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Most scriptable organizing software? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

MacOS primarily

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Most scriptable organizing software? (lemmy.world)
 

I currently use Lightroom & Lightroom Classic for organization, but I often find myself wanting to work on large numbers of files, while also being cautious about clobbering links or files. In LR Classic, I can write Lua-based scripts / plugins, which I can do, but is (for me) slow to author and worrisome about quality. And I don't at all feel like Adobe is committed to the plugin API, so I'm not even sure if it will be a future option.

With Darktable, I know I can also do Lua-based scripting.

Are there any other robust organizing tools capable of handling a >50K photo database that have a good scripting solution, either as an externally-callable API or in terms of a supported scripting language?

Teleportation Circles for "Portal Cannon"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Re. "creatures only": Do you have a reference for that? I assume it's "creatures and possessions" and not "Terminator"-style naked?

Well, the premise is that the BBOG is aware and paranoid of magical overthrow and does everything in its power to discover and "re-educate" or kill casters. They have a Stasi-like "Magisterium of Arcana" with a monopoly on spell books and rare components, informers and spies, etc. The party time-traveled back to this era and even the 6th-level Cleric, Warlock, and Sorcerer (in particular) would be considered major threats and are being pursued by a Hans Landa-esque character who knows they exist, but no details. (Kind of off-topic, but it's been a really fun couple of sessions at the table developing this... :-) )

Teleportation Circles for "Portal Cannon"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes, exactly.

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Teleportation Circles for "Portal Cannon"? (lemmy.world)
 

I have a Big Bad Oppressive Government (BBOG) semi-inspired by the Roman Empire with the conceit that "all portals lead to Mul Khuldir," i.e., that they've figured out super-fast logistics based on a central cluster of permanent Teleportation Circles that can be connected to scroll-cast Teleportation Circles near the battlefield ( (Every warmage has Sending to coordinate and then a few Teleportation Circle scrolls to bring in the first support platoon and additional warmages). The Great Mustering Hall in the ancient Dwarven citadel of Mul Khuldir is where they've been refining the martial exploitation of portals for hundreds of year and the Magisterium of Arcana has blah-blah tried to suppress all non-government-sanctioned learning / exploitation of magic.

Anyhow, the party has now made contact with the potentially-revolutionary enslaved dwarves inside the citadel and I'm fleshing out what the defenses of the citadel might be. Since portal magic is central to the BBOG and the citadel's near a thousand years old, I've wondered if one thing you could do is: 100' vertical shaft with a permanent teleportation circle on the ceiling and floor. The floor's teleportation circle is connected to a vertical (or even pitched up) circle on the walls. You drop a rock or cannon ball down the shaft, it emerges horizontally at speed.

Thoughts?

If we have such a high field of vision, why can't we focus on everything within the vision simultaneously? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

What you perceive is vastly different than a continuous filmstrip. Have you ever tried to watch unstabilized footage from a person jogging? Totally unwatchable! But your brain smooths it out better than the best steadicam. Tilt your head from side-to-side: what you perceive stays upright. And of course you know hat your eyes don’t smoothly pan from subject to subject but are constantly “saccading” around, but your brain processes that all away.

Visual processing is amazingly complex. Its also interesting that our other senses have different levels of processing. Our sense of smell is nothing compared to a dog’s, our sense of hearing is nothing compared to a whale’s, etc. A metaphor I heard once (don’t know how accurate it is) is that when a human walks into a kitchen they might smell that a stew is cooking. A dog would smell both the overall smell but would also smell the individual carrots, peas, chunks of meat, etc.

Las Vegas just unveiled its new $2.3 billion spherical entertainment venue in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Is it just the external surface that's a display or when you're inside can they do a 360 projection around you?

New here and have a question about communities in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So is the idea that a community coalesces to a winner-takes-all single server, or is there a way to... uh ... federate (?) ... same-theme communities from different servers?

Genuinely frightening how much they have nerfed ChatGPT for code development. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Microsoft wants to own tools crucial to the mainstream of software development. They also want to own the cloud infrastructure on which those tools depend. Today, they might lose dimes on every LLM call. In five years, they’ll make a penny on orders of magnitude more calls. Microsoft has many flaws, including cloud capacity, but they aren’t short-sighted about investment. (I used to work in DevDiv and Azure Machine Learning.)

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Laysan albatrosses, Ka'Ena Pt, Oahu, Hawaii, USA (i.imgur.com)