Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 4y ago
Most references to Fuji in the article are them being lumped together with failed film makers and that's the only positive mention of them, again, lumped in with otbers. Nevermind that they have a successful line of digital APS-C camer
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This article completely omits Fuji which is making some of the best cameras in the industry right now.
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Can't tell if these people simply have a mental illness or are being funded by pro-oil groups to discredit the environmental movement. Because vandalizing artwork made long ago really makes no sense in the context of climate change and
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> it's about brain power and creativity Part of the whole Hans Neimann cheating scandal is that he played too close to optimal as measures by his correlation to a computer. So no, it seems mostly to be about drilling positions with
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It's especially ironic that Apple had to be forced to use usb-c since they were the first to adopt Thunderbolt and they use usb-c/thunderbolt in all their laptops and newer iPads. Seems they held on to Lightning connectors simply
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The recession is real (but probably won't materialize until we see the 4th quarter of this year's numbers). Lots of sectors are seeing reduced consumer spending, layoffs and of course interest rates rising reduces capital spendin
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Once you get to a high enough level in chess it's a ton of memorization. It's not that deep. Some games are shallow but lots of games have far more depth than chess.
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No because most languages don't just compile to WASM... You need to compile and distribute a runtime or, in the case of dynamic languages, full interpreter with the web page. JS is way less code to ship depending on how much interact
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> road of Google, putting ads in everything At least when I open the Play Store the only ads are for apps, and none are gambling apps...
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Of course. Most video games force you to make decisions at a fairly rapid pace with ever changing information. It's like chess on steroids.
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Or maybe there is no purpose, which is why, through natural selection, they ended up with tiny arms.
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They sell it with a remote now. But now Apple TV is growing and becoming its own thing so they've slightly missed the boat.
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It's a bit of hyperbole. You have to admit, their engineering is far, far better than they marketing. IMO they should be the #1 company in the world. Chromebooks could have been the new general purpose computer if only they were a tin
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> A remote is key to any TV-based device and no, a phone is not a valid remote (at least as the "only" remote). Watching my friends rave about the Chromecast and watching them have to pull out their phones to pause/play&#
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Google makes so much good stuff but they seem to never commit enough to make it truly great... Chromecast - better than all the alternatives but they could have gone that extra distance to make a whole Google TV apparatus and didn't. P
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HDR hasn't always meant 10 bit colour... But anyhow, Ubuntu supports 10 bit colour and has for awhile: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DeepColourDepthSupportPlan
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https://www.veneratech.com/hdr-dolby-vision-meta-data-parame... . "HDR" is just metadata to pass along to the device to tell it how to optimally adjust the colours (or not adjust them). It's main use seems to
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The guy in the article SMH.
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No one uses PCs anymore... Relatively speaking. Ever checked in on the youth lately? It's all smartphones, game consoles, iPads. Students will use MacBooks/Laptops/Chromebooks for school if their course requires one but &quo
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> Considering you did all this voluntarily I don't think there's anything you can sue your employer for. They set the terms of your employment, you agreed to them and have been carrying them out, and they pay you. In Canada the
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Not much info in this comment. I've "tried" Windows too and simply can't deal with how terrible it is.
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> The biggest thing keeping me from using Linux for my desktop pc right now is lack of HDR support. HDR is just a marketing term for software that increases the colour and black saturation of content beyond the actual input. For photogr
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What phone? Google's keyboard is great for exactly this (I type in 4 different languages regularly).
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> and "works but you have to stand on your hands while singing" kind of things. You mean "works if you don't actively try to break it". Most stories about Linux breakage involve esoteric distros (especially bleed
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Has been working just fine for at least a decade...
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> I experimented with using a mostly stock Xubuntu setup for a bit and also found the user experience to be really subpar. Call me old, but I have no interest in dealing with the amount of configuration and tweaking necessary to be produ
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> I am highly skeptical of the idea that Russia is likely to invade other countries in Europe Why? They said it's their goal and what they are constantly threatening... Russians have also been arrested spying with drones in Scandi
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It's been called that for a long time...
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Technological advancement still means growth, even if it looks different from the growth of the last 30 or so years. Also, wouldn't be a bad time for defence-related startups...
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> ORC is Nim’s all-new cycle collector based on ARC. It can be considered a full-blown GC since it includes a local tracing phase (contrary to most other tracing GCs which do global tracing). ORC is what you should use when working with

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