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Comment on First death linked to red meat allergy triggered by tick bites, researchers say in ~health
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Comment on Around the world in 80 days ... sustainably in ~talk
PetitPrince Link ParentSome anecdotes : A lot of the research for this has been done at my alma mater (EPFL) \o/ the main person behind the project is Bertrand Piccard. He's used to this kind of adventure, having made...Some anecdotes :
- A lot of the research for this has been done at my alma mater (EPFL) \o/
- the main person behind the project is Bertrand Piccard. He's used to this kind of adventure, having made the first trip around the world with an hot air balloon
- the Piccard family is a dynasty of scientists, engineer and explorer. August Piccard (Bertrand grand father) is the direct inspiration for Professor Calculus in Tintin.
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Comment on Valve announces new hardware: Steam Frame, Steam Controller, and Steam Machine in ~games
PetitPrince LinkLong shot but: since the Frame runs a reasonably open platform... if the people behind UEVR (injector to VRify any Unreal Engine game) manage to make it run on it, it's going to be epic! (pun...Long shot but: since the Frame runs a reasonably open platform... if the people behind UEVR (injector to VRify any Unreal Engine game) manage to make it run on it, it's going to be epic! (pun intended)
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Comment on I powered my house using 500 disposable vapes in ~engineering
PetitPrince (edited )Link ParentWhat prevented you to use rechargeable vape? Price? (question asked with genuine curiosity and without ill intent ; I never smoked and think vapes are less bad than cigarette ; my brother in law...What prevented you to use rechargeable vape? Price?
(question asked with genuine curiosity and without ill intent ; I never smoked and think vapes are less bad than cigarette ; my brother in law does vape, but with a rechargeable one)
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Comment on Affinity V3 is here with a new freemium model in ~design
PetitPrince (edited )Link ParentCounterpoint : Davinci Resolve is both a good color grading tool (and was use in actual blockbuster movie) and a competent video editor with non trivial feature features (like multicam), and it's...Free software this advanced [...] is too good to be true.
Counterpoint : Davinci Resolve is both a good color grading tool (and was use in actual blockbuster movie) and a competent video editor with non trivial feature features (like multicam), and it's offered for free.
But I still agree with you in that it's clearer how Blackmagic Design makes money: there's a "studio" version of Davinci with feature that is realistically out of reach and/or useless for regular consumer (120fps at 32K, multiple GPU, remote scripting,...). There's also a wide range of hardware that Blackmagic sells.
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Comment on The Boxcar Fight - Short and documentary in ~movies
PetitPrince LinkI'm a sucker for behind the scenes so those two hours of people making the short already makes me happy with this project.I'm a sucker for behind the scenes so those two hours of people making the short already makes me happy with this project.
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Comment on Is there a service that a regular joe can use to provide subs or dubbing for a movie? in ~movies
PetitPrince Link ParentWhile whisper definitely gets the job done, the timing it produces is not up to my standard. Too much cut in the middle of sentence with no logic whatsoever.While whisper definitely gets the job done, the timing it produces is not up to my standard. Too much cut in the middle of sentence with no logic whatsoever.
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Comment on Tips/guides to turn my home into a smart home? in ~tech
PetitPrince LinkI am also in the process of smartifying my home. Haven't installed stuff yet but have done some research. I'm interested in hearing everyone tips! As for #2: Zigbee devices forms a mesh network,...I am also in the process of smartifying my home. Haven't installed stuff yet but have done some research. I'm interested in hearing everyone tips!
As for #2: Zigbee devices forms a mesh network, making them somewhat resilient to outage and independant of your router.
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Comment on Devil May Fly - WIP fighter jet parry in ~games
PetitPrince LinkAs a fan of both Ace Combat and Devil May Cry, this looks bonkers and I need this like yesterday.As a fan of both Ace Combat and Devil May Cry, this looks bonkers and I need this like yesterday.
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Comment on Indecision: Get a camera despite having a phone in ~tech
PetitPrince Link ParentAdditional info for OP: there's several classes of camera that depends on the size of the sensor. Roughly speaking, there's a factor of 2 in the size of the sensor for each step. From biggest to...Additional info for OP: there's several classes of camera that depends on the size of the sensor. Roughly speaking, there's a factor of 2 in the size of the sensor for each step. From biggest to smallest you have:
- Large format: the thing with the bellows. It's huge, cumbersome and somewhat charming.
