Karl Auerbach

@alyaza I was surprised not to see among the tracks much from the mid 1970s’ such as Larry Fast/Synergy.

@dwallach @mattblaze I have yet to experience from a digital photographic system the joy and excitement of watching an image emerge from a sheet of photographic paper as it sits in the developer tray.

@[email protected] I dated Tracy back when I was at UCLA, but she did not look quite that spindly and her legs were not that long.

By-the-way, the town of Tracy is still there although it can be hard to find among the increasing number of giant distribution warehouses and trucking companies.

@[email protected] The website seems to demand massive HTTP references to both WaPo and third party sites - so loading it very much depends on a large number of simultaneous TCP connections, something that is not allowed by the old Chromebook.

Just now I loaded the WaPo website on a vastly more powerful Macbook that can handle gobs of simultaneous TCP connections and it still took the WaPo website layout perhaps ten seconds to fully settle down. I just turned on the browser developer tool to show the network connections and watched the display scroll connection attempts - so many that it looked like the waterfall display in a Matrix movie.

I’ve seen the WaPo website stop cold when some 3rd party trackers (or DNS lookups) become slow or non-responsive.

(On this Macbook I short-circuit everything to Google’s trackers, which greatly speeds up nearly every website, I can see that it is greatly speeding the WaPo load time as well.)

@[email protected] I ovten look at WaPo through a web browser on an ancient, very slow Chromebook. And when I say “slow” I mean “glacially slow” and with few simultaneous TCP connections.

The WaPo website is so badly larded with trackers and ads and other garbage than when I click on something to read it takes so long to load that I can go to the Guardian and read another article there while I am waiting for WaPo to load the piece I want to see.

On top of that the WaPo website is so filled with vast oceans of Javascript that it takes a long time - many tens of seconds - for things like the main page layout to settle down. If one doesn’t wait one often clicks on a article but gets a different one.

The WaPo web experience is a disgrace.

And the WaPo App on tablets like the Amazon Kindle/fire is abysmal as well, but not as bad as the website.

@[email protected] My astronomer friends might disagree that atmospheric effects are greater the further the astronomical subject.

But aside from my poor (very poor) joke, has anyone doing terrestrial photography adopted the technique used by astronomers of using a laser beam to do real time measure of atmospheric conditions and use that either in real-time lens/mirror adaption or post processing?