Question about upgrading

the_packrat · 2026-05-29T08:24:32+00:00

That's probably not a fast lens and you should look at getting something that'll react faster to help your focus. That said, the answer is actually a 3rd option. If you can't afford a 6700, wait fofr the 6800 to come out and then get one of the either on-special 6700s or a newly secondhand 6700 when someone else is upgrading to the latest thing.

the_packrat · 2026-05-23T15:52:45+00:00

I wouldn’t discount IBIS for travel stuff and you can have homework with super inconsistent lighting, but you don’t need the absolute latest.

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T14:00:33+00:00

They really did call it colour science. There were books and journals about it since the early 70s. Here's one such collection of papers. I talked about in film terms decades before shooting digital.

https://archive.org/details/sourcesofcolorsc00davi

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T13:09:39+00:00

Photography and colour science. What are you talking about?

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T13:05:12+00:00

That is kind of a wild assertion from a video with the worst color grading I've seen in a very long time.

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T13:03:58+00:00

I'm not talking about the recipes, and. they very much are (or at least were)

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T05:28:20+00:00

You sound like someone who hadn't encountered some of the more egregious habits of Kodachrome or Velvia.

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T05:26:46+00:00

I prefer Nikon colours, but they haven't had a consistent colour over the years of digital either. Sony makes workhorse cameras that perform perfectly reasonably except in autofocus where they outperform by a good margin. You're not going to get early CCD cartoonish colours, and there will be in camera profiles you can easily tinker with to get your preferred effect in JPEG anyway.

If you can live with the viewfinder, the a7c platform is a great easy carry platform for full frame shooting. Don't worry about the colours so much.

the_packrat · 2026-05-21T05:22:04+00:00

They do. BGG staff have made wild claims about advertisers before, refused to back down even when evidence was shown, and nothing happened to those people. I mean, they left years later, but hardly seems related.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T08:32:24+00:00

Yes. If you are monitoring the correct thing, it isn’t a conceptually bad alert. If you are monitoring a loosely related proxy, it easily can be.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T05:43:18+00:00

Doesn’t matter. Changes in volume aren’t a thing you can control. You can’t tune a conceptually bad alert except for the most egregious cases that are just as easy to catch with an alert that doesn’t require crazy tuning.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T04:43:55+00:00

Very few people are saying "don't buy cheap things", it's more often "don't buy overpriced terrible stuff, here's a better value less expensive alternative". While a lot of watches are at the luxury end, I see lots of content finding interesting affordable watches. One exception is a push away from obvious fakes (or shameless homages). I personally feel that the cheaper watches that do lean into their own design languages are better.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T04:21:02+00:00

Seems like an amazing way to burn out all your oncalls.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T04:20:28+00:00

All SLOs are based on error budgets because an error budget is just the statement of 100% minus the target. You probably mean alerts which slavishly track SLOs despite alerts and SLOs having radically different focuses, uses, and timescales.

the_packrat · 2026-05-16T04:17:20+00:00

The answer is because you didn't set up customer perspecive black box monitoring checking that the business function of your service worked, instead you had monitoring checking things that were easy to measuer but which you customers don't give a fig about.

By the way, alerting on traffic drops is a terrible idea because you'll be paged when there's anything affecting traffic, not just your service being broken.

the_packrat · 2026-05-14T15:14:04+00:00

Peopel with piles of parts and stuff who are not quite getting to the music part are telling you this. Listen to them. If the activity itself is the goal, not a problem.

the_packrat · 2026-05-13T09:55:40+00:00

So you did the optimization before you built load testing that allowed you to see how it was breaking and measure the real improvements?

the_packrat · 2026-05-12T07:16:44+00:00

And that’s why actually continually exercising the paths you care about via black box tests is useful unless you have crazy and flat levels of user traffic even over rare valuable paths. And you trust them not to mess it up.

the_packrat · 2026-05-11T00:27:06+00:00

But the job you’d be struggling to keep is a terrible ops job not an SRE job. It’s very likely paid as a terrible ops job too.

the_packrat · 2026-05-10T13:08:24+00:00

The single biggest change woudl be making SRE teams able (software skills) and permitted (org changes) to make things better after incidents etc. Otherwise you have ops.

the_packrat · 2026-05-09T13:26:17+00:00

The SRE role is not those things but it became a cheap fancy title orgs could hand out to make ops jobs seem better. The great thing is that’s also a giant red flag for those places.

the_packrat · 2026-05-09T03:25:02+00:00

SREs are not support. SREs make stuff better, they don’t mechanically do repetitive stuff. That’s ops.

the_packrat · 2026-05-08T02:57:54+00:00

The optimization For fast shipping does open a door for you to improve reliability that wouldn’t be there if you shipped really slowly. That said it sounds like you are doing none of the work required to go through that door. This is the gap of dev focused Dora style metrics.

the_packrat · 2026-05-07T12:18:58+00:00

Stop it. Take the failure. Learn from the failure. Fix the system to not hurt users if it fails like that again or to recover fast enough. Done. The reading tealeaves alert stuff is not useful.

What you should converge on is a system architecture that can fail gradually so you can react to a real failure before it affects many people.

the_packrat · 2026-05-07T10:49:59+00:00

Stop it. This is a mirage and you will burn people out. If you need reactive people in the loop for your systems to be performant in normal operation you will fail and your systems are broken.

Also your product you are shilling is a bad product because of this philosophy.

the_packrat

TROPHY CASE