- Medium format: large camera. Hasselblad, Phase One, Pentax and the GFX line of Fujifilm live there. IMAX film have this format. Most of the twin lens reflex are also there (<- specialty vintage camera)
- Full frame: based on the historic 35mm film format. Most enthusiast / pro level camera lives in that class. Historically Canon and Nikon were the dominant brand, but for quite some time now Sony (who bought the tech from Minolta in 2005, they're not coming from nowhere) became a very viable competitor
- APS-C: based on a failed film format that was 2x smaller than the standard 35mm. Turns out in with digital camera it's not that big of a deal. Most entry camera are there, but there are also higher end camera for all brand (notably most of Fujifilm lineup are there)
- Micro four third: as /u/BashCrandiboot mentioned, it's a system that uses an even smaller sensor (but still many times larger than your iPhone sensor). Most brand there (Panasonic, Olympus/OM) thrives on specialty and/or retro styling (which coincidentally is also the whole strategy of Fujifilm with their APS-C). One specialty thats not worthy is cinema: Panasonic GH series were famous to cather to film maker.
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Comment on Indecision: Get a camera despite having a phone in ~tech
PetitPrince LinkSo you want a camera. On the smartphone vs dedicated camera debate, I often like to make a culinary analogy. You can survive eating only your supermarket prepared meal. Just put it in your...So you want a camera. On the smartphone vs dedicated camera debate, I often like to make a culinary analogy.
You can survive eating only your supermarket prepared meal. Just put it in your microwave / oven and your you're good to go. It may even taste good or excellent (those IKEA meatball are a meme for a reason). They have armies of food scientist, tasting panel participant and so on to develop the product, so it stand to reason that this kind of food is at least palatable. And you just need a microwave or an oven!
This is your smartphone camera app. Again: there's a tight integration of hardware and software engineer, color scientist et al. just to make your life easy and capture a decent picture when you press the shutter on your screen.With homecooling, there's two thing it unlocks: 1) you can choose higher quality material and 2) you have the possibility to cook yourself. Those two things doesn't make you automatically a tastier meal; you can still screw up your a99 wagyu steak (insert you plant based alternative of choice here) that has been blessed by high ranking monks in the mountains by overcooking it (or boiling it).
But if you nail the prepatation, it can be noticeably better than anything you can find in a supermarket. And when you feel lazy, nothing prevents you to throw those ingredient into a thermomix to have something quick and easy.And so with photography, a bigger and better camera will not automatically produce better picture. You can still screw up. But at minimum you'll get can get more details in your picture because of the higher size of your sensor, and the quality of the optics in front of it. But if you engage in the art and craft of photography, you can improve as a photographer and have the means of putting thing in manual where it makes sense and leave stuff in automatic when it's especially convenient (we mostly leave autofocus on, and knowing which exposure automatism to use depending on the situation is something you'll get used to)(culinary analogies : home made puff pastry or ramen noodles - it's not worth it).
As other mentioned, the actual operation of a dedicated camera is vastly different (and better) compared to a smartphone. You can have a proper grip instead of an awkward hold. I'd say that having a viewfinder (compared to a screen) also helps tremendously. When the only thing you see is the picture you're going to take, you notice thing you can easily miss with just looking at a smartphone screen.
As other also said: every dedicated camera (with manual controls) released in the last ten years are good to excellent. I'm going to cover a week long LARP event next week with hardware that's 9 and 7 years old and I have total faith in them.
Granted, it's enthusiast and/or pro level gear (my dad's Nikon D810 with a 18-35 2.8, and my Fujifilm x-t3 with a 24-70 2.8 equivalent I'm renting) but the bottom point is: don't hesitate to check the second hand market, there's good deal to be had. -
Comment on Indecision: Get a camera despite having a phone in ~tech
PetitPrince Link ParentRaws are a family of file format (there's usually one per brand - Fuji have .raf, Sony have .arw, Canon have .cr2, Nikon have .nef) that records the "raw" data from the sensor. It's often in the...Do RAWs actually need to be developped physically or are there programs for that?
