Joeboy

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by Joeboy 1y ago
> I'm not aware of any movies shot in non-interleaved 120fps I think Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk? Although I'm not sure if you can actually watch it at 120fps.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
A few hasty, disconnected thoughts about slow-motion: 1) Back in the day, you'd use slowmo if you wanted to make something look bigger and more impressive, like scale model work or making a human-sized person look like a giant[0]. Mayb
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Writing machine code without an assembler and having to reload everything from cassette every time it errored felt... sort of fun but also extremely frustrating. I think most actual commercial software was written on hardware that was out
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I think your struggle with shifting meanings is a worthwhile one. At least, if you said BB King was an R&B artist, and somebody tried to correct you, you'd be within your rights to stand your ground. But particularly with regard to
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by Joeboy 1y ago
The point, I think, is that that The Post Office acted like part of the state, notably in that they acted like an unconstrained branch of the CPS in bringing prosecutions against thousands of people. > Maybe in some fringe circles I woul
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by Joeboy 1y ago
"Deep state" is, or at least to be, a perfectly respectable political term for bodies that retain power across changing governments.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Cool! Yours is much prettier than mine.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Thank you so much! Just merged and deployed.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
On the one hand that's awesome and it's really great to have a contribution! On the other hand, I unfortunately just added it myself. But it's there now, anyway :-) More PRs very welcome if you're in the mood!
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Just finishing the London indie cinemas is an ongoing challenge! But yeah it'd be great to branch out to other places, and cover other types of events.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
It's on the quite long list[0] that I haven't got around to yet. I'll try to get it done today. [0] https://github.com/Joeboy/cinescrapers
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I just took a fortnight off work with the intent of getting away from my laptop, but accidentally ended up making a listings site for London's independent / arts cinemas. As far as I can tell no such thing currently exists, and I
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by Joeboy 1y ago
"Heath Robinson" is British English for "Rube Goldberg".
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by Joeboy 1y ago
This is kind of an irrelevant (and doubtless unoriginal) shower thought here but, if humans are judging the AI to be human much more often than the human, surely that means the AI is not faithfully reproducing human behaviour.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
It's slightly more forgivable because at least the text is supposed to be editable, but Azure tickets also have this middle-click issue. It's infuriating.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
It was more the "conservatively billing $800 a day" part that seems like a different universe to me (I am a contract software developer).
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I don't know the author, but it seems like they're writing for a quite rarefied audience.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
> crashed tie episode was pretty bad filler I get that it felt like a bit of a diversion from the main story, but thematically the show is largely about the less palatable realities of being part of a resistance movement. That episode is
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Tony Gilroy's mentioned a lot of influences on Andor, few if any of which had anything to do with Star Wars. Off the top of my head: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Shadows * https://en.wikipedi
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Andor is a very good TV show, but it's obviously getting extra appreciation because it's part of a beloved but increasingly exhausted franchise.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I would also like to work on more fun stuff! My uncertainty is whether enough fun paid programming work will appear to fill the gap left by the automation of the boring stuff. I think a lot of people here are more interested in questions li
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Of course, but my question stands. Did all the people who used to do easily automatable clerical work remain in those roles? I presume that isn't the case, but like I say I don't really know what happened to them.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Which is how? This is an honest question, I genuinely don't know what happened to all the people who used to be employed to do manual calculations. Or all the people who worked as typists for that matter.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I don't think there's any more to it than Danny's explanation in the film. > I invented it in Camberwell and it looks like a carrot
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Fun(?) fact - An actor that was supposed to play Marwood dropped out because they thought the film was homophobic. Robinson originally wanted Paul McGann, but he insisted on using his own accent, resulting in Robinson firing him and getting
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Odd that the photo is Ralph Brown as Danny. Although, if you look at this brief and rare Viv MacKerrell snippet[0], his performance is a lot more Danny than Withnail. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc5vCZTkY7g&t=128
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by Joeboy 1y ago
My first draft had examples of what "working to pay for somebody else's leisure" means for different people, but I thought it better to omit specifics in favour of the general point.
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by Joeboy 1y ago
I think what bothers people is the idea of having to work to pay for somebody else's leisure. Obviously lots of arguments to be had about the specifics of that, but I think it's more about this than a moralistic concern about &quo
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by Joeboy 1y ago
Also Logseq is moving towards some sort of "database storage", which I think entails moving away from plain text files.
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by Joeboy 2y ago
As per other comments, women being played by men was and is a venerable tradition in British comedy and not actually very transgressive at all. It feels more "transgressive" now than it did then, I think because we imported US cul

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