gerryflap

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[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Uhhh tip: learn to relax before your body decides to teach you. I didn't and I'm almost a year into a burn-out. Not knowing how to relax is not funny or quirky, it's a one-way road to severely fucking you brain up.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You've clearly never been drunk and hungry. That's not a viable or safe solution.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, we've had that for a week or two. Managed to freeze in my summer jacked only once so far, and had a couple of instances where I was sweating my ass off when I misjuged the weather. Oh well, it's wat better than the guaranteed cold an wet weather

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago

For real. I type like a boomer, but I never had any problems at uni or work (as a developer). It's not about how fast you're typing but what you're typing. And any good developer generally spends more time thinking or testing than typing.

Bur bad managers can't accept this, they need dumb metrics like typing speed, added lines of code, useless certificates, etc

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 7 points 2 weeks ago

Barely, maybe. Definitely not smarter enough

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is an apt description of how I felt when watching The Acolyte. The fight scenes were cool, but I couldn't help but feel like basically everyone was acting like an impulsive teen all the time and if they had just been a reasonable adult for basically 2 minutes the whole plot wouldn't have happened.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly just looks like normal lens flare where the sun is blocked by a tree branch. The flare is lens-dependent, but it's also dependent on conditions. I doubt one could reliably fingerprint someone based on lens flare unless OP is like one of a few people using this lens

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, according to my notes this was shot at f/5.6 and 1/250th. I also had one at 1/1000th, which is what I actually metered it at as far as I can remember. While that shot has more detail in the highlights, most of the image is underexposed. Phoenix (1) really is a difficult film to satisfy, curious to see how Phoenix II changes things

 

My second attempt with Harman Phoenix 200, this time I metered most shots around 125 or 100 iso, which worked quite a bit better. Though I still had more under than overexposed shots.

Also, I'm very much a telelens person. This was another instance of me forcing myself to shoot with the wide-angle prime. I would've loved to see the 50mm version of this shot

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 23 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Personally my worry really isn't reincarnation, there's no reason to believe that that's true. But if these are fundamentally the same neurons that make up our brains, then how much do you need to put together before they acquire some form of "sentience"? Does a clump of 800,000 human neurons experience pain, sadness, a sense of self? Where is the line between an emotionless biocomputer and torturing a living organism for its entire lifespan?

Despite the fact that I really hate "AI", that question was of course already sort of relevant for the latest AI models, even though we can generally conclude that they're not there yet at all. But real neurons are different, we know what they're capable of. How many do you need before a clump of neurons has rights?

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah moving doesn't seem to lose weight (unless you're very overweight). It's very good for you, but muscle isn't lighter than fat. At some point I went from not running to running half marathons and I went from like 86 to 82 kg average, but that only really happened after I also changed my diet. Currently I stopped running temporarily because of some health reasons and I haven't really gained much weight either, I just feel weaker.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 3 points 2 weeks ago

Seriously? I have recently been working on my personal programming projects on my ThinkPad from 2014. That thing also has 8 GB RAM. It's slow, but that's only because the dedicated video card is no longer supported by NVIDIA. I was totally able to run PyCharm, my program (which was hungry for ram), and Firefox with quite some tabs open without any issues. And most people will be doing more basic stuff on this than what I was doing. Browsing around, editing some documents, viewing some photos. I'm not sure how heavy MacOS is, but I'll assume it's more like Linux than Windows. You can do a lot with 8GB if your OS isn't gobbling up resources to spy on you, show you ads, or run some useless AI shit you didn't ask for.

I agree that it's not a lot, but this laptop is not meant for people who need to do more than what I mentioned, putting much more RAM in there would just creep up the price without really offering anything.

Note that I'm not an Apple fan or anything, I've never even used anything from Apple.

[–] gerryflap@feddit.nl 26 points 3 weeks ago

Uhhh yeah. My PC is booted in less than half a minute, why would I let it waste energy the whole night just to boot slightly faster? Even when I booted off of an HDD I still did so.

 

My first time shooting a film stock with an insane iso like this, previously I hadn't gone for anything higher than iso 400 and mostly colour. I also pushed myself a bit out of my comfort zone with the 28mm, as I rarely feel comfortable shooting below 50mm.

Somehow this was the only shot of the roll that seemed properly exposed, with many others mildly or wildly underexposed. I've since checked the lightmeter of my XG9 against other references at 3200 iso (or rather 1600 iso -1 stop because the XG9 doesn't support 3200 iso). But unless I push it way harder than I'd ever do irl, I see no fault there. Edge markings and this shot are also fine, and the camera has previously behaved normally, so it was probably just a skill issue somehow.

 

Probably taken with the 50mm prime, but maybe with the 28mm. Scanned using my Olympus EM-5 Mk II with the Olympus 14-42mm pancake zoom. Processed in Darktable.

This film was very hard to scan, because there's absolutely no reference. Is the water/sky too cyan? Idk. But I like the colours in this image.

 

I'm amazed at how this ended up. Most of the other low-light shots with this camera turned out as a complete blurry mess. It's not sharp by any means, but with the conditions and a moving carousel it went quite well.

Scanned by hand using my Olympus EM-5 Mark II in the sensor-shift super resolution mode. Slightly downsampled because of the image size limit.

Image shot at Liquicity Festival

 
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My transition to full on Linux gaming mostly went okay, but recently I've started running into some issues with more demanding games. In games like Cyberpunk 2077, Stalker 2, and inZOI I sometimes get KDE and/or Wayland crashes when the VRAM runs out. In Cyberpunk I can avoid it by not enabling RTX, which is fine. But Stalker 2 and inZOI are basically all-in on raytracing and therefore seem to also fully eat up my 8GB of VRAM.

Is there any way of constraining the games to like 7.5 GB or something? Because they seem to actively work to stay below 8GB, so clearly there is still stuff they can clean up. And even if they'd go over the limit, I'd prefer the game to crash rather than basically having Wayland restart, losing everything I had open. I'm curious for you experiences

 

So as it turns out, photographing moving cars while manually focusing and with relatively little light in the shade is quite hard. This one was quite sharp, but some others failed a bit more

Location is the Twente Rally in the east of the Netherlands

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Finally some sun again :) Shot with my Canon EOS 40D and my dad's Cannon 70-200mm f/4 L lens.

Bonus sheepies: Sheep lying in the grass enjoying some sunshine

Sheep with a bell doing sheep things

 

Shot with my Canon EOS 300, pretty much directly into the sunshine as God intended, using Ilford HP5 plus 400 iso black and white film.

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