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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
Because third party lenses cannot leverage the camera body to update. Sigma has a dock that allows updates to their lenses in this fashion however.
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
Coworker about 10 years ago. Took me a few years to register an account.
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
I can believe this. I had some subjects I was able to do this for going through Naval Nuclear Power school, and later college. Others I was unable to do this with. Different people grasp things at different rates.
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
I was taught (when teaching for the military, actually) that leadership/teaching/etc. often talk about toolboxes but neglect a VERY important one. You shouldn't just have a toolbox of things you've picked up from your be
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Ask HN: Good books/resources for learning SQL?
5 points by CobaltFire 4mo ago|3 comments
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
I ran across https://use-the-index-luke.com organically while learning SWL recently and I've been really enjoying it. I can't vouch for it from any perspective except as an SQL neophyte but for me it has been teaching
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
I'm actually learning SQL now and finding it HIGHLY enjoyable. I'm by no means a senior dev, but I don't know if I fit in the box of a junior either. Regardless, SQL is proving enjoyable. But I really like logic, so it fits.
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
I think it gives various passages and questions from a bank. Mine was a paragraph about small loans to poor populations, and had five questions.
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by CobaltFire 4mo ago
Can't say I ever took a test like that. 644wpm and 100% in English (native language). Hard to judge that based on just five questions though.
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State of Subscription Apps 2026(revenuecat.com)
3 points by CobaltFire 4mo ago|0 comments
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by CobaltFire 5mo ago
I have zero experience with anything in the space program, but this all looks REMARKABLY like the F/A-18 Avionics I worked on for years. The board connecters look identical to what most of those boxes used, as well as the test benches
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by CobaltFire 5mo ago
I have a 5090 machine sitting idle that I'm considering turning into a machine for my own small team (3 devs). Are you willing to share any lessons learned, etc. that I could make use of? We are evaluating paying for a SOTA sub or tryi
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by CobaltFire 5mo ago
I have a van that does all of that better. Seriously. Mercedes Metris, and I average 27MPG driving it like I do my Leaf. It's also amazing for going to the water and being able to change in it, going skiing and being able to dress out,
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by CobaltFire 5mo ago
Correct, and it used to be AMEX.
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by CobaltFire 5mo ago
To be pedantic American Express and Discover exist. But I agree with your meaning. We are beholden to some third party no matter how we move in the current situation.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Not in the slightest. Its both about your decision making in getting to that point, and about what you might do to get out from under those debts. Exactly the issue we see in this situation.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Sorry to hear that. I'd say that risk very small absolute risk is worth it then, given both the quality of life and the other health problems that lack of sleep would bring.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
I tried looking this up, and they don't say anywhere what they mean by prescription. Mine are 90 days, so I want to assume thats normal but don't honestly know. Looking up dosing it seems that 3x300mg is as small as is prescribed,
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Well damn. I take this as needed for a back injury that left me with chronic pain. My prescription is for a LOT more than I take (I take it about 20% as often as prescribed). Now I'm not so sure I want to take it. My saving grace is th
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
I have to say, thats like someone saying anything I write is an allegory for my career (military). It may be informed by it, but its not an allegory beyond the fact that it shaped me.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
I had to look this up because I wasn't aware of it. It seems the creators themselves have refuted this and said that it was a journalist twisting their answers. https://www.them.us/story/lilly-wachowski-work-in-pro
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Some of these are, as others have commented, guidelines meant to be broken. Others are solid insights into technical limitations leveling the playing field (Phase One being equal to a phone after compression and resizing when displayed on a
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
I actually really feel this. Before I retired I had a homelab in the learning, testing, experimenting sense. I didn't run anything for home "production" on it because the downtime wasn't appreciated. Now I have a more ca
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
I do believe the Absolute History channel on youtube has their series now, if you want an easy to stream source.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Looks like this one [0] has an implied update in 2023, as thats the latest listed road trip. Seems he just doesn't have anything to update on some of the pages. 0: http://alaskaroads.com/roadgeek-superlatives.htm
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
This is awesome, and a nice trip down memory lane for when I lived in Hawai'i. Looks like the last update was in January 2014 though.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
So I don't actually like shooting at 24mm (the iPhone 15 Pro 48MP FL). If we adjust that to a more typical 35mm (I prefer 40mm personally) or 50mm we end up at either a 1.5x crop or a 2x crop of the iPhone's sensor. That gives us
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
My first SLR was an A100. Fond memories, I carried that camera all over the world for 6 years.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
Everyone here keeps touting an old phone, and I have to heatedly disagree. But a Kodak Pixpro FZ55 or FZ45. Brand new for $130 or less, beats even the best smartphones, and are Japan's top selling cameras for a reason.
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by CobaltFire 1y ago
As a long time micro four thirds shooter: The Panasonic 20/1.7 is an amazing little lens but its autofocus is absolutely horrible. I used to carry it and an E-M5 (the first one) and the shots were great but AF was near useless.

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