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[MaverickSawyer]

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[jedidia]

Speaking of random stuff, i just dug up my DIY digital-camera-in-a-box, took a timelapse of a sunset with it and spent the rest of the evening figuring how to do automatic white balancing.

If you figure it out, please tell me. I'm getting payed for developing stuff like that :lol:

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Huh... I didn't think this is still an issue, what with virtually every editor converting tabs to spaces by itself... ?

 

[Andy44]

I'm in a weird place. There are currently no TV shows on that I care to watch; all my "must see" shows are in between seasons.

In the old days, all TV shows took a break and went to reruns during the summer and picked up again in the fall. Now, TV show seasons are broken up and rolled out in halves or quarters, and it always seems that when one of my favorite shows (like The Expanse) is on break, another favorite show (like Gotham) is running.

But for right now, I actually have a break.

Not like it really matters; I rarely use an actual television set these days and stream it all on my laptop. My TV is only on for maybe an hour or two per week, if that. Still, it's nice to be caught up so as to talk about the latest episode with friends and coworkers.

 

[Artlav]

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

Hm, if most for-money development wasn't done in teams, i would have suspected that this is a result of thinking type difference.

If you see and think code as a picture, then you are more likely to patternize code. That is, have as little gaps as possible (a=b+c; instead of a = b + c; ), and clear, controlled indentations that are only possible with spaces.

If you see and think code as text or sound, then the visual patternization is irrelevant, and spaced out easy-to-tokenize code would be preferred (a = b + c; instead of a=b+c; ), so tabs would be the right thing.

However, i suspect teamwork would hide such patterns, since you are forced to use what the team uses rather than what fits you best.
Unless there is some sort of teaming-by-thinking-mode effect, ofcourse.

If you figure it out, please tell me. I'm getting payed for developing stuff like that :lol:

I would have expected such problems to be solved decades ago in the industry?
The only reason i need to bother with it is because i literally invented a camera from scratch, without access to any prior work on the topic.

 

[Majid]

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

What the F

 

[jedidia]

I would have expected such problems to be solved decades ago in the industry?

Yeah, we leave the low-level photographic stuff mostly to the camera firmware itself, but the results... vary. DSLR cameras are not explicitly built for self-operation and assume that there's some person making some reasonable settings for the current circumstances. As such, rigging a DSLR for a 24/7 timelapse is non-trivial and usually needs some settings adjusment by the controlling software every now and then. We currently have satisfactory, but not really brilliant results from that...

 

[steph]

Last I heard, there were DSLRs which allowed the user to implement the gradual decrease in brightness/exposure, maybe even during the timelapse itself. It depends on what you're trying to achieve. I guess one could just leave the camera on apperture priority and fixed focus and leave it sort the other settings for each picture. The interval is usually a few seconds, so it's not a burst shooting. Of course , having the perfect exposure every time and thus avoiding the dreaded flicker is hard.

During a sunset , a fixed setting might work well, since it just gets dark anyway.I usually do timelapses with my phone. One can clearly see how it progresses through the brightness settings as it keeps getting darker outside

Edit: there were some timelapses on Vimeo and YouTube of the full moon rising , in long exposure, basically without any flicker. Don't know how those guys do it, I'm pretty sure post-processing is involved, but they do it well.

 

[Loru]

 

[Linguofreak]

Groannnnnnnn.

A capital pun sir, a capital pun. You will be shot at dawn.

Of course, my own pun probably warrants the death penalty itself. In the interest of self preservation, I commute your sentence to three hours of watching bad stand-up.

 

[Loru]

Sorry but at 5 am, after 11 hours of work my sense of humour is kinda weird.

 

[C3PO]

Sorry but at 5 am, after 11 hours of work my sense of humour is kinda weird.

That is probably the reason most of us enjoy our time on this forum.

 

[Linguofreak]

Sorry but at 5 am, after 11 hours of work my sense of humour is kinda weird.

My sense of humor is equally weird, or I would not have responded as I did.

 

[C3PO]

It's great to have a place where you can go:

Cop: Do you realize that you were doing 95 mph?
Heisenberg: Oh great. Now I'm lost!​

...without people giving you weird looks.

 

[Andy44]

An old one:

What does the B in Benoit B. Mandelbrot stand for?

Benoit B. Mandelbrot, of course.

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Also, sometimes I end other people's sentences with "...and then the murders began."

 

[C3PO]

:rofl:

We used to do a similar thing by adding "...with an axe"

 

[Andy44]

I shall henceforth refer to water as "rusty hydrogen".

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(...and then the murders began)

 

[Urwumpe]

A helium atom drifts into a bar. Nobody reacts.

 

[Loru]

Teacher: What is the formula for water?
Student: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O
Teacher: That's not what I taught you.
Student: But you said the formula for water was...H to O.

 

[Andy44]

Teacher: What is the formula for water?
Student: H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O
Teacher: That's not what I taught you.
Student: But you said the formula for water was...H to O.

...and then the murders began.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

...and then the murders began.

...with an axe.