Raws are a family of file format (there's usually one per brand - Fuji have .raf, Sony have .arw, Canon have .cr2, Nikon have .nef) that records the "raw" data from the sensor. It's often in the tens of MB, whereas for picture you'll share on social media is often in the order of 0.5MB in jpeg.
There's some special dedicated program that does that, but it's an art (your camera captures more data that your screen can render, so you have to make choice). Almost all camera can also outputs regular jpeg (Fujifilm is famous for its jpg processing that try to closely mimic their analogue film stock colors), but you lose all the editing range that you have with raws (it's way easier to rescue a badly exposed photo with raws compared to jpeg).
Often those program also have photo sorting and culling capabilities (pro photographer often have to manage hundred of even thousands photos per session, so relying on your OS is highly inefficient). Those can also be quite expensive and/or subscription based.
I personally got a perpetual license for Capture One in 2023 for a hundred bucks (lucky promotion) but normaly it's 300. Adobe Lightroom is a very popular choice, but Adobe has discutable business practices and my Pro photographer friends (corporate portraiture) hates it's color rendering.
Some free and open source alternative exists, but it's been a while since I try them. Raw therapee seems competent. Dark Table works in a wholly different paradigm than every other raw developper in the market ; it's very destabilising with my decade of Lightroom and Capture One experience.
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Comment on CGA-2025-10 🕹️⏰ 🗺️ 🐸 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Chrono Trigger in ~games
PetitPrince LinkThere's a lot of mention about the quality of the music, but no one actually named the person responsible for it: it was mainly Yasunori Mitsuda. Interestingly, this was a bid for him to get into...There's a lot of mention about the quality of the music, but no one actually named the person responsible for it: it was mainly Yasunori Mitsuda.
Interestingly, this was a bid for him to get into composing at Squaresoft (he was sound designer before). Basically "let me compose some music or I quit". He worked hard, so much so that he developed stomach ulcer and Nobuo Uematsu (legendary resident Squaresoft composer at the time) had to help while he was ill (Noriko Matsueda also helped for one track).
As with many other Squaresoft IP of the time, there's an arrangement album existing; and for this one Mitsuda and his collaborator chose to make it not orchestral/symphonic, but acid jazz.
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Comment on Tildes, I need your advice. Looking for Nintendo Switch 1 and NS2 games. in ~games
PetitPrince Link Parent+1 With this game you will either get a iron bonded group of kids or a tornado of children arguing against each other. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is also a good way to get them to...Overcooked 2 is a much more challenging coop game, but can also be pretty fun... although it can also be incredibly frustrating too, so be warned. ;)
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With this game you will either get a iron bonded group of kids or a tornado of children arguing against each other.
Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is also a good way to get them to comminicate with each other. One player is a bomb diffuser and has a switch while another player (or a team of other players) gives them vocal instructions based on a actual paper manual that you have to print at home.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
PetitPrince Link ParentAnti-recommendation : If you were "meh" with Nier Automata don't ever try to play Nier. I feel that everything Nier try to do narratively Nier Automata does it better (which is reassuring in a way...Anti-recommendation : If you were "meh" with Nier Automata don't ever try to play Nier. I feel that everything Nier try to do narratively Nier Automata does it better (which is reassuring in a way since it's an earlier game).
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Comment on iOS 26 is here in ~tech
PetitPrince Link ParentA decade ago? Try Windows Aero in Windows Costa that was released two decades ago.A decade ago? Try Windows Aero in Windows Costa that was released two decades ago.
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Silksong’s real final boss: The translator who broke his NDA and wrote like a dead poet
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: Voting topic in ~games
PetitPrince LinkTetris (5) Carmageddon (1) Star Wars TIE Fighter (1) Castlevania: Arika of Sorrow (1) Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (1) Scroll Lock-on (1)Tetris (5)
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Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden - Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa (1)
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Comment on Vivaldi takes a stand: keep browsing human in ~tech
PetitPrince Link ParentGenuine curiosity : Can you tell me what usecase you have?Genuine curiosity : Can you tell me what usecase you have?
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Comment on Tildes' Colossal Game Adventure: Inauguration and nominations in ~games
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