It’s a shame they aren’t more involved in the game because they’re so technically compelling.Įven if you’re full on arrows though, the game still peppers its pathways with little collectibles to find for those who are looking more closely at the world around them, as well as hidden targets for you to shoot (which I appreciate because this gives players another good reason to take in the environment at large). Although there’s unfortunately minimal character development and intrigue, the characters themselves are impressively rendered across the board, from the way they look to the way they move to the way they sound. While Call of the Mountain is a linear adventure, you’ll return to a hub area between missions where you’ll get to talk to the game’s small cast of characters. That’s compounded by the fact that the game provides the player with more than enough resources to usually have their special arrows maxed out-which further meant that actually finding those resources didn’t feel very exciting. That’s especially strange considering the game allows you to craft several different arrow types (like fire and ice), but all of them essentially just felt like extra damage rather than a strategic choice. For the most part you just need to keep lobbing arrows down range. While it’s definitely fun to fight the fascinating machine creatures from the world of Horizon-thanks to their excellent looks and sounds-combat never felt particularly strategic to me. While I applaud the developers for building a unique and thoughtful combat system that’s specific to VR (and impressively comfortable, I should add), it could use a bit more refinement to really shine. Granted, I found it difficult to read and time the enemies’ melee attacks, and I didn’t feel like the ‘dodge’ mechanic (where you swing both your controllers to one side to do a quick strafe) worked particularly well. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing climbing in Call of the Mountain is well executed and creates perfect situations to showcase the game’s stunning environmental art. While it’s obvious from the name that climbing would be part of the experience, I can’t say I realized that it would make up about 50-60% of the gameplay. The first thing you should know about Horizon Call of the Mountain is that at its core, it’s a VR climbing game. Rest assured, the world of Horizon Call of the Mountain is quite vibrant! Publisher: Sony Interactive EntertainmentĮditor’s Note: The clips in this review that were captured from PSVR 2 do not look correctly saturated due to incorrect HDR downmixing on our part. Does the title succeed? Read on to find out. With Horizon Call of the Mountain, Sony is hoping to have an exclusive big-budget VR game to entice players to the new PSVR 2.
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To start, is Pale Moon's automatic update service. Naturally, I did my best to dig deeper and figure out more information about them. a lot of queries for just a first launch. Some of these queries were made multiple times each. These were captured by the Sysmon tool on my Windows machine:Īdditionally, after allowing Pale Moon to idle for approximately 10 minutes, it also made these queries: On this initial start of Pale Moon, it also initiated quite a series of DNS queries. I launched the browser immediately post-install, where two tabs greeted me: I chose the Standard installation method:Įverything went smooth and quick. Installing Pale Moon on my Windows 10 machine was simple and easy. NOTE: For this Pale Moon review, I am using Windows 10. These requirements differ slightly across different operating systems: There are minimum system requirements for running this browser. It can run from an extracted tarball, much like an appimage. What's more is that Pale Moon need not be formally "installed" to run on Linux systems. It also features a portable version (not to be confused with a mobile version - there is no mobile support for Pale Moon as of writing) that can be run from removable media such as a USB stick. Pale Moon is available on Windows and most Linux platforms. It seems that Pale Moon's independence, customizability, and a belief in its UXP platform remain its main draws. Pale Moon forked from Firefox as early as Firefox 1.5.x, however it took years for it to grow and mature to the project it is currently. (But that's probably where the similarities end!) Pale Moon is an older fork than Waterfox and has completely moved in a different direction than other Firefox forks it currently uses its own engine, Goanna and its own platform, UXP. Somewhat similar to the Waterfox browser, Pale Moon has very humble beginnings. Truthfully, you can say that Pale Moon is its own independent product, completely separated from Mozilla Firefox despite its origin. Moving on, let's establish that Pale Moon is a hard fork of pre-Australis Firefox. Pale Moon is a very interesting browser with a very long history.