remotelove
@remotelove@lemmy.ca
- Comment on By technical standards were 3D TVs impressive, Why didn't they catch on back then? 2 days ago:
The media (Blu-ray, dvd, whatever…) didn’t matter so much. Adding depth fields to existing media works, but it isn’t exactly perfect. The tech should be much better now, but it took a fuck ton of manual labor to convert films to be compatible with 3D. Back when 3D TVs were being pushed, studios had to film movies in 3D as well, which took more time and more equipment.
Here is an old pic I took during the conversion of Titanic into 3D since it wasn’t filmed in 3D from the start. Each frame needed to have depth fields mapped, by hand, in a room filled with jr level staff: Image
- Comment on Americans be like: 3 days ago:
I personally watch he hell out of PBS shows and have since I was a kid. (Space Time on YouTube is probably at the top of my list now.) My first thought about PBS was, “PBS has a web site?”.
- Comment on Stretch marks 4 days ago:
Well, that was poetic.
- Comment on How to test if the internet is working as expected.. 1 week ago:
The bit rate sucks ass, but there does appear to be a connection.
- Comment on Corn 1 week ago:
What about CornHub?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
It’s just like the beer that is just labeled “Beer”. If it still gets the job done, the packaging doesn’t mean shit.
- Comment on Fun Fact I bet you don't know 2 weeks ago:
It’s so much more complicated than that, it seems. Wool was a major business, even back then: cambridge.org/…/A173396BD9F8E10E74634263506620BE
While I don’t think that article proves or disproves a woman being financially independent through spinning, it does hint that wool was extremely expensive, big business and it took quite a bit of cash to buy the raw materials.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 3 weeks ago:
Punctuation can change context and/or grammar, but I’ll meet you on the middle on that one. I’ll also just keep telling myself that it was an intentional mistake by the editors to trigger real grammar nazis.
- Comment on TrekMovie.com - Rick Berman And Brannon Braga Defend The Controversial ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Series Finale 3 weeks ago:
which is it’s
And bad grammar too. Tsk, tsk.
- Comment on Navy loses two aircraft from USS Nimitz aircraft carrier within 30 minutes 4 weeks ago:
MH-60s have 3 engines. 2 for the main rotor and 1 to provide air to star them them and provide initial electrical power. All three run on JP-5, which is jet fuel. (I was stationed in a helicopter squadron for a few years.)
JP-5 is a kerosene based fuel.
- Comment on Is it really worth the BS for a couple more years? 5 weeks ago:
I’ll never drink again, but there are some days still that I wish my mind could be as numb as it was while I was a raging alcoholic. That thought is usually replaced with remembering how shitty I always felt and how I didn’t give a fuck about anything. Life was a blur.
A mostly clear mind and recovering body is a very good thing. Daily stress is easily managed with regular exercise and chronic anxiety and depression is only a tiny fraction of what it once was. It’s a good life now.
I believe the lifestyle changes not only lengthened my life, but it also stretched out my perceived time as well.
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 weeks ago:
Observe while participating is what I meant. The intent is to give a person a heads up that cliques still exist on Lemmy and it may take a bit to understand them. In my case, I found the first instance I wouldn’t participate on when I was classified as a fascist baby killer for some reason. (Some instances hadn’t been mostly defederated back then.)
- Comment on Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi? 5 weeks ago:
I would tweak that a hair and tell people just to make an account somewhere and observe for a bit. Lemmy can have some very distinct groups that reside on very specific instances. Or not. It’s a “pick your adventure” kind of scenario, IMHO.
It took about six months or so for me to settle into .ca after bouncing around a bit. It’s not really a pain to switch instances, but I personally like my chat history in one spot.
Depending on your client and your settings, your feed could have a bias that leans in the direction of the posts on your home instance, so that is something of note. Not saying that is bad or good, it’s just is what it is.
- Comment on thats all 5 weeks ago:
Are you forgetting about jorts?
- Comment on Carrot 5 weeks ago:
For some, it’s exactly that.
