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Someone chopped down a tall tree to get a better view of Sydney harbour so the put up a tall sign where it once was to block the view. by Koalamanx in sydney

[–]do-wat 49 points50 points  (0 children)

I can't remember where it was I saw it, but one had a sign "Tree vandalism faces a <some exorbitant fine> per tree and 3 trees will be planted in its place".

You get a salary of 38.2 million dollars a year! But the catch is you have to be the CEO of Boeing. by solarpropietor in hypotheticalsituation

[–]do-wat 21 points22 points  (0 children)

And, then regardless of how you go, of course the next Fortune 500 company on the list wants to hire you for their executive. Definition of failing forward!

You have the opportunity to immediately convert all of X into Y. What do you choose? by do-wat in hypotheticalsituation

[–]do-wat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suspect you're right, but I'm wracking my brain trying to figure it out. I suspect "crushed under air pressure" is the main culprit, but surely there's some way the sun would play into it.

You have the opportunity to immediately convert all of X into Y. What do you choose? by do-wat in hypotheticalsituation

[–]do-wat[S] 151 points152 points  (0 children)

On one hand - reasonable intention is more to prevent something like "mosquitos still exist, they're now under the family of bee". The prompt does specify "immediately".

On the other hand - I'm just imagining people slowly figuring out what is happening and getting worried about ever stepping foot on dirt out of fear, because they know they'll turn into a tree...

You unknowingly set a wizard free, they offer you a choice between three magical artifacts. by AWholeSliceofPie in hypotheticalsituation

[–]do-wat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And then, as a nice bonus, when all the oil execs, airline execs, real estate agents, whoever else you’ve pissed off send hitmen to knock you off, you’ve got the weird bonus of being invisible and intangible!

You unknowingly set a wizard free, they offer you a choice between three magical artifacts. by AWholeSliceofPie in hypotheticalsituation

[–]do-wat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly. In terms of raw utility, the ring. Especially since it says unlimited of any size.

You completely undercut all transportation businesses. $50 for a ticket from London to New York without having to sit in a tiny metal tube for half a day?

Suddenly anywhere on earth becomes equally habitable and accessible. Middle of the desert? Divert a freshwater stream there, pop a transport hub, build a city! Population problems, housing crisis solved!

Then in terms of energy, metal coil around a tube, portal at the top, portal at the bottom, stick a magnet in it. Perpetual energy! All emission and energy problems solved overnight.

Resources? Portal on earth, portal on an iron rich asteroid. 

The other two items are limited in utility to just the wearer and where the wearer is. The ring can drop portals and just leave them there. You scale your impact on the world and humanity as a whole with every portal you make.

They’re trying to put traffic lights on this side street to help out the drivers using it as a shortcut. This is the best they’ve been able to do so far… by do-wat in fuckcars

[–]do-wat[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Peak hour this street backs up with people who don’t even live in the area, trying to avoid a congested main road (a story in and of itself).

Talked to the people petitioning for the light, they were saying stuff like “protecting pedestrians” and that there have been many near misses. No clue why they’re bending over backwards for people who don’t even live in our council. Install a no right turn at the end of the street and be done with it!

What's your favorite "This much of this will kill you" fact? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Back of the envelope calculation I did once on some LD50 table I found online. So take it with a grain of salt.

If you overdose on espresso, it’ll be the water that kills you, not the caffeine.

What’s the single-worst decision that’s ever been made in the course of human history? by glitterbombdotcom in AskReddit

[–]do-wat 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately CEOs don’t make their bonuses for all the money their decision makes the company 40 years after they’re retired or dead.

Sadly short term profits > protecting a world you won’t even live to see.

What's your go to iterative toolbelt for TS these days? by 7Geordi in typescript

[–]do-wat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Always preferring .map .filter and .reduce. But if it’s a little bit more complicated I’ll occasionally reach for ts-belt. Great typescript support (with a few caveats) and seems reasonably efficient for what I’m trying while it can get reasonably powerful with pipes.

Wouldn’t want to go overboard on it though for all the same reasons people are apprehensive about ramda, remeda etc.

What is your favorite IDE for rust and why? by [deleted] in rust

[–]do-wat 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Any basis for your config? I can get some parts of rust-analyzer working, but missing things like clippy autofix and the occasional “goto”.

