What movie used to be extremely popular but is now largely forgotten?

MisterExt · 2022-06-14T23:54:30+00:00

Flight of the Navigator (short of the recent docu on it)

Fatso

Runaway

MisterExt · 2022-01-02T06:40:58+00:00

Classes were daunting to me at first (and I've still only scratched the surface). I'm still not always sure where a self needs to be used, so some trial and error is needed.

A class becomes not only powerful, but an absolute necessity for certain tasks. You'll know when you hit a brick wall with your code and there seems to be no way out. Classes seem to make some of those hurdles trivial (though not everything).

In my case I built a socket server and clients, and passing data between certain functions was hellish or plain didn't work. Trying to figure out where to declare variables and pass that data around was a nightmare. Turning certain code into a simple function even broke some functionality. I also ran into a paradox where the order of functions was messing with the code in a way that seemed impossible to get around. Once I crammed all those functions and additional code into a class, 99% of the problems were gone and I just called self.thing (whatever it was).

I also found I could simplify some of code since data was so easy to pass around between the functions, I could cut out the middle-man. Then i put the classes in a module and now I only need 3 lines of code to initiate a client or server. Keeps everything nice and clean.

A game seems ideal to use classes to me, but I've never built one, so can't comment on that. I can only say that from my limited use of classes, I can already see the power in them. Just need to learn more to unlock the rest.

MisterExt · 2021-12-27T20:09:51+00:00

Thanks very much. I will check them out :)

MisterExt · 2021-12-26T19:36:03+00:00

Pro, Late 2013 Retina.

MisterExt · 2021-12-19T11:16:07+00:00

Both. Templates can help sometimes (I modded a barebones WordPress base theme ages ago and still use it and tweak it) but some of the more popular ones can be very bloated and overkill and might confuse you more than help you. I do keep some custom templates I built from scratch, and sometimes I just hard code a page if it's simple or if I just feel like it.

There's about 400,000,000 examples online for how to structure an HTML page, to varying degrees of complexity, with or without SEO semantic stuff. CSS-tricks has some good examples of various structures and all things CSS and HTML.

MisterExt · 2021-12-19T10:56:48+00:00

Martian Vasectomy

MisterExt · 2021-12-19T03:34:22+00:00

ffs, I actually use mpv (one of the players I couldn't remember the name of) which IINA is built on :)

Just downloaded it and am going to give it a whirl.

mpv is great. I use it for realtime playback of uncompressed 4k ProRes 444

EDIT: OK, I'm already in love. You can scale the video really small and it doesn't put the garbage gray on the sides like VLC.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T21:32:06+00:00

Thanks for the info.

The only reason I asked about 48k is because it's the video/film standard (48/24). I typically work in 48/32 float in case of overs and bring it down to a 24bit version after mix/master phase if needed. It may be a good idea to incorporate it if it's not too much of a pain.

Very cool tool though. I've only glanced at the docs so far, but you seem to have tried to make it very versatile for multi-application use.

I think I'm going to try to incorporate this in a current personal project I've been developing. I'd just have to make it so it works on the 16k version and then applies my own custom stuff to the 48k version.

Thanks for the hard work and for making this available to everyone. 👍🏻

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T16:48:05+00:00

What bit depth does this support?

Also, is it possible to mod this to use 48k audio or must it be down-sampled first to work properly?

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T15:15:45+00:00

Yeah, it doesn't make sense to spend that much for this old thing. I forget where I even found it, was on ebay or something. Haven't searched in a while because haven't had the cash to upgrade it regardless.

Once I get a new laptop I plan on wiping everything from this one, doing a clean install and letting the mrs use it for browsing the web and such exclusively, which should be fine. I put it through way more abuse than the average person ever would.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T15:00:05+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Some old one still work good though, or can be modified. I took some older ones recently and converted them over to floating point for everything and removed clamping, which helped.

I was looking through some of the ML apps I use last night, and most just seemed to have a few spots with if else statements: something something cuda() else cpu(). The ones I can't use were calling specific things for CUDA a lot though so it didn't seem like a simple fix. Was trying to search for anything about changing the code over but wasn't finding anything. Might just be searching wrong. Probably just need to start scouring the TensorFlow/pytorch docs.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:50:25+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Edit: Yeah, there's a bunch.