īut first, I should clarify: Pale Moon is not just another "outdated and insecure Firefox fork." Sources that claim this about Pale Moon are probably, at least for the most part, misinformed. No Mobile or dedicated macOS support (may be a con for some users).Excludes support for some common modern browser features ( ) More info.Not compatible with either Firefox or Chromium extensions.Failing that I would just stick with Firefox which will be supported for another couple of years on both operating systems. I then opened my favourite browser to use on older computers, Opera (browser with an interface very similar to Google Chrome, despite Google Chrome not being supported on either Windows XP, or Vista – my operating system on this computer that I’m typing this out on), and because I had copied the link on YouTube I pasted it, loaded the page and by default the browser had set itself to 720P and began playing the same video issue free.Ĭurrently, that’s about as far as my experience with Pale Moon goes, and in my personal opinion I would have to recommend Opera if you want a fast and secure web browser to use on an older computer. Running Pale Moon I selected “720P” for the quality (by default it had set itself to 480P) and the videos just froze, and were constantly freezing and buffering. I then tried to play a YouTube video on both Firefox and Chrome I can easily play 480P videos and 720P as long as the video is at the standard 30FPS, rather than 60FPS. I thought that was odd because that’s never happened to me when I’ve been using any other browser, and gave it the benefit of the doubt. I also liked the interface of the browser once it launched, however, I noticed that neither version was particularly fast when I was navigating the web, and the x86 version (now the most up to date version because the Atom/XP version of the program is an older version) actually crashed, and froze while loading YouTube. Both versions installed perfectly fine, as expected. I recently downloaded and installed both the x86 version, and XP/Atom version (specifically designed to run on low-powered processors) of Pale Moon after having the browser recommended to me because of its supposedly low CPU-usage – this appealed to me because I am using an older dual-core machine. I’m pretty sure you can see the problem right away. (There may have been a better workaround for this but this worked so I stuck with it.) In order to get it to override the existing sed command on my machine I needed to point directly to it in my PATH which meant adding export PATH="/usr/local/opt/gnu-sed/libexec/gnubin:$PATH" to my. I had been using gnu-sed, installed with brew. zshrc file over from my Intel Mac onto my M1. The first problem I ran into came after pulling my old. They are pretty specific to my set up, but hopefully a quick description of each one will help you track down similar issues if you encounter them. I encountered a couple issues with this new installation, both related to the fact that Homebrew had moved from /usr/local/bin. After that I recommend going over any config files or profile files you have that might contain any references to Homebrew or Homebrew packages you have installed. This may take a while if you have a lot of packages so probably best to have an actual beer nearby. You can tell brew to install everything with brew bundle install -file /path/to/Brewfile. Once this is done, you’ll need to copy over your Brewfile from your Intel Mac. Most importantly, it adds /opt/homebrew/bin to your path: export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:/opt/homebrew/sbin$". It creates a series of environment variables, including HOMEBREW_CELLAR="/opt/homebrew/Cellar" and HOMEBREW_REPOSITORY="/opt/homebrew" and several others. Now this command will run each time you start a new shell instance. The easiest way to do that is to follow the instructions Homebrew spits out after installation.Īdd eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' to your. This new location is not part of your default PATH, so you’ll need to add it. Remember, Homebrew is now going to install packages in /op/homebrew/bin. = > Next steps: - Run these two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to your PATH: echo 'eval "$(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)"' > /Users/joshalletto/.zprofile eval " $( /opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv ) " - Run brew help to get started - Further documentation: Here’s part of mine to give you an idea of what it looks like. This will create a Brewfile, which is just a list of all packages that have been installed with brew. Th first thing you’ll want to do is run brew bundle dump on your Intel Mac. No need to worry though, reinstalling everything on M1 is easy, it just may take a bit of time. But if you’re trying to migrate from an Intel Mac you won’t be able to just move packages that were once in /usr/local over to /opt/homebrew. If you’re coming to M1 Mac fresh, without any old projects or profiles, you probably won’t notice Homebrew will work as it always has. So in the long run this is a positive change, but not without a few growing pains along the way.