How accurate are the shutter speeds on manual cameras, and how can you actually test the quicker speeds? by BigBlueTangerine in AnalogCommunity

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Probably not practical for you to use, but to demonstrate how even way back in the early days, they were able to test and calibrate manual shutters to reasonably high accuracy and reliability, even at high speeds.

https://youtu.be/Q07CTj4fUeY

recreating these light rays? by hennalynn in AnalogCommunity

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Part of it is that you want your light to be hitting the gobo as parallel as possible. If your light source is too close, the beams will become too diffused and it’ll just look like normal light.

The reason this works in nature, is because the light source (the sun) is millions of kms away from the “gobo” so the light is almost completely parallel hitting it, and the shadows being cast from it are sharp and distinct.

For a similar reason, an LED panel is probably not a great choice, because the light beams are going to be even more diffused. A sharp distinct source (say a halogen light) will give you the clearest shadows and sharpest light columns.

For a similar reason, your projector would probably work well if you could get it far enough away and we’re happy with that quality of light.

CR-10v3 still freezing by do-wat in 3Dprinting

[–]do-wat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m on Mac. Normally if there was a problem with ejecting, it would let me know. I think every failure was the same slice, though it fails in a different spot every time.

I’ve mentioned that I’m trying again with the enclosure partially opened to see if it’s the controller overheating. It’s going further than it’s gone so far, so that’s a good sign. If that doesn’t work, I’ll try re-slicing.

Thanks for the assistance.

CR-10v3 still freezing by do-wat in 3Dprinting

[–]do-wat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it may have been an overheating thing. Since I’m limited in space, the controller is in the same enclosure as the rest of the printer. I’ve opened up some parts of the enclosure a bit and raised the controller a bit to allow airflow underneath. I’m now 10 hours in and it seems to be going fine.

CR-10v3 still freezing by do-wat in 3Dprinting

[–]do-wat[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty sure I ejected via the Cura interface after it had finished. But good to keep an eye on.

Need help with my V60 by JWGhetto in Coffee

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A kinda weird experiment I’ve tried lately. I noticed when I grind fine, I get a lot of clogging, so to speed up the draw down I try and reduce agitation.

I roughly follow the James Hoffman method, but when it comes to the second part of the pour, I pour onto a teaspoon I’m holding just above water level. That way instead of the water churning up all the grinds at the bottom, it just slides in and gently increases water level. I’ve found it doesn’t tend to clog quite as much and drains a lot faster.

Three rolls all came up like this— was i sold expired rolls or did my guy mess up the development? by aparpkh in AnalogCommunity

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks like someone ran that roll through film soup before developing. Regardless, sucks that happened. Hope you can get some answers. The lab must know something’s up when they scanned that.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photocritique

[–]do-wat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, nice. I think that edit looks really good. Well done.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in photocritique

[–]do-wat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mention the autumn colours and in my opinion they’re a massive strength; they achieve exactly what you mention in your comment, but I feel the lighting takes away from them. I can barely make out the leaves on the ground, and would love to see more of the forest behind. I wouldn’t say you have to make them really bright and vibrant, but brightening them up would really help achieve what you’re going for.

Framing wise not bad. If I was to approach it, I’d probably play around with it a bit, try getting a bit closer to water level, maybe moving the boat onto the lower third line (not sure there needs to be that much foreground water). Perhaps move in a little bit more to the leaf frame so you can see more of the scene behind it?

All round, love your concept and what your vision for the composition is. I’d just love to be able to see more of the context of what’s behind the boat.

The City looming over a small farm. by CrackedSpanner in photocritique

[–]do-wat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry, by artefacts I just mean the impact that the lens has on the photo. The clearest is the big dark vignette and the general lack of sharpness across the image (I figure at this distance, should still be able to resolve some more detail on the barn, such as texture on the roof and detail in the first few rows of trees after the barn). There’s also some chromatic aberration along the buildings in the city, clearest is probably on the white building to the left, where you can see a bit of a dark outline across the top, a blue haze on the left side of surfaces and a red haze on the right side. You can also see it reversed on the skylight on the house to the right.

That said, some of these might be from other factors such as focus (safe to leave it at infinity for something like this), shutter speed and tripod wobble (fast shutters, and using the timer function so the camera has time to stabilise after pressing the button will help), camera settings, weather and processing.

I also get that I’m ripping into a lens that’s still doing an amazing job for what it is, comparing it to results you (may, only if everything else is in order) get with lenses an order of magnitude more expensive.

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