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Looking at whats happening in europe, thats not a barrier. all it takes is a few hundred euros, some time on a dipshit forum and you have a willing gopher who'll go to a given loca…

Nooooope nope nope. An entire class of controller with really shit security now (as in scanning a network with PLC controllers has a non-trivial chance of rebooting or freezing any…

In the UK as weaving was mechanised it lead to huge upheavals and only narrowly avoided civil war. It changed the face of the country completely.

I know that, but given that tungsten demand is ~80-90% civilian, ie depends on how well the economy is doing, a 4% demand increase is pretty within spec. The bigger thing here is c…

> Ukraine war isn't a one sided affair Agreed. > a perma-militarized frontier state dependent on EU doesn't meet their interests at all. Also agreed. I think the point I want to ma…

Ok so I idd some digging and bloomberg is light on analysis on this one. The graph that got me wondering as to why the price has spiked was the mined/produced tonnes of tungsten fr…

Assuming your thesis is correct: the war in ukraine is a dead end and the EU should let russia finish what it started (parahpraasing, I apologise if I miss the nuance) Surely that …

If you read a bit further, they author then explains why they put that in: > The fucker [Linneaus] created a beautiful system, and it works. And that’s why we still use it. I say t…

> That's what the US tried to do. Yes but with the caveat that they wanted the lowest risk to US service members during the bombing. This means using up the fire and forget stuff r…

The problem is that this equates two very different way of building houses, and lumps them together. For the USA, the reasons for zoning were quite different to europe. Each countr…

The problem for the UK is the Fujitsu owns the last vestiges of the UK IT scene. ICT/ICL and a bunch of other were all bought out by them in the early 90s. But also there are two o…

Sorry my bad. Conform is the process of matching edits with the "master" edit, generally. One of the odd things about the "movie pipeline" is that generally the thing thats passed …

> so they must have matched their photochemical color grading with digital color grading The VFX would be matched to what ever the spec would be. Your argument would hold more wate…

https://www.awn.com/news/framestore-puts-grave-face-harvey-d... Tim webber says it was rendered at 4k. Which contradicts what I remember. If he meant 4k textures that would make se…

> between 70mm and IMAX 70mm. Im not sure how many vertical 70mm projectors there are left. I don't think its a delivery format any more. In terms of shooting, I think the only per…

14:9 IS THE BRITISH WAY

> Aspect ratio by itself tells you very little about the theatrical viewing experience. Yes, but also no. to a whole generation of millenials -> boomers 4:3 == analogue and or chea…

disclaimer: I worked in a DI lab second disclaimer, dbspin knows all this, this is aimed at the casual observer About 2010 was the time that digital cameras were common enough and …

> It was widely reported that Oppenheimer was color graded photochemically, So I'm deeply sceptical of this. There was a DI colourist in the colour department and the editorial had…

I'm trying to remember what resolution we rendered two face for when it went into imax. This was using 32bit renderman, and it was constantly OOM'ing because we were really pushing…

but you patent something requires proving that you have done something novel. You're effectively asserting that the thing you invented is new and different enough to be not a deriv…

We had three different vendors come out and try. One was a vicon, which was low latency and sexy, another was the USB optitrack, which was utter shite. I don't remember what the th…

scratch, thats super popular, but aimed at kids.

The problem with research is that you are supposed to be creating novel works, not derivatives. This means you are creating IP, not modifying.

There are a couple of ways to do it, but I'm not sure which is best. you can install an app on OSX that allows you to do a passthrough, but the last time I used it horizon was call…