Make sure the required dependencies are met and follow the instructions available for: Reorder elements in the UI from settings screen.Eased resolution restriction: generated image's dimension must be a multiple of 8 rather than 64. Alt-Diffusion support - see wiki for instructions.Stable Diffusion 2.0 support - see wiki for instructions.via extension: Aesthetic Gradients, a way to generate images with a specific aesthetic by using clip images embeds (implementation of ).Support for dedicated inpainting model by RunwayML.Estimated completion time in progress bar.Can select to load a different VAE from settings screen.A separate UI where you can choose, with preview, which embeddings, hypernetworks or Loras to add to your prompt.Loras (same as Hypernetworks but more pretty).Preprocessing images: cropping, mirroring, autotagging using BLIP or deepdanbooru (for anime). via extension: History tab: view, direct and delete images conveniently within the UI.xformers, major speed increase for select cards: (add -xformers to commandline args).DeepDanbooru integration, creates danbooru style tags for anime prompts.No token limit for prompts (original stable diffusion lets you use up to 75 tokens).also supports weights for prompts: a cat :1.2 AND a dog AND a penguin :2.2.Composable-Diffusion, a way to use multiple prompts at once.Custom scripts with many extensions from community.Checkpoint Merger, a tab that allows you to merge up to 3 checkpoints into one.Highres Fix, a convenience option to produce high resolution pictures in one click without usual distortions.Img2img Alternative, reverse Euler method of cross attention control.Batch Processing, process a group of files using img2img.Prompt Editing, a way to change prompt mid-generation, say to start making a watermelon and switch to anime girl midway.CLIP interrogator, a button that tries to guess prompt from an image.Seed resizing, a way to generate same image but at slightly different resolution.Variations, a way to generate same image but with tiny differences.Styles, a way to save part of prompt and easily apply them via dropdown later.Negative prompt, an extra text field that allows you to list what you don't want to see in generated image.Can use a separate neural network to produce previews with almost none VRAM or compute requirement.
With a wealth of powerful tools and versions for Mac, Windows and even Chromebook, CyberLink’s PowerDirector 365 is definitely a top choice for enthusiasts and budding professionals. Thanks to all this, it’s definitely one of the best video editing software options if speed of rendering is a priority. CyberLink have done a great job of boosting performance via 64-bit optimizations, graphics hardware acceleration, OpenCL support, and a proprietary rendering technology known as intelligent SVRT (Smart Video Rendering Technology). One area it does excel in is performance. The color correction tools included in PowerDirector 365 are expansive, though not up to the level of Adobe’s. There’s also a huge library of ready-made transitions and visual effects that are simple to apply – this is also the case with PhotoDirector, Cyberlink’s software for photographers that is equally impressive on the effects front. With PowerDirector, you can take advantage of the millions of royalty-free assets available from both Getty iStock and ShutterStock, including videos, images and audio tracks to spruce up your videos. PowerDirector 365 is another great video editing software if you want incredible flexibility and professional results, while still retaining a high degree of consumer-friendliness. Subscriptions aren’t popular with consumers for obvious reasons, but they do usually help fund more regular (and larger) updates throughout the year than standalone software purchases. The first and most obvious similarity is the pricing structure: a yearly or monthly subscription model gives you access to both the software itself and a slew of regular updates and added features. In many ways, PowerDirector 365 comes close to – and even rivals – Adobe Premiere Pro. With support for both Windows and Mac on desktop and mobile, Premiere Pro suits everyone from social media content creators to feature film editors. You’ll probably use all the other Adobe apps and graphic design software eventually, too. Still, if you regularly edit videos, it’s not hard to justify the cost. Of course, this level of software comes at a cost, and if you don’t already have the All-Apps Creative Cloud plan, you’ll either have to get one or pay a monthly subscription for the stand-alone version of Premiere Pro. So, if you’re a Creative Cloud user, it’ll fit right into your editing workflow. The latest updates to the Premiere Pro include some extra-neat features like intelligent reframing, automatic captioning, video upscaling, AI-driven colour matching, and Adobe Stock integration – dragging in assets to your timeline has never been easier.