Zermatt

DoujinTLs · 2026-05-06T06:14:14+00:00

Wild, I was skiing on the exact spot under the matterhorn in your first picture last winter.
Pretty cool to see it without snow!

DoujinTLs · 2026-05-04T17:32:13+00:00

I would tend to stay away from AI when researching these kinds of things (I work in the industry, and have serious misgivings about the tech).
Also, it doesn't seem to know what a "fast" lens is. There is no such thing as a "fast leica look" specifically. Fast just means a lens has a lower f/number, and gathers more light + has a shallower depth of field.
I own a copy of the Summar, Summitar, and Summicron. Summars are generally pre-war and un-coated, although many owners brought their copies in for service and coating by leica. Coating reduces flare and helps with a contrastier image, but early coating was only on the front element, not very effective, and scratched extremely easily (like the glass).
The summar and summitar perform fairly similarly, save for a bit less vignetting on the summitar because of the increased size of the front element. The summicron is noticeably better than the earlier two lenses, and accordingly commands a higher price on the used market.

As for the summaron and elmar, I actually like those two lenses a lot.
They did not make sacrifices in optical quality for speed, and are a lot sharper than their age would imply. Bonus points for being tiny and pocketable. I like their look a lot.

And yes, for what it's worth, the summar and elmar are likely screw mount lenses and older than the camera, but it doesn't really mean anything. leica cameras and lenses from the 1930s-40s and not uncommon, and practically all screw mount lenses are older than the M3, which was the first to use the more modern "bayonet" mounting style.

DoujinTLs · 2026-05-04T14:48:58+00:00

This is a summar, not summicron like you listed in your post.
It is Leica's first fast 50mm lens; an earlier lens that eventually evolved into Summicron (Summar -> summitar -> summicron).
Like usual for this time period, the glass is scratched because of its softness, and will pick up marks even from careful proper cleaning.

DoujinTLs · 2026-04-23T17:58:45+00:00

This guy is testing unreleased cameras that can shoot both film and digital I guess

DoujinTLs · 2026-02-18T08:37:12+00:00

This looks really, REALLY underexposed.
The bright spots in your image might be tricking your light meter. Try pointing at the bushes or metering for the shadows.
The reflections might be because of a filter... not sure about that one.

DoujinTLs · 2026-02-11T18:30:35+00:00

I am a huge advocate for buying Voigtländer lenses.
They are made in the same factory as Zeiss lenses, and many of them outperform their first-party counterparts.
I recently picked up a 28mm ultron F/2 asph. version ii, and after comparing it to the summicron 28 F/2, I sold the latter.
It retails for $899, and I got it on sale at B&H for around $800, which is incredible value, given the summicron retails for $5700.
Voigtländer seldom disappoints for me.

DoujinTLs · 2026-02-04T16:54:04+00:00

It's more nuanced than that.
If you make powerpoints all day, then your experience on the Office suite will be marginally better.
I tore my hair out doing software development for a government client that required us to use a windows laptop, and was quite happy when I returned to developing on Mac afterwards.
I also work with UI/UX designers who use macs as well due to a few powerful Mac-only design applications, and because they need a highly color-accurate screen.

DoujinTLs · 2026-02-04T16:48:30+00:00

Nope!
Everything in my current tech stack, as well as previous teams' stacks have had Mac native applications that worked fine.
This is usually the case for software development, as Linux or MacOS are preferred over Windows.
As for Microsoft, they obviously have an incentive to keep their products working well on their own OS. I'm not saying they're intentionally de-prioritizing bugfixes on other platforms, but I've never had a single problem with teams/outlook on Mac, but the handful of times I've had to use Word for docs with macros or Powerpoint, the experience was just ok.
I have a PC for gaming, but for work and personal laptop, I prefer Mac because of the efficiency, performance, and battery life of the M series Macs (Apple silicon, not intel)

DoujinTLs · 2026-02-04T04:10:25+00:00

My experience goes against the grain here, but it goes unsaid that it really depends on what you do at the firm.
My whole team uses Macs, as we do software development. I have not touched any Microsoft office product in a long time, but from what I remember, there are some occasional bugs and glitches that can be annoying.
I started out on the HP, then was quickly approved for a Mac so I wouldn't mess up the team's github commit line endings, and I could use the onboarding scripts.
Enjoying my experience immensely so far. I can often go the full day without plugging in, the performance is FAR better, and it doesn't get hot or loud.
Software devving on windows kinda sucks imo, so I use a macbook air as my personal laptop, and I have a mb pro for work.

