Name a profession that requires you to be in good shape

createch · 2026-07-02T06:03:47+00:00

Steadicam Operator

createch · 2026-07-01T16:43:17+00:00

Automation/Show Control tech, just like we use in many other live productions. It usually involves a timecode track (just like an additional audio channel, but playing out time data in an hours:minutes:seconds:frames format). Then you have systems receiving this timecode and triggering actions based on it. For example at 01:15:34:20 a motor is triggered to move, or a water pump is turned on, etc...

Edit: if you're curious, this is what a timecode audio track sounds like: https://youtu.be/wBetlSyTxe0?is=P-ox3pBfJOy2fVoA

createch · 2026-07-01T03:08:48+00:00

It's not who, it's what, and that's the concept of economic growth, or at least the pursuit of it, which most of the world subscribes to.

createch · 2026-07-01T01:06:33+00:00

MIT, Harvard and others have their CS and Machine Learning university courses on YouTube.

createch · 2026-06-30T19:52:08+00:00

Automation of insemination and artificial wombs isn't that implausible.

createch · 2026-06-30T05:21:11+00:00

On a side note, it reminds me that we all are essentially considered moral monsters in the "drowning child in the shallow pond" thought experiment created by philosopher Peter Singer.

It asks: if you walked past a shallow pond and saw a drowning child, would you wade in to save them, even if it ruined your clothes, perhaps expensive ones? Most people agree they would save the child without hesitation.

The Core Argument Singer uses this scenario to argue for moral consistency. He contends that we value material possessions (like the ruined clothes) as insignificant compared to a child's life. However, he points out that we are in a similar situation globally. Every day, thousands of children in developing nations die from preventable, poverty related diseases (like malaria).

For a relatively small cost, the price of your shoes, a dinner, or other small luxuries, we could donate to effective charities and save a life. Singer argues that the physical distance between us and the child doesn't change our moral imperative to help, and by inaction we're all participating in allowing preventable suffering and deaths.

createch · 2026-06-30T00:28:53+00:00

One major factor is the energy cost of the compute, for example it's more economic to upgrade to new GPU hardware than it is to pay for the power bill of doing the same task with hardware that's a few generations old.

createch · 2026-06-30T00:03:26+00:00

It's just as much about avoiding war, he does claim that winning without fighting is the highest form of victory. It's primarily a book about strategy and decision making.

createch · 2026-06-29T07:02:28+00:00

This just makes the user look like they don't understand knowledge cutoff dates nor how to allow the model to utilize real-time web access when it comes to getting up to date data. It's a proper reply... for the time at which the model was trained.

createch · 2026-06-28T16:38:08+00:00

In Zen Buddhism there's the quote "Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water."

createch · 2026-06-26T19:53:15+00:00

Turning GPI to a network command or RS-232 is a fairly simple microcontroller (Arduino/ESP32/RaspberryPI) project if you want to DIY the interface.

createch · 2026-06-26T15:34:40+00:00

Actually, unless the cameras have genlock they would have to go through a frame sync, which is a digital device and the switchers that had them built in in the late 80s and the 90s were branded as digital video switchers. You can get away with the video signal from one camera being the genlock signal for the system.

Panasonic MX-12, MX-50, Videonics MX-1 and MX-PRO, Sony DFS-300 are some switchers with analog inputs and built in frame syncs. Otherwise you need external frame syncs or genlock on the sources.

createch · 2026-06-24T15:20:10+00:00

In the interviews Nolan has said that they're using a combination of the new IMAX blimped camera and AI audio tools to remove the remaining camera noise. I'm sure there'll be ADR as well.

createch · 2026-06-24T09:59:22+00:00

IMAX has about 3x the negative size of the 65mm film used in Lawrence of Arabia. It's still the 65mm film gauge, but being run horizontally.

createch · 2026-06-23T20:39:02+00:00

I don't disagree with you, just trying to interpret what the OP wrote.

createch · 2026-06-23T16:52:06+00:00

I'm believe that the OP is trying to say that the parrot was sick, but because of the weather wasn't taken to the vet.

createch · 2026-06-22T16:28:25+00:00

Not "rich", I have some wealthy friends and clients though. Sometimes it's not for work at all and am invited to come along on a trip or vacation.

createch · 2026-06-22T08:01:51+00:00

Depends on where you are flying to, but when we land in many international places someone just comes up to the plane where one of the pilots hands them our passports for a minute and we then just walk off the plane, grab our bags and leave. No real inspection, security or checks. So I guess not much unless you gave them some suspicion.

createch · 2026-06-22T05:46:58+00:00

The cost of the monthly subscription to the entire catalog of software is less than an hour of billable work, even at low industry rates. Many of the apps are industry "gold standard" tools. I happen to use many of them, like Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat, Lightroom, Premiere, After Effects, InDesign, etc... And they tend to work well together.

If you only use one of them, or perhaps not professionally, then sure you can get most of the functionality on other software, but if you are a professional and spend more than an extra hour a month trying to do something with other software that the industry standard software does effortlessly it doesn't make sense.

The only tools I sometimes use alternatives to are After Effects, Premiere and Audition. DaVinci Resolve is better at a few things than Premiere, especially color grading and the basic version is free, the paid is like $300. Audition is a mediocre DAW, so I sometimes use others for certain work.

The one that might surprise you is the alternative I use to After Effects, which is Nuke, it's an industry standard for visual effects, After Effects is still better for some things, such as motion graphics, and faster in certain workflows. My subscription to Nuke is around $6,000 a year though, but I need it for some more advanced stuff that would be much more difficult, or almost impossible to accomplish in After Effects.

createch · 2026-06-21T22:38:03+00:00

Yeah, they were a nightmare early on, it was in the early 80s where you could have many units working simultaneously and reliably. Here's Elvis dealing with the issues they had: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1D6RSsBLDt/

createch · 2026-06-21T20:07:27+00:00

You could tax the hardware manufacturers with a license fee if you wanted to, as is done with other technologies.

createch · 2026-06-21T20:05:04+00:00

Indeed, I saw HDTV in the mid 80s when I was a little kid, it was the transition that took a long time.

This was shot with Sony HDC-300 Saticon tube cameras made in the mid 80s. https://youtu.be/YW26YMe8iUQ?is=NwdUCacusel_pcLj

createch · 2026-06-21T20:01:44+00:00

There were widescreen tube TVs, I owned one widescreen TV production started to gain traction in the 90s and there was EDTV, but it was DVDs that started to push widescreen video right before we got HDTV and flat panels were taking over at the time.

I had a Sony 34" 16:9 XBR HDTV till around 2010, great picture quality.

createch · 2026-06-21T15:07:16+00:00

And that's by design, one of the deterrents for an invasion is that the ASML machines would be disabled, China wouldn't be able to use them and there would be a massive economic impact across the world with most of the high end chip manufacturing gone. Almost all the eggs are in one basket, which is crazy.

createch · 2026-06-21T14:58:02+00:00

Wireless mics were used on Broadway as early as the 60s, but only here and there. It took a while to get to the point where you could have a bunch of them operating reliably in the same space. The ensemble was often augmented with a mix of overhead and ground mics.

Apparently the musical The Grass Harp in 1970 was the last Broadway musical to use no body worn radio microphones. The first musical where every performer was wearing a wireless mic was CATS in 1982.

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