This guy's stuff is always so awesome.
Thanks for sharing it!
Cameras and Lenses (2020)
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Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is your critique that does not make sense. I was not applying any hierarchy or subsetting whatsoever. Inseparable unity would be closer to the point. I was making the point that the cave painters believed everything including rocks and trees were deeply invested with spiritual power, and they didn't draw a cave painting without investing it with spiritual ideas. Even if one of their goals was to capture an accurat…
I still don't know what your comment has to do with the article at hand. If you want to branch the conversation to animism and spirituality, I guess that's fine (although rather far-fetched and arguably off-topic) but you should probably do it in a way that actually offers some insight.
i was replying to someone else's comment, their comment was to the article. I was not replying to the article.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
it is your critique that does not make sense. I was not applying any hierarchy or subsetting whatsoever. Inseparable unity would be closer to the point. I was making the point that the cave painters believed everything including rocks and trees were deeply invested with spiritual power, and they didn't draw a cave painting without investing it with spiritual ideas. Even if one of their goals was to capture an accurat…
> I was making the point that the cave painters believed everything including rocks and trees were deeply invested with spiritual power, and they didn't draw a cave painting without investing it with spiritual ideas. Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed. > when they went hunting for one a part of the goal would be cut out its heart and eat it raw because of the power contained within Do you…
>Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed.
you need to study a bit more history, psychology, anthropology, etc., you have absolutely no reason to believe they thought anything different than we do today and what today's hunter gatherers believe. the evidence is on my side. If you have counter evidence, offer it.
>Also this says nothing about art.
I said something about art, whereas till I said it, art was void in the conversation which I think is a glaring mistake which is why I said it. If you have something to say about art, say it, otherwise you don't have a dog in this fight.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or is there a way to archive sites like this? A couple days ago, someone published their archive of HN that works in any browser. Archiving sites is easy anyway. I wrote a Scrapy app that archives everything within the a specific fandom on Ao3. TH hardest part is remembering how beautiful soup queries work.
Static sites are straightforward, yeah. Highly dynamic websites like this one commonly explode when you archive them naively.
Server side rendered sites that are dynamic in nature- you'll only get a literal snapshot of state you happen to be in...
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Static sites are straightforward, yeah. Highly dynamic websites like this one commonly explode when you archive them naively.
Server side rendered sites that are dynamic in nature- you'll only get a literal snapshot of state you happen to be in...
I mean highly dynamic, entirely frontend sites like these are hard to archive, since you have to really preserve every bit of JavaScript dependency, including any dynamically loaded dependencies, and rewire everything to work again.
And then hope that whatever browser features you rely on aren't removed in 20 years. Flash applets from 20 years ago are usually more self-contained and Just Work if you have a functioning runtime (either the official one or Ruffle)
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#46Incredible. Not a whiff of AI (I mean, obviously I see now because it's from 2020). Just fantastic to see clear and elegant writing again.
Comments on AI, on an article which has nothing to do with it, are just as uninspired as AI writing.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#47Bartosz Ciechanowski's blog brings back the joy of surfing the web during the heyday of Adobe Flash (minus the 100% CPU). It's so much fun manipulating things, exploring and getting surprising feedback. I know it's not really fair to compare this highly scientific masterpiece to the artistic flash websites of the past, but for me at least it immediately evokes the same feelings.
Tangential, but Flash had a nice side effect that the "app" could be exported in a self contained way via SWF. Exporting this site for example in a future proof way is not that obvious. (Exporting as pdf wont work with the webgl applets, exporting the html page might work but is error prone depending in the website structure) 50 years from now, flash emulators will still work on swf files, but these sites might be lo…
> 50 years from now, flash emulators will still work on swf files
I'm not sure 50 years from now there will be flash emulators. Who is going to write on for the XP3.12345235 Fruity Ununpentium Silicon x256^2 neuralink devices.
Didn't Flash die because iPhones weren't going to support it? So one of the major OSes people spend most of their lives on can't even run SFW files. Can Android? I've honestly never tried.
But web standards persist.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I was making the point that the cave painters believed everything including rocks and trees were deeply invested with spiritual power, and they didn't draw a cave painting without investing it with spiritual ideas. Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed. > when they went hunting for one a part of the goal would be cut out its heart and eat it raw because of the power contained within Do you…
> Nonsense. We don’t know what prehistoric cave painters believed. you need to study a bit more history, psychology, anthropology, etc., you have absolutely no reason to believe they thought anything different than we do today and what today's hunter gatherers believe. the evidence is on my side. If you have counter evidence, offer it. > Also this says nothing about art. I said something about art, whereas till I sai…
> you have absolutely no reason to believe they thought anything different than we do today
People don’t believe this today. What are you talking about? Do you think most people today are hunting animals to eat their raw hearts to gain their power at certain times of the month?
> If you have counter evidence, offer it.
I’m not the one claiming deep insight into the beliefs of prehistoric peoples. Burden of proof is on you.
> I said something about art
You really didn’t. You said nothing meaningful about art except to substitute it for the word picture. And then the rest of your replies have also had nothing to do with art.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tangential, but Flash had a nice side effect that the "app" could be exported in a self contained way via SWF. Exporting this site for example in a future proof way is not that obvious. (Exporting as pdf wont work with the webgl applets, exporting the html page might work but is error prone depending in the website structure) 50 years from now, flash emulators will still work on swf files, but these sites might be lo…
> 50 years from now, flash emulators will still work on swf files I'm not sure 50 years from now there will be flash emulators. Who is going to write on for the XP3.12345235 Fruity Ununpentium Silicon x256^2 neuralink devices. Didn't Flash die because iPhones weren't going to support it? So one of the major OSes people spend most of their lives on can't even run SFW files. Can Android? I've honestly never tried. But…
50 years from now there will be emulators that can run the OSes of today that can run flash emulators.
Re: Cameras and Lenses (2020)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Or is there a way to archive sites like this? A couple days ago, someone published their archive of HN that works in any browser. Archiving sites is easy anyway. I wrote a Scrapy app that archives everything within the a specific fandom on Ao3. TH hardest part is remembering how beautiful soup queries work.
Static sites are straightforward, yeah. Highly dynamic websites like this one commonly explode when you archive them naively.
There is nothing dynamic about this site in the sense of “static site”. This may well be a static site.