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by ISL 4y ago
I have the TCL -- it does work well, but it is so large that it feels very un-X100-like. When I travel with the X100, the TCL comes along, but as a "sometimes" lens, rather than the default. If Fuji were to come to market with a l
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by ISL 4y ago
Functionally, the US has such a huge debt level because borrowing costs were so low for more than a decade. Rising debt payments are the signal that will, on decadal scales, force the US to pare back borrowing and raise taxes. (Raising taxe
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by ISL 4y ago
Turn off auto white balance and set it to "daylight", problem solved.
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by ISL 4y ago
Looks like Taylor Swift's new release on CD is $14 at Target right now and $12 for digital download. They're not paying $10, they're paying more.
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by ISL 4y ago
The search-engine is case-sensitive.
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by ISL 4y ago
Until someone gets hurt, this is kinda like a slapshot in hockey. You can go to the inside, as is traditional, or you can go to the wall and risk it all...
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by ISL 4y ago
I used to believe that speed-cameras were "unsportsmanlike" until I a) grew up a little, and b) visited a country where they were in extensive use and driving felt safer. Speed cameras massively decrease the need for traffic-stops
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by ISL 4y ago
To boost adoption, hybrids and EVs were allowed into the HOV lanes (without high-occupancy passengers).
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by ISL 4y ago
My comment was based on full-frame equivalence :). 50mm on an APS-C is short-telephoto; frequently pleasing for portraits, but less-useful as a single prime. (I still recommend 50mm f/1.8s as a second or third lens for people using AP
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by ISL 4y ago
If Fuji ever makes an X100 with a 50mm-equivalent lens (probably a 35mm f/2), they'll sell a boatload. Quite a few of them will sit on a shelf, though, compared with the 35mm-equivalent X100s of today. You can always crop in, bu
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by ISL 4y ago
Aside from the clarity that a prime brings to your composition, the optics in a 50mm f/1.8 are frequently much better than what you'll find from a kit-lens zoom. A Canon 50mm f/1.8 at f/8 as as sharp as anything you&#x27
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by ISL 4y ago
If pointing someone to a single "normal" lens as a prime, I'd point them to a 40mm, not a 50. When I work with a 50 (which I very much enjoy; used one yesterday), I find that it is tighter in composition than my normal field
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Room-Temperature Topological Insulators(scitechdaily.com)
5 points by ISL 4y ago|0 comments
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Spinning in Space(main.oxfordamerican.org)
14 points by ISL 4y ago|0 comments
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by ISL 4y ago
The key world is "mainly". If things go wrong, you haven't just saved progress, but also saved history. That distinction is powerful.
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by ISL 4y ago
Agreed -- there's also little recourse for many forms of online fraud, as there's no capacity for law-enforcement to investigate at scale.
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Data Insights from 10k Garmin InReach SOS Incidents(garmin.com)
4 points by ISL 4y ago|0 comments
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by ISL 4y ago
The article misses that Sony is Minolta, something I, too, didn't appreciate for years, as I took a photography hiatus in the 2000s. https://www.lightstalking.com/minolta-sony-relationship/
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by ISL 4y ago
It would be helpful to add the total number of meals consumed per unit time as well, and perhaps the number of humans born/dying. We eat a lot because there are a lot of us.
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by ISL 4y ago
Agreed, though it would have been necessary to deploy the vaccines globally, especially in the least-wealthy parts of the world. In the case of Omicron, there's a good chance that the vaccines would have needed to reach a community in
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by ISL 4y ago
If you're trying to forge a diamond to bypass this particular technique, one can use methane extracted from the earth.
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by ISL 4y ago
It is a feature. The Constitution defines a series of feedback loops with different time-constants: House: 2 yr President: 4 yr Senate: 6 yr President-term-limit: 8 yr Supreme-Court justice: ~16 years (per Google for average term) Constitut
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by ISL 4y ago
> We have made great strides since then, of course, but it does feel like 90% of the fundamental aviation technology we have today was created just in the first few decades. That's because the seminal work rapidly evolved into somet
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by ISL 4y ago
There may be more than one person posting on HN.
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by ISL 4y ago
For those who have never heard the term (like me), here's a link: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/constantcurrencies.asp
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by ISL 4y ago
I, too, sit corrected -- thank you for the follow-up!
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by ISL 4y ago
Login is not forced. I was surprised to read the assertion above. Popping open https://twitter.com/EricTopol in an incognito window allowed me to read posts and threads without login. Public-square distribution without log
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by ISL 4y ago
Yep. Sounds cool, especially if others in nearby fields have read the article and upvoted it. Which polymers do work well for that purpose? If HN had a tagging system for submissions, it'd probably be possible to have a quiet undercur
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by ISL 4y ago
If you like anything in the spacefaring sci-fi genre and haven't yet watched the 2000's iteration of Battlestar Galactica, you're in for one hell of a treat. Be forewarned. It is very difficult to avoid binge-watching the s
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by ISL 4y ago
I often recommend to beginning sky-watchers that they try looking at the night sky with a large pair of binoculars (look for large objective-lenses and not too much magnification) rather than a telescope. The nebulae and larger Messier obje

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