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Comment on Recommendations needed: Favorite “comfort” movies in ~movies
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Comment on Lord of the Rings Extended Editions returning to theaters with a 4D twist in ~movies
Boojum Link ParentGlad to hear it went well - I've got my tickets for this coming weekend! The LotR movies are probably the only films that I've ever seen 3+ times during their original theatrical runs, and last...Glad to hear it went well - I've got my tickets for this coming weekend!
The LotR movies are probably the only films that I've ever seen 3+ times during their original theatrical runs, and last year I was thinking it'd be awesome if they ever re-released them in the theaters. They're definitely the kind of movie that deserves to be watched on the big screen. I'm really looking forward to my kids getting to see them this way!
(Appropriate pseudonym, btw!)
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Comment on ‘Marty Supreme’ becomes A24’s highest-grossing film at domestic box office with $80 million in ~movies
Boojum Link ParentSo a 180-degree shutter means that the shutter is open for exactly half the frame, and is a fairly common shutter time. Think of a spinning semicircular disk in front of the film, though some...So a 180-degree shutter means that the shutter is open for exactly half the frame, and is a fairly common shutter time. Think of a spinning semicircular disk in front of the film, though some cameras do it electronically these days. (Decent explanation on Wikipedia.)
If you watch carefully during the scene with the first ping pong tournament in London, you'll see that as the ball moves, it forms something like a dashed line. There's a short motion blur streak of white, a gap of equal length, and then another streak, and then another gap, and so on. The streaks where you see it are where the shutter is open. The gaps between them are where it's closed. Since they appear to about equal in length, it means shutter open and close times are about equal. Hence, a 180-degree shutter.
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Comment on ‘Marty Supreme’ becomes A24’s highest-grossing film at domestic box office with $80 million in ~movies
Boojum LinkIt was interesting, but I found it really hard to root for the main character. It felt like he was often his own worst enemy and a lot of the plot was simply driven by him digging himself deeper...It was interesting, but I found it really hard to root for the main character. It felt like he was often his own worst enemy and a lot of the plot was simply driven by him digging himself deeper and deeper due to one poor decision after another. To be fair, my oldest kid is only a couple years younger than the main character here, so at my age I couldn't help but see this one through the parental lens and which left me cringing for most of it.
Honestly, I found myself really wanting to see the Japanese champion win, just because he seemed level-headed like a relatively good sport. I kind of wanted to see more of his story, even though I know dramatically he's relatively flat and boring and not someone you could really set a story around. But between the two, he's the one I think I'd have been cheering for IRL.
On the plus side: in terms of the cinematography, it was neat to see a film where I could clearly tell it was shot with a 180-degree shutter!
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Comment on ‘Marty Supreme’ becomes A24’s highest-grossing film at domestic box office with $80 million in ~movies
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Comment on On being officially classed as a robot in ~tech
Boojum Link ParentWelcome! I definitely remember enjoying your posts over on /r/adventofcode and was thinking I'd miss those on reading this, so it's good to see you might have a new home here. Personally, I find...Welcome! I definitely remember enjoying your posts over on /r/adventofcode and was thinking I'd miss those on reading this, so it's good to see you might have a new home here.
Personally, I find Tildes a very cozy place compared to the larger Reddit (though /r/adventofcode is pretty friendly, IMO). And as @cfabbro mentioned, there are usually some daily AoC threads here even if they are much smaller than over there.
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Comment on What's the benefit of avoiding the debugger? in ~comp
Boojum LinkI'm not against debuggers in principal, but I think they can be a bit of a crutch. The things that I like about printf/logging style debugging is that: It works almost anywhere, even if I don't...I'm not against debuggers in principal, but I think they can be a bit of a crutch.
The things that I like about printf/logging style debugging is that:
- It works almost anywhere, even if I don't have a debugger available or know how the debugger for that particular environment works.
- I can save the traces/logs to disk and search through them in my editor. I know there are time-travel debuggers that will let you rewind time, but being able to search backwards through a log can be pretty darn effective to. The traces can give me a nice temporal overview of the evolving state.
- If I have saved the traces/logs to various files under conditions like working, broken, and/or with attempted fixes, then I can diff those traces. That can often help reveal where something starts going off the rails. I don't think that I've ever seen a debugger equivalent to diffing traces like that.
- Occasionally those diffs have helped me to debug race conditions, where I can see that events interleaved in a different order in the failing runs. (Some care needs to be taken here since prints are often guarded by internal mutexes, so observation this way can sometimes alter the thread order. But sometimes that actually helps tickle a race condition instead of suppressing it.)
Basically, I think knowing how to debug without a debugger is a useful skill - essentially a lowest common denominator sort of thing.
That said, I do really like debuggers for an initial triage of crashes - for loading up a program and seeing where it segfaults or panics and then walking up the call stack and inspecting the state to determine how the program got there. I think there's value in both.