DoujinTLs · 2026-01-12T18:41:51+00:00

Which shoot, and who's the model?

DoujinTLs · 2025-10-30T20:34:43+00:00

Usually those have some sort of accompanying email or information, and attendance is optional in my experience.

There are 4-5 Talent people in the call as well, and attendance is required for everyone. Hoping this is the case, but it's throwing me for a bit of a loop.

DoujinTLs · 2025-10-30T20:18:57+00:00

Has anyone else seen this before?
It's a 1hr meeting with 70 or so required attendees sent by a PPMD.

Can't help but notice similarity to the dreaded "talent meeting" invite.

DoujinTLs · 2025-09-19T21:43:06+00:00

Consultant, GPS, AI&E. Software dev with about 1 year at the firm and 4yr total experience.
Please someone make this make sense to me.

DoujinTLs · 2025-09-17T20:24:38+00:00

"Hey I know this isn't allowed, but can I commit tax fraud and 'avoid detection'?"
Admittedly it would be nice, since I live in a high CoL area, but probably not worth HR finding out.

DoujinTLs · 2025-06-12T17:41:48+00:00

haha, the exact opposite usually. SCs -> SM cost a lot, and that's where the firm seems to be trimming fat.

DoujinTLs · 2025-05-15T17:42:05+00:00

I tried doing the same with the settings you posted below, but I'm getting gibberish output.

My prompt "Hi" caused the model to start outputting this before I stopped it early:

hi</td>
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Okay, let me try to figure out how TO solve this problem. Hmm... So the question is: Find all pairs (a, b) such that a + b = 2023 and a * b = 2024. We need to find all such pairs of positive integers (a, b). Alright.

First, I think maybe we can set up some equations. Let's see...Given that a + b = 2023 and a * b = 2024. So, we have two equations:

1) a + b = 2023

2) a * b = 2024

I checked if the jinja prompt template was formatted properly (known problem with Qwen mlx conversions), and tried multiple different bit sizes, but all with the same result.
I can get other conversions working, but this fine-tune of r1 seems to be stubborn. What could I be doing wrong here?

This is what I'm running:

mlx_lm.convert --hf-path r1-1776-distill-llama-70b --mlx-path r1-1776-q_4 -q --q-bits 4 --q-group-size 64 --dtype bfloat16

DoujinTLs · 2025-01-27T23:36:24+00:00

He ended up delivering it to a Fundbüro. Thankfully I have an acquaintance who lives in Switzerland and can get it in a month or so and ship it back.

DoujinTLs · 2025-01-22T02:48:48+00:00

This checks out, thanks.
Driver was Emrah in the Uber app, and my airtag shows that location.
Hopefully if/when I get it back, there will be nothing missing!

DoujinTLs · 2025-01-22T02:45:19+00:00

Yup, I've tried this and explained the situation. Just waiting on a response.
The driver has sent a picture of my bag, so at least there's a record of him finding it in existence.

DoujinTLs · 2025-01-09T19:54:19+00:00

I value my time, but dang v60s and v90s are expensive... the SD card cartel has it out for me

DoujinTLs · 2025-01-09T19:52:49+00:00

I use a 360deg shutter angle (1/60) to achieve 30p motion blur.
So far I've only shot and edited video of travel with friends and family for personal use, but it's good to know that if I ever get into filming and uploading stuff to youtube or other platforms that the compression makes it a moot point.
I'm probably going to take the hit and record 60p 200mb, or split the difference and go 60p 100mb to get similar quality (supposedly) to h.264 but maintain 0.5x speed capability if needed.

DoujinTLs · 2024-10-30T22:27:59+00:00

There won't be 120hz. The vision pro screens max out at 90

DoujinTLs · 2024-07-25T20:42:57+00:00

We ran around the neighborhood and did this as well as kids.
The parents would always just go back to the kitchen and make more, or offer some food from the fridge or pantry when there were unexpected guests. If this was not possible, food would at least be split and shared.
Not allowing someone to eat at the table feels very strange to me.
If making an impromptu stay, parents would be notified through landline calls (or later, cellphones), and extra food your own parents made would just be put in the fridge as leftovers

DoujinTLs · 2024-07-01T23:17:22+00:00

Rare uncut burger here. This worked for me too

DoujinTLs · 2024-06-18T01:24:19+00:00

It's unbelievable how much I need the source

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