Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark, and Daniel Craig as James Bond.

RIP the most superb owl 🥲

I’m pointing out that alternatives exist, and they are decent alternatives.

And I’m pointing out that those alternatives in practicality are not even close. Suggesting a hobby project out of the blue when OP is not even asking for it (and even claiming that they are comparable) is just dumb.

Capturing a photo of a bullet that’s been slowing down for 300 meters is not a great technical feat.

You just missed my point about the 1.6MP elephant in the room. And that’s just ignoring every other camera feature used to take the shot, which you would have to manually dial in with your rpi camera. You are simply not going to do that in the chaos.

I’ve only used Raspberry Pi based systems with manual focus.

Well that’s certainly a problem, isn’t it? You don’t know what OP does with their camera, if it’s a hobby or for a living. Go try suggesting building a RPi camera kit to sports photographers, see if they give a fuck about it.

Depth of field is a property of the lens, not the sensor.

DoF has everything to do with sensor SIZE. You are simply never going to get the level of shallow depth of field with tiny sensors compared to even M43 or bigger sensors. You are simply never going to get the ISO performances or dynamic range of a bigger sensor because the photosites are just physically huge compared to those in phone camera sensors. Even a cheap old 12MP DSLR is going to destroy the images quality coming out of the best 64MP rpi camera kit, not even a question. And not to mention all the other functions a modern camera has, like weather sealing, subject detect autofocus, auto white balance, color science, image stabilization, etc.

Sensors: if you want to take pictures in starlight, you can get IMX585 (hard due to market problems). If you want lots of pixels, 64 M is not a problem. If you want to photograph a bullet, you can get the low-pixel global shutter sensor, there is code around to take video at 500 fps (disclaimer: tiny video, extreme light level required).

I count 3 different sensors for each scenario now, and you even know their downsides. What makes you think OP is willing to deal with these? The global shutter sensor is a 1.6MP sensor. Yeah, that absolutely can replace the gear that captured the photo of the bullet whizzing by Trump and won the Pulitzer prize.

Yes, the depth of field and image quality the camera kit sensors and lenses produce sure can match those produced by full frame sensors and lenses. And fuck Canon’s industry leading autofocus, OP can write their own autofocus algorithm too!

I’ve been following this on an ABC news podcast called Bad Rap. Their previous podcast on the Theranos case called The Dropout was excellent, and I highly recommend giving both of these a listen.

Agreed

And they currently engineer product to have things fail right after their warranty expires, so, that’s not really a concern, since we’re already living with the that.

Which is exactly my point of why mandated warranty period does not really fix the core of the problem, which is intentionally making products not last. It’s just a bandaid solution (Yes I know a solution is still better than nothing, and may be the first step to address this issue). What I want to see is prolonging the life of a product by letting consumers freely fix their own stuff (parts, schematics, etc.) without the manufacturer locking things down, even after the warranty expires.

As much as I love this, I fail to see how this would be able to be written into law. It’s basically gov mandated warranty period. If the goal is to have manufacturers make products that last, how long is long enough for every product category? What’s to say that they do the same thing and design products that fail right after warranty ends? Who decides if there is foul play in designing faulty products and how? Unless the gov makes their own product that lasts for 20 years and tells every other company to use this as a baseline otherwise get fined, I don’t know how they would be able to enforce this.

I just think this is a big gray area and it would be hard to make this cut and clear. The only thing I think they could do for now is to have companies provide repair manuals and provide parts for a set amount of years after product launch, and repairs should be able to be made by customers themselves without needing to go through 1st party verification like Apple requires with their phones.

Rules for thee, not for me

So what you’re saying is that he isn’t using the trees to build properties, but using the land after the trees has been cut to build property. I can’t imagine this would fly legally for national forests though.

So I just want to chime in here as an outsider. From what I searched, national forests are different from national parks in that, extraction of natural resources from national forests is permitted for commercial and personal use.

Trump’s order cites wildfire, insect and disease outbreak as the reason for this change (Biden also sought more logging to combat fire but apparently timber sales did not change much during his tenure). While I agree that forest management is important, Trump had also put tariffs on Canadian lumber and cut down jobs for national park workers. It’s not hard to question if there are other motivations other than wildfire prevention in this context.

Putting tariffs on Norfolk Island and Heard and McDonald Islands are particularly funny considering Heard and McDonald Islands only has penguins living there lol.

Taiwan always had pretty good relations with Japan. It’s the Trump situation that threw everything in the air. People here for whatever reason can be extreme as if you’re not pro-trump, you’re pro-china. They actively say that any messages that are anti-trump or anti-america, reasonable or not, are lies of the ccp. Which is insane.

I do not want China to annex my hometown, but I also do not like how trump is going about it, alienating allies and all. It’s like having to choose between two evils, because if not the US, who can we rely on to back us up in military? If we want to survive under trump, we have to play by his rule. He does not have a lick of respect for other countries’ sovereignty, as shown with Canada and Greenland, and I hate that we have no choice but to endure that.

Speaking as a Taiwanese, I fucking hate this situation we’re stuck in.

There shouldn’t have been a poll in the first place

• Red Flags Pod: F1 Podcast with sister show Vankah Hours starring Gunther Steiner as a third co-host.
• Hyperfixed: Show where Alex Goldman tries to solve a problem an audience sent in, no matter what the topic is.

Haven’t watched, but I’m surprised this is made into an anime. I read the manga years ago, it’s a pretty dark (maybe a bit dry) story.

Thanks. I also asked around my friend group, and they have said similar things. There’s not a lot you can do concerning color reproduction across devices, they sometimes even edit two versions, one for PC/storage, one for phone/social media. Other than that, it’s a lost cause.

So I guess the problem now boils down to color consistency in the same device across programs. Particularly on PC. I know that having a calibrated monitor is one major step, but what settings to tick and color space conversions in various programs are what’s bothering me. Like, one photo imported from my phone can look desaturated in one program, over saturated in the other, and have a different blue tone in a third. Which version should I edit in? I’m only sticking to shooting in sRGB mode on my camera now to minimize headaches, but just wondering what else I could do.

Happy to help!