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CeeBee, to mildlyinteresting in Dog walker films winds lifting forest floor during Storm Babet in Scotland

Why can’t you use it?

Because TVs are landscape. These videos are shown at club events.

You showed your colours when you assumed that portrait video is of lower quality.

I never said it’s lower quality. Not once.

Technology to detect whether your webpage is being viewed landscape has existed for a long time, and takes very simple calculations indeed or just a splash or two of css to maximise the video size for whatever screen it’s being viewed on. It’s design laziness and wasted bandwidth to put the silly blurry bars or even black bars down the side of the video. But don’t force landscape on everyone. Smart phones aren’t new and they aren’t going away.

No one said anything about websites.

CeeBee, to mildlyinteresting in Dog walker films winds lifting forest floor during Storm Babet in Scotland

It’s because the content was likely preprocessed for broadcast news. Which means normal 16:9 landscape format.

Vertical video has done nothing but introduce constant issues. I used to be a guide for Jeep runs, and I was also the video editor for the run videos (just clips from the run with music). And naturally you can’t be everywhere, so 95% of the clips have to be recorded by everyone else. Even though they were told “don’t record vertical video because we can’t use it” they did so anyways, and were upset when we couldn’t use their videos.

And to be clear, this isn’t just a random video. We’re talking about a large organized and legally registered club, so we kept everything to a certain standard of quality. Vertical videos are not suitable for anything except a phone.

CeeBee, to science_memes in Double-slit

The interference pattern only appears after firing many many photons. They’re still a photon (packet of energy) when creating an interference pattern. It’s the distribution and probability of its location that changes. Not the physical “shape”.

Edit: to clarify further

When not being detected, it’s still just one dot that appears on the sheet. As more and more are fired, the interference pattern shows to show as each photon hits the screen

It’s all about the distribution possibilities.

CeeBee, to science_memes in Double-slit

Do you call this quantum consciousness, quantum mind or something?

Nope, we call it wave-function collapse.

CeeBee, to memes in But it's all about convenience

I’m sure if you’re doing advanced things in Windows then you can mess it up fairly badly

I’ve helped so many people fix their Windows systems who barely know how to open their email. Computers are complex. No system is perfect (Windows less so IMO).

CeeBee, to memes in But it's all about convenience

but can happen in both camps

That was my point.

CeeBee, to memes in But it's all about convenience

let’s just say yesterday my friend brought their PC to my house and spent an hour and a half debugging a graphics card issue (yes, it was Nvidia) before we could play Distance

Oh please, you say this as though no one has ever spent literal days debugging Windows quirks and issues. Windows updates especially have nuked many systems.

CeeBee, to mildlyinteresting in Hammerhead skull

It looks as though the skull was “unwrapped” and straightened out.

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