Īnother plus side is that it works seamlessly with other Adobe apps like Photoshop, After Effects and Audition. There’s also a core stable of superb transitions and effects that will give any video a polished, professional look. As you’d expect from the company that created Photoshop, the colour and light correction tools are finely tuned and far more powerful than those available in most video editing software. For example, the one-click ability to automatically duck music or ambient noise any time there’s dialogue will save you a lot of time.įootage-wise, the level of control you get over colour is incredible. The tools for audio syncing and editing are similarly impressive. The multi-cam editing supports an unlimited number of angles, and the automatic sync makes it super easy to import and manage them. One thing we really appreciate is how flexible the interface is: you can undock windows, drag them around, float panels wherever you want them… All this means you can create a customised workspace that fits your editing style and needs.Īs for the video editing itself, Premiere Pro is one of the most powerful applications out there, but you do need a powerful computer to take full advantage, especially when editing multiple tracks at once – however, one common workaround is to use proxies.Įditing clips in Premiere Pro is simple and precise and can be done while playback is rolling. The user interface is clean and fairly intuitive (though, if you’ve never done any video editing before, there’s going to be a learning curve with any video editing software). (While it’s not markedly better than Final Cut Pro in terms of features and performance, FCP isn’t available for Windows users, which cuts out a huge portion of the video editing market.)Īdobe Premiere Pro is an industry-standard tool, used for everything from 4K YouTube videos to Hollywood movies. If you want professional video editing features and a familiar nonlinear editing interface, Adobe Premiere Pro is arguably the best video editing software, especially if you use a PC or Mac. Cyberlink PowerDirector 365 HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDĪdobe Premiere Elements BEST FOR BEGINNERS Disable Hyper-Threading or SMT Dynamically disable Hyper-Threading or SMT on a per-process basis. Power Plan Automation Switch power plans while idle ( IdleSaver), or when specified process(es) are found running, or by a manual timer (Keep Awake), etc… Prevent Sleep (Keep Awake) Process Lasso can prevent your PC from sleeping for a specified amount of time, or when select processes are running. IdleSaver Conserve energy when your PC is idle by switching to a more frugal power plan. Keep Running Automatically restart select processes when they terminate. (coming in v12.3, now in beta) Disallowed Processes Immediately terminate any matched process, by your criteria. Efficiency Mode – NEW! Set and persist per-process Efficiency Mode settings. Priority Classes Set persistent CPU, I/O, and memory priorities so that processes run at the desired priorities every time they launch. CPU Sets A ‘softer’ form of CPU Affinities that are more like preferred cores. Process Lasso’s automation capabilities include: CPU Affinities Set persistent CPU affinities so that processes run on the desired set of CPUs every time they launch. Wildcards are accepted in most rules, along with Regular Expressions for more complex matching. These are some of the many automation capabilities of Process Lasso! Take control of your PC through your own manual rules, or let Process Lasso’s automated algorithms do it for you. Constrain a process once it exceeds a certain level of CPU use?.Change power plans when a specific application is running?.Persist CPU affinities, priorities, or other process settings?.Process Lasso Automation Features Automation He also reconciled with his old sidekick, Battlestar, and recovered his memories of his true identity as John Walker. US Agent has since served on a number of different superhero teams in the comics, as well as working alone as a mercenary. Not wanting to let a super soldier go to waste, General Haywerth faked John Walker's death, brainwashed him with a new identity as "Jack Daniels," and rebranded him as US Agent, complete with his new black uniform.