TwoFerMaggie

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by TwoFerMaggie 2y ago
The most common issue with Pentax ME Super, one of the most popular consumer-grade manual focus SLRs, was caused by a degraded rubber ring near the mirror assembly. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Pentax+ME+Super+Mirror+Bo
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by TwoFerMaggie 2y ago
A poll suggests among Dutch Tesla owners, 40% feel embarrassed due to Musk's behavior, and 30% consider selling. [0][1] [0]: https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/19/tesla-owners-react-elon-musks-... [1]: https:&#
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by TwoFerMaggie 2y ago
This reminds of the joke in physics, in which theoretical particle physicists told experimental physicists, over and over again, "trust me bro, standard model will be proved at 10x eV, we just need a bigger collider bro" after ano
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by TwoFerMaggie 2y ago
> I remember Pop telling me how much cheaper Ektachrome was (compared to Kodachrome) gone are the days when ektachromes are considered the cheaper options.. now they are one of if not the most expensive 35mm format films
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by TwoFerMaggie 2y ago
> Nobody was pushing hard on worker protections or labor law enforcement - not cool enough, but affects a big fraction of the population. I don't think this statement is fair. There has been unionization effort across the country th
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
I quoted the phrase "it's feeling more like a third world country" verbatim, which is the part I have issue with. I also said "I get the sentiment", meaning that I understand what they were trying to express (that i
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
> with the same logic you could say... The comment I replied to said "it's feeling more like a third world country", I replied "no it's not even close to an actual third world country". I don't see how
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
(forgive me if it's sarcasm and I missed it) Nobody wants confrontation because it's uncomfortable. But inequality like this is literally the inescapable reality migrant workers live in. Your average locals might be able to turn a
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
Having lived in an actual third world country for a couple decades, I personally can't take statements such as "xx is becoming more like a third world country" seriously. I get the sentiment behind it though. If I compare, fo
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
Is it just a "silly mistake" though? One could argue that racial & gender biases [0][1] in image recognition are real and this might be a symptom of that. Feels a bit disingenuous to simply chalk it up as something silly. [0]
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
I think part of it is the switches. They use Topre capacitive switches which have a very distinct key feeling than your average mechanical switches made by Cherry (and its clones) or Alps. RealForce (the keyboard brand from Topre) now have
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
What point does this argument hold besides "it's what we do now so we don't change it"? Same thing could be argued when five-day work weeks were first proposed.
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
Here's Rob Scallon covering the entirety of Enter Sandman backwards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R2ERDANb8E Guess the percussion instruments are the most difficult to sound good in reverse.
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
QQ is made by the same company as WeChat. It was like the last gen IM, with a desktop focused application and an accompanying social media (QQ Space, so you know what the inspiration was). They are still used nowadays but in a much more nic
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by TwoFerMaggie 3y ago
On android it's the only keyboard I could find whose position (not size of the keys) you can adjust without setting it to floating. With the bezel-less smartphones, I found that if the keyboard sits at the bottom of the screen, one-han
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
> Because the COVID-19 in China, we can not work ,and we was blocked in home ,we can not go anywhere . > Please wait some days ,I think the COVID-19 will go away in 3-2020 . :( this makes me really sad... hope they're still doi
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
> What I don't quite understand is why they couldn't just create some joint venture with a Western pharma company and then supply a rebranded version of the mRNA vaccines to their population At the start of all this, around 202
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
I actually got it serviced at an apple store, and coincidentally they only had one 1st gen SE battery in stock at that time. I don't think the battery was bad though, but instead the new iOS version being more power-hungry given the ne
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
I'd say pretty happy. Do I think it's the perfect phone? Probably not. But I'm pretty sure it's the closest one I can get in 2022 for my desired features. Regarding the camera, I have to say that I don't really know
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
I've been using one since 2016. The recent two years have been a bit tough because of the degraded battery. Swapped a new battery earlier this year, it was good for a while and now it's slow again and barely last a whole day. The
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
> There is always a loser to any change — even when it’s an otherwise overwhelming net positive. What an insidious argument. It makes the "loser" sounds like someone randomly selected by bad luck, but we all know that when ther
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
> you have tired and jaded people without a fun childhood Man this hits really hard because I spent my first 20 years growing up in China... Good thing is that now I'm in a much less authoritarian place with a job that has decent wo
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
This is sadly how a lot of economies function. Something is dangled in front of you (life in the big cities, citizenship in developed countries, etc.), and in order to get that you must agree to be exploited, to different extents. This way
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by TwoFerMaggie 4y ago
In my opinion these are the three things that can't really be all achieved under current technology/infrastructure: cheap delivery, fast delivery, and delivery workers that are not miserable. The illusion of all three being achiev
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
I'm firmly in the "tone wood doesn't matter" camp. I choose body and neck wood based on looks (if clear finish) and weight.
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
Funnily enough, it is widely acknowledged in the electric bass community that, once past a certain price point, spending more to buy a "nicer" bass gets you only marginal return in the quality of music you can make with it. The s
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
There are at least two major languages (or dialects, depending on how you define it) in south-east mainland China. Cantonese and Hokkien. Cantonese is mainly spoken in Guangdong (historically known as Canton), and Hokkien mainly Fujian. The
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
Problem is autocrats don't care about consistency at all, nor do they have to maintain an public image of consistency (maybe not just autocrats, perhaps modern politicians in general). This "if I apply the same logic to this other
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
I would argue that it doesn't just depend on which country. Being born into a privileged class in a less developed country is often times better than an average family in, let's say, US. The inequality is much more severe meaning
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by TwoFerMaggie 5y ago
Yeah you're right. This of course differs from person to person. I was thinking about this article actually: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/jul/06/caffeine-coffee... > In fact, none of the

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