- Comment on Angry fattie German politician sends Gestapo to arrest person who called her fattie 1 month ago:
I don’t give a shit about this post or any argument happening, but I am curious about why you think defamation of public figures specifically, has to have consequences?
I am not a fan of defamation against anyone, but I give the least amount of fucks for any politician. (Maybe one or maybe half of a fuck is given in their case.)
- Comment on Nowhere more appropriate to ask this as I'm apparently banned in c/guns, c/liberalgunowners and c/asklemmy. WTF is wrong with this revolver?! 1 month ago:
I agree with the comments on this forum (www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/mushrooming…) that the cylinder could have a machining defect. (Basically a headspace issue, also but kinda not. The cartridges are sitting too deep in the cylinder itself.)
If there is room for the brass to get pushed back far enough for it to mushroom out, something is seriously wrong.
My first thought was excessive chamber pressure, but the bulging would be much worse around the rim itself if that were the case.
The bullet and the brass get pushed in opposite directions and if the brass can move, it will move before it deforms. If it deforms, it’ll deform at the weakest spot first.
- Comment on Scientists Realize That Magic Mushrooms Are Even Weirder Than We Thought 1 month ago:
Just a quick note that many psychedelics were legalized in Colorado a couple years back. Anyone can grow and consume them, but we can’t legally sell them which is fine by me.
Usually, it’s spores that are 100% legal since mycelium can contain trace psilocybin, so legality is questionable.
- Comment on No words 2 months ago:
The personality of the actor always outweighs the role they play in movies for me. I love the original Mission Impossible as a kid, but that was destroyed when the story was appropriated by scientology.
No matter how “good” a character is in the movies, it’s ruined by knowing the person playing that character is a complete douche.
The problem for me is not what it seems though. I love good movies and part of that experience is complete and total immersion in the quality of the filming, acting, visual effects, sound and storyline. It’s almost a hypnotic state and it doesn’t take much for me to get distracted and a complete jackass of an actor is a distraction.
- Comment on Poor pugs 2 months ago:
You mean WALL-E wasn’t real?
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 2 months ago:
I doubt he got bored. That mechanical hand probably felt like someone else’s until the nerves fully adjusted.
- Comment on If a country needs to employ state-sponsored patriotism, it's usually because there's nothing to be proud of about the country. 2 months ago:
(The correctly used double negative was confusing for me at first, btw.)
You make a very interesting point I haven’t ever thought about before.
While I have always considered myself a patriot to a mild degree, I never associated it with tribalism directly. Even with the many faults of all countries, it’s OK to be proud of where you are from. (It does make perfect sense that tribalism is the end goal of state sponsored patriotism though.)
In my mind, the fine line after patriotism was usually nationalism where tribalism runs deep and hate-based rhetoric becomes extremely effective. The definition of a patriot is somewhat twisted at that point. (ie: unless you believe [insert something random], you aren’t actually a patriot and therefore an enemy of the state.)
I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, btw. Your perspective is something interesting to think about, s’all.
(For the people reading this that may not realize that I am using the word “nationalism” in a negative context, I am. If that chaps your hide still, replace it with ‘christian nationalism’ or ‘white nationalism’ and fuck off. Everyone else, sorry for the disclaimer.)
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
It’s a camera and stickers like this one of many odd DEFCON traditions. (Security professionals in large numbers is an interesting sight to behold.)
- Comment on Dance 2 months ago:
(One of my favs from DEFCON a few years back.)
- Comment on Warning: C-word 2 months ago:
Shit captions are what ticking tocks is all about, right?
- Comment on GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone 3 months ago:
- Comment on Entrapment 4 months ago:
I seem to have missed the question.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 4 months ago:
Oh, was I using the correct lingo for hundred year old methane powered shit gushers? I had no idea. Lol!
- Comment on Shamone 4 months ago:
The weird part is that it still looks like The Rock.
- Comment on Microsoft buys more than a billion dollars’ worth of excrement, including human poop, to clean up its AI mess — company will pump waste underground to offset AI carbon emissions 4 months ago:
use spent oil reservoirs
Ok, that lead to some giggles thinking about some company drilling in the future thinking they were about to hit a strangely untapped oil field.