Īfter being approved by the rest of the Commission, US Agent was sent to join the West Coast Avengers - much to the chagrin of Hawkeye, whose friction with US Agent eventually escalated to a brutal brawl. It was the Commission's attempts to bring Steve Rogers to heel and force him to work directly for the government that drove him to give up his shield, and the Commission who selected John Walker to replace him. Despite many attempts to perfect the serum, functional and sane super soldiers are rare, which makes John a valuable asset. Alternatively, he may become a mercenary carrying out work for those who need a super soldier to get the job done. If Val is indeed working with Zemo, then she may have recruited John for the Thunderbolts. Whether intentionally or not, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has been laying the groundwork for the emergence of the Thunderbolts - effectively a superhero team made up of supervillains, both founded and funded by Baron Zemo. There are other possibilities, of course. Related: Falcon & Winter Soldier Season 2? Everything We Know Regardless of whether or not she did, the exchange highlights that Val values an approach that avoids the need for paperwork, redacting and shredding - all of which points to her being involved in black ops or mercenary work. Val's reference to things getting " weird" strongly suggests that US Agent could return in Secret Invasion, since the Skrulls definitely qualify as weird and Val has a lot of history with Nick Fury in the comics. The Contessa's motives are still a mystery, though she jokes that she may or may not have had a hand in helping Zemo murder the remaining Flag-Smashers. What lies in US Agent's future depends greatly on what Val has recruited him for. As US Agent, he can instead work as a mercenary for people who won't necessarily mind him crossing the line to get the job done. John became disillusioned with the military and the government after he was stripped of his Captain America mantle and discharged from the army. For Steve, the costume is a symbol of his resistance to working directly for the United States government, and for the Marvel Cinematic Universe's John Walker it could have a similar meaning. As he puts it, " It's the same, but black." In the pages of Marvel Comics, the costume that would eventually become US Agent's was originally worn by Steve Rogers after he quit being Captain America. The US Agent costume is effectively the same as the redesigned Captain America outfit John was given when he took over the role. This acknowledgment is no doubt helped along by Val's assurance that the world needs a US Agent more than it needs a Captain America. By the end of the series, John Walker seems to have made peace with that fact that he's no longer Captain America. And while he may have stalled the truck from falling for a while, John was ultimately left looking up and watching while Sam Wilson - wearing his new Captain America uniform - pushed it to safety. John Walker's defiant continuation of his role as Captain America symbolically ended when he dropped his battered homemade shield in the midst of trying to save the Flag-Smashers' hostages. We now need only to show that the right hand side also counts these interlaced sequences. This means that terms of the sequence are not dependent on previous terms. Because of their lengths, given such a pair we can interlace their entries, forming an alternating sequence of digits and fence posts such as: $$1\, \square\, 0\, \square\, 1\, \blacksquare\, 1$$ We will call such sequences interlaced sequences. Binet’s Formula: The nth Fibonacci number is given by the following formula: fn (1 + 5 2)n (1 5 2)n 5 Binet’s formula is an example of an explicitly defined sequence. A Google search for a phrase like Fibonacci numbers in nature will produce a lot of hits. $$F_n=\frac\cdot F_n$, counts the number of ways of choosing a binary sequence of length $n-1$ and also a fence post coloring of length $n-2$. Precisely, + ' ' 5 + 5 ' + 5 The Fibonacci numbers can be pictured in a spiral of squares that fit neatly together: Fibonacci numbers have many interesting properties, and they frequently occur in patterns found in the natural world. One of the many, many things we investigated at the camp was the Fibonacci sequence, formed by starting with the two numbers $0$ and $1$ and then at each step, adding the previous two numbers to form the next: $$0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,\ldots$$ If $F_n$ denotes the $(n+1)$st term of this sequence (where $F_0=0$ and $F_1=1$), then there is a remarkable formula for the $n$th term, known as Binet’s Formula: First, the terms are numbered from 0 onwards like this: So term number 6 is called 圆 (which equals 8). Some of the students mentioned that they felt even more inspired to study math further after our two-week program, but the inspiration went both ways – they inspired me with new ideas as well! The Rule The Fibonacci Sequence can be written as a 'Rule' (see Sequences and Series ). Consider the second-order recurrence ax n+2+bx n+1+cxn f. This year’s Prove it! Math Academy was a big success, and it was an enormous pleasure to teach the seventeen talented high school students that attended this year. The proofs are simple exercises, and it should be obvious how the theory extends to recurrences of other orders. But that's another complaint for another day.) (And yet, weirdly, there are still bizarre gaps. Sure, I could happily read the same book a dozen times in a row, but sooner or later you want something new.