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by _ph_ 4y ago
The Russians pretty much killed a lot of the population of the occupied territories, which hadn't fled in time. A lot of the rest has been abducted to Russia, possibly Siberia.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
No, the EU is not mandating cookie banners. That is just the web industry trying to get around the laws prohibiting them to store random cookies, especially tracking ones, without consent.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
They are fantastic lenses. Which one have you got? I have the 150/2. Why shouldn't you use the lens with the newest mFT cameras with the current sensors? If you are looking for a beefy camera, you can currently get the E-M1X incre
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Why are you regretting it? I am still extremely happy with mFT.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, the Olympus FT system had its last camera 2010. But there was the migration path to mFT, which supports FT lenses. You might though hurry to grab the lens adapters, as they are no longer in production. The mFT system is quite alive an
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The argument has been made often. Yes, noise raises with sensor temperature. But I haven't seen a test which shows that it makes any difference in real-life situations.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I am also a µFT-shooter, e.g. OM-1 with the 300/4. I named the 150-400, a lens which certainly doesn't have a 35mm counterpart. At which point the "quality" advantage of a 35mm sensor becomes moot. And of course also, if
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It might be noisy, but it definitely delivers a reasonably bright image where an optical viewfinder would be completely dark already. Especially in the high gain modes, you have like a night vision device - try pointing the E-M1 at the star
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Why would you say that µFT isn't the best wildlife body? There the long range lenses shine (do I need to say 150-400/4.5?). Also wildlife often means hiking through the wild, where µFT also has big advantages.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Why would they be? Where is any noise advantage of the DSLR?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, yes. Basically all mirrorless cameras have removable batteries. And changing them is obviously the direct way of keeping your camera operating continuously. But the one situation in which I can assume you would notice the difference i
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I was referring to the battery life. If you want to use an optical viewfinder, that is a different argument. The question just is: how often is it really making a significant difference in battery life? One which you cannot reasonably compe
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by _ph_ 4y ago
The end of an era, but Nikon is following a lot of other manufacturers like Olympus, Sony, Leica. SLRs were a great product, but about 10 years ago, mirrorless cameras started to overtake them in many aspects. The EVF has many advantages, o
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Yes, battery life takes some hit, but is it really relevant in practical situations, especially with the availability of USB-C power banks?
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by _ph_ 4y ago
This is not a historic low, but a definitive low. There are several reasons for this. - in time of a crisis, the world seems to ralley around the dollar, as it is backed by the strongest economy and the strongest military. - this crisis has
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by _ph_ 4y ago
What makes you think that "every major city was destroyed"? Kiev has been saved, all cities west of it, Odessa is still defended (the Russians aren't very close to it). But indeed the Russians destroyed the cities they conque
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by _ph_ 4y ago
There is no censorship in Germany. Please provide evidence if you make such claims.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Neither nuclear nor renewables would be useful right now for heating homes or powering the industry. There are few who would claim so - except for those, who try to abuse the gas shortage to push for nuclear, despite the decision about nucl
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I don't know that book, but an argumentation of "xxx will never return" about something fundamental like trade doesn't sound very solid. Yes, recent events have put a huge dent into human progress as developing a truely
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by _ph_ 4y ago
It is Russia ramping down exports for about a year already. Which shows how the war was a long planned operation. The European gas storage was ramped down and then the delivery slowly cut. This is the perfect example of "boiling a frog
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sure. And it can. We are talking about 3GW of nuclear on a grid which has like 100GW capacity vs 60-80GW consumption. Much more, if the sun is shining or wind is blowing. Yes, it is absolutely annoying to bring back some coal plants into se
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Well, people were evacuated in time. The big question is: can they come back, like ever? The threat isn't so much people dying from radiation if evacuated in time, it is that large regions of densely populated central Europe can become
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right. There is no dispute that the Bavarian forests are still strongly contaminated from the Chernobyl disaster and will be for many decades. You still have somewhat to be careful to eat mushrooms from there and especially wild boar.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
You are linking to uranium production, not the production of fuel rods. And yes, the nuclear power plants produce less CO2 than coal. No doubt about that. But that is the consequence of a decision over 10 years ago. Unfortunately, the same
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by _ph_ 4y ago
To prevent "freezing to death" would require heating, not electricity, which Germany has enough. It is the house heating that is powered by gas. And no one is going to freeze to death, the question is only the impact onto industry
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Sure, but why bother? These 3 plants would only add a tiny bit to the German electricty production. They really won't be missed. And they cannot be used to replace gas, as gas power plants are used for quick responses, not base load.
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by _ph_ 4y ago
1. As already noted by other posters, the decision to decommission these plants was made years ago. 2. As a consequence, the plants are in no shape to be run much longer without major refurbishment, rehinring and training personal. Also, th
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by _ph_ 4y ago
Right. My view is: Go brings back a lot of the great traits of languages like Pascal and Modula. Fast compilation speed, a simple static typed language, a modules concept. Adding a few nice things like GC, high order functions and some mor
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by _ph_ 4y ago
That sounds so fantastic. This would be a great productd for a startup. Just a small box, USB-C powered, which performs these easy simple tasks, but absolutely reliable and a pleasure to use. Perhaps like 4 buttons, nicely differently color
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by _ph_ 4y ago
I have the i9 16" and not getting fan noise during calls. But of course, I am not doing much else at that time.

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