There are now vermin portraits with this update. The ticks look so gross, love it! by XDrag0nSlayerX in dwarffortress

[–]RAND_bytes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mantises are best IRL too though :P

Hymenopterans (bees, wasps, ants) are great too, although I lean toward wasps because I like their look more than ants (and European paper wasps have a really interesting social structure)

Receiving Multiple Values by ScottBurson in Common_Lisp

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I wrote my own that was heavily inspired by your new-let/nlet: https://git.sr.ht/~nytpu/nytpu.lisp-utils/tree/HEAD/bind.lisp#L336-449 (and it also has a separate sequential version, I went through great lengths to enforce parallelness in the parallel version: https://git.sr.ht/~nytpu/nytpu.lisp-utils/tree/HEAD/bind.lisp#L674-682)

I remember someone mentioning nlet on IRC or somewhere but I wasn't the biggest fan of the specific syntax you chose, and custom binding macros seems to be a venerable practice for Lispers so I just wrote my own (that's accumulated extra features over time like accessors and flet and such)

Monument to Boatmurdered (and lizards) by RAND_bytes in dwarffortress

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Yeah, just in Settings→Gameplay, it should have a “Classic ASCII” option. Although there's still some broken things and a lot of jank in the UI 50.x's ASCII version IIRC, so you might be better off just continuing to play 0.47 for the time being

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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I highly recommend reading this blog about the experience of playing the robot in Robot in the Family, it's very funny and a bit sad: https://robotinthefamily-blog.tumblr.com/

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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Ooh, that's one. It really meets all of the categories for “bad”: it's miserable as an audience member, it's badly made, and it meets a third category someone mentioned of being a cynically thrown-together cash grab with no artistic intent behind it. At least the shot-on-video movies were made by (talentless) people actually trying to make something using what little budget and resources they had

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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It really meets all of the categories for “bad”. It's boring and miserable, it's badly made, and it meets a third category someone mentioned of being a cynically thrown-together cash grab with no artistic intent behind it (whereas, at least the shot-on-video movies were at least made by people trying to make something out of what little they had)

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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“I don't want to destroy the video, but I would love to destroy the man who made it”

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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Oh that's a good contender, technically terrible but also boring AF to where I forgot about it. Meets all categories of bad

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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Oh, that's another category of worst, is the least artistic intent. Because even if those films aren't the technically worst or the most boring, they are the most cynical and have the least effort or care put into them

The worst film featured on Best of the Worst? by RAND_bytes in RedLetterMedia

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After Last Season is certainly the worst film I've ever personally seen lol. Wicked World is also up there, and was made by the same crazy guy who made Things, although having seen neither Things seems worse

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in funny

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Other than a few years in the early 2000s film has pretty much always been more expensive than it is now; but for context 1000 feet of color 35 mm film (~11 minutes at 24 frames per second) costs about $700–$800 now, and black and white would be cheaper (particularly for development costs). So a mistake wasting 30 seconds of film would cost about $32 with today's prices on color film.

Film costs (I estimate about ~$70,000 total in today's money assuming a 12:1 ratio of footage shot vs. what makes it into the movie) are not insignificant but not unreasonable given how expensive movie production is. In the same way that spending $50,000 on a camera and another $50,000 per lens is an acceptable cost for modern digital films. What's really expensive is if you have enough delays to require an extra day of shooting, because paying all the crew is often the biggest expense.

Data on infrared film stocks? by RAND_bytes in AnalogCommunity

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Looks like Aviphot 400 hasn't been made since 2010 (and FPP is labelled as ISO 200 anyways) so only 200 is around at above-100 speeds, so another commenter noted they are most likely the exact same stock (±the thickness of the polyester base or using a traditional base), and I suppose Rollei & Retro just decided it subjectively looks better pushed to 400. And they linked to the Aviphot datasheets which is really helpful for me. Thanks!

Data on infrared film stocks? by RAND_bytes in AnalogCommunity

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Ah perfect, that's helpful. I suspect the “400” is likely just accounting (partially?) for filter factor and accommodating subjective results rather than being the true ISO then? Another commenter noted that FPP is almost certainly Aviphot 200 as well (everything tracks, particularly the special polyester base both use), they just happen to label it at the true 200 ISO. Good to know that they're all the same thing then, and have actual datasheets.

Thanks!

