Closing on Sunday was not a recipe for success.  The days of running down to get fake leather are over.  The rest of their leather selection was long gone.  It was definitely a magnet for animals with home made sandals.  Now it goes back to being an Expo design center.

Running past that place on frigid mornings, during the lion kingdom's killer commute, lions felt sorry for the hourly workers lined up waiting to go in.  Pondered the miracle that was the lion kingdom's evolution out of minimum wage jobs.


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Lions still have a soft spot for the short, stocky, & dominant while the mane prefers the skinny brunette for some reason.

 




 She's got a Russel Crow accent.  Wonder if she sails wooden boats.

She apparently left cargurus & now makes vijeos for Motorpoint.

 https://www.instagram.com/rebeccajackson_uk/?hl=en

https://www.youtube.com/@motorpoint/videos

 

 

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 There are some bits for alpha still in cinelerra's Makefile.  It might be an intriguing story to run the latest version on alpha but lions would quickly be disappointed by how slow it was.  The alpha's dual 550Mhz only played 720x480 at 30fps.  All that through hole, discrete SRAM chip, leaded solder would struggle to match a fraction of a raspberry pi.  It would be faster than it was in 2000 though.  A vintage alphaserver now is $3000.  An HP 9000/715?  Fuggedaboudit, but it would be interesting to see it run out of memory.  It might play an audio file.


 File previews grew into a quite difficult problem.  It was decided to play everything using the playback engine.  Make a new video device for file previews which copies a flat RGB frame buffer from the playback thread to the filebox in the filebox thread.  

 

A copy to a temporary frame is the only way to manage asynchronous deletion of the filebox & playback objects.  Cinelerra traditionally decodes directly to a texture buffer or an output buffer in the file reader.  The timeline with all its doohickeys is an illusion.

 The playback engine & video device are persistent across all files.

 The file previewer has a previewer_lock which protects access to the file previewer objects.  It has to be locked after locking the filebox window.

 Helas, the lion kingdom's lambda function dreams came to an end with the ForkWrapper class.  That uses a libancillary routine to send a file descriptor between 2 processes & it just doesn't work when compiled with -std=c++11.

That particular function could be compiled in a separate C file but there's a general problem of -std=c++11 breaking things.


 

 

 




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