KaiserPro

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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Ok so I idd some digging and bloomberg is light on analysis on this one. The graph that got me wondering as to why the price has spiked was the mined/produced tonnes of tungsten from what I can see. I naturally assumed, like the articl
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Assuming your thesis is correct: the war in ukraine is a dead end and the EU should let russia finish what it started (parahpraasing, I apologise if I miss the nuance) Surely that would mean _another_ russian friendly Satellite state that c
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
If you read a bit further, they author then explains why they put that in: > The fucker [Linneaus] created a beautiful system, and it works. And that’s why we still use it. I say this because a few unthinking “performative leftist” nitwi
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> That's what the US tried to do. Yes but with the caveat that they wanted the lowest risk to US service members during the bombing. This means using up the fire and forget stuff rather than the guided munitions attached to planes.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
The problem is that this equates two very different way of building houses, and lumps them together. For the USA, the reasons for zoning were quite different to europe. Each country had different reasons for different times. In the UK, post
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
The problem for the UK is the Fujitsu owns the last vestiges of the UK IT scene. ICT/ICL and a bunch of other were all bought out by them in the early 90s. But also there are two other issues: 1) there aren't many companies that a
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Sorry my bad. Conform is the process of matching edits with the "master" edit, generally. One of the odd things about the "movie pipeline" is that generally the thing thats passed between compmanies is not the actual edi
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> so they must have matched their photochemical color grading with digital color grading The VFX would be matched to what ever the spec would be. Your argument would hold more water if it wasn't the _editorial_ department that had
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
https://www.awn.com/news/framestore-puts-grave-face-harvey-d... Tim webber says it was rendered at 4k. Which contradicts what I remember. If he meant 4k textures that would make sense. 4k textures might have been why r
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> between 70mm and IMAX 70mm. Im not sure how many vertical 70mm projectors there are left. I don't think its a delivery format any more. In terms of shooting, I think the only person mad enough to use 65mm is Ken Branagh on his aga
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
14:9 IS THE BRITISH WAY
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> Aspect ratio by itself tells you very little about the theatrical viewing experience. Yes, but also no. to a whole generation of millenials -> boomers 4:3 == analogue and or cheap, "widescreen" is HD and better quality. Th
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
disclaimer: I worked in a DI lab second disclaimer, dbspin knows all this, this is aimed at the casual observer About 2010 was the time that digital cameras were common enough and had enough dynamic range to make "better" looking
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> It was widely reported that Oppenheimer was color graded photochemically, So I'm deeply sceptical of this. There was a DI colourist in the colour department and the editorial had a digital conform team and a colourist. I'm
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I'm trying to remember what resolution we rendered two face for when it went into imax. This was using 32bit renderman, and it was constantly OOM'ing because we were really pushing it. I seem to recall that we rendered out at 7k,
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
but you patent something requires proving that you have done something novel. You're effectively asserting that the thing you invented is new and different enough to be not a derivative of a previous patent. sure to build a new system,
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
We had three different vendors come out and try. One was a vicon, which was low latency and sexy, another was the USB optitrack, which was utter shite. I don't remember what the third lot used. The vicon at the time seemed to be low en
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
scratch, thats super popular, but aimed at kids.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
The problem with research is that you are supposed to be creating novel works, not derivatives. This means you are creating IP, not modifying.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
There are a couple of ways to do it, but I'm not sure which is best. you can install an app on OSX that allows you to do a passthrough, but the last time I used it horizon was called workrooms. On windows you can use the official oculu
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
The optics for the avp are noticably softer than quest3 https://kguttag.com/2024/03/01/apple-vision-pros-optics-blur... so the screen resolution might be higher, the effective resolution is not so much. The q
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Sorry but we did all that for previs for $big_space_movie. On a shoestring budget in 2011. > In fact, I don't think there was even a "professional" solution that offered room scale positioning before the vive. Yeah there w
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
I thought this turned out to be a bug in the solver?
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
So near the savoy is a semi circle road https://www.google.com/maps/search/bush+house/@51.5128306,-0... which feels like a round about and and you are forced to enter it from the wrong way. In fact driving in
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
Aha! understood Yeah I couldnt work out what they were in relation too
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> However, I think this is mistaken if Homer himself was writing in an archaic style at the time (which seems to be the case looking at the literature) Now that is a debate for the ages! There is an argument that its was written in that
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
ITs a hard call. I think the archaic language is both an appeal and a barrier. The thing that got me into classics was a radio show of a standup doing comedy about classics[1] (I like roman/greek history, but more about buildings and t
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> I am not sure what author is trying to hint. But solar does not need artificial subsidies, and can pay for itself! At grid scale, yes. For the house, not so much. The feed in tariff was at one point 41 pence per kwhr which is probably
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> You could buy a long-dated put What leveraged? yeahnah thats not going to be profitable.
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by KaiserPro 2mo ago
> AVP wasn't released early (late, if anything), and it wasn't a dud because of Tim Cook's disinterest. Depends on what you mean by early. WAs it released before the market was proven? yes. Was the whole user experience up

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