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matthiasv commented on Vasa's sister ship Äpplet found   su.se/english/news/vasa-s... · Posted by u/woodwireandfood
zdw · 3 years ago
If you have the opportunity, visiting this museum is highly recommended - they let you walk inside the ship and see both the historical context, as well as the modern restoration process.

It's located in a beautiful park and the nearby Nordiska museum is also quite impressive.

matthiasv · 3 years ago
They won't let you walk inside the ship. At least not a year ago.
matthiasv commented on ‘Seinfeld’ fans upset that Netflix’s aspect ratio cuts out jokes   rollingstone.com/tv/tv-ne... · Posted by u/74d-fe6-2c6
coder543 · 4 years ago
It is pretty amazing how well those sources have held up as other technology advanced.

Based on some googling, various sources indicate that 35mm film has a usable resolution somewhere between 4K and 8K video, so we're arguably reaching the limits of what we can extract from it (without consideration for "AI upscaling" and such).

Cinema grade digital cameras, like the RED V-Raptor[0] (MKBHD behind the scenes[1]), can now shoot 8K footage at 120+ fps with 17+ stops of dynamic range. As far as I can tell, those specs are objectively more capable than what you can get with traditional 35mm film. It has taken quite awhile for digital to outclass film across the board, but I think we're at that point now, and the results from these cameras are spectacular[2].

At this point, it's probably a question of how much storage you want to use and whether you have enough light in each scene to shoot at high frame rates like that. (120 is an even multiple of both 24 and 30, so you can always produce 'cinematic' frame rates just by throwing away other frames, without any stuttering, but then you have the option to remaster into higher frame rates in the future if low frame rates fall out of fashion, and you can easily add slow motion effects in post, as long as the final frame rate is intended to be less than 120.)

I'm far from a videography expert, but it is something I find interesting.

[0]: https://www.red.com/v-raptor#section-vr-tech-specs

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP3BT6kRJck

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPO6sVAMjOA

matthiasv · 4 years ago
You cannot just get "cinematic" frames by using every fifth frame. The shutter speed at 120 fps is much higher than shooting film at 24 fps hence a lot less motion blur that is part of the "cinematic look".
matthiasv commented on Australia’s trash bin-raiding cockatoos   smithsonianmag.com/scienc... · Posted by u/NotSwift
terrywang · 4 years ago
Not just cockatoos, but also magpies, at least that's what I've observed recently. Both are intelligent birds with not so good reputation, I'd avoid making them my enemies. Both can do significant damanages to your garden and plants. Cockatoos and magpies are intelligent enough to observe human beahviour and retaliate when those who try to offend them when they are not present at home (don't ask me how I know this...). Over time, I learned to make friends with them, make the gardens friendly and attractive to them, toys (river stones, small toys, ablone shells, etc.), clean water source and so on, I've been living with both cockatoos and magpies for years now. It seems that the magpies have a strong sense of territory, the same group returns everyday, while cockatoos visit less often, or simply randomly.

On cockatoos: One of my neighbours have been keeping a white cockatoo as pets for 10+ years, the bird start to lose feather on tis chest... The bird is kept in a large cage with a meshed window facing a park / playground, the bird says hello to pretty much everyone who waves at or greets it. Sometimes it even says "have fun" in a weird tone - it took me at least 20 times before I figured out what it was trying to say ;-)

On magpies: their beaks are not at advantage to open bin lids as cockatoos'. However, individual magpies are smart and powerful enough to open overflowed bins' lids and mess up the garbage.

matthiasv · 4 years ago
> On cockatoos: One of my neighbours have been keeping a white cockatoo as pets for 10+ years, the bird start to lose feather on tis chest...

