Lion ponderings

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d  There is finally a software decoder for AV1, after many years of only hardware decoding.  It's very difficult to compile, requiring yet another large build system, specific versions of nasm, yasm.  It got stuck on some kind of checkasm.asm file.  Upgrading nasm & yasm to the latest versions, deleting & recreating the build directory got it to compile.   Av1d seems to be funded by alphabet corporation which requires them to use no less than a certain number of academic dependencies.   ffmpeg has simply https://www.ffmpeg.org/general.html#dav1d  --enable-libdav1d     It requires package_cfg so you have to run 'ninja install;ldconfig' in dav1d-master/build.  There's no local library option.  The latest dav1d actually compiled with ffmpeg 5, but couldn't output any frames to Cinelerra.  The standalone ffmpeg transcoded properly.  It's proven easier to use ffmpe...

 1 week later with the junk camera, caught the last bit of the tower coming down.   Trying to breathe through the shirt, got a face full of 90 year old highschool concrete, undoubtedly excavated near Stanley Blvd. No wonder they had to finish during summer.  The shirt smelled like cringy memories all day.         Slowly, the claw dug into those cringy memories.  That claw didn't mess around.     There were just a few names left inside what remaned.  Undoubtedly many more fell during the work week & many more were hidden under plaster, never to be seen again.    Paul Mehlin 1937 could be related to the 19th century piano maker.  They seemed to be all boys, wood shop carpenters, sound technicians. They seemed to peak in the stagflation 70's & drop off by the late 80's economic boom.  As the town became affluent, perhaps students became more preppy & didn't do such things anymore.  The section vis...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVMf-oUlwhc   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-cIn_5VBI  Interesting look at the colombo market from 1953.  The house still stands at 712 Lisbon St.  Who would imagine a common laborer once lived there.  After colombo market & his job disappeared, that neighborhood went through quite a decline during the urban decay of the 70's, but now is many millions. Someone actually spent the last 7 years developing a colorizing model which does a lot better than the open source model that rounded the internet 7 years ago.  Sadly, language models are now the big thing & no-one gives 3 shits of a fuck about colorizers.  ----------------------------------------------------------- Noted the claude CLI is a vibe coded, oversized, minimally viable dogshit sign of the times.  No tab completion.  No compatibility with traditional X11 mouse input.  You have to override it with shift.  Why couldn't they mak...

 Was pretty awful.  Ran it almost entirely at 2x.      A more amusing failure was how they set up booby traps in the commandeered house only to have the tall man just casually smash through a window without triggering any of them.      Surprised how cozy those boarded up houses were on the inside.    It's entirely staffed by just our fearless hero from episode 1, the ice cream man & 2 love interests.  Ice cream man & kid had some bonding moment where they just drove around looking for tall man.       Some nifty monsters. There were some shots of Valencia in 1987.    Heroine kills goon.  The balls got lasers & bigger grinders.   Tall Guy got an inner alien. But his death by acid & exploding eyeballs wasn't very satisfying.   Because tall guy just came back in the last scene & brunette was a reanimated corpse.  The foreshadowing was someone like that would never have bee...