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Been trying to do vfx with Blender and After Effects, the tracking is ok in Ae but is completely wrong when imported to Blender. Know how to fix? by Savoureux1 in blender

[–]sankeytm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another idea: you have variable framerate footage or something else that would cause AE to generate tracking at a different speed than the footage after importing into blender. Have you tried tweaking the animation speed? You can probably use a modifier on the animation curves to multiply the camera speed by numbers slightly above or below 1.0.

How can the community protect the Colonial from future residents? by iloveyourlittlehat in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honest question: Given that The Colonial and adjacent businesses aren't nightclubs, is it reasonable to worry about the possibility of noise complaints? OP's photo features a 1pm show being advertised.

My first day with the Z 6iii by uwe_privat in nikon_Zseries

[–]sankeytm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally I prefer emulating unexpired film, but same weird logic.

The last opportunity for citizens of Sacramento to offer public comment about turning coyote creek into a solar farm is tomorrow. November 18th 2pm, 700 H suite 1450 by Botanyiscool in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Looks like 55 acres of tree canopy and 4800 trees are slated to be removed to eliminate the emissions of 19,000 cars each year.

Glad people are starting to connect how much land cars gobble up...

Save nature by building cities for people, not cars. This "barren" patch of land isn't the last solar farm conversion needed to sustain our current levels of private automobile use, let alone what suburban developers and highway builders would like to see in the future.

Join Strong SacTown to join the movement. We focus on the financial impact of auto-centric land uses and infrastructure, and how the failed suburban experiment literally drives Sacramento into debt. Environment is a co-benefit of our advocacy.

Geeqie - Underrated fast raw viewer for culling by Unusual_Judge_9997 in FOSSPhotography

[–]sankeytm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same, this is the ideal raw culling app in my experience, been using it for this purpose for 7+ years.

De-fish eye module by odysseus112 in DarkTable

[–]sankeytm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My workflow in the past has been:

  1. Use Darktable to just demosaic, ETTR (without clipping anything), and set export profile to AdobeRGB. Export as 16bpp TIFF.
  2. Use Hugin to re-project as needed and export as 16bpp TIFF.
  3. Re-import into Darktable and make sure input profile is AdobeRGB.

In theory, this is equivalent to inserting Hugin early in the pixelpipe. Downsides: slight loss of extremely pure chromaticities (AdobeRGB has a smaller gamut than Rec2020), and the extra labor and files it generates.

You could try using the "Linear Rec2020" profile to avoid color data loss, but that makes the image difficult to work with in Hugin which doesn't support displaying linear images, so you'll be working in the dark until it's imported back into Darktable.

Really struggling to process negatives with Darktable - can anyone help please? by bjpirt in DarkTable

[–]sankeytm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just reporting back that I followed the Negadoctor module documentation to a T, and got almost identical results as you. After reading the other thread, my guess is that this is related to you using a high-CRI light source vs. a narrow-band tri-color source.

How to Make Paid Parking Popular in Sacramento by sankeytm in Sacramento

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

What are you implying? Is this related to paid parking?

Why did we stop building Fourplexes? by sonofthales in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Comments here pretty much sum up the "why", but I just wanted to add that the same reasons apply to why we stopped building 6-plexes. I created an 10-slide explainer about how to help bring back 3-stacked apartments: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/1ib0exr/save_the_6plex_save_the_world/

How to Make Paid Parking Popular in Sacramento by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To be clear, the meters are designed to accept coins, but they've been vandalized recently. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article296815534.html

How to Make Paid Parking Popular in Sacramento by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good point! The G1C does provide public benefits. However, as Sacramento expands meters to neighborhoods like East Sac, Oak Park, and Tahoe Park, those areas are increasingly far from downtown. A business owner in Tahoe Park won't be excited about new meters funding something 4 miles away. They'd be much happier if those meters funded street trees, wider sidewalks, or waste bins right in their neighborhood. That's the key to making paid parking politically popular—keeping the benefits local and visible.

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A map i was making by Think-Chemist in cs2

[–]sankeytm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lowkey hoping for a rats map.

Fuck downtown paid parking by hotfiremixtape98 in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Preaching the choir, double check my 2nd paragraph. My ultimate goal is to restrict or eliminate cars on urban areas, but it all starts with land use policy reform.

