" than just thinking about their shape (color).