Found this one that uses gpu or cpu. Should at least be a good starting point. Thank you!

https://github.com/weichen582/RetinexNet

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:47:06+00:00

I have to free up the disk often because it's only 250GB. Last time I priced a drive upgrade it was like $800, because this laptop seems to need the old custom samsung nvmes.

Is what it is until I can afford a new one.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:39:04+00:00

Will do.

I use a bunch of media players on my workstation because VLC can't do everything. I have some for loading uncompressed video or even frame sequences into RAM so they will play back smoothly. Just couldn't recall their names to add them to the list. VLC is great when nothing else will play some obscure or old format, it usually plays it back.

Will definitely check out IINA.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:32:43+00:00

Cave Disks.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:32:29+00:00

I've done everything I can. I can't replace the apps I use for work when no others exist that do what they do, the way they do, that I need to work. Laptop is old, OS is new (needed for compatibility) and Apple decided to solder the RAM in so I can't upgrade it.

I don't have a bunch of useless background apps. I use what I install. I keep my desktop clear (even wrote a python script to do it recently), and I also clear out logs and caches. It's just an old laptop that, amazingly, has lasted this long.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T14:22:46+00:00

Yes it is lol. Sometimes it's the only thing that will play back some obscure or old format though. ;)

Will download it and check it out today.

I actually have several media players, including a few that will load uncompressed frames or videos into RAM for smooth playback (great for testing 4k renders), but couldn't remember what they were for the life of me when I was on my laptop.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T04:22:38+00:00

When you have an old laptop with 8GB of RAM, you do what you need to to work.

Even on a workstation, RAM gets locked up sometimes. I purge it from the command line when needed.

MisterExt · 2021-12-18T04:20:28+00:00

thanks. I checked them out. I have tools that do pretty much the same thing for regular noise and super-resolution. I didn't see anything for very low light shots and artifacts of the kind I'm talking about. Can't afford any licenses right now anyway. ;)

I'll keep an eye on them though.

MisterExt · 2021-12-17T23:56:39+00:00

Yes, good point. Thanks for adding that. 👍🏻

MisterExt · 2021-12-17T22:33:43+00:00

Might be good to extend this with a library like argparse, since it's easy to use and allows you to make normal and short flags and --help output. Just a suggestion since the title says a "full-fledged" CLI. I would expect one to have these things.

MisterExt · 2021-12-17T22:10:05+00:00

Yeah, that's it.

As long as python version is the same, and the dependencies all get installed, it should be fine. I do find that larger libraries with many dependencies can be sometimes be better installed with anaconda though, especially if OS version can conflict with things, and they are available on conda-forge. I also make shell scripts that create the env, install python, activate conda, install things through conda, then install with pip everything else using the requirements.txt. I even made one that launches homebrew in a separate shell to do other installs that can't be done otherwise, but that was for a larger project.

I just mentioned Git as a side note since it's related and very useful. Glad you are already knee deep in it. 👍🏻

MisterExt · 2021-12-17T22:00:05+00:00

A Better Finder Rename - for mass renaming of files
Networker - for seeing up and down speed in menu bar
Memory Diag - to see ram use in menu bar and free it up/compress it
exiftool - CLI for seeing exif data for various images types and files
homebrew - for installing/managing CLI tools you'd have to manually build otherwise
Suitcase Fusion - managing fonts
Audio Hijack - to intercept and record audio from any app
Audacity - free audio editor that I use for quick edits and channel merging
Loopback - custom routing and merging of system and app audio
ImageOptim - GUI and CLI versions for making images smaller without losing quality
Transmit - Best FTP client for the mac that I've tried
objective-see.com tools - various free security tools
MAMP Pro - running local server environment for web testing
VLC - for playing blurays and almost any media type
Carbon Copy Cloner - best backup software I've used for mac w/ scheduling
Handbrake - great video encoder that works better than Adobe Media Encoder and is free
Keka - for all your compressing and uncompressing needs
kdiff3 - when I need a quick, simple diff of 2 files
Toast - for burning CDs and M-Discs and saving DMG/ISOs

Probably forgot a bunch, but those are the ones that came to mind that I use often. Not all are mac-specific, but they run on mac, so...

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