Ī world in which I could find as many books as I like literally at the touch of my fingertips - unbelievable. I read fast, we never could keep a library card (or rather, we could never remember to return the books, so same diff), I had no friends, and so I always needed more books to read. The endlessly huge library in Robin McKinley's Beauty was my dream world. It's also amazing how incredibly different this is from my childhood. It's really amazing how little crossover there is between the "also recommended" and the books I see people talking about in my own corner of kidlit readers. I seem to have gotten into a bit of a situation on the NYPL app, because every book recommends me to two or three others, and if you add that to the ones I already was interested in reading it's a veritable flood of middle grade and YA fantasy. If you can, please comment there using OpenID or your Dreamwidth account. (I don't think, based on their words, that it really has yet.) All that's left is for me to wish I could see the look on their faces when it finally sinks in that they are really, truly, 100% going to suffer the consequences of their decision to engage in cold-blooded murder. So I will enjoy my sense of justice unhindered by any vague sense that the sentence is generally wrong, because in their particular case it really isn't. Well, these three committed a particularly heinous crime due to their deplorable beliefs, and judging from their behavior and words since then my gut feeling is that they probably would have a high likelihood of reoffending if given the chance. It's not a sentence to toss around lightly, and should be reserved for people who have committed particularly heinous crimes and have a high likelihood of reoffending. In general I'm not in favor of life in prison, particularly without chance of parole, for many of the same reasons I'm not in favor of the death penalty plus the added bonus reason that the US prison system takes even worse care of geriatric prisoners than the rest of them. Collapse ) This entry was originally posted at. If you fill one of those prompts and want to let me know, please be clear that it's from last year :) You can also comment or PM me if I made an error somewhere and I'll fix it ASAP.Īs a reminder, last year's post can be found here. The easiest way to do that is to leave a comment here with the prompt text exactly as written so I can quickly find it and delete it. I appreciate people letting me know that prompts have been claimed. You can ask my sister, she'll confirm that! So it was easier to do it this way rather than try to figure out if I could set up a Googledoc where some people could edit but all people could tag. I don't even drink new flavors of tea with the pandemic. I decided to do it this way again because honestly, my ability for new things is sapped this year. r/fonts is the place to share and discuss awesome fonts. r/typography A subreddit for discussion of the arts of typesetting and glyph design. Typographica Also useful for an indirect search or inspirationīad Sample: the sample provided is too poor (small, blurry) to identify the font.Fonts in Use Not a type ID tool per se, but useful for an indirect search or inspiration.Font_ID on Twitter: Stephen Coles of Typographica takes identification requests Doom 3 font family styles Doom 2016 Text Style truetype 297 glyphs 307 characters Doom 2016 Right Style truetype 298 glyphs 307 characters Regular Style truetype 298 glyphs 307 characters Collect Share Designed by HK Fonts About DOOM 2016 Font A set of 3 fonts based on DOOM 2016/DOOM Eternal logo.Typophile Type ID Board: A forum dedicated to identifying typefaces.Identifont: Identify by selecting distinguishing features.Whatfontis: Image recognition tool or specify a URL.Other type identification resources on the web: Identified!: the font has been identified.īad Sample: the sample provided is too poor (small, blurry) to identify the font. Identified (customized): the font has been identified, but the type has been altered or customized in the sample. (If you know a better match, please speak up!) Unavailable: a typeface has been identified, but it is not commercially available as a digital font.Ĭlose: no exact match was found, but something very similar was found. Lettering: the text is lettered (drawn), not a typeface. (This should be the initial state of every request.) Open Question: a typeface needs identifying. The poster and the mods can set and change link flair.
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