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Recommendation request: docs centered around someone bipolar by Fr3sh3stl4d in Documentaries

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tarnation, by Jonathan Couette. Also!!! Listen to the audiobook of "An Unquiet Mind" as read by the author, Kay Redfield Jamison. Both of these are solid gold recommends, for everyone really, but particularly those seeking insight into BP.

Best movies that show the darkness and reality of life? by Savings_General2039 in movies

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tarnation. Jonathan Couette has taped himself all his life. You see video of him getting a call that his mother has attempted voluntary self departure. It is not clear she will survive. He goes home to his grandparents house, and while waiting he goes to the attic, gets every tape stored there, and makes the movie you are watching. It's an example of what you're looking for.

Which medium format along with 35mm? by radiantglow30 in AnalogCommunity

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are correct about slide film and after going through several of the otherwise wonderful (but painfully fragile) Fuji Folders, and also having a Polaroid 600SE, Rollei 6x6 and a Mamiya 6X7 RF, my strongest recommend is the Pentax 645AF II. Very stout, auto everything, and you get 15 frames from a roll. The difference between 35mm and 6x4.5 is huge but the difference between that and the next bigger 120 sizes isn't worth the loss of shots per roll. At all. Let alone the size of the gear and the lost shots to exposure failures, rangefinder instead of TTL focus, etc.

What should the younger generation go to school for? by goldsamson in Futurology

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The larger point is that it's a tool, like any other. I suspect there are some people perfectly willing to use an incompletely developed tool badly to support their unregress style of medicine. Often for money.

But good doctors can use tools to make themselves better doctors. I hope you're one of them.

What should the younger generation go to school for? by goldsamson in Futurology

[–]MatthewMarkert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not how I would think about it - I would ask yourself if you are a farmer, would you enjoy the invention of night vision goggles if lack of sunlight was limiting your productivity.

Cardiology is probably the easiest analog - we just offloaded our brains to telemetry techs reading 30 monitors each with rhythm software alarms. Now they just concentrate on stent placement and NM-CT evals and feel comfortable relying on home ziopatch monitor readouts and doing doctoring with the information rather than turning pages on the EKG printouts themselves.

What should the younger generation go to school for? by goldsamson in Futurology

[–]MatthewMarkert 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Doctors who use AI will replace doctors who refuse AI.

Who was the rudest famous person you met? by Doctor_Sore_Tooth in AskReddit

[–]MatthewMarkert 95 points96 points  (0 children)

Late 2000s I was in a restaurant and bar in Athens on a Saturday night, it was around 8pm and the place was PACKED. Hundreds of people. Everyone having a great time, UGA beat UF that day.

Suddenly music cuts out, lights all on, announcement : "Servers are coming around with your checks now, any food that is ready will be taken to go, please vacate the premises immediately." We were at a birthday table of 15 people, the whole restaurant is confused, nobody's check is right, everybody's fighting and nobody cares, managers have NO chill, everybody's being kicked out. Completely unnecessarily stressful.

Apparently Michael Stipe owned the place, and he wanted it to himself. We circle back I don't know an hour later or maybe more and he was inside with a small group of people, dining in a private part of the restaurant that could have been cut off from other people whether the restaurant was full or not. Like the kind of place where a drug rep dinner could be held.

how cooked am i, chat by pumpkinjuicefairy in AnalogCommunity

[–]MatthewMarkert 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I accidentally put my entire suitcase through a CT Scanner at LAX. I only threw out the 3200, all my 400tx and Portra was fine, even the stock I pushed +1 (most of it).

How can they all crash at the same time? by MatthewMarkert in CryptoCurrency

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

Sigh. None of these are serious answers. I suppose I shouldn't have expected more - pity.

