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Only if these KVM accepted higher resolutions and refresh rates than their expected ~1080p60

In all my years of pixels, never before has 45p come across my transom

Crawl is a great one. Rouguelike where when you die you inhabit the dungeon.

In that case I’d need a 1080 physical display on the machine mirrored to the KVM. For the type of stuff I’m doing that’s a bad use of monitor / desk real estate.

Yeah that’s what I have my eye on but 4k@30 is just shy of the full 4k@60 goal.

I have an OG JetKVM and it works solidly but the thing that prevents me from using it is no video pass through. The awkwardness of an ‘invisible’ monitor connected to windows at all times is hard to live with - windows and apps open there and I’m constantly having to pull them back to an another monitor. My next KVM will be pass through for this reason, but the consumer ones seem to top out at 4k30, which is not great either.

This stage is called ‘keyword foraging’

I was once on a first date at Fort Tilden when, to the surprise of most at the beach, Enterprise went by on a barge. It was a surreal and excellent experience.

I work daily in TouchDesigner and am constantly wrestling with the integration of its node and Python scripting contexts. In particular order of operations, delegation of responsibility, and store of state are very unsolved areas when expressing intent across both domains.

It may be a correlation - I don’t have data - but I have some experience with ivy educated adults rejecting modern medicine and science with scorn for the perceived arrogance of doctors and scientists.

Thanks I am not a doctor - that’s an old music nom de guerre

My personal theory is that many responsible for teaching science in the K-12 grades are not doing a great job of communicating that science is a process for finding truth. Definitely not laying this at teachers’ feet - standardized testing and curricula, overcrowded classrooms, underfunded schools etc all contribute I’m sure, but I get the impression from talking to even well educated people that they were taught science much like they were taught math: there is a right answer, your job is to regurgitate it.

Biology in particular but also chemistry is often taught with rote memorization at its heart, and it’s easy to lose sight while getting the current thinking jammed into working memory that in the bigger picture, science is a process. Fast forward to various stages of adulthood, and when ‘science’ (not actually a thing as a whole but presented as such in the media), in light of new information, changes course or updates its priors on something you’d accepted as fact, and you might perceive scientists, a group of whom you may know none, as condescending and overconfident. In fact scientists disagree over everything and doubt way more than the public would believe but that’s often a footnote to the way the story of the scientific process is presented.

The Designers Republic! https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Designers_Republic

Why do you have projector in scare quotes? And what makes you think they don't screen the movie? Exhibitors have a contractual obligation to show movies a certain number of times a week, and the media players that run them show receipts to the studios ... it would be surprising if they didn't actually do that simply because nobody bought a ticket.

Technically you could lump Ford in this category as well. But the meaningful delta IMO is time and direct ownership. None of those three are currently owned/operated by openly Nazi-aligned individuals / groups, which is not something I think you can claim about Tesla.

Thanks! Great article - would like to read one about the color rabbit hole pls ;)

I like this writeup but I feel like the title doesn't really tell you what it's about ... to me it's about creativity within constraints.

The author finds, as many do, that naive or first-approximation approaches fail within certain constraints and that more complex methods are necessary to achieve simplicity. He finds, as I have, that perceptual and spectral domains are a better space to work in for things that are perceptual and spectral than in the raw data.

What I don't see him get to (might be the next blog post, IDK), is getting into constraints in the use of color - everything is in 'rainbow town' as we say, and it's there that things get chewy.

I'm personally not a fan of emissive green LED light in social spaces. I think it looks terrible and makes people look terrible. Just a personal thing, but putting it into practice with these sorts of systems is challenging as it results in spectral discontinuities and immediately requires the use of more sophisticated color systems.

I'm also about maximum restraint in these systems - if they have flashy tricks, I feel they should do them very very rarely and instead have durational and/or stochastic behavior that keeps a lot in reserve and rewards closer inspection.

I put all this stuff into practice in a permanent audio-reactive LED installation at a food hall/ nightclub in Boulder: https://hardwork.party/rosetta-hall-2019/

I think you're prob right that I've been lucky? Also almost all my contracts are NY state. Also almost all my work comes word of mouth in what 10 years ago was still a small industry ... folks are less likely to rip you off when you know dozens of people in common.

I’ve worked on these terms or similar ones on every job I’ve ever done, for 20 years. They’re the norm. How do I know? I’ve been in this industry for 20 years. I’ve been on both sides of freelance contracts in that time. I moderate a discord of 8000 of my peers. I speak at industry events. We compare notes. We all work ahead of payment, and honestly nothing about the fact that this was a rescue job was particularly out of the ordinary either. This is the case in which I wasn’t paid. If you’re suggesting we as a labor force attempt to change things en masse, it’s an interesting idea. If you’re suggesting I personally could have succeeded at getting payment up front in this case, you may be right, although I didn’t know how desperate they were until ~2.5 weeks into the run. If you’re suggesting I should demand payment in full before every job, you are suggesting I should win zero jobs.

Edit to note: I took the contract’s enforceability on faith. That was not what I thought it was. Had I known the contract gets you jack shit in the way of justice, I’d have taken more seriously the possibility that these guys would rip me off, which they did.

Well and tactfully said, thank you.

Didn’t realize it needed saying but I left the child and did the work in exchange for money I needed (still need) to feed the child.

Many people do this every day. I do it when it makes sense or the conditions require, which is to say I am a WFH contractor who sometimes works on site occasionally.

Thanks - still cut my own hair but rethinking after a particularly disastrous one recently!

think you got a bug my friend - this is a static site

Not saying I know better but this contradicts what I heard from multiple collections companies with in-house legal - they all said suing would not be worth the ~$2,500 upfront fees and that the debtor would just vanish. The debt still exists so I'd love to think otherwise! Feel free to HMU if you have a specific lawyer/practice in mind ;

These types of situations are endemic to my industry, for better or worse. I wasn't intending to complain about the working conditions by way of making it seem as though any of those things were unusual — I was providing that context by way of saying I conducted myself as a professional does in these situations. I've been in this (immersive, interactive, creative tech) industry for 20 years and those conditions are absolutely expected onsite when commissioning, installing, or preparing for a live event. Refusing to work beyond say an 8-10 hour day would leave the project unfinished and we work on a 'show must go on basis'. With that said, doing this for 20+ days without a break is unusually grueling, even for this industry.

This was a California company and contract, but your comment does apply to their situation with their client

I think you’re right and it’s fair to reframe this that way, in that in a certain sense, despite my naivety, I was the adult in the room and should have seen what they couldn’t.

But then given what I’ve learned since I think I can say with some certainty that this particular group saw the writing on the wall and were willing to use the skilled labor and time of an endless army of cannon fodder to try to staunch the bleeding or take one more long shot at getting final payment, and doing so without the agreement or awareness of the people they enlisted to the risk they were participating in.

>> "emergency service is cash up front“

Neatly distilled I believe you are correct

Agreed datasette is critically slept on

I think this is an uncharitable view of the information on offer. The linked page similarly brands the technique with a trademarked WHOLEGARMENT label, claiming it’s a world first, so it doesn’t seem a stretch to see how these folks got to claiming it’s novel and making a bit of a todo about how it’s different. It also seems to have some business model implications that on first approximation look less than favorable, so I think that helps to justify the need for a position paper like this.

It is my belief that a time may come when we can all ‘write’ on, or link information to, any person, place, or thing, based on a melange of semantic anchors, and in that world there will be fewer secrets and more experts.