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Comment on Help with 1bed, WFH apartment layout! in ~life.home_improvement
Boojum LinkJust a couple of ideas, looking at your diagram: What about moving your living room desk to the area where your dining table is now, and putting the dining table somewhere in the living room. Then...Just a couple of ideas, looking at your diagram:
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What about moving your living room desk to the area where your dining table is now, and putting the dining table somewhere in the living room. Then you could slide your desk forward along that partition by the door and sit in the corner behind it exactly where the dining table is shown now. That will give you a nice wall to your back. And having the dining room table more toward the living room/entry way will let you easily watch TV while eating if you feel like it, or give you more room to expand seating and extensions around it if you have lots of guests over.)
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It probably doesn't affect much other than unblocking the closet door if that's an issue, but what about rotating the bed 90 degrees while keeping it in the same corner, then putting the desk along the wall that's opposite the closet? (Oh, wait - I see now - that's kind of like your "alternative bedroom setup". I'd just been thinking the desk rotated from that so that it's flush in corner and parallel with the sinks on the other side of the divider.)
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Comment on Help with 1bed, WFH apartment layout! in ~life.home_improvement
Boojum Link ParentJust to add, this is exactly how I've been doing it for the last few years and it's worked well for me. I have one big L-shaped sit-stand desk, and on it I have my work desktop, work laptop, and...Just to add, this is exactly how I've been doing it for the last few years and it's worked well for me.
I have one big L-shaped sit-stand desk, and on it I have my work desktop, work laptop, and gaming desktop. The desktops and the laptop dock each have a cable to an input port on my monitor, and each has a cable to a 4-in/4-out USB switch. My keyboard and mouse are then hooked into that switch. And my main gaming/music headphones are attached to the monitor, so they switch with the monitor input.
FWIW, the USB switch that I use is this one. It's a little difficult to tell it's size from the pictures, but it ended up smaller than I expected - I'd say it's almost exactly the size of a pack of cards. I can't say anything about the remote since it just sits near the back of the desk and I just reach back to click the buttons to switch. I also haven't bothered with the power adapter that it comes with - the power over USB from each device has been plenty for running my mechanical keyboard and wired mouse.
(Like you, it's easy for me to get distracted having them together. But one thing that's really helped me resist the temptation to swap to gaming mode during the work day is that both machines are power-hungry enough is that with them both plugged into the same power strip, they'll trip my home's circuit breaker if I try to run them for anything intense at the same time.)
It's worked well. My only negative about this is that after a long day at work, it's often hard to find the motivation to stay at my desk for playtime too. My Steam Deck in the TV Dock has been getting more of a workout lately for this reason. (Though I did also try getting an extra-long HDMI cable since the TV and futon are in the same room as my desk.)
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Comment on Recommendations needed: Favorite “comfort” movies in ~movies
Boojum LinkOnly Yesterday is probably my all-time favorite comfort movie. It may be "lesser Ghibli", but as a slow burn, low stakes, gentle pastoral slice-of-life rom-com, it's just so soothing. Just a city...Only Yesterday is probably my all-time favorite comfort movie. It may be "lesser Ghibli", but as a slow burn, low stakes, gentle pastoral slice-of-life rom-com, it's just so soothing. Just a city woman in need of a break from her office job and going on vacation to stay with her sister's in-laws in the rural countryside while reminiscing about episodes from her childhood (and slowly falling for her brother-in-law's second cousin).
- Only Yesterday
- Whisper of the Heart
- Kiki's Delivery Service
- My Neighbor Totoro
- Paddington 1 & 2
- Shaun the Sheep
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- Pride and Prejudice (1995)
- Clueless
- Enchanted
- Princess Bride
- Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
- Kubo and the Two Strings
- Coraline
- Fellowship of the Ring
- Army of Darkness
- Galaxy Quest
- Kung Fu Hustle
- Hot Fuzz
- The Big Lebowski
- Groundhog Day
- A Mighty Wind
- My Cousin Vinny
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Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk
Boojum Link ParentLike the Torment Nexus (Wikipedia entry):Like the Torment Nexus (Wikipedia entry):
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
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Comment on What’s a point that you think many people missed? in ~talk
Boojum Link ParentI'll disagree a bit with this one. I generally aim for about $200 budget phones, buy them out-of-pocket, and usually get a good four years out of each. I've probably cumulatively spent less on...I'll disagree a bit with this one. I generally aim for about $200 budget phones, buy them out-of-pocket, and usually get a good four years out of each. I've probably cumulatively spent less on them than a single flagship phone would cost. And at the same time, they work just as well for me for making calls, sending and receiving text, and doing some light browsing with Firefox. And there's a certain peace-of-mind from viewing them as almost disposable - if I accidentally break it or have a problem, it just means its time for the next upgrade since it wouldn't cost much more than a repair.
(That said, much of my computing and internet use is on a custom high-end gaming/software development desktop, and that's a device that I did invest good money in. I much prefer typing a comment like this out on a nice mechanical keyboard to tapping at a tiny screen.)
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
Boojum LinkI'd started a re-read of The Eye of the World a while ago. I first read it a long time ago and never made it past the fourth or fifth book in the series. We'll see if I get farther this time. But...I'd started a re-read of The Eye of the World a while ago. I first read it a long time ago and never made it past the fourth or fifth book in the series. We'll see if I get farther this time. But I certainly enjoy re-reading bits from the first book now and then. Especially since it brings back good memories of that summer in my life when I first read it.
