The Academy Award-winning VFX supervisor pushed the boundaries of motion capture to create the astonishing reveal. And earn another Oscar nomination.
Source: Discover How John Nelson & His VFX Team Brought Rachael Back to Life in ‘Blade Runner 2049’
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Homelessness in the Bay Area | SPUR
The Bay Area has one of the largest and least sheltered homeless populations in the country. Over the past year, the SPUR Board of Directors convened a study group to learn more about homelessness — both its causes and its possible solutions.
movfuscator :: the single instruction C compiler
The M/o/Vfuscator (short ‘o’, sounds like “mobfuscator”) compiles programs into “mov” instructions, and only “mov” instructions.
A Conversation about Teaching Software Engineering – Embedded in Academia
Tarantino-Style ‘Star Trek’ Trailer Shows Us The Wonderful Potential | HuffPost
“Green blood. Green women. And Nazis.”
Source: Tarantino-Style ‘Star Trek’ Trailer Shows Us The Wonderful Potential | HuffPost
California Sen. Wiener tries to shut odd loophole in car break-in law – San Francisco Chronicle
Sometimes, laws seem to be written in the most confusing, ineffective way possible. Take the state law on car break-ins, for example. Currently, smashing the window of a car and taking valuables inside it can be charged as a felony burglary only if it can be proved in court that the car doors were locked. Otherwise, it’s a misdemeanor theft. Strangely, that smashed window doesn’t count as evidence the car was forcibly entered. That means the victim of the break-in has to take time off work to come to court to testify under oath that, yes, the car was locked when somebody had to smash a window to get inside.
Source: California Sen. Wiener tries to shut odd loophole in car break-in law – San Francisco Chronicle
New York Set to Acquire the Next Generation of Subway Cars – The New York Times
New York will also join a handful of cities around the world to deploy trains with open pathways between cars that can squeeze in more riders at a time when the subway struggles under the burden of accommodating nearly six million rides every day.The first cars, which will be manufactured under a contract between the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Japanese company, Kawasaki, are scheduled to be delivered in July 2020.
Source: New York Set to Acquire the Next Generation of Subway Cars – The New York Times
Richard Feynman: What keeps a train on the track?
This is the thing that some genius in the 1960s decided BART wouldn’t do contrary to every other rail system in the world.
Previously: BART Makes Some Progress on Noise
Diet Culture Exists to Fight Off the Fear of Death – The Atlantic
Diet culture is just another way of dealing with the fear of death.
Source: Diet Culture Exists to Fight Off the Fear of Death – The Atlantic
In a recent twitter thread, the author connects this to current politics.
New BART rail cars could start service in time for Friday’s evening commute – San Francisco Chronicle
BART’s first 10 new rail cars have been approved to start carrying passengers by the state Public Utilities Commission on and could be in service in time for the Friday evening commute.