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Absolutely love her stuff.

Love it! That's my jam. lol! Don't blame PTSD from then as reasons not to use Fortran today 😛 Wow, our posts are bringing out all the older times from the woodworks! 😮 Punch cards... I thank my lucky stars I never had to do that. (although I did have one Physics lab, stretched out over multiple 3hr sessions, where I was literally flipping switches so as to enter in my program I'd written in binary to then run it on their hardware) Anyway, Fortran of today in 2024 is very different to the Fortran you'd have used back then! 🙂 Fortran is even a Top 20 language, in terms of popularity in the world (currently at this moment it's ranked #12): https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ That was basically me too! My family didn't own a computer, or even a TV.

Yeah it is rough for us living down under, no matter if in Oz or NZ. The taxes and extreme shipping costs.

I started just after The School of Computing had formed and separated from the School of Engineering. In first semester they taught us to program in Pascal via the "it's like a recipe" -> pseudocode -> Pascal path. In second semester they kept going with the theory in Pascal and also taught us C and assembler too, so by 9 months in we were coding double linked-list databases in assembler. Some kids hadn't used a computer before the course.... welcome to computer science! After that I have vague memories of Java, Javascript, Perl, Fortran, Visual Basic, etc but the main language was always C.

I learned FORTRAN in high school. It was the first high-level language I learned. At university, the first CS class that every CS major had to take was a FORTRAN programming class. I was an EE major, but I took it anyway as I could see that's where the industry was headed. The work was done on a CDC 6400 mainframe using punched cards. The second CS course, which I also took, used Pascal, which was a big improvement over FORTRAN, although even some of the CS majors just couldn't get their heads around the concept of pointers (they seemed natural to me). After that, everything was in C, which is the language that I use to this day when working on microcontroller projects (as a hobby). My professional work mostly revolves around working with hardware description languages, primarily SystemVerilog, and the various tools used for simulation and verification.

The variable aperture zoom lenses aren't fixed DoF, but they're certainly close.. ...and I think you're talking about Mina Rhodes who did a bunch of Urban Symphony style videos like this one?

Have you ever watched this one @mercer? Your face! : ) And simply one of the loveliest pieces ANYONE can EVER watch on the screen! End of the story. So I hope this may serve as definitive word on the responsibility you have as creator, no excuses, you're much more than a writer and... period ; ) EAG :- )

The compositions are wonderful, and of course is the commitment to wait for the right conditions and to actually go out and find them. The flickering is because most of the shots are filmed in slow-motion and those lights would not flicker to the naked eye. Look at how fast people are walking or driving for a reference. I actually like the flickering aesthetic as it provides a hint of artificiality and 'electric dirt' to the otherwise elegant beauty of the fog (it's fog not diffusion), the balance of the compositions and the pristine cleanliness of the sensor. Japanese animation often highlights the electricity and artificiality in this way too. The compositions are like making a fine meal and making sure it has salt / fat / acid / heat and creaminess contrasted with crunch - it's the juxtaposition of elements that creates the depth and why the shots become more interesting the longer you look at them rather than less.

Fair. He does. I guess my point is that driving around all night capturing footage alone can be challenging. Most people love the safety and convenience of the daylight hours.

Overall nicely done but I could have lived without the pulsing lights.

Perhaps the thing to keep in mind is that she says in the description "Selections of visuals from an upcoming feature project". So, in a sense, this is B-roll, and in a sense, this edit is a camera test for YT. I need to up my game with camera tests!

Yeah, familiar with that one. When I was into hifi I once paid almost $100 for a pair of resistors. They were custom made high-precision ones made from exotic materials, so were expensive at USD$10 each, but it was the USD$60 shipping fee (which at the time was the minimum cost for whatever courier they used exclusively for shipping their products). Combined with import duties, we call it the Australia Tax. It's also one of the reasons I don't tend to sell things I'm done with it.