Lion ponderings

 https://www.singletracksamurai.com/florida-bikepacking-routes    Some more pedestrian accessible routes than what lions saw before.  They're single lane, dirt roads, & roads with shoulders.  The 50mph 2 lane on the lion property isn't marked. None of them go anywhere, but a lion could throw down big unsupported miles without having to drive anywhere.  After driving to greater Gainesville, it's 10 miles from end to end.  Lions don't expect to have their mobility by retirement age, so it's a minor concern. It's been noted with increasing speed, the injuries are getting more severe.  Achilles tendonitis lasted 6 months in 2023.  There were many slow months to recover from that.  In 2024, flexor digitorum longus recovery is on track to be an identical length. Lions can avoid injury by limiting hard efforts to brief, focused workouts but in a race environment, the hard efforts go way beyond training & end up requiring many months of...

 Another previous inflation report revised higher & another current inflation report comes in lower, with deflation of durable goods offsetting inflation of houses.  The future of housing is the same as it's always been.  Prices keep rising 20-50% every year.  Falling prices for durable goods pay for ZIRP.  ZIRP pays for stonk prices.  Stonks pay for housing. https://www.barrons.com/livecoverage/march-core-pce-inflation-report-data-today/card/inflation-was-worse-than-first-reported-in-december-january-oQOBTWtDf4cKVAcZgyhu    We can keep doing this forever.   Revise last month higher & report lower inflation this month so every month it heads in the right direction.   -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

   A big bug emerged whereby Cinelerra can't process a compressor applied to a transition.  The compressor reads ahead of the render position, but the transition doesn't exist when the compressor reads that position.  In the past, the accepted procedure was just to render a temporary without any effects.  There was no other way to do it.  It's now a glaring limitation to not render a transition properly if there's a readahead effect.  There's another case where effects & playback automation change, but readahead effects down the chain won't see the changes at the right time. Being able to change the playable status of tracks & change the plugins is still rare enough to be neglected.  The transitions are a show stopper.  It needs a big rewrite to dynamically allocate those inside the read calls. It looks like it was dynamically updating the transition inside AModule::render & VModule::render by calling Module::update_transition....

 It's been a rough year, despite all the stonk market records.  Stonks have actually just broken even with treasuries in the short term. The mane problem is the high in 2021 was just 10% lower than the current index price.  The 401k doesn't allow any position to grow faster than the slowest position & it hasn't rebalanced.  It's actually only grown 10% over 3 years.  The only benefit is the 30% tax cut.  In the lion business, some days you're up by a few thou & some days you're down by a few thou.  It takes getting used to not always being ahead every day.  MBA's & gootube stars laugh, but lions still remember their days as aimless college students who couldn't imagine ever having any meaningful investment income. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sounds like the kind of startup a lion would get into.  You cannot be serious about a $300 unive...

 Good to be doing high performance computing on a CPU again, compared to its normal role of sitting idle while the GPU does everything.  It's really hard to get so many cores to 100%.  Dual cores, 25 years ago, would always peg at 100%.   The rendering job would have to be subdivided in time & then it would probably overheat. The output was disappointing, to say the least. This guy got rock solid footage from a gopro 11.  He had a rear facing cam & also a front facing cam on a head strap. Another guy got similar footage with his paws in frame. Noted the lion footage was stable as long as it was above the crowd & the lion put some effort into holding it steady.  Priorities changed from stable footage to running as fast as possible, after Brooklyn.  Head cam guy ran 20 minutes slower than a lion & had the camera on a more stable platform, which would have automatically made the footage more stable.   -----------------------...

 The thought had occurred of using gyroflow for more advanced stabilization instead of writing a dedicated stabilizer plugin for Cinelerra.  Not sure why the decision was made to write another motion plugin.  In past experience with gyroflow, it had to run in a container & it didn't work on any gopro night footage. After 25 years, lions felt the previous motion plugin was too stacked to add the new feature on top. The general idea is to read ahead, compute the future accumulated motion, then compute the average, median, least squares regression, or mid point of all accumulated motion points in the future.  Subtract the regressed point from the current instantaneous motion vector to make it center on the long term motion.     Initial tests with very detailed scenes, just averaging all future motion vectors to get the long term motion were better than anything in the last 25 years but slow.  All 8 cores & 16 threads were finally screaming....

 1 thing missing from the college level computer science classes is design patterns.  That seems to be a very important area.  The gootubers recommended 5 big ones: Strategy Pattern - replace base class in subclass Decorator Pattern - extend base class in subclass Observer Pattern - android user input handlers Singleton Pattern - global variables Facade Pattern - abstraction Lions would call lambda functions, closures, async functions the latest craze in design patterns for the last 10 years. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The file previewer kept growing & growing.  There are a lot of corner cases in previewing EDL's, which lions expected.  The mane problem was EDLs using 6 possible colormodels while bare files used 1.  It would be nice to have transparency checkers, but it would entail prescaling the checkers before downscaling the output to the canvas size.  The prev...

The decision was made to begin phasing out clips by supporting saving the current selection to a file.   This requires the load previews to support EDLs, after a comprehensive test of all the frame sizes in the EDL, nested EDLs, & memory intensive effects like time average.  It might have to exclude all effects & be limited to just bare cuts with single files. The 1 super power with clips was the ability to play them in the viewer without pasting them on the timeline.  The loader is pretty stacked & there's a desire to not have to reconfigure it to go between loading a file in the viewer & loading a file in the project.     It almost needs a separate load dialog for the viewer to truly replace clips.  It also needs a list of most recent files.  The viewer & compositor are almost at the point of requiring menu bars for the number of options they have.  That definitely would take a lot more space.  For now, the viewer c...

        The Lone Tower   The cloud reflection was preplanned before the trip, but lions doubted the weather would line up perfectly.   Fake twin towers Survivor tree The lion kingdom was surprised by the size of these fountains, both matching the footprint of the original towers. It's quite easy to climb over & fall in. Pondered how much energy it took to pump all that water. They busted a guy for trying to make a charcoal copy of a name. Maybe it wears down the finish.   Tried replicating a shot that Mane Tuft Hottie replicated.  Her lighting was better.  No-one beats the tuft.         57th street The only decent shots of Steinway hall with the tower in context.   Wilderness surrounded by tall buildings on 4 sides continues to intrigue.   After all the effort of running the half marathon for the times square selfie, it ended up looking just as good when it was open to cars. You can't run the full l...