Metaphys @ Video Editing Scramble

Amazon Web Services had a massive outage...and a ton of websites rely on that infrastructure. So lots of sites are still broken or struggling right now, even as Amazon claims it's recovering.

Congrats! Proud of you!

Infuriating that a platform with such processing capability cannot react gracefully to faults in critical systems. Heck, my 1990s car will revert to backup behaviors in case of faults! Transmission limp mode if solenoids fail or disabling the ABS if a wheel sensor returns nonsense data. (2/2)

I wonder if it's something weird where a very low miles test mule or static test platform reacted fine, but a real world vehicle with miles and wear presented data the update just didn't cooperate with, causing the driveline module to freak out. Regardless, poor QC and fault tolerance. (1/2)

One thing if minor bugs happen, but catastrophic errors disabling the whole vehicle is absurd. High school robotics teams have better QC and software testing!

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Yeah! So happy for you!

I think that's a near-universal experience for creatives. The mean thoughts are lying!

In that case just pick a schedule! I wish I could get that far ahead with my content creation

Special events can adjust that schedule too! It's not like you're a corpo studio with a contract saying you gotta push X chapter by Y date exactly.

Important to find a pace that will let you avoid burnout long term and give some buffer against surprises that delay your work.

Cute! Thanks for including my gremlin!

A camcorder on a tripod, secured in the back seat of a station wagon with crisscrossed seatbelts wrapped around the tripod legs.

Remember to buckle up!

Hey - if you're creating something yourself, be it a wood carving, a sewing project, a painting, a 3D model, a music piece, a clay sculpture, or anything else:

I'm proud of you. Keep going. You've got this. Don't listen to the bad voice; listen to mine. You're important. Keep at it. Head high.

oof major bad luck 🫂

Hoping things work out! Did it get bonked on that corner at some point?

OH NO! ...I looked up the prices too just now and ooooof

Happy birthday!

Do it! Full send!

No new pictures, where are you at mentally

Do it! (the making, not the 'sploding)

Usually it's a team, probably a very large team. But lots of people have designed and built one off projects solo. Certainly easier to start with a kit or existing vehicle as a base instead of reinventing everything from scratch.

I swear this is the universal experience where supposedly unrelated things interfere or break in ways that shouldn't be possible, just to be a problem on purpose.

🎵 99 little bugs in the code, 99 little bugs
Take one down, patch all around
108 little bugs in the code... 🎵

Hoping it's not too expensive 🫂

Hopefully just needs a brake service then. Maybe a slightly dragging pad on one of the wheels.

Oof. Do you need to be completely stopped, or does simply applying the brakes while rolling change the sound?

So only when rolling, no noise when stopped? Varies with vehicle speed?

At all times constant? Comes and goes? Varies or goes away or gets louder with engine revs? Sounds tinny like a rattle?

Oh no! What flavor of unpleasant noises?

(2/2) Have fun! You got free reign on pose and outfit, though their powers will burn away sleeves or pant legs much longer than seen in the ref, and preclude shoes alltogether. They tend to scavenge clothes!

Art by my friend @soul_inky on Twitter.