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A selection of events for the week. Breakfast with the Yandex.Cloud voice technology team July 29 (Monday) L Tolstoy 16 free This is a great opportunity to communicate with the people who create Yandex SpeechKit and organize the affiliate program, learn about immediate plans and ask questions in an informal setting. We will discuss: speech recognition modes for specific tasks; new end-to-end synthesis capabilities, queries in SSML format; […]
Today is a holiday for the most valiant “soldiers of the invisible front” - System Administrator Day. On behalf of the Medium community, we congratulate all the involved superheroes of the IT universe on their professional holiday! We wish all colleagues a long uptime, stable connection, adequate users, friendly colleagues and success in their work! PS Don't forget to congratulate your colleague - a system administrator at your job :) Source: […]
In this article we will tell you how Vadim Golovkov and Anton Gritsai, VFX specialists at Plarium studio, created an internship for their field. Searching for candidates, preparing a curriculum, organizing classes - the guys implemented all this together with the HR department. Reasons for creation There were several vacancies in the VFX department in the Krasnodar office of Plarium that could not be filled for two years. Moreover, the company does not [...]
While both governments and multinational corporations pose significant threats to individual freedoms online, there are dangers that far outweigh the first two. Its name is uninformed citizens. — K. Bird Dear Community members! The Internet needs your help. Since last Friday, we have been publishing the most interesting notes about events taking place in the decentralized Internet service provider community […]
From the outside of iOS, development can seem like a closed club. To work, you definitely need an Apple computer; the ecosystem is closely controlled by one company. From within, you can also sometimes hear contradictions - some say that the Objective-C language is old and clumsy, and others say that the new Swift language is too crude. Nevertheless, developers go into this area and, once there, are satisfied. […]
We talk about the history of the OpenMusic (OM) software instrument, analyze the features of its design, and talk about the first users. In addition to this, we provide analogues. Photo by James Baldwin / Unsplash What is OpenMusic It is an object-oriented visual programming environment for digital audio synthesis. The utility is based on a dialect of the LISP language - Common Lisp. It is worth noting that OpenMusic can be used in […]
A new version of the single-player 2D game Flare has been released - 1.11. The action takes place in a dark fantasy world. The changes are as follows: Players now have their own personal cache in addition to the general one. The value of the no_stash variable has been expanded to make it possible to create multiple caches. Items that could not be hidden in the previous version can now be placed in a personal stash. Engine errors have been fixed […]
About a year ago I became determined to save the world. With the means and skills that I have. I must say, the list is very meager: a programmer, a manager, a graphomaniac and a good person. Our world is full of problems, and I had to choose something. I thought about politics, even took part in “Leaders of Russia” in order to immediately get to a high position. Made it to the semi-finals, [...]
kitty is a full-featured and cross-platform terminal emulator. Some updates: Added kitty@scroll-window command for scrolling the screen. Allowed to pass the !neighbor argument, which opens a new window next to the active one. The remote control protocol is documented. Passing data to a child element using the pipe command occurs in a thread so that the UI is not blocked. For macOS, reduced power consumption in standby mode by turning off the display after 30 […]
The release of the Latte Dock 0.9 panel has been presented, offering an elegant and simple solution for managing tasks and plasmoids. This includes support for the effect of parabolic magnification of icons in the style of macOS or the Plank panel. The Latte panel is built on the KDE Plasma framework and requires Plasma 5.12, KDE Frameworks 5.38 and Qt 5.9 or newer releases to run. Code […]
The Academy Software Foundation, an organization created under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, aimed at promoting open source software in the film industry, presented its first joint project OpenTimelineIO (OTIO), originally created by the animation studio Pixar and subsequently developed with the participation of Lucasfilm and Netflix. The package was used in the creation of films such as Coco, The Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. OpenTimelineIO includes […]
At QuakeCon 2019, Bethesda announced plans for the development of Fallout 76 until the end of September. The developers will add an in-game Season meat event, perks in the “Nuclear Winter” battle royale mode, a new map and a raid. For completing the raid, users will be able to receive new armor and other rewards. In addition, the studio confirmed that it is working on several more events, […]
