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by abruzzi 8y ago
however google maps does this to me all the time too. But is happens in the opposite direction. I have the map opened to a place on the other side of the planet, and cant find the landmark I'm looking for manually, so I punt and sear
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by abruzzi 8y ago
I'm not very knowledgable about Frida Kahlo but I was a little nonplussed by the throwaway line about the film "Frida" and Harvey Weinstein. It seems like a guilt-by-association tactic. Its been a while since I saw it but m
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A Short History of Fast Normal Lenses(rangefinderforum.com)
2 points by abruzzi 8y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I don’t use any of the “social networks”. Instead I frequent topic specific forums that are targeted towards things I’m interested in: advrider.com for motorcycle discussion, photrio.com and pentaxforums.com for photography and darkroom re
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Obviously the idea was that I checked periodically and found no updates for several years so my checking tapered off and stopped. However I do appreciate the irony of the website updates being a metaphor for the clock itself.
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I’m happy to see progress on this. I hadn’t heard update for so long I had stopped checking their website. I don’t live terribly far from the location—maybe a five or six hour drive, so when it’s ready to be visited, I’ll definitely make
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by abruzzi 9y ago
> b) Languages. Another thing. I buy most movies I like on iTunes, but I have an issue with the films one of my favorite directors; Werner Herzog. The company that distributes his films on iTunes has decided to mostly make his films av
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Installing PowerShell Core on MacOS and Linux(docs.microsoft.com)
1 points by abruzzi 9y ago|0 comments
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Sadly, I wish all that backwards compatibility extended to keeping access to the old web client. The last few years have seen a steady decline in web client for my purposes. For example, the max of 10 via points on a route, or lately seas
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by abruzzi 9y ago
The biggest loss with the Google maps redesign is that I am limited to 10 via points. If I am creating a route I frequently use far more than that to ensure that the route goes where I want it to go. The only thing that keeps me using Goo
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I had a similar experience recently. I searched for something, and the results were mostly intro pages or starting "how to do this with xyz" type of pages when I was trying to debug a problem I was having with xyz. So I modified
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I remember when eBay was though of as the ability to sift through a million attics or garages to but all the things that someone else thought was barely worth the effort to carry down for curbside trash pickup. Now it has a very different
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Heh. I was thinking, based on my somewhat limited experience driving outside the US, that turning off traffic lights in Rome or Bangkok would have only have an effect on tourists, making them aware that there are no rules.
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by abruzzi 9y ago
In the US there is no morse any more. The technician license test is very easy and will give you all the VHF/UHF bands and a few narrow HF bands. General class test is a bit harder and requires some basic math and electronics knowled
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I find it strange too, though that may be because of the type of locations I stay. I don't seen any reason for customer loyalty to a single booking site. There is very little friction to just use the hotels own booking sites. For ea
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I'd love it if I didn't have to pay a doctor to have him write the insulin prescription I need. Last time I had medical professionals manage my insulin was when I was hospitalized (they don't like allowing self administered
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I was the wrong age and wrong musical taste, so the first time I even heard of Cat Stevens was in relation to his support of the Khomeini fatwa against Rushdie. It appears he tried to walk it back somewhat, but the first statement is prett
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Not infosec, but in general tech fields, I have absolutely observed this to be the case. I work with a Philosophy PhD and a person with a no degree, and both are excellent at their job. (Of course my judgement might limited because I have
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Ordinary people spend their time avoiding tense situations. Repo man spends his time getting into tense situations. Though Paris Texas is my favorite. The two confessions in the sex shop is, to me, one of the most intensely moving scenes
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Just an aside, "ransom" is probably not the right word, since I presume they are not taking money to destroy or not release the data. They're selling the data to anyone, and probably will be happy to sell the same data many
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Interesting. I was going to email the link to some co-workers that work with XML frequently. I wrote a nice little email with the link, then decided to put the text of the billion laughs attack into the email. Select the full XML in the
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by abruzzi 9y ago
> According to an experiment conducted by Dr. Brian Wansink of Cornell University, sales increase almost thirty percent when menu items are accompanied by a well-written description. Diners also gave these items more favorable feedback a
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by abruzzi 9y ago
They're actually building a road north out of Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk, which will take you to the Arctic Ocean: http://www.cbc.ca/news/multimedia/driving-to-the-top-of-the-...
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Yeah, there are hundreds of little esoteric facts like that contribute to the conspiracy theory. So no spoilers.
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by abruzzi 9y ago
If you ever read Umberto Eco's novel "Foucault's Pendulum" this is a key plot point. Specifically some shadowy "conspiracy" group was set to meet, but the meeting never happened because some countries had revi
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I'm not an expert on this stuff, but my understanding is the real issue isn't the sensor, it's the lens you put in front of it. You essentially have two ways to see smaller things from a fixed vantage point--put a longer foc
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by abruzzi 9y ago
> 2. A 600-800mm lens is optimal for photography. Anything short of 200mm is useless. Only if your goal is a closeup shot. I'd be much more interested in a shot with significant context. How easy that is to pull off I don't k
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by abruzzi 9y ago
Especially since screen tapping could be registering a "refocus to this point" action. Also since camera phones have no viewfinder, I use the screen to compose my shot. So to avoid obscuring what I am going to take a picture of,
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by abruzzi 9y ago
IANAL, but if Apple can show that McAleese had access to confidential iPhone data and transmitted that to his wife, or even advised her on her suit (his advise would be tempered by what he knew of apple's situation), wouldn't that
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by abruzzi 9y ago
I think that the technical limitations of EVs (range, towing, etc.) are things that will not be overcome. I don't want to say it will be easy, but it will be a matter of a motivated company (or companies) applying resources to to solv

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