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jrickert commented on Blender releases their Oscar winning version tool   blender.org/download/rele... · Posted by u/babuloseo
jrickert · 5 months ago
I’ve been using Blender for 20 years and it’s been amazing to see how far it’s come.

Sadly, the writing is on the wall for my trusty Hackintosh since they recently decided to drop support for AMD GPU acceleration on macOS.

jrickert commented on DaVinci Resolve for iPad   blackmagicdesign.com/medi... · Posted by u/dagmx
orloffm · 3 years ago
So how do you move files from cameras to external USB-C drives? By having a dock/splitter that allows to connect both at the same time?
jrickert · 3 years ago
Yeah, a USB-C hub should do it. Also some cameras record directly to USB-C drives.
jrickert commented on Ask HN: Anyone into Music Production?    · Posted by u/labarilem
jrickert · 3 years ago
Lifelong musician, originally went to school back in 2009 for media arts with an emphasis on sound engineering.

It isn't my only source of income, but I've been diligent about growing it as a business and am starting to see some payoff.

I primarily work in Ableton Live. It's not only the most inspiring DAW that I know, but it is a fantastic performance tool as well.

jrickert commented on How L.A. Got Hooked on Adderall   lamag.com/citythinkblog/a... · Posted by u/danso
krapht · 3 years ago
I don't think it was just "muh War on Drugs"

Stimulants, especially crack cocaine, caused loads of crime in the 80s. I mean, it even does today - addicts crush and snort Adderall all the time for the high.

It's the 5% of the population with addictive personalities that ruins it for everyone else.

jrickert · 3 years ago
Intriguingly, ADHD is correlated with crime as well. Some studies would estimate that it's 4-10x (or more) as prevalent in prison populations as in the general population.[1][2]

We could conclude that a lot of people are self-medicating without realizing it.

[1](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/dec/27/adhd-prisons-ment...) [2](https://adultaddstrengths.com/2011/01/12/adhd-and-crime-igno...)

jrickert commented on But down in the underground, you’ll find someone true   quidplura.com/2021/09/07/... · Posted by u/jseliger
s5300 · 4 years ago
They're currently advertising for people to buy their gospel comics to use as Halloween treats.

I think I'd rather get the fabled apple with a razorblade in it than Christian gospel in my trick or treat pail.

jrickert · 4 years ago
Growing up in the Midwest, these were a Halloween staple.
jrickert commented on Simple test reveals if your mental images are more vivid than other people's   sciencealert.com/this-sim... · Posted by u/smusamashah
postalrat · 4 years ago
Somewhat unrelated but has anyone here experience fever dreams where you are surrounded by something you can't quite comprehend and can't do anything but try to comprehend it?

It's almost like a huge maze, grid, or some other pattern but painful to look at. The dream tends to be extremely unpleasant and usually returns after falling back asleep.

I was trying to explain it to a friend the other day and didn't do a very good job.

jrickert · 4 years ago
I had episodes like this when I was younger. And had them flare up when I was taking Buspirone for anxiety as an adult. They'd last about 10-20 minutes and I always described them as "pure chaos of the internal geometric space."

Never did find any kind of label for the symptoms. I kept a journal of the episodes for a while. They seemed to come up monthly when I was around 16.

At the very least it's validating to encounter others who had had similar experiences.

jrickert commented on On Depression and Founders   startupstrats.substack.co... · Posted by u/jdbiggs
im_down_w_otp · 4 years ago
If investors offered me counseling services, I don't see how I'd feel comfortable taking them. Not because I have anything against therapy (I used to regularly see a CBTist, and still employ the techniques personally all the time), but because I would have an incredibly hard time believing in both the VCs' wherewithal to hire such a person on more than their perceived celebrity within their professional/social circle and also I'd struggle in fundamentally trusting that mine and the therapist's incentives were properly aligned.

It seems like it couldn't possibly produce a dynamic that's much different than say corporate HR. Wherein the helping hand extended to the employee is always beneath that of the one that's protecting the company.

But, maybe that's just me exposing my rank cynicism, which by some measures is a personality flaw in its own right.

jrickert · 4 years ago
That all makes a lot of sense. I wonder if those issues could be alleviated by contracting a sufficiently large outside firm to manage therapy services, thus at least creating some separation and objectivity for individual therapists.
jrickert commented on The collapse of the IRON stable coin   irony-97882.medium.com/th... · Posted by u/parsimoniousplb
sashimi-houdini · 4 years ago
I wrote Skepticoin as a serious parody of Bitcoin. Articles like these about the "state of the art" of cryptocurrency make me wonder: would a parody of a more "modern" cryptocurrency even be recognizable as such?
jrickert · 4 years ago
This brings to mind Poe's Law (that on the Internet, any sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from reality), so I would think not.
jrickert commented on Can you make a basic web app without Googling? I can’t   web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blo... · Posted by u/azhenley
jrickert · 5 years ago
When I run a technical interview for a dev role, I make a point to ask the candidate to Google their way to a solution since I figure that's probably one of the top skills they'll need on the job.
jrickert commented on Robinhood Said to Get 40% Revenue from HFT Firms Like Citadel (2018)   equities.com/news/robinho... · Posted by u/Khelavaster
silicon2401 · 5 years ago
Can one buy stocks through Vanguard?
jrickert · 5 years ago
Yes, Vanguard supports individual stocks with no trading fees.

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KarmaCake day56January 25, 2016
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