And they are being built and encouraged in Europe. I’d recommend anyone travelling within Europe first check for train routes before booking a flight.

That said, while they are improving the situation, building new rail lines, tunnels, bridges, etc., and changing the regulatory environment to allow more competition, these are slow improvements to make.

I checked and Zurich-Bilbao has few high-speed sections. They’re building new high speed lines near Bilbao, but infrastructure takes time…

Have you heard about looking under the stem to check ripeness?

While I’d like to believe this, if Putin comes to some peaceful agreement with Ukraine, the international community will just wait until people are distracted by the next big news story and then let Putin back in.

I’d rather be cynical and happily surprised than optimistic and disappointed.

Yeah I can imagine it would take a lot of energy to both do your job well and constantly justify its existence to your peers.

I get the sense that is changing… People are worried that many jobs will soon be automated and see that the trades will be safe from that for quite some time.

Damn, that’s tough. Working in a new field must be hard enough, but it must be even tougher when no one understands why it exists or values it’s existence.

If you don’t mind, what was your “dream job”? It seems incredible that you could study for 8 years in a topic and get no working experience that would indicate that you’re going to hate it when you finish.

I never had a clear idea of a specific dream job, just a field. Now I have such a job I’d say 60-80% is interesting stuff I might do as a hobby (if not doing it at work), with the rest being bureaucratic bullshit most jobs involve.
It’s not super high paying considering the field, but it is often satisfying.

Same here. Do you also use pi-hole or another ad-blocker?

tl;dw
HDR is broken (or all colour grading)

Isn’t that a Windows 11 thing?

I use powertoys and have the mouse highlighting tool enable when I shake the cursor back and forth.

Before this tool I also moved it around so I could see it, now it becomes highlighted when I do.

I get that. Before ChatGPT if I had a bad partner it is very quickly obvious that their work is bad.

Now you might be tricked into thinking they’re competent, which I can imagine is more frustrating because it’s unpredictable.

I guess that right now people are overusing it as it’s so new, but in the end the people who want to graduate without trying to learn will always try to abuse whatever tools they have to cheat. Usually they face the consequences at some point in their lives.

I’ve had partners like that in the past. If ChatGPT didn’t exist they would’ve found another way to cheat or avoid work.

The type of partner who takes the task you asked them to complete, posts the task description on an online forum and hope someone gives them the answer.

I think someone will make an app that overrides the IMU measurements so the phone thinks it’s in landscape when it’s portrait, then use another app to rotate the video to be vertical.

I agree! I wonder if there’s already camera apps that do this?

In any case, unless it’s in the default camera app and a default option, it will likely do nothing to reduce the plague of vertical video. I would guess that most people filming something that would be better in landscape didn’t even think about it, so won’t think about turning an option on.

I realise sensors come in other aspect ratios, but I didn’t want to spend the time researching and listing them all. Some sensors are 4:3 (like the IMX363).

But that’s irrelevant to my point that the sensor is not square which means you lose more resolution cropping to 16:9 in one orientation (usually portrait) than the other.

Because the sensors are landscape 4:3 and you would lose resolution when doing so.

AFAIK there’s no other reason other than that and giving people the option might confuse people.