Man you got me on readability. Just yesterday I had to input a random string WiFi password in a printer with only arrow keys to select each character. The password had an upper-case I in it but the moronic designers of the little password label that came with the router selected a font where “I” and “l” are indistinguishable. Took me like ten minutes to get the damn thing connected.

I only got it right because I looked up the password on my Mac, whose keychain app displays them in gloriously readable monospaced font. FFS

If people don’t report crime then we have to leave it. The answer can’t be just to invade everyone’s privacy looking for crimes (before they’re even committed!)

Agreed, the idea that there’s anything “objective” about art is kind of hilarious. Yes, it may be technically better in that there are more frames but does it make a more enjoyable film?

It's not kind of hilarious, it's actually the default mode of thinking for the entirety of human culture until the mid twentieth century. Thousands of years of great thinkers would have found the postmodern idea that all art is subjective to be, if not hilarious, then disturbing in its wrongness.

You’re right. My point was more about the idea that “higher frame rate = better movie because the number is objective” rather than “all art is subjective”. In other words, I don’t think we should try to value art on narrow physical axes. I’d like to think that the people you’ve mentioned would agree on that. The traditional notion of “objectively beautiful art” isn’t tied to technocratic things like that and, for what it’s worth, I agree with it.

Your film, too?

Yeah bone conduction headphones are awful, I don’t know how people tolerate them.

For now

Keep at it, friend. You are not alone.

Thanks, I really appreciate it

It’s even worse than that: someone else shipped the bug and you have to work without pay to fix it.

Yeah the comments here are slightly surreal; the issue was that they didn’t have an off-site backup at all, not that it wasn’t on AWS or whatever.

Agreed, a single thread is painful if it’s actually spawning off multiple sub-topics. I suppose the better answer is to start a separate thread in Slack in that case but it can flow weirdly where the topic originally arises in one place but is continued elsewhere; it relies on someone linking on the original thread to keep context. In a mailing tree, that context is still there.

All of this depends on having a sane email client though, doing it via outlook or gmail is a nightmare and I suspect this is the root of many people’s aversion to email.