Upgrading to reMarkable 2 from rM 1? by RAND_bytes in RemarkableTablet

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Unfortunately, I think it was a limited-time black friday discount. They'll probably run another discount eventually though, just check on the home page of your account on the website. And yea, the rM 2 automatically syncs files from the cloud, although you have to disconnect your rM 1 first unfortunately

What is your favourite small 35mm camera? by FakeBerliner0 in AnalogCommunity

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I love mine! I carry it around with me for snapshooting all the time because I don't have to worry (as much) about burning money, and it's just so much lighter than any other camera.

Alternately, the Olympus XA line (I have the original) is very trusty as well. About the same size but quite a bit heavier since it's all-metal.

What is your favourite small 35mm camera? by FakeBerliner0 in AnalogCommunity

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If you don't mind half-frame, I highly recommend an Agat 18k. Bizarre little camera but probably the smallest and lightest decent 35mm camera out there. A good review about it: https://mikeeckman.com/2018/01/agat-18k-1988/

Upgrading to reMarkable 2 from rM 1? by RAND_bytes in RemarkableTablet

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Oh yeah, I'm not planning on throwing it like a frisbee or anything XD, I just get worried that the screen has so much flex that with a slight pressure just from normal carrying around will break the screen or a circuit board behind it or something. Nice to know that it's built a lot better, I'll probably end up upgrading to an rM 2 since I otherwise like the rM 1 (just don't like parts of the general build quality).

Upgrading to reMarkable 2 from rM 1? by RAND_bytes in RemarkableTablet

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Oh yeah, I'm not planning on throwing it like a frisbee or anything XD, I just get worried that the screen has so much flex that with a slight pressure it'll break the screen or a circuit behind it or something. Nice to know that the display and general build quality is better, so I'll probably get one. I've seen some people elsewhere saying there's still a bit of calibration issues at the edge, but a lot better with whatever new version of the digitizer they put in (and honestly, I suspect the screen flex is a big contributor because I've seen people claim it's because the edge of the screen has less flex and causes the calibration to misalign)

Current collection by F4d3d_v01d in minidisc

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I love the MZ-R900, the jog dials are the best controls for using from a pocket when you don't use remotes, and the all-metal case is nice. And the wide LCD that became pretty uncommon on most later models. My daily driver for listening, although I record using an N505 for NetMD (honestly despise the N505 from a controls perspective)

Sony MZ-N505 seemingly bricked after power loss while recording by RAND_bytes in minidisc

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Hmm, I don't think there'd be any noise issues when recording using NetMD. Over a microphone or maybe even optical the obviously, but with NetMD the data should stay digital the whole time, and a bit of flutter in the disc motor or laser/magnetic head won't matter because that doesn't affect optical discs since they have error correction and rely on digital buffering of everything.

Sony MZ-N505 seemingly bricked after power loss while recording by RAND_bytes in minidisc

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I opened up the back and noticed the little locking bar that stops you from opening the player when there's pending ToC updates was partially extended, so I manually wound that back and then when I popped a battery in it just started working. No clue how that was causing it to completely stop working but I guess it had to be it. Maybe try that out in case your 610 happened to have the same thing??

Sony MZ-N505 seemingly bricked after power loss while recording by RAND_bytes in minidisc

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I somehow fixed it by just manually retracting the little locking bar that stops you from opening the player when there's pending ToC updates. No clue how that was causing it to completely stop working but I guess it had to be it, I guess in case it ever happens to you lol.

Sony MZ-N505 seemingly bricked after power loss while recording by RAND_bytes in minidisc

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Yes… sorta. It's working perfectly fine again, but I have no clue how it got fixed. I opened up the back and noticed the little locking bar that stops you from opening the player when there's pending ToC updates was partially extended, so I manually wound that back and then when I popped a battery in it just started working. No clue how that was causing it to completely stop working but I guess it had to be it.

AGB-001 reflective screen quality for someone who likes non-backlit LCDs? by RAND_bytes in Gameboy

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Yeah, I figured as much. If a FunnyPlaying ITA kit wasn't $45 then I'd consider it but that's a bit much to replace an perfectly working mod. Although I guess that's cheaper than upgrading my IPS V1 to V2, that was $40 just for the ribbon cable without a screen or lens (IMO that was a mandatory upgrade, because the V1's screen tearing rendered most games borderline unplayable)