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by acherion 3y ago
Thanks! I filtered out the lines in that XML blob for make="Nikon" (I shoot Nikon) and saw the list of cameras supported that I was interested in :)
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by acherion 3y ago
Weird, I scrolled down to see what cameras it supports, and there was a link labelled "Supported Cameras" that goes to https://rawspeed.org/CameraSupport.html but that's a squatted domain now. Is there a list
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by acherion 3y ago
Actually I do have a special needs kid (my daughter is deaf). I do keep my door open during work hours.
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by acherion 3y ago
> There's less distraction and better divide between work and private time. When I leave the office, I'm done for the day. I am glad I have the luxury of having a separate room as my home office. When I’m done for the day, I le
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by acherion 3y ago
If you're interested in the Trabant, the Youtube channel Aging Wheels has a couple of playlists where Robert has rebuilt the engine and gearbox of his [1] and just general videos [2] about his Trabant. [1] - https://www.yout
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by acherion 3y ago
> the most common mobile browser resolution is 800x360 Really? You're saying most people are using their mobile phone in landscape mode?
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by acherion 3y ago
I'm very excited to see this release! I've been working on personal projects with 1.x of PayloadCMS, and coming from the Wordpress / PHP / Laravel world it's been a breath of fresh air developing in TS, but I did mi
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by acherion 3y ago
Having a look at the Richard Stallman entry in Wikipedia[0] it menions this quote you're referring to, which links to this Engadget article[1] that links to rms's blog with that specific entry[2] [0] - https://en.wikipe
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by acherion 3y ago
I had this occur with my 2004 PowerBook back in the day, it was pretty bad. At the time I had found a company that made adhesive transparent stickers that you could place on either side of the trackpad that would protect the aluminium from
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by acherion 3y ago
It sounds like to me that the complaint is why Poland hasn’t switched to green power already. A comment like that demonstrates a lack of understanding about the levels of effort to make such a change, as if the change to green power is as i
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by acherion 3y ago
I guess families with young kids that would have to leave the kid in the window aisle, distressed and upset while the only people they know are leaving them in a vessel with people they don't know, are just not "enlightened"
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by acherion 3y ago
First entry on their History page says it was: http://wiki.aminet.net/index.php/The_history_of_Aminet
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by acherion 3y ago
A lot of shareware was also distributed on coverdisks for computer magazines. Not sure if this was a thing in North America, but in Europe and Australia, coverdisks were very popular.
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by acherion 3y ago
Is this app only available in the US app store or something? I tried on my iOS device here in Australia, and a whole heap of other mapping apps are appearing in search results instead, when the query string is "magic earth". iOS A
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by acherion 3y ago
If the videos don't load for you, try without an ad blocker (or put this site as an exception). I use Ghostery and the videos wouldn't load unless I trusted the site. I tried trusting just some of the components in Ghostery but th
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by acherion 3y ago
Doing something interesting comes with risk. That billion dollars is likely cash from investors who want a return. They won't be happy if the interesting thing you want to do isn't going to return a profit, hence they stick with w
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by acherion 3y ago
>The marbles that were bought From whom? Whoever Elgin paid money to certainly didn’t own the marbles, and the firman that he quoted doesn’t exist. He helped himself to set up his own personal museum. >from being ground up to be made
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by acherion 3y ago
They're British. We're talking here of the same people who used copper tools and wire brushes on the Parthenon Marbles that they stole, so that it could be more "pure white".
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by acherion 3y ago
Good thing my browser settings are to show scrollbars all the time!
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by acherion 3y ago
> Instead of capping prices, you could simply require any fees to be paid by the cardholder. This already happens in Australia. The price is the price, until you go to pay and if the shopkeeper sees you pull out a credit card, would adju
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by acherion 3y ago
The article clearly states that the yellow dots are printed by _colour_ laser printers.
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by acherion 3y ago
So GoDaddy still does this, huh? I was