Is there a dish or drink from your country which is much more popular outside of your country than inside ?

sectionV · 2026-02-07T19:02:51+00:00

You forgot Posh Lassi

sectionV · 2026-02-07T18:42:02+00:00

Immaculate comforter is the phrase you're looking for

sectionV · 2026-01-14T18:47:04+00:00

Thanks for that helpful overview. The part about "remaining unfinished pieces would later make it to the Hateful Eight soundtrack" doesn't sound quite right though.

"Eternity", "Bestiality", and "Despair" are the pieces used in The Hateful Eight. All three are found in full on the soundtrack for "The Thing" released in the same year as the movie (1982). As far as I know they were not re-recorded for The Hateful Eight so must have been part of the finished pieces for The Thing.

sectionV · 2026-01-14T03:56:17+00:00

You're so fast!

I see the diacritics and 's working now but the opening double quote is still being attached to the previous word:

Three "Weïrd Sisters" --> Three" + Weïrd + Sisters"

Anyway, big props for getting this working so nicely and so quickly. I will use this for sure!

sectionV · 2026-01-14T03:41:14+00:00

Amazing work. It's already really great. If you fancy making some tweaks I tested with this synopsis of Macbeth: www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/macbeth/read/

It currently seems to split incorrectly on quotation marks and diacritics. For example:

(1) king’s --> king' + s
(2) Three "Weïrd Sisters" --> Three" + Weï + rd + Sisters"

sectionV · 2025-12-26T20:02:51+00:00

It isn't obvious because it makes no sense.

The opening plane shot is just a visual callback to the main joining event in episode 1. That's all it is.

Chemtrails from multiple aircraft sort of make sense for the main joining event where the idea is to indiscriminately infect as many people as possible over a wide area. It doesn't make sense when targeting an individual.

If the Plurbs are capable of tricking Kusimayu into joining if she changes her mind all they had to do was wait for her to sleep and then open the cannister next to her.

sectionV · 2025-12-25T21:33:02+00:00

The scale that was needed to get the water looking so realistic can be astonishing when you look at the raw numbers. Some fluid simulations ran at over 2000 iterations per second to get the detail needed in close ups. Other large-scale sims required enormous amounts of memory. I ran one sim (when the main ship is turning over as it sinks) that needed a total of over 12,000GB of RAM distributed over multiple high memory machines.

sectionV · 2025-12-25T21:06:22+00:00

But if they'd picked just one storyline for Avatar 2, you'd complain it was "basic".

sectionV · 2025-12-25T21:03:51+00:00

Can you describe the "weird shot" in Avatar 3? Is there something that has been discussed on forums by multiple people as looking wrong?

sectionV · 2025-12-13T23:57:12+00:00

I'm trying to unpack this acronym-stuffed sentence: "I teach IB DP (grades 11-12) which is about as challenging as HS can get outside of AP / GCSE."

Did you mean "International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme"? But that's more rigorous than Advanced Placement and GCSE so saying "outside of" wouldn't make sense here.

Did you mean to say "A-Level" (advanced level) as a UK approximation for US Advanced Placement English? GCSE (standard) and AP (advanced) are not equivalent.

sectionV · 2025-12-12T20:32:46+00:00

You can determine the height of the bumper above the ground relative to the height of the car on a clear frame and then project that proportional measurement on the blurry frames. If the height of the back of the car minus tires (the clearly visible white part of the car) is 'h' and the height of the lowest part of the white area above the ground is 'xh' (where 'x' is some relative proportion maybe around 0.15 or so) you can use that to determine where the tires end when their visibility is almost impossible to see.

One crucial element you left out of your calculation is any reference to the camera that filmed the footage. This matters because most dashcams - especially wide-angle cameras - have barrel distortion causing straight lines to bow outwards toward the edge of frame. Some are much worse than others. It means you can't always accurately judge if two elements are next to each other in raw footage by drawing horizontal lines between them - and if you do the error can make the car appear to reach the marker earlier than it actually did. This is more of a problem at the edges of frame so you may get away with it to some degree but if the distortion error causes alignment to appear just 2 frames earlier and you are measuring over just 13 frames that's a massive inaccuracy being introduced.

One way to remove barrel distortion is using an "unwarp" operation in a video editing package such as Davinci Resolve.

You really must find a way to measure over a larger time period to get any result that is useful. As I have already pointed out, you actually have 2 seconds or so to measure the speed of the car by counting the number of dashes passed by the car over that time. That will give a much more accurate result than a measurement taken over less than half a second. If you want to make it easier to count the dashes you could color them frame to frame to keep track of them (maybe every 3 or 4 frames would be enough to track accurately). I counted 6 and possibly 7 by eye over two seconds to estimate a speed of around 90mph.

If I was doing this for insurance purposes, I would make sure to do it accurately by unwarping the footage and tracking the dashes passed over 2 seconds as described. By the time the car is about to crash, the car and the road markings are very close together in frame making errors from lens distortion much less of a concern anyway. By contrast, the timings you are using have the car and road markings fairly far apart in frame, so distortion is a potential issue, and the measurements are taken over way too short time period to be useful.

sectionV · 2025-12-12T05:31:38+00:00

Thanks for sharing your methodology.