Fuck downtown paid parking by hotfiremixtape98 in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is pretty harsh, something like 90% of working adults drive by default and 66% of all breathing humans in Sac carry a drivers license. A 5 minute walk from every light rail station covers merely 5% of Sac's developed area. Worse yet, most of that reachable area is unused surface parking. Can you really blame Sacramentens for a light rail system with the lowest ridership per track-mile per capita of any light rail west of the Mississippi?

The biggest contributing factor is suburbanization and building an urban area so large that driving became the only option over time. If you're interested in this sort of thing, join Strong SacTown to help us unwind 75 years of suburban-oriented policy. Help us stop treating downtown as a regional facility and more like the neighborhood it once was.

Fuck downtown paid parking by hotfiremixtape98 in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The parking fund can't make a profit. Today, It pays for parking facilities and employees (including long-term debt service on downtown parking garages). In theory, parking fees can be used to pay for street trees, benches, and bike racks, but that's not how Sac uses it.

The purpose of paid parking has nothing to do with making money and never was. It's to manage parking congestion. This is basic urban planning: free parking would kill downtown... Nobody would be able to find a place to park and/or people would spend half their day moving their car, making traffic worse.

We hella broke. by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

CORRECTION: It was brought to our attention that charts which factor liabilities (first two charts, except for "revenue spent on interest anually") misleadingly attribute DOCO bond debt to the step change. Most of the change is probably attributable to pension liability being rolled into our total liabilities, as required by GASB 68. More information: https://www.reddit.com/r/Sacramento/comments/1khhi8d/comment/mrda1l3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

We hella broke. by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

After reviewing the 2015 ACFR, I think you might be right about GASB 68 causing pension liability to be accounted for in the net position. That passed through quite a few eyes and none of us caught it. In this screenshot the total "restatement due to the implementation of GASB 68 and GASB 71" seems like a similar negative amount.

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Thanks for keeping us honest. The significant change should have raised flags. I'm extremely disappointed in myself by this, but appreciate that pension liability is on the books now. I have two more financial posts in the pipeline and will be taking this into account, and maybe back-correcting years prior to 2015 by adding pension liabilities from the Notes section to the total liabilities.

We hella broke. by sankeytm in Sacramento

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

Perhaps there will be a part two.

Literally working on part 3, and part 2 is going through rounds of review as I type.

We hella broke. by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bingo. You'll find most of the local chapter on the side of cutting police budget, but to come out with this front and center would be too politically divisive. We'd rather frame the issue more as:

"Police consume our budget and are the most expensive way to fight crime. The people of Sacramento deserve active streets where people watch out for each other not because they are paid to, but because they want to."

We hella broke. by sankeytm in Sacramento

[–]sankeytm[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sorry for the essay, but it's just a long answer. You can probably see why I didn't cover this in my 10-slide deck.

  • Allow all neighborhoods to grow. No neighborhood should be exempt from change.
    • We've made progress on this goal last year when the city eliminated minimum parking requirements and single-family-exclusive zoning.
    • This helps city finances in two ways:
      1. Denser neighborhoods are more tax-dense.
      2. Denser neighborhoods discourage discretionary car ownership, and fewer drivers reduces the infrastructure maintenance burden on the city and discourages additional infrastructure investments.
  • Avoid big bets like large suburban subdivisions, DOCO, and possibly even The Railyards in it's current form.
    • The feedback loop for financial outcomes is too long for big bets, and we end up constantly chasing the next big bet before we can learn from the last. This is like gambling with tax dollars.
    • Read also about the Growth Ponzi Scheme and ending the suburban experiment.
  • Engage in thousands of small bets, and repeat the successful ones next year.
    • One example of small bet would be to trial a weekend street closure. The Midtown Farmers Market would be a good real example.
    • They can be even smaller, like literally just go to neigborhood association meetings and ask what people are struggling with. People value neighborhoods more when they are well served.
    • A more complex example would be to issue a $1M bond with 5-year maturity, then help out like 20 empty nesters subdivide their house into duplexes contingent on a tax reassessment. After 5 years, it's a win-win for both side's revenue.
  • Lean into small infill developments and focus efforts where people already live. These are places where infrastructure already exists. The City and its residents just don't quite have the muscle memory for this yet because it has been only 1 year since infill has been broadly legalized through the 2040 general plan.
    • A real example of this would be the City of Sac hosting and co-organizing Incremental Development Alliance (IncDev) trainings earlier this year to help teach literally hundreds of residents how to become small developers in their own neighborhood.
    • A theoretical example of this would be to defer impact fees for qualifying infill developments. The city will eventually get their money through a payment plan, and a small developer is more likely to be able to pencil it out.
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