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I think most proportional fonts work this way by default? At any rate, enabling tabular figures is a step I expect to need to take when I want rows of numbers to align when using an otherwise proportional font.

I agree, I don't understand the principle here. And what about things like the Horses of Saint Mark [0], which were looted by Venetians after the sack of Constantinople in 1204?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horses_of_Saint_Mark

To what modern-day culture do Roman artifacts belong?

Granted, I'm not in the target market, but I don't understand why people keep buying RED cameras. They do stuff like this, charge an arm and a leg for what should be commodity parts but aren't, and claim dubious patent protections on things like compressed RAW video (IIRC, at least one compressed RAW image format existed prior to the release of the RED One).

With really attractive options from companies like Blackmagic, Sony, and ARRI, what's so appealing about RED?

On the other hand, wouldn't open sourcing the algorithm help accelerate the identification of possible exploits?

Yes, but repair shops should also be upfront that their parts are often (albeit maybe due to no fault of their own) noticeably inferior to original parts.

Maybe most of Europe. In Greece, my experience was that they seem to throw them everywhere, even if they tend to be largely ignored. For intersections where they really want you to stop, they’ll have two or three stop signs spaced maybe 40–50 meters apart leading up to the intersection. You know, for emphasis I guess.

> I don't believe Facebook or TV are equivalent to cocaine.

Exactly. You were making a broad claim that it is "paternalistic and elitist" to decide what is "good for you" vs "bad for you". If it is paternalistic and elitist in some cases, but appropriate in others, then don't we need a way to figure out what side of that line various things fall on?

> It does make it a good thing for them. Which begs the question: why is it that you get to decide what is or isn't a good thing? Or: why shouldn't people be able to decide for themselves? The answers against the latter are, at their root, paternalistic and elitist.

I'm not clear on what your argument is here. Are you:

* denying that there is a fact of the matter about whether, for any item X, X is beneficial or harmful?

* asserting that something's being beneficial or harmful has no meaning apart from signifying present-day user preference?

* merely asserting that users fairly reliably tend to prefer what is good for them, and avoid what is bad for them?

> Billions of people like using the product and it hasn't hurt their lives. In fact, it has improved them.

It sounds like you are making a case here that Facebook is beneficial because it improves the lives of its users—am I understanding that correctly?

The claim you are responding to is that Resolve is used "at some step" in the vast majority of films, not that it is used specifically for cutting the vast majority of films. For example, Resolve might be used on a DIT cart for on-set color work, or it could be used for color grading in post—even if the film is actually cut on e.g. Avid or Final Cut.

Resolve's editing features are newer and less established, but I personally really like them.

For anyone interested in trying Resolve, I strongly suggest taking a look at Blackmagic Design's own oft-overlooked training material, which is put together by professional trainers and does a great job of working in useful concepts, workflow tips, and keyboard shortcuts at just the right times. The free video tutorials are a good place to start, and the free PDF books offer more of a deep dive. Project files to follow along are also included.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...

(I've posted about Resolve once or twice before; for the record, I do not work for BMD, I just enthusiastically like them.)

Many film scanners capture four channels of exposure data: RGB and infrared. Since developed film can block visible light but is more or less transparent to IR, that winds up being a pretty good map of where all the dust specks are. Which, in turn, allows automatic and very targeted software dust removal that can completely avoid parts of the exposure without dust, producing A quality of output more comparable to that of laborious retouching than inferior automatic software dust removal without a dust map.

IMO that alone is sufficient to justify a film scanner over a DSLR.

For git repositories in particular, I find Fork's [0] built-in diff tool to be pretty useful.

[0] https://git-fork.com

Well, I was responding to your argument that photos are not art because art requires skill and effort. It sounds like you are conceding my point that some photographs take more skill and effort than some drawings that you would consider art—so based on that it seems we are on the same page that your "skill and effort" criterion, by itself, doesn't seem to be able to tell us what is and isn't art.

At this point it sounds like you are simply asserting, without providing an argument, that your position is correct. But I am unclear on what exactly your claim is: is it that (1) no photography is art or that (2) the photographs that you yourself take, as a rule, tend not to be art?

If photography can be made with the click of a button, drawing can be made with the flick of a pencil. Good photography, like good drawing, does require both effort and skill—usually, if not always, quite a lot more than that of a toddler drawing scribbles.

In fact, a single photograph may require a great deal of time and careful planning to execute (perhaps with a series of concept sketches, lighting plans, and so on to work out the compositional and logistical details).

Well to be fair, Premiere Pro doesn't support MP4 on Linux either. :-)

DaVinci resolve is free for non-commercial *and commercial* use and I would personally choose it over Premiere Pro (I switched from Premiere Pro to Resolve and later upgraded to Resolve Studio). The Studio version mostly adds stuff like realtime noise reduction—which is amazing, but it extends well beyond the functionality I expect from a professional NLE. Some codecs are not included or don't work as well with the free version so YMMV depending on source formats, OS, and hardware, but that wasn't an issue for me when I was using it.

As an aside, BMD just released a bunch of new training material for free on their website (no registration required):

* A series of books available as PDF downloads or purchase if you want a hard copy

* Videos available for streaming or download

* Project files and source media for following along

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...

