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State of Kdenlive 3 months ago

Also, what many of the computer programmer people here downvoting will not understand is that interrupting creative flow with crashes is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

Film industry people who work 50 hour weeks editing video give negative fucks about what OS it's on or whether they can open a python console. They do not see submitting bug reports on github as a stimulating intellectual exercise. They need it to work without a crash for 50 hours a week, and that's why their workplaces take the $1000/seat/year hit. Same reason you see auto mechanics spending $200 for one snap on wrench instead of a whole harbor freight set.

State of Kdenlive 3 months ago

I agree that this software is not ready for wide adoption in industry. Crashes are 5-10 times more common than premiere, FCP, avid, or resolve. I use it to make short instructional videos with V/O, which it is a godsend for- a massive improvement over the NLE options that existed before kdenlive. It is capable but stability is a major issue.

By the time I stopped using windows 10 on my daily driver last year I had 6 tweak apps always running to smooth over the endless papercuts. Now that I'm on KDE I don't have to run anything, it's all doable via stock control panels.

Animated Knots 6 months ago

I learned a lot of the knots and hitches I use from this site. One of my favorites is the Beer Knot (https://www.animatedknots.com/beer-knot) which I use to make little loops out of paracord. They are one of the few things on the site that are not exactly a hitch or knot but an object that makes tying other knots easier. In my bike repair kit I carry a few in different diameters.

If you wrap it around a pipe or tube using a cow hitch or prusik, it creates an eyelet that is as reliable as if it were welded in place, but is also easily moved by loosening it slightly. On bicycle tours I use them to create ad hoc eyelets on my racks which make lashing oddly-shaped things on the rack easier. They also work great for converting a small diameter eyelet into a larger one.

Thanks for all this, what you wrote and the discussion that followed has been genuinely helpful, and I think it might help bridge some cultural divides that I've experienced when working with Indian people.

Another question I'd like to ask of you is, do you see any aspects of the western style of cooperation that are the inverse? i.e. which create divides in which the westerner's ways of working can be the source of conflict?

I had my directions reversed, so the extra reach doesn't really apply, I suppose, but I think aligned to the right side (when looking into the lens) is even worse. I maybe see what you mean about your hand hitting the body, but i actually want that; my grip has me resting the body along much of my left hand and cradled in my palm. That is really important to stability for me, it gives me an extra stop to work with.

All personal preference I guess!

Practically and ergonomically I prefer a centered lens. Your hand has to reach less far to reach the focus ring and aperture control. Most slr cameras have buttons on both sides of the lens, so developing muscle memory is easier when those actions are split between each hand. Rotation of the camera is also much more natural. It also centers the lens' pov between your eyes, matching their parallax, which is really important for composing the photograph outside of the viewfinder.

My life is given meaning by my relationships with my partner and family, pursuing my passions and hobbies, semi yearly bicycle trips, petting my cat etc. Its meaning is chipped away at when I hear about random grandparents black bagged at the home depot; the idea that immense and pointless suffering is being meted out an underclass supposedly for my benefit, without any significant way to protest or stop it without focusing those dark forces upon myself.

I've been turned away a few times. Real campers (not people on an 800lb hog or hauling a 3 ton tiny home doing 7mpg) are using a tiny fraction of the total area and all that space is wasted. they could be making more per camper per night by splitting camper sites by making small footprint spots where they otherwise couldn't put a car site. This is what a real campground spelled with a C does.

I hate on KOA and other RV places because I think the comparison between that and a state site is pretty stark. Early in my longest tour I was attracted to that type of convenience. But I've never found myself using the pools, grills, or books. (do you really expect to find a good book in an rv campground? come on.) I'm more concerned with doing the same thing I do at every other site like cooking and setting up the tent. Usually the experience costs $70-80 for a not-very-flat site with no discount for tourers. I find the check-in, check-out, and travel around a sprawling campground to be pretty onerous and time consuming the next day as well and I get a 3+ hour late start. Not to say that all those amenities aren't nice, but you can get most of them at a state-run campground, which actually tend to have way more space between campsites, prim sites, sometimes even awnings to sleep under so you don't get a dewy tent. And to be honest, RV park workers are totally bitchy compared to the state park folks, if you even have to talk to them, because a lot of state/national sites just let you drop $10 cash in an envelope.

Overall I found it to be a net negative to stay at an RV park. RVs produce a lot of noise, almost on the level of night in a major city. At home in an RV, people stay up 2-3 hours later than you do on a bike tour, and they run tvs, ACs, generators, and make excess light. The last straw for me was when our "neighbor" for the night was yelling foul, abusive things at his wife. And those bathrooms... sometimes they are a real horror. Keep your boots on.

Those types of experiences are really yours for the taking for little to nothing when you tour. Toilets are so easy to come by. Showers, too, for the price of a $15 day pass at a gym, but you can also just sponge bathe in the handicap stall. I would stop in a town and get some mcdonalds, eat it at the laundromat, hit the post office, talk to bums on the street. When I wanted to swim I'd just find a place to swim. That stuff is the real gold, being resourceful and a massive cheapskate somewhere you don't know anybody.

On top of all that, you can just sneak on to the RV park in the morning if you want to.

I see a sort of parallel in how search fuzzing has become so ubiquitous, because returning 0 results means you don't get any clicks. That sort of reward function means the fuzzing should get worse the fewer true results there are.

I think that finding free camping outside when you are in some shit nothing town is probably the most important skill to have, which is easy with satellite maps. Once you get the hang of it you realize that every town has at least one site where you can definitely get away with pitching a tent for one night. I think I have camped this way about 80 times and have never even been asked what I'm doing. That said, state and national park campgrounds are a great deal and you sometimes meet other tourers there, so they're good for a day when you want to take it easy for a morning. I sometimes get a kick out of zooming in on nowhere, USA and looking for spots.

And some advice for anyone doing this for the first time and feels compelled to pay to camp - never stay at a KOA, consider them an absolute last resort. There is no bigger waste of money and RV culture is extremely cursed.

You don't have to use them if you want, and I would never bother in some throwaway internet comment where context clues work well enough, but they serve an important purpose in typography that date back to the invention of the printing press or before. Each of these typographic marks signals uses that greatly differ syntactically and linguistically. In another sense, these are building blocks of design, which revolves around subtle yet explicit visual cues. Giving the reader those cues eliminates ambiguity by unambiguously establishing the writer's intent. That in turn promotes visual flow, which is essential when typesetting something hundreds of pages long. If you ever find yourself in this situation, you'll be happy they exist!