Muphry’s Law lol

An Xbox remote?

My expertise is with Video, not stills photography so maybe take this with a pinch of salt but since there aren’t many responses yet it might be of value. There’s different types of LUTs but I think odds are you’re probably thinking of “creative LUTs” or “Look LUTs” so I’m speaking with reference to those.

With video footage shot log, one typically does a transform process first to bring the footage in to colour space appropriate for the project by using a transform function specific to the camera and brand. This is because the LUT will have been designed expecting a specific starting gamma curve and colour space and typically needs to be transformed in to those first in order to avoid unexpected results.

While RAW is a bit different from Log, there are much the same principles at play. It starts out with no gamma-encoding or display colour space but when you open it in editing software, the program applies a debayer and a default color/tone interpretation. In that sense, the “transform” stage happens in the RAW development settings first and any LUTs would necessarily be happening afterwards.

Another good reason to keep a LUT at the end of whatever processing chain you have for your image is because, the way the values are remapped by the LUT means that depending on what the LUT does, you could end up with destructive results were you get clipping or oversaturation and it’s best to make sure that that happens last so you can compensate for it ahead of time before you have lost information from this destructive process.

MSN Messenger for the win!

The classic is with ham which I loved as a kid but I think now it’s sort of essential to have some pepperoni or salami or something in addition to or instead of ham if having pineapple. It needs that intensity to contrast the pineapple, the grease too, it’s a part of it, mixes with juice from the pineapple and just produces the most “pizza” of tastes, it’s like pure monosogoodium pizzamate. Chicken, I mean it’s probably fine but in general chicken on pizza is pretty dry and bland and it’s doing nothing to compliment the pineapple particularly.

But see, doesn’t that just mean it’s a really good operating system? Not necessarily “fun”? I don’t know if I’m getting my point across here. Think of a pair of shoes, there is much variation of form and design intent and pricing and capability but nevertheless they’re pretty much all there to facilitate the task of walking. You could get a really bad pair of shoes that constantly dig holes in to your foot and fall to pieces and make walking a huge chore. Maybe some day someone will make a pair that somehow force you stop and look at billboards and ad displays, those would be your windows shoes. You could also get a great pair, that feels so comfortable you could forget you’re even wearing them, they look great and they were a fantastic price and they never worsen your ability to perform the task of walking. They might even be such good shoes that they’re suitable for all sorts of walking adjacent tasks like running as well, perhaps you’ll enjoy running, again though what’s fun there? Running? Or having shoes that don’t make running difficult? I’d assume the former. That’s what I tend to wonder about with the folks who talk about how much fun Linux is. I’m sure the various distros are really great operating systems that work way better than a lot of other options and don’t have the same perverse incentives that keep those other options so consistently poor and for all those reasons it’s a great choice but who’s looking at operating systems thinking “this is going to be fun”? I’d love to have that same capacity to be so amused by it but it’s hard to see it as anything other than a functional piece of equipment. I certainly will have preferences and appreciation for good equipment but I wouldn’t think of it as fun. I have a similar reaction to people that say they like it because they want to tinker or “you can do anything you want with it”, I don’t want to yuk anyone’s yum but, what would you even be trying to do with it?

I’m always somewhat confused by this, I haven’t tried Linux since 2009 so maybe I just need to try it some more to appreciate what people mean by thks. I’d say it was “fun” in so much as it was nice to have a challenge for a little while but that was more sort of incidental to it facilitating my computer being a useful machine for me. In terms of it being a better operating system that does it’s job efficiently without problems, shouldn’t it be sort of… Invisible then? Like how can it be fun? I use my computer to do stuff so for me it’s sort of like an operating system is only noticeable to the extent that it is bad and if it isn’t bad I won’t really be aware of it.

Sounds like it’s still quite a worry, maybe she’s safe from malicious software but sounds very prone to being mislead in to doing things by bad actors through her computer.

Go on Andrew you can do it we all believe in you, try it right now and show the haters!

I mean why was there a big surge around that time? Not referring to the later drop.

I wonder what happened around 2018ish

Right but do they pretend there’s any reason that would benefit you?

What do these things do that requires accounts with anyone, google or fitbit themselves? Or even internet for that matter? I thought they were for tracking fitness or health related statistics of the wearer, something that can only be done with local sensors on the thing itself, does the analysis of the data those sensors collect require so much complexity it can only be done on remote hardware?

I still don’t understand how you arrive at the big heavy ball attached to the handle with a sturdy metal chain. If you’re a poor farmer and you don’t have anything better than your two little spindly wooden sticks attached by a little hinge in the middle, where do you get a heavy spiky iron ball? And a complicated chain, and how does your threshing flail built only to support the weight of another wooden stick not snap when you use it? And if you had access to a spiky metal ball, couldn’t you just attach it to the end of a longer thicker wooden stick and make a standby spear? Or moreover if our had to have some parts made despite your limited means, surely the capacity to have any of the constituent weaponised flail parts made would put you in a position to have something way better forged. It seems like almost anything would make more sense than that. Hell even a big iron club to bash people with at least wouldn’t involve trying to deal with a swinging chain.

I think it carries some rhetorical weight. ICE is a political paramilitary organisation and as it serves no legitimate civic or legal function outside of that purpose it’s entirely wrapped up IN the politics behind it and attempts to invoke some legitimacy through that. It is because of that political support from some of the populace that such a force can exist and do what it does without uniform discontent and disapproval from the population suffering under their activities.Those particular segments subscribing to those particular politics have, as part of the wider constellation of beliefs, admiration for and an idealistic appreciation of the traditional military and those who are or have been a part of it (as long as they’re quiet and don’t say anything inconvenient).

When even former or serving military veterans get victimised it does make it look at least a little bit worse to a wider range of people than it otherwise might. ICE supporters will certainly have ideological defences and rationalisations for this, they’ll surely rapidly disown military personnel who don’t toe the line and attempt to discredit them, but is at least a little bit inconvenient having to do this compared to just cheering on the oppression as part of a righteous attack on undesirable elements as any other victims will be considered.

Do you think they can be trusted not to take some sort of action that might take the whole situation and process out of OP’s control have a lot of unintended consequences? I feel like one’s plea that they not act upon it has a lot of risk of being overruled, or ‘act’ having some multitude of interpretations. Your suggestion makes some sense in terms of trying to get ahead of thing in case they spiral out of control for some other reason but it could result in these 3rd parties making things so much worse for everyone even if he has no ill will from the outset.

So you’re saying all I have to do is drink a lot of coffee and take a lot of uppers

It’s also clever that they called that shift “blue watch” lol

Did you use your browser the last time you used it? Maybe simply browsing your browsing history might actually be better than trying to retrace it through Lemmy since you know roughly when you used it. Still a big search space but maybe doable.

The time imperative and combo deals meant that you would typically do this as a social event in and of itself so you’d likely have people over and because you had fixed number combos like x new release plus >X weeklies you’d often pick up something you otherwise wouldn’t spend money on since you need to meet quota to get your money’s worth and it was a good way to discover films. I mean you have way MORE choice now, but it doesn’t work the same way psychologically