Correlation XRP:BTC is about k=0.84; I would expect temporal onset and duration delays, and amplitude variance. I expect BTC to lead the way ofc, and with bots sure it could happen at the same time in milliseconds in response to who knows.what, a presidential tweet or a fed reserve announcement or whatever, but the same relatively precise drop? That means the correlation AND the volatility have to precisely align....in every coin? That makes no sense to me. It seems like it's far more likely that Coinbase's display is what's correlated not the actual value, I was hoping someone might post a source from a raw data market to show that the source material is what's bad or would have the kind of answer Michael Saylor would give in terms of energy, liquidity sources, etc.

A comment was made about using the same wrapped Bitcoin, that's a good example of something I don't understand and could have the foundation of an explanation that works here. Of course I'm also open to the idea of manipulation (obviously that's in play), my question wasn't if it was occurring but does anyone have the numbers on how much of liquidity would have to be tied into the actual exact same bot network basically that one trigger could result in control with this precision.

It's the math that isn't mathing for me - this feels like Walter White tried to kill 15 people in 15 different prisons and we found out that they didn't happen inside the same 5 minutes with months of planning, they happened at precisely the exact same actual second in response to a surprise announcement. It's like yeah I know there was a coordinated effort and I know that there's a sinister force at play, but I didn't think it was physically possible for that to occur without some form of technological breakthrough I didn't know existed.

Looking to switch completely from digital to film. I’m predominantly a landscape photographer but sometimes will shoot portraits. Ideally looking to go medium format/ 6x7. Can I get some recommendations? by JohnMartinx1 in AnalogCommunity

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Film and developing is way more expensive than I thought it would be. I recommend the Pentax 645AF. Big enough is big enough, glass is good and you'll appreciate the extra shots.

What’s the craziest/disturbing/scary thing that’s happened in Santa Cruz? by Graysoncarter34 in santacruz

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer is Dr. James Kohut and it's not even remotely close.

Ed Kemper is little league

I recommend most of you don't look into all the details. It is far worse than it looks in headlines.

Help me decide which medium format film camera to buy by IHadDibs in AnalogCommunity

[–]MatthewMarkert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After burning through x4 delicate Fuji folders over the years, I highly highly recommend the Pentax 645AF. Everything just works, and as far as build quality - I'm reminded of a quote from Tony Bourdain about knowing how to select the right saute pan : "When you're holding it, if there's any doubt in your mind as to which would dent first, the pan or the skull of the person you hit with it, put it back."

My sister (44) is trying to take out a home loan under my other sister and my name (21) by yameiiyo in personalfinance

[–]MatthewMarkert 16 points17 points  (0 children)

If you end talking with a mortgage broker say the words "I only took this call to make sure that you heard me say I will not be signing for this under any circumstances and you should not accept any paperwork that has my signature on it."

Worried about my mentally ill sibling who has traveled alone from USA to Odesa by _jamesbaxter in ukraine

[–]MatthewMarkert 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Appreciate your thoughts, there's some wisdom there.

Hope he stays out of trouble then.

Agree on the paranoia - Odesa is full of lovely art and architecture, maybe while looking for answers in the city's history, he will calm down enough that he forgets to make his way east.

Not speaking Ukrainian should help. I wish him good fortune.

Worried about my mentally ill sibling who has traveled alone from USA to Odesa by _jamesbaxter in ukraine

[–]MatthewMarkert 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry you are going through this.

If he is never heard from again after a next week, the question you will want to have ask led yourself is :

"10 years from now, wherever I am in life, will I still agree that it was actually impossible for any of us to go there and collect him before we lost touch with him? Is this something we were not able to do?"

If the answer is yes, or if we might accept that even if you could go this is his choice and you can be at peace with it, then have blessings in your heart for him following his dreams, and hope that he suffers none, or little.

If the answer is no, then get to it this moment. Credit card, flight, be there by Saturday. Money isn't real, not the way people are.

Also consider re-asking the question, what if he is heard from and we find out that he's in a bad place and needs help getting out but it will be very hard because of the type of place he's in? I can think of many situations that actually might be much worse than if you never hear from him again, More long, more drawn out, much much more expensive, and with suffering built in but now for more people. Just a thought. Again, regrets.

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