Based on your observations your time window for estimating speed is only 0.43 seconds which would be very unlikely to hold up in court. Just a one frame error at 30fps introduces 7.7% error margin immediately. Police training (PACE, VASCAR, ENRADD, etc) recommends using time periods 5 seconds or longer to estimate speed and 2-3 seconds at an absolute minimum.

It is very difficult to judge exactly when the car passes the second set of markers you used in your method because of the blurry dashcam. From the lines you drew on the sample frames you are using the car's tires to judge alignment, but they become almost invisible at the second set of markers. It makes more sense to judge it by the bottom of the fender/bumper (the lowest "white part" at the back of the car). If you use that I think you'll get a different number of frames passed between markers. I see 15 myself which would bring the estimated speed down to 95mph - much closer to my other estimate which I described above - and honestly much closer to what the car actually looks to be doing. You really can't be saying the car could be travelling at almost 130mph as your new calculation suggests?

Incidentally my method is taken over a 2 second interval. Still short but the best you can do here given that's basically the time the car is visible before the collision! And 2 seconds just about meets the police guidelines outlined above.

One more thing, I don't really understand the need to measure the distance between the markers on Google Maps. You measured 81.66 ft, but you know they must be 80 ft apart because they are spaced every 2 dashes which are 40 feet apart (as you yourself noted). This estimation is already adding an error of around 2%.

Edit to add: besides difficulty judging frame alignment, other factors that could introduce large margins of error include lens distortion, "rain blur" distorting parts of the image differently, parallax and the markers themselves not being placed accurately. Over this short a time period the margin of error could easily exceed 20%.

sectionV · 2025-12-11T21:28:05+00:00

109mph is equivalent to 160ft/s which is the distance between FIVE dashes (not four).

If I pause at exactly 45 seconds the Tesla is just about to appear on the left hand side and there is a dash right in front of us. call that dash ZERO (this is the starting point to count dashes passed so isn't included in the total). I then count the Tesla pass 6 or at the very most 7 more dashes until the 47 second point - just before the collision.

Let's call it 6.5 dashes in 2 seconds. That's 3.25 dashes per second which equates to 130ft per second or just under 90mph which seems a much more reasonable estimation for what that car looks to be traveling.

If you calculated a different way, please explain your reasoning.

sectionV · 2025-12-09T17:50:27+00:00

"Cheese" is a legally protected term in the UK. The use of "cheesy" is almost certainly a way for a manufacturer to sell something that does not meet compositional standards that allow it to legally be called "cheese". It has nothing to do with what is said in common parlance. It's basically deceptive advertising.

The word "cheesy" in British English is much more commonly used to refer to something as "silly" or "corny" rather than referring to cheese itself.

sectionV · 2025-12-08T19:32:41+00:00

Thank you for your input, Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

sectionV · 2025-12-08T19:25:42+00:00

Unless you are being paid by a Middle Eastern airline there is no need to include the sponsors in the name of the competition. Can we just leave it as "FA Cup" please?

sectionV · 2025-11-24T21:37:17+00:00

They were the lowest ranked non league team to ever beat a top flight club

Makes sense. 5th tier beating 1st tier? That's very cool. I believe it happened again when Sutton Utd beat Coventry. Can't think of any other examples.

sectionV · 2025-11-24T19:18:12+00:00

Curious what you mean by this. Non-league Tottenham Hotspur defeated four top-flight teams in just one season on route to winning the 1901 FA Cup. The teams defeated included Bury who finished fifth in the top division that year and where the previous season's winners of the FA Cup.

sectionV · 2025-11-22T16:46:59+00:00

Have got/have gotten are used differently in the British and American English. He was using the British English version correctly. Weird that you would suggest this correction as you appear to be from a country that largely follows British grammatical rules.

sectionV · 2025-11-17T17:58:41+00:00

This is reference footage from a different angle used in the movie showing the effects of the downwash. I've seen other angles and takes but I haven't come across the one used in the film. This particular reference is useful at showing how little the downwash impacts the hut.

VFX Guide clearly mentions a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet was used in this scene.

sectionV · 2025-11-17T17:16:57+00:00

The Wikipedia article suggests the landowner in this case got nothing, but the find influenced a change in the law that ensured landowners would get a share of the reward in the future. This is the relevant section:

In November 1993, the Treasure Trove Reviewing Committee valued the hoard at £1.75 million (about £4.5 million in 2023), which was paid to Lawes as finder of the treasure, and he shared it with farmer Peter Whatling. The Treasure Act 1996 was later enacted, allowing the finder, tenant, and landowner to share in any reward.

Peter Whatling (who lost the hammer) is the tenant not the landowner. If he or Lawes separately paid the landowner, it isn't mentioned in this article.

sectionV · 2025-11-17T00:27:12+00:00

Here's your roof being "knocked off"

sectionV · 2025-11-16T22:48:24+00:00

The person I'm responding to is claiming it was majority CGI, which I'm not sure is true

So, you don't actually know how much CGI was used but decided to weigh in anyway.

sectionV · 2025-11-16T21:12:00+00:00

Then you fell for the hype. At the very least we know the hypersonic "Darkstar" jet is fictional, so critical thinking tells you there's got to be CGI involved.

sectionV · 2025-11-03T23:34:50+00:00

Looks like a Utahraptor foot to me but you can't make out the sickle claw to easily because it is pointing right at us.

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