It's not "losing" feathers, it's likely pulling them out due to living in a confined space without appropriate social ties and thus behaving like this.

matthiasv commented on Flask 2.0   flask.palletsprojects.com... · Posted by u/avyfain
ehsankia · 4 years ago
Deprecation aside, Flask 2.0 begins adding type annotations, which is 3.6+

https://github.com/pallets/flask/pull/3973

matthiasv · 4 years ago
Type annotations started with 3.5, 3.6 added type annotations for variables.
matthiasv commented on Show HN: I built a tool to generate triangulated art from images   github.com/RH12503/Triang... · Posted by u/rh12503
sigmonsays · 4 years ago
This is awesome

I recently got an axidraw and am going to see if I can adapt this into a clean set of lines for used with a mechanical plotter.

matthiasv · 4 years ago
A friend of mine and I intend to do the same, for which I came up with this: https://github.com/matze/inkdrop
matthiasv commented on OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support   phoronix.com/scan.php?pag... · Posted by u/infomax
jjice · 4 years ago
When I made the jul over to full time Linux last February,this is something iran into and was confused about. Wayland was the default on Ubuntu, and it worked great! Except for a lot of applications that just wouldn't load... After some reading, I moved to X, but I can't wait for the day Wayland is ready to go.

Will there ever be a good way to run things like dmenu on Wayland? I'm still a novice, but will all X programs need to be converted?

matthiasv · 4 years ago
With XWayland there is no urgent need for conversion. And "a lot of applications that just wouldn't load" sounds pretty fishy to begin with.
matthiasv commented on I'm tired of this anti-Wayland horseshit   drewdevault.com/2021/02/0... · Posted by u/emersion
hctaw · 5 years ago
so, almost universally derided and a major source of division in the linux ecosystem that make it unsuitable for general consumer use?
matthiasv · 5 years ago
Wow, such broad statements ("universally", "major", "unsuitable") in a single sentence and backed by …?
matthiasv commented on Goodbye and good riddance to the 16:9 aspect ratio   theverge.com/2021/1/19/22... · Posted by u/Tomte
PaulKeeble · 5 years ago
So many websites (hacker news included) just leave so much white space either side while also making you scroll. Look at the state of reddits "new" design, it uses 25% of the width of a modern screen, its absurd. Almost everyone has 16:9/16:10 nowadays you would think they might like to utilise it better.
matthiasv · 5 years ago
How would you qualify "better"? For me longer lines to read does not mean better but worse.
matthiasv commented on TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England   hackaday.com/2021/01/18/t... · Posted by u/szczys
kwanbix · 5 years ago
IIRC in Germany Netflix €14, Disney+ €7, Amazon Prime Video €6. And all 3 I can watch whenever I travel. The TV/Radio Tax is about €18!!! and I can only "enjoy" it in Germany!!! Not only that, the quality of programming quite bad, and to make it even worse, I am forced to pay for it when I don't even watch it. When I moved to Germany it just blown my mind.
matthiasv · 5 years ago
Are you also complaining about other parts of societal funding that does not benefit everyone? You could argue about so many things that might not affect you directly (schools, police, roads, …) but at the end of the day you may also profit indirectly from those as well (more educated people, fewer crimes, proper goods distribution, …).
matthiasv commented on TV detector vans once prowled the streets of England   hackaday.com/2021/01/18/t... · Posted by u/szczys
Tomte · 5 years ago
> I am talking about the fact that the ARD itself is the collective group of all regional broadcasters (look up the name)

I know that. But it's utterly offtopic in this subthread. We're not talking about organisational structures, we're talking about "what can I watch".

matthiasv · 5 years ago
The organisational structure causes what you can watch where and I am arguing that garbage produced by the "Thirds" is not only dumped to Das Erste but shown elsewhere as well. You gave me the current programme, I gave you "Rote Rosen" but that did not convince you. Here is more: "Sturm der Liebe" shown on BR, hr, MDR, NDR and rbb, "Bristant" shown on MDR, "WaPo Bodensee" shown on SWR, hr, NDR and BR … that is not "pretty much nothing".

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