gazter
@gazter@aussie.zone
- Comment on I just need to keep it steady 3 weeks ago:
What I wouldn’t give for a modern N series. Those phones rocked.
- Comment on The Force 4 weeks ago:
Study suggests children remotely move matter to extinguish birthday cake candles, to prevent wildfires.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 1 month ago:
Better take a year off, mate.
- Comment on 3 Reasons You Never Finish Projects (and how to fix it) 1 month ago:
Bookmarked for later.
- Comment on Anon tries to remember a song 2 months ago:
Tom’s Diner.
- Comment on What kind of laptop should I get? 2 months ago:
I stopped using my MacBook Air after 9 years. I did a battery swap at some point, and I think I replaced the charger after the cable frayed. Best windows machine I ever ran.
- Comment on My Empire of Podsols 3 months ago:
I’ve witnessed a lot of talk about this song- I love me a good cover- and this is the first time I’ve read this quote. Thanks for that, it gives some great context.
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 3 months ago:
Monument Valley
- Comment on Anon checks out mobile gaming 3 months ago:
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
- Comment on That oscillated quickly. 3 months ago:
This isn’t Indian, it’s Thai- they are known for their insane ads.
- Comment on Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way 3 months ago:
Is there a file size limit?
- Comment on Absolutely deranged 4 months ago:
PromptWish Engineering - Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of June 9th 5 months ago:
I put off Factorio for years, because I knew I’d like it a lot. Had some free time in my life recently, so I went for it.
Send help.
- Comment on Nuclear power explained in 12 numbers to help you understand how it fits Australia’s energy needs 5 months ago:
Your opinions are invalid, and you should be ashamed of yourself!
(Did that help?)
- Comment on viruses 5 months ago:
Are these requirements for your definition of life? Is it possible for us to reproduce without relying on other organisms?
- Comment on Anon plays GTA: Dubai 6 months ago:
I don’t think that Dubai, or anywhere in the UAE, ever had a ban on women driving.
Are you thinking of Saudi Arabia? Different country.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
Almost 24 hours and no one has commented on MMDDYY? I don’t know whether to be proud or disappointed.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
At least they aren’t trying to use Powerpoint for computation…
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 11 months ago:
It probably makes sense to them. I’m sure they’re looking at your git workflow wondering how you function!
- Comment on This toilet paper at my work 11 months ago:
What always gets me when I see paper like this, is just how much manpower, engineering time, experimentation, materials science, and just sheer concerted effort went into making paper this fucking thin and useless.
- Comment on "Why are TV Cameras still huge and expensive?" 1 year ago:
There’s a lot more to it than that, but yes. At least in my world, RAID isn’t really used for ingest, it’s just not fast enough- A single camera at 4k will bring a gigabit network to its knees. IP networking is making it’s way into the events space, but it’s not straightforward, and generally isn’t used for critical recording or archival, just for pushing content to screens. For recording it is usually done in camera, and this is directly piped over dedicated cabling to back of house where a recording station is set up. This cabling will either be SMPTE or SDI.
The most data I’ve recorded for a live event was on a show for a Tech Company You’ve Heard Of.
We had 8 cameras in the main room. This room ran for most of the day, can’t recall how long but let’s call it 8 hours, allowing time for lunch and turnarounds and such. This show ran for three days. We kept to good practice, and had a main and backup recording of each camera feed. They wanted ProRes 444 HQ, I managed to convince them that 422 would be sufficient. Even so, at 4k, that’s about half a terabyte per hour.
We could only get 2 terabyte SSDs in the quantity needed in time.
So that’s 2 recordings of 8 cameras at half a terabyte an hour, giving 8 terabytes per hour, for 8 hours, giving 64 terabytes a day, for three days, giving just under 200 terabytes for the main room alone.
Do you know how tall a stack of a hundred SSDs is? I do…
- Comment on What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located? 1 year ago:
It’s not so much about the audience perspective as it is the layout of the building. Just like backstage is the area behind the stage, other areas like behind the bar, or the storage areas, green rooms, offices, tech rooms, weird tunnels full of mysterious cables, etc are all collectively ‘back of house’.
Like when you go to a big box store and they see if they’ve got something ‘out the back’, the back of house areas are those generally not seen by the public. The term front of house likely evolved as the opposite of this.
- Comment on What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located? 1 year ago:
In theater it’s sometimes called the ‘Bio Box’. However, in theatre it is often tucked away right up the top, and is called 'The Gods '.
- Comment on Why cant the Middle East just chill out? 1 year ago:
The region was defined by constant conflict and instability before Britain and France were even a twinkle in a Celtic eye.
- Comment on Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union? 1 year ago:
Does the UK still meet the requirements of joining?
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
I wasn’t saying anything about mortgages equivalency to rent, or that landlords are essential. I’m just curious as to how a society without landlords would work, in your view.
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
I was just going to have a discussion about housing, but something in what you said made me curious about something else- Hopefully this isn’t too personal of a question, but do you make many friends with that sort of approach to conversation?
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
By this reasoning, farming for anyone other than yourself is also inherently immoral.
Farmers exploit someone’s basic need for food for massive profit, keeping people trapped in the rental cycle as they are having to pay for food from the farmer to pay their business loan for them and so is much harder to save for their own farm.
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
If there’s something that landlords and tenants can agree on, I think it’s that real estate agencies are the absolute fucking worst.
- Comment on No one really understands our struggle 1 year ago:
How would a society without rentals work?