sterlingphoenix

sterlingphoenix t1_jeer583 wrote

Well, they'd have to take the film and do minimal processing on it, and yes it was pretty time consuming. They would sometimes have different cameras just for dailies.

However, starting in the 1960s, they started using videotape alongside film cameras for the dailies. This greatly simplified the process. The first movie to do this was The Party starring Peter Sellers and directed by Blake Edwards, which was released in 1968.

(And I know this because it's one of my favourite movies (; ).

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sterlingphoenix t1_je56fsr wrote

This is science. The whole point of research is that we don't know the answer.

The way it work is someone comes up with an idea, and then it gets fleshed out into a hypothesis, and then people come up with ways to try and prove it. It doesn't always work -- sometimes it turns out the hypothesis was incorrect, and sometimes we just don't know how to prove it. Doesn't mean we don't try.

And frankly it's the same with the philosopher's stone. Just because we know now have the hindsight that it was completely bonkers doesn't mean they shouldn't have tried at the time. This is how science advances.

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sterlingphoenix t1_jaf1os7 wrote

I'm not sure how many I have without actually looking because I might miss some, but over 5. This is because I live somewhere with wild climate changes (brutally cold, icy and snowy through wet and super-hot, and everything in between) and I have to be outside for decent amounts of times during all of those.

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sterlingphoenix t1_ja3867y wrote

DOS did everything you'd expect an OS to do in the consumer space. It wasn't supposed to compete with the commercial space.

If you want to go full UNIX, I definitely don't think you can call Windows a "real" OS, either. And I mean until the late 2000s.

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sterlingphoenix t1_ja2vuck wrote

> DOS was barely an operating system, in the true sense.

I mean you may be OK saying "compared to modern operating systems", but it was a perfectly adequate OS for the time. Windows wasn't an actual OS until Windows 98...

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sterlingphoenix t1_j9v26ot wrote

It's a binary system because electricity is either on or off. Adding a "kinda" that's actually stable and reliable is incredibly complex.

With that said, this is pretty much what quantum computing seeks to overturn and why it's assumed to have such an impact on computing.

Both these subjects have been posted about before so you can search for more complete answers.

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sterlingphoenix t1_j6bpkud wrote

The fields my be the same dimensions, but they're not the same. It's your field, your stadium, your livery, your equipment, your dressing rooms, and mostly your fan base. Also, you didn't have to travel to be here. There could be other factors, too, like you being used to the weather or other conditions.

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sterlingphoenix t1_j2c7twe wrote

"Being barefoot" isn't innately unsanitary. though a lot of people might just not want to see your feet.

With that said, most people don't want your shoes all over the place, either.

And it'd absolutely be unsanitary to walk around barefoot outside. Because nobody really cleans that.

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sterlingphoenix t1_j2c7axa wrote

So you can search this sub for "how do cameras work" for more detail, but you need the TL;DR: that photography is literally "capturing light". And the more massive your... light capture device, the more light you're going to capture. So being a "massive telescope" really helps.

You know how you see long exposure images? That's a camera keeping the shutter open and absorbing more light as it streaks by.

These massive telescopes can keep the "shutter" open for ages, and can move around so they're pointing at the same patch of sky. That way get sharp images rather than streaks.

There's also no atmosphere in space to distort things.

Finally, a lot of post-processing happens after images are taken.

EDIT to add that for planets in the solar system, we actually send spaceships over to take up-close pictures.

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sterlingphoenix t1_j27dozs wrote

A compiled language gets converted to machine language (that's what compiling means). This makes it more efficient in many ways, but TL;DR: it'll run faster. Also nobody can look at your code.

Interpreted language is never compiled, as such. You run the interpreter, which reads the file, and translates it to machine language on the fly. This is a lot slower, but means development can be a lot faster and simpler.

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