I'm a relatively slow reader when it comes to fiction - I like to enjoy the sound of the prose and the dialogue in my end, skip back and re-read bits, and even sometimes skip back whole chapters when a relevant connection comes up.
My big new thing now is that I finally have my own e-reader - I purchased a Kindle Scribe for myself when they were on sale back in October. It's nice to be able read a little while under the blankets in bed without waking my spouse up.
The thing that's really surprised me though is how much I've come to enjoy using the cover stand to stand it up on my kitchen table and read a bit hands-free while having my lunch each day. I've been making slow but steady progress that way. (It's more relaxing on my lunch breaks than doom scrolling on my phone and I don't have to keep touching the screen every 30 seconds to keep it on.) I also like that just turning it on brings me right back to where I left off; much as I love paper books, I sometimes get distracted by random pages when flipping them open.
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Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
Boojum Link ParentSuch an underrated book. I'll never not recommend it! Much as I enjoy Lewis's other works, this one always stands out to me for how different it is in style. Like, hmm... dark chocolate, maybe?...Such an underrated book. I'll never not recommend it!
Much as I enjoy Lewis's other works, this one always stands out to me for how different it is in style. Like, hmm... dark chocolate, maybe? Sort of a darker, richer, slightly grittier (cocoa nibs?) taste compared to his other books. I love the opening lines which establish the mood so well:
I am old now and have not much to fear from the anger of gods. I have no husband nor child, nor hardly a friend, through whom they can hurt me. My body, this lean carrion that still has to be washed and fed and have clothes hung about it daily with so many changes, they may kill as soon as they please.
Narnia, this ain't.
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Comment on Advice on avoiding the hedonic treadmill of endless content? in ~life
Boojum LinkKeeping this short, I just mention a pair of unrelated strategies (among others) that I use. For myself: I exclusively use private browsing on my phone. No logins, no history, no bookmarks. And...Keeping this short, I just mention a pair of unrelated strategies (among others) that I use.
For myself: I exclusively use private browsing on my phone. No logins, no history, no bookmarks. And absolutely no social media apps installed. If I want to browse this site, I have to manually type in
tildes.netand then I can browse in read-only mode. If I want to post, I have to hit the login button and type my username and password. (Or go to my desktop, like I'm doing now, which does have history and logins.) If I wanted to check for replies, I have to remember my comment, go to the topic and find it unless I chose to log in. Basically, it adds friction and requires me to be more intentional with my browsing on my phone.For the kids: The family computer is in the living room, in the center of the house, with the screen visible to everyone. It's completely unfiltered, but there's no hiding anything on it. I do believe in giving the kids a healthy amount of privacy and space here, and avoid standing over their shoulder. But if one of us walks by and happens to catch something that looks or sounds inappropriate (or simply too egregiously inane), we can have a talk. Usually that just ends with us suggesting that it's time to go read a book, play the video game themselves instead of watching a video of someone else playing it, watch a show with actual production values, or even just for us all to go get out of the house and take a walk, etc.
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Comment on I am kinda curious about the demographics of Tildes in ~talk
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Comment on Moving out soon. Think out loud with me regarding saving money vs. quality of life. in ~life
Boojum Link ParentI'll second the index funds suggestion. It's something that I wish I'd done sooner. I'd been kind of scared of stocks, thinking I'd need to worry about trying to pick the right ones, know when to...I'll second the index funds suggestion.
It's something that I wish I'd done sooner. I'd been kind of scared of stocks, thinking I'd need to worry about trying to pick the right ones, know when to invest in each, or sell each. But opening a Vanguard account, transferring some money from savings, and buying some shares of the Vanguard VOO (their S&P 500 index) every now and then has been pretty painless. And the fact that the lazy, hands-off, passive approach is the recommend one is all the better since it suits my style.
For someone with a 401(k) that they never look at, like OP, it's probably worth considering, since the approach is very similar (except that you can sell and withdraw at time with no real penalty, other than capital gains taxes).
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Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk
Boojum Link ParentNow I'm thinking of a certain Fawlty Towers scene.Now I'm thinking of a certain Fawlty Towers scene.
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Comment on Not-so-humble brag: What are you proud of that you don't normally get to talk about? in ~talk
Boojum Link ParentThat's pretty cool! A few years back I got to be the one to help someone outside academia publish their first paper. I wish more people would try it; it's always good to get some new blood.That's pretty cool! A few years back I got to be the one to help someone outside academia publish their first paper. I wish more people would try it; it's always good to get some new blood.
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Comment on What are some of your "life hacks" you use regularly? in ~talk
Boojum Link ParentDefinitely! But I'm always surprised at just how many things can be expressed through just multiplication and division like this. F = G m_1 m_2 / r^2, for gravitational force for example. Or E = m...Definitely! But I'm always surprised at just how many things can be expressed through just multiplication and division like this. F = G m_1 m_2 / r^2, for gravitational force for example. Or E = m c^2.
That was a hell of a thing...
(What's wrong with them?)