There is a rampant practice where companies and organizations flippantly and often fraudulently stamp copyright notices on everything they touch—including public domain materials such as the U.S. Constitution, works of William Shakespeare, prints of the Mona Lisa, copies of the 9/11 Commission Report, and compositions of J.S. Bach. [0]

It seems Microsoft has now automated this practice.

[0] http://www.copyfraud.com

Edit: It's easy to jump the gun and start accusing Microsoft of something nefarious here. To be clear, I'm personally giving Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and assuming that this was an honest mistake, and that the folks at Microsoft who had something to do with setting this up were well-meaning.

My point is that we're living in a culture that, as a standard practice, sprinkles "(c) [year] [company]" on things like salt, that such claims are frequently invalid or misleading, and that this broader issue may be partly to blame for incidents like the one we are discussing today.

I believe they have done a ton of R&D. They recently announced commercial availability of some of their custom Houdini add-ons. https://weta-h.com/

It seems Gizmodo might have gotten even that wrong. According to this (much more informative) page [0], I think they were dyed cyan (so dark areas absorb red), magenta (dark areas absorb green), and yellow (dark areas absorb blue). The Italian Wikipedia article also contains a helpful illustration [1] (missing on the English one unfortunately).

[0] http://www.digital-intermediate.co.uk/examples/3strip/techni...

[1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicolor#/media/File:Techni...

I don’t know, supposedly [0] Apple provided patches to help get Blender running on M1.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/jsc03l/blender_on_...

Is there any measurement or objective fact in the world that you can become aware of except by means of subjective experience?

Well, it wouldn't be the same effect. Similar, sure—but e.g. laser printing looks different from physically pressing an inked plate against a piece of paper. For one thing, you have the physical act of pressing; for another, you have different kinds of ink, and can do things like mix a color before you print instead of getting a bunch of CMYK dots.

The difference is often subtle. But sometimes, it can be striking.

That line length should be restricted in body copy is a universally accepted principle among typographers [0], and has been for a very, very long time. The reason is a practical one: when line length passes a certain point, it is harder for the eye to track from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Typographers may take more creative liberties when it comes to other bits of text, but for body copy where the reader will spend several minutes or even hours of time, legibility and reading comfort are top priorities.

This is why printed text with smaller type or larger paper will almost always employ larger margins, multiple columns, or both. In print, when a high per-page word count is desired, multiple columns is a go-to solution. But multiple columns for body copy is awkward on the web, since we're used to scrolling vertically—and real estate is free. So the best solution in most cases is simply to add margins.

[0] I like to point people to Matthew Butterick's excellent (and free) Practical Typography (https://practicaltypography.com/line-length.html), but any introductory typography book will have a section on line length.

BMD has published an excellent series of introductory video tutorials and 5 training books (available for free in PDF form, along with media and project files to follow along). Going beyond just showing how to do X, I think they do a great job of communicating best practices, workflows, and things like keyboard shortcuts that might be useful. This is some of the best educational material for any such application that I have come across (paid or free), and I enthusiastically recommend checking it out.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/tra...

I'm not clear on what you intend as a proposed definition, so to help get us on the right track, I'll take a few stabs at distilling down your post to what I think you might be suggesting. Is one of these close?

1. Facts are propositions that are indisputable.

2. Facts are propositions we are certain are true.

3. Facts are directly observable.

4. Facts are empirically verifiable.

I don’t know, but their clickbaity headline writing isn’t doing their credibility any favors in my book.

Interesting! As I was completely unfamiliar with China's constitution, I pulled up the Wikipedia article and the source document. Supporting your point, here is a particularly surprising (to me) article:

> Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration. [0]

Also, from the introduction section of the Wikipedia article:

> Though technically the "supreme legal authority" and "fundamental law of the state", the ruling Chinese Communist Party has a documented history of violating many of the constitution's provisions and censoring calls for greater adherence to it. Furthermore, claims of violations of constitutional rights cannot be used in Chinese courts, and the National People's Congress Constitution and Law Committee, the legislative committee responsible for constitutional review, has never ruled a law or regulation unconstitutional. [1]

[0] http://en.people.cn/constitution/constitution.html [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_the_People%27s...

Or the Mac Pro. While it’s not a laptop, the original cheese grater Mac Pro is a delight to open up. It’s amazing to see what Apple can come up with when they make serviceability a central design goal.

The new one looks nice too, though it seems significantly overpriced.

Not for the renderer I am using (Terragen), which has specialized features for rendering skies. I do normally use GPU rendering when it is an option though.

I am working on a project right now where I am rendering atmospheric effects (lots of clouds). Even on a 12-core workstation, it takes a very long time to render a single frame to even be able to get a good idea as to what things will look like, so I'm doing a lot of changing something, waiting… changing something, waiting.

Most of the final rendering can be offloaded to a farm, but being able to quickly and interactively get a good idea of what something will look like is extremely helpful and time-saving. Right now, I'm doing some of the work on an EC2 instance with 48 cores (96 vCPU) to help with this—cost-effective for occasional use, but I can certainly see the appeal of a machine like this. And for task like compositing where you need access to a bunch of huge source files, or where maybe you have a specialized video I/O device you need to use, running in the cloud might not be practical at all.