ancientworldnow

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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
Roadside Picnic, the inspiration behind Stalker, has aliens using Earth much like a family on a long drive might pull over for a scenic picnic site.
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
They put their first satellite in orbit in 2012 confirmed by NORAD. This is not the first launch of a satellite, only a "spy satellite." Honestly, feels like a concerted media effort to stoke panic about North Korea. Japan and Sou
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
Diners refers to people who dine not the low end restaurants.
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
GPT4 absolutely does the same thing if you ask it to. Tell it to suggest approaches and discuss pros and cons and future pitfalls and it does, which makes sense because it is in part stack overflow.
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
No serious professional wants to use FCP in the first place.
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
This is how color workflows work in film and tv. I imagine the issue is his television (despite him blaming the stream and his follow-up Netflix anecdote). Netflix has delivery specs that specifically outline these issues and require you
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
There's a whole German word for that color and noise you see: Eigengrau. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigengrau
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
I'm a colorist working with Resolve professionaly on large projects for over a decade. The pro editing world working on six, seven, and eight figure projects (I don't do studio blockbusters) is currently 75% premiere, 19% avid, 5%
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by ancientworldnow 3y ago
There are 0 hard numbers on profit margins and cost, just taking PR or best guesses at face value.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Most people tend to over estimate how talented the average non professional writer is and dramatically under estimate how good pro writers are. Writing is very hard. The issue is not coming up with ideas either, so don't think gptX str
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
I asked Bard for local restaurants and it listed ten. Two had the wrong type of food (saying it was Mexican instead of Italian for example), two were closed and had been so for years, and two were entirely made up. Only four were completely
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
In my experience it's usually more expensive and slower to do it that way.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Americans on average eat 400-700 more calories per day than in the 1970's. That explains it pretty well.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
This is dramatically under selling the sophistication of the balloon. Zoom into the payload from the u2 shot and you'll see this is more akin to a floating radio tower than a simple commodity tv tuner turned sdr. The entire craft and p
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
FCC explicitly bans "broadcasting" for amateur ham radio. Transmissions are intended to be direct conversations except for when calling for contact and some carve outs (emergencies, etc). Scheduled nets are the closest allowable t
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Take it up with the FAA who explicitly allow it and believe to be safe.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Banking apps (not all but many), android auto, tap to pay. Those are three huge sacrifices for most people.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
The big sell on bigscreen is you can watch the videos with friends (and their avatars) in the theater. It's a social experience first and a video player second.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
I'm a colorist. It's dramatically cheaper to emulate than to capture on film. Not even close except for massive productions (tens of millions) where camera dept is a small line item.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Which is almost assuredly FAR more effective.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
All of that is just the current photography fad. Sinna Nisseri is the poster boy of the look at the moment though he gets better performances out of his subjects.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
A regular hot air balloon can cost 200-400k and this is substantially larger with more lift capability and had presumably expensive payload and propulsion. Worldview spent millions of dollars on a substantially smaller balloon that granted
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
The balloon diameter was more like 40-60 meters.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
The Mediterranean loves their huge population of stray dogs and cats.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
The standard is 1g per kg but American lifters got confused and repeat it ad nauseum online until it became heterodox.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Fantastic game and extremely usable UI even on mobile. My biggest groupchat (which admittedly has a lot of photographers) has been playing all morning. 4196 is the score to beat!
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
They're just sliding smoothly for me unless I look at it without any focus as a disinterested viewer. I work on fixing moving pixels all day though so maybe I'm not an average subject.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
It is in fact possible to communicate outside of email or other digitally recorded mediums.
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
Those upscalers never looks remotely correct to the trained eye beyond minor scaling increases, even with state of the art (I work in post production).
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by ancientworldnow 4y ago
You haven't been to La Guardia recently. It's by far the nicest airport in the tristate and one of the better ones in the country after the remodel. JFK is the one new yorkers avoid now (or EWR if you don't live in Manhattan)

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