Does anything that anyone in the commercial world actually uses support ffv1 though?
there are some commercial film decks that are starting to add direct support (though I think it’s basically a hook to run rawcooked over their dpx output)
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working on a numerology of how closely the plotted increase in mips and flops of my personal computing hardware over the years maps onto a curve of dragon ball z power levels
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I keep reading that as like Final Fantasy V-1 or something
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it’s basically FLAC for video, it’s an open source codec that technically provides compression insofar as it actually generates b-frames rather than just encoding a series of static images (as you’d get in WAV audio or DPX/raw video), but is totally lossless by design, so the compression is not very good but it’s nevertheless the best way to store this stuff for archival purposes, it’s just not very well supported by commercial software yet
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I’m setting up my Windows machine for development this week for the first time in a decade. Overall I get the feeling it will be a better experience than OSX/Linux nowadays (thanks to WSL2, FancyZones, Autohotkey, and Groupy) but there are some real WTFs.
Like it’s nice that Microsoft finally released a proper terminal emulator but it crashes 25% of the time when I run any git command? Wat?? I don’t remember the last time I’ve seen a terminal emulator crash for any reason, let alone due to something as common as git.
Most other terminals look like they were made in 2002 so I switched to Hyper for now, so I get to enjoy dat Electron 50ms latency on every keystroke
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conemu is still the best windows terminal imo, but I had to tweak like, the fucking kerning to make it look good
I also still use WSL1 (secondarily to msys bash, even) and choco instead of the winget package manager and I guess I’ll reevaluate at some point, but the dev experience is fine for me by now too
lmk if you hit anything obviously dumb
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I mostly use msys2 bash + tmux inside of mintty. Occasionally a windows-native command line application (looking at you, docker) hangs on the way it hooks input and you need to use the winpty command but other than that it’s been fine. Actually less annoying than recent versions of macOS.
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Thanks, I never heard of either winget or choco. Looks like it’s pretty early days for winget and there’s not much on it (there is no package for ripgrep for instance), so I’ll get choco as well
overall I do find “baremetal” msys (which you can just install as git bash) still more useful than working in WSL2 by default but it’s not hard to just have separate key shortcuts for spawning different shells in conemu, and I think once they have GPU acceleration and Xorg emulation in WSL2 next year that may change anyway
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tiny phones hell yeah
Sent from an iPhone SE (1st gen)
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Microsoft really messed up their user permissions/data model forever didn’t they. The whole absurd rigmarole of having to run random things as admin and having other random software put files 6 directories deep in my user directory is not something I have to think about on OS X or Linux. I don’t remember it being so bad last I used Windows as other than gaming console in the Windows XP era either
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yeah, you just have to turn it off, it’s incoherent
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What? Really? I don’t notice it at all. The only thing I change is to disable darkening the screen behind the UAC prompt.
How is ~/Library/ or 6000 dotfiles/directories in ~/ any different?
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most Windows stuff doesn’t install to appdata vs program files with anywhere near the consistency of Mac/Linux, password prompts in non-elevated terminals are nonexistent so you can’t use a basic sudo workflow (there is https://github.com/imachug/win-sudo but it’s broken in conemu lol)
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really hate this
Oh
Yeah I guess somehow I never do anything on the command line that needs elevation
Though aside from open source projects that treat windows with absolute disdain I haven’t encountered anything that tries to write directly to program files in years, windows started guiding devs to appdata like 15 years ago
some more cards just showed up on best buy, again in a completely different way to buy them than last time, and somehow worse than any previous method. but I hear if you used some apple pay phone app thing you stood a chance at getting one of the 10 or so they had. I can’t upgrade my computer because my computer is too slow to outrun robots buying up computer parts
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bought a pi4
dunno what i actually want to do with the thing, oops
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