Ioannis K. Erripis

day 1406

Overall for the current state of car design (not just styling) it's great, objectively one of the best designed cars on sale. But that's the same as saying "the skinniest sumo wrestler", and the market will probably very harsh to a car that you have to charge every 150km or so

The 4th one is ok but its range is catastrophically small and its design is just superficial retro. The details (with many references to the original) are asphyctiating overwhelming and disturbingly sharp like the 5 and 4, the overall design is too bulky for what the car is

Renault should have evolved the twingo and make it an icon like the MINI. Instead they replaced it with a cute but conventional shrunken clio for 2nd gen, and a very cool but completely different 3rd gen.

Design-wise, in isolation — compared to the SUV trash — it's great. Compared to the original, it mimics some elements on a superficial level, not the actual spirit. The Mk3 Twingo looked better, had smarter packaging and a 190km WLTP range versus 260km for the new one.

The new Twingo compared to the original is slower*, larger but less spacious and more claustophobic, heavier, with a larger front overhang (and steeper windshield rake..) despite the lack of engine. Some are unavoidable for an EV, but is this progress?

*vs the D4F, ~same as D7F

Δεν ξέρω τι έκανες, αναφέρεις την περίπτωση θρησκευτικού γάμου, εκεί απάντησα. Αν κάποιος θεωρεί γραφειοκρατία μόνο την λύση του γάμου για την εκκλησία αλλά όχι τον θρησκευτικό γάμο προφανώς είναι υποκριτής.

Οι θρησκείες (όλες πρακτικά) έχουν και γραφειοκρατία, ο δικός σου ορισμός είναι άλλο θέμα

Η εκκλησία έχει τις δικούς της κανόνες και τελετουργικά, αν δεν σε ενδιαφέρουν οκ απόλυτα σεβαστό, αν τους χρησιμοποιείς κατά πως βολεύει είσαι υποκριτής.

Αν έχεις αυτή την προσέγγιση στο τι σημάνει πνευματικό τότε η διαδικασία του γάμου ως προς την εκκλησία περιττεύει, δεν χρειάζεται χαρτιά κλπ, πήγαινε σε ένα ξωκλήσι ένα ηλιοβασίλεμα. Αφού έχεις "άλλη αντίληψη" γιατί δέχτηκες τη εκκλησιαστική γραφειοκρατία του γάμου?

Δεν είναι καν υποχρεωτικό το 'πνευματικό' διαζύγιο, απλά αν δεν το κάνεις δεν θα μπορείς να κάνεις (θρησκευτικό) γάμο στο μέλλον

Αν είναι αστεία η 'πνευματική' λύση του γάμου, είναι αστεία και η πνευματική ένωση. Αν κάποιος τα θεωρεί αυτά αστεία είναι απόλυτα σεβαστό, αν θεωρεί μόνο το ένα από τα δύο αστείο είναι γελοίο και υποκρισία.

Αυτό χρειάζεται μόνο αν έχεις σκοπό να ξανά παντρευτείς με θρησκευτικό γάμο. Αν θες την επικύρωση του γάμου από τη εκκλησία δεν είναι καθόλου αστείο. Αλλιώς εξίσου αστείο είναι η διαδικασία του να βγάλεις διαζύγιο που είναι 100Χ πιο 'γραφειοκρατική διαδικασία'

Ακριβώς 5 χρόνια πριν, μου βγήκε στο Facebook memories, δυστυχώς πιο επίκαιρο από ποτέ :/

youtu.be/W2KUxkA9JFw?...

Fantastic work!

YouTube video by Mark Tranmer - all music projects & collaboration The Montgolfier Brothers * Between Two Points

This is a cover of the original (and equally beautiful) song by "The Montgolfier Brothers", Mark Tranmer and Roger Quigley

www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_RJ...

YouTube video by David Gilmour David Gilmour - Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour) [Tour Rehearsal]

David Gilmour - Between Two Points (with Romany Gilmour)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_QT...

day 1385

Έχει ανοίξει η πλατφόρμα για το επικαιροποιημένο εμβόλιο κόβιντ, σχεδόν όλα τα ραντεβού στα (λίγα πλέον) κέντρα είναι Δευτέρες απο πρωί μέχει μεσημέρι, όχι και το πιο βολικό για κάποιον εργαζόμενο.

με τόση ψέκα μάλλον θα πρέπει να λέμε και ευχαριστώ που είναι καν διαθέσιμα..

Έχει κανείς GoPro hero 3 black (μόνο τη συγκεκριμένη!) για πούλημα? Δίνω το αστρονομικό ποσό των 50 ευρώ (μόνο η κάμερα με ενδιαφέρει)

NTSB final report on the hull failure and implosion of submersible Titan:

www.ntsb.gov/investigatio...

the report:
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If you want to skip becoming a creative person yourself with all the work and effort that this entails, there are numerous AI tools that can be creative *for* you, but they cannot make *you* creative. You can use them, but you're still the same as before, and it feels like it.

As explained in the post, being an artist or creative is a skill and a process, whether you use AI or not

You can replace as much as you want with AI tools, but if you're not creative enough you'll have to replace a part so big that *you* are non existent in the result

You may say that in the future they will become better (they're already great), it doesn't matter. The better they become, the more foreign the result will feel. Something is either made by you or not. Matthew Inman explains what 'made by you' is, but I guess you already know it

Of course one can simply just buy a stock graphic, but that doesn't feel that they 'made' it.

AI tools can give you the power of creation, the result however shows that they give the illusion of making you creative, just a tease of something elusive.

I've seen people trying to use AI image generating tools in order to create a logo or some graphic.

All of them felt confident enough that they can skip hiring a professional. Their results however were rubbish, even though they felt that they were *so* close to something good.

A great post by Matthew Inman ( the @theoatmeal.bsky.social ) about AI art.

Just a small note by me:

There are so many powerful AI tools, have you ever seen one (1) example of AI art made by someone with zero creativity or talent that was good?

Me neither

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

YouTube video by MechDesignTV IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission - SpaceX Falcon 9 - sunset view

Spectacular sunset view during the launch of SpaceX Falcon 9 for IMAP (Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe) mission a few days ago from Kennedy Space Center

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AREp...

day 1365

YouTube video by Figma Config 2024: A look inside teenage engineering (CEO & Founder, Jesper Kouthoofd) | Figma

Config 2024: A look inside teenage engineering (CEO & Founder, Jesper Kouthoofd)

TE is one of the coolest companies in the world, watch this video and keep an open mind

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCli...

"car design has nothing to do with design any more, it's just styling, doesn't solve any problems"

Jesper Koothoofd