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by royjacobs 4y ago
The trickiest part of this endeavour is finding 11 floppy disks.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Exactly. Going further back in history there's also this thing called Film Noir that further disproves the argument that digital cameras (or, more narrowly, Netflix) is the origin of the high-contrast look. I mean, even the most celebr
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Is ENR similar to bleach bypass? They seem to be mentioned in the same breath but it's a bit vague.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
A famous counterpoint to your statement that eighties film stocks would not be able to capture that kind of low-light high-contrast scene: Barry Lyndon (released in 1975). However, it's pretty much guaranteed that both the old and new
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by royjacobs 4y ago
No worries! There's a good chance that anything I post that sounds remotely authoritative turns out to be super inaccurate as well :)
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by royjacobs 4y ago
This will not magically make extra detail appear, though. Film does not have infinite resolution. For instance, the ARRISCAN film scanner goes up to 6k for 35mm. They could go higher, but there's no point.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Because sometimes digital footage has to be matched to film. Alternatively, some directors enjoy film artifacts just like some people enjoy analog distortion artefacts in audio. Additionally, you seem to be asking a lot of leading questions
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Amélie is from 2001, not 1995. Interestingly, it is one of the first films that was colour corrected completely digitally. This is also why the movie's colour palette is so striking. Not necessarily to everyone's taste, but I real
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Tarantino uses film because he likes the artifacts film gives, not because it's objectively better. Same for PT Anderson. Indeed, both directors favor grungy 1970s aesthetics, which should give you an indication where they're comi
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by royjacobs 4y ago
This is completely incorrect. Later shows like Voyager and DS9 were also shot on film. However, all post-production happened in standard definition, so all special effects, editing and colour correction would have to be redone, which is inc
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by royjacobs 4y ago
To be fair, having the concept of a desktop matches quite well with the concept of a folder. On the Amiga, you didn't have a desktop per se, but a Workbench. A Workbench has drawers. The analogy breaks down somewhat, since I can't
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by royjacobs 4y ago
I think all relevant links are in the video description.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
This looks pretty nice, but so do a lot of the alternatives. In trying to search for the perfect development model none of these libraries are being developed enough to find any traction, though. Not to take away from the effort btw, but I
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by royjacobs 4y ago
They didn't make them themselves, but they are newly manufactured keycaps, yes.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
There's nothing that makes you feel old more quickly than seeing someone trying to rebuild the sort of technology you implemented in the era that they were actually modern.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the article. It seems to argue against the point of having a message queue and suggests doing a bespoke reimplementation of a queue using a database. However, all of the things listed in the explicit work queu
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by royjacobs 4y ago
It can be useful to distinguish between domain objects and objects that you use at the edge of your service, like on the API. They might have different annotations or you might want to evolve them differently, e.g. your domain objects might
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by royjacobs 4y ago
I've never really understood the use case for these mapping generators. Every time I've seen them used (MapStruct in Java, AutoMapper in C#) the mapping configuration eventually ends up being so complex that just manually writing
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by royjacobs 4y ago
That's so cool! One of the ways I learnt programming in BASIC was by studying the program outputs next to the listings in those Creative Computing books. ELIZA was one my favourites, so thanks for doing the port all that time ago.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
These devices are really fun. I used to have a Snoopy, which I played to death. Tried it recently and it still works absolutely fine.
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Twitter is cutting employee benefits starting this quarter(twitter.com)
7 points by royjacobs 4y ago|0 comments
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by royjacobs 4y ago
I fondly remember playing this game. I think I got it off one of those CP Verlag magazines-on-disk. Watching the YouTube video the sound effects immediately trigger a bunch of nostalgia, whereas the random particles that kill you trigger a
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by royjacobs 4y ago
"Haven't needed to try the WiFi on it yet. Only use one screen, not sure why I'd need two." If you never use WiFi or two screens then maybe you shouldn't dismiss other people's issues with Linux as being unusua
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The Final Campaign(nymag.com)
2 points by royjacobs 4y ago|1 comments
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Perhaps you could provide some initial arguments why they should?
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High Performance Rust UI(youtube.com)
2 points by royjacobs 4y ago|0 comments
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by royjacobs 4y ago
I didn't realise I was not allowed to set my own bars, though :)
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by royjacobs 4y ago
There is a distinction between 'working code' and 'working code that runs at interactive frame rates in a severely memory-constrained environment'.
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Let's not underhype it, either: It seems you are underestimating the impact that Doom had on PC gaming when it came out. Using BSP trees to perform zero overdraw rendering definitely was not something that had been done before on consu
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by royjacobs 4y ago
Other charging options are allowed, it's just that there should _also_ be a USB-C option.

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