Mick Howarth

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Photographer, Ex Fighter, Techie
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A couple of bats were dive bombing insects in the back garden tonight just before it got dark. I grabbed my old 7Dmkii and a 70-200mm lens and even though I had to push the limits of exposure to get something half decent as well as in focus, I think these are pretty decent considering how fast they were moving and changing direction.

#photoghraphy #naturephotography #bats

Some browsers check what site you're on and render the page differently. Yup, you read that right.

TikTok gets special treatment. So does Netflix. Instagram. Even SeatGuru.

Safari and Firefox both do this. Chrome doesn't. There's a reason for that... Read on.

https://denodell.com/blog/browsers-treat-big-sites-differently?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=browser_quirks_post

Browsers Treat Big Sites Differently

Safari and Firefox change how big sites render based on the domain. TikTok, Netflix, Instagram… even SeatGuru. Chrome doesn’t. Why is that?

Den Odell

All those people saying “I was skeptical of AI, until I tried Claude and I was amazed that it could tell me this and this and this” sound just like

“I was skeptical of psychics, but then Madame Fortuna told me something only my dead wife would know!”

Human perception has certain well-documented flaws that confidence men prey upon, and you are not immune from these

The single best marketing campaign for any film release was the 1989 Batman, the colours and logo still stand out nearly 40 years later and it's immediately clear as to which Batman film it relates.

Debut feature from British director Peter Hewitt, who really should have achieved more. I loved his NFTS graduation film The Candy Show, and clearly enjoyed this enough to go back and see it two days in a row.

#admitonedaily #billandted #1990smovies #ticketstub

https://callsheetapp.com/movie/1649

If Near Dark & Blue Steel marked out Kathryn Bigelow as a director to watch, Point Break was the film that really launched her into the mainstream. Big fan of this at the time.

#admitonedaily #pointbreak #1990smovies #ticketstub

https://callsheetapp.com/movie/1089

During production of Finding Nemo, we started using Linux boxes in addition to SGIs.
Why?

3D painting software we wrote for laying out coral was written in C++ using templates, and the debug info was too large for IRIX, but was debuggable on Linux.

Was this a 32 bit vs. 64 bit issue?

No.

IRIX reserved half the address space for the kernel, while Linux only did a quarter.

So on Linux, we had 3GB, and the symbols fit.

It was a 32 bit show, both machines had 4GB max.

Plenty for Finding Nemo.

This would’ve been my first time seeing Blade Runner on the big screen — the original theatrical cut. The superior Director’s Cut was still a few years away. What more is there to say? One of the greatest films ever made.

#admitonedaily #bladerunner #1980smovies #ticketstub

https://callsheetapp.com/movie/78

It’s difficult to overstate just how pumped me and my friends were for Batman in 1989. Just that teaser poster alone had us in giddy with excitement. Just as Roger Moore is my Bond, Keaton is my Batman. Looking back it’s all a bit patchy, but we didn’t care at the time.

#admitonedaily #batman1989 #timburton #1980smovies #ticketstub

https://callsheetapp.com/movie/268

It’s really all about the barbershop scenes, isn’t it. Rick Baker’s make-up and Eddie Murphy’s performances — the perfect combination. I’d have happily paid £2.50 just for that.

#admitonedaily #comingtoamerica #eddiemurphy #johnlandis #1980smovies #ticketstub

https://callsheetapp.com/movie/9602