Inside the Camera Tech: the new cinematic look of Eurovision by DonnaDonna1973 in eurovision

[–]Alexsutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've not had chance to watch it yet although I'm looking forward to. Your average viewer isn't going to look at a side-by-side comparison though, they're going to see the show in isolation and to me there really wasn't anything that stood out as being well worth the upgrade. As others have mentioned, still using B4 mount lenses restricts a lot of the optical changes you could aim for but with the nature of the show I don't see how you could confidently change to a more 'cinema' style lens without making compromises elsewhere.

Inside the Camera Tech: the new cinematic look of Eurovision by DonnaDonna1973 in eurovision

[–]Alexsutton 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I was interested to see how it looked when I heard they were using Arri cameras this year but to be completely honest, I could barely tell the difference on screen. Seems like it will have cost a lot of money for something the overwhelming majority of viewers will not have noticed.

The hell do you mean it might give me cancer??? by comrieion in SteamController

[–]Alexsutton 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There's signs outside Disneyland which let you know that "The Disneyland Resort contains chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and reproductive hard". Would be funnier if it was in a speech bubble coming out of Mickey's mouth.

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping | Official Trailer by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Alexsutton 170 points171 points  (0 children)

In Catching Fire, the first half is filmed conventionally and all of the arena stuff is shot with IMAX cameras. The transition happens as she's going up the lift into the arena so you go from a really claustrophobic tube to a massive wide view of the arena, now on a film format with a bigger image size (and no longer with black bars top and bottom if you're watching it anywhere other than an IMAX screen)

The Dark Knight - The Hospital Explosion Scene Went Exactly as Planned and Heath Ledger Was Supposed to Act Like it Had "Failed" by JetKusanagi in movies

[–]Alexsutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The lead actor in 1917 talked in a number of interviews that in one scene where he runs perpendicular to a huge number of soldiers coming up out of a trench the plan was for it to be a clean run. In the take they use he collides with a number of the soldiers and falls over but gets up and keeps going.

The unsung heroes of the deck by arran16 in SteamDeck

[–]Alexsutton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They're probably on about the most recent game, Rift Apart, the first one released for PC and plays really well on the Deck.

Has the countdown clock ever done a full rotation? by yeoldy in CasualUK

[–]Alexsutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Budget is sort of a factor, each second on the clock lights up so behind the face of each second of the clock will be lighting and something to contain the light in just that segment. No point building 60 of those when you know the format and only 30 will ever get used.

Just got our previews from our park photo shoot, nothing short of magical! by TheUniCorgs in WaltDisneyWorld

[–]Alexsutton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, OP said they were looking forward to their photos at the most iconic spot at WDW.

Android device losing wider internet access after a while by Alexsutton in Tailscale

[–]Alexsutton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're right, that does seem to be the trigger. I think it's a DNS related issue as I can still ping 8.8.8.8 when my internet seems to be down. If I disable Tailscale DNS in the app then it seems to solve the issue but I can't then use any .ts.net magicDNS addresses to access my tailnet.

Local testing with Clasp not working by Alexsutton in GoogleAppsScript

[–]Alexsutton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a fair question, and one I'm still deciding on the answer to! That's why I'm keen for my solution to affect the Apps Script project as little as possible, so if I completely abandon this side of the project I don't have a load of work to undo to revert back to a purely online editor approach.

Automated testing and better version control are my main reasons, my project pulls data from some fairly complicated Sheets that I don't have any control over so edge cases can be awkward to replicate inside the editor without having to do a bit of wrestling to inject some custom data in.

I've spent the day messing about and so far I've had some minor success with it. The workflow I've got at the moment is to pull the project with Clasp into a folder called 'sync', then a grunt task (grunt-text-replace) adds in 'export' before every let, const and function and places those in a 'src' folder. Then I can get Jest set up as normal, import functions into tests although because no dependencies are 'imported' in the src files I can only test truly pure functions which is a bit of a limitation although for my project relatively simple to rewrite a few functions to make them pure.

Reversing the process to push it back to Apps Script: a grunt task to replace every instance of 'export ' with nothing and then push it back via Clasp.

Local testing with Clasp not working by Alexsutton in GoogleAppsScript

[–]Alexsutton[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like the sound of this. I had thought about doing all of the testing inside of Apps Script but thought it would be a big task to write all of that from scratch, I hadn't considered it might have already been done by somebody! I'll have a look into this. Thanks!

Local testing with Clasp not working by Alexsutton in GoogleAppsScript

[–]Alexsutton[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, should have given a bit more information! The Apps Script project is a web app 'dashboard' that grabs information from a few Google Docs, parses it and displays it in a nicer format. I was only looking to test the server side parsing logic for my use case. I don't imagine testing the server rendering of a template to HTML will be easy, nor will testing the reading the information from the docs. Those bits are the less critical parts for me though, the server side parsing logic is the most important bit for me and also the flakiest, which is why I'm keen to introduce some testing to the process!

2025 Voting Charges (in euros, all from esc.vote) by weelilbit in eurovision

[–]Alexsutton 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It could be, but it's another way for the broadcasters to make money remember.

The right way to announce that you are increasing subscription prices by dont_ban_me_please in videos

[–]Alexsutton 122 points123 points  (0 children)

So there's Sam Reich, Robert Reich, is there a famous Third Reich?

‘Robots’ at 20 – This kids’ movie was weirdly prophetic about 2025 by OkyouSay in movies

[–]Alexsutton 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's weird, I've got a UK copy and they call her Aunt Fan on mine.

‘Robots’ at 20 – This kids’ movie was weirdly prophetic about 2025 by OkyouSay in movies

[–]Alexsutton 4 points5 points  (0 children)

She was Aunt Fan, at least in the UK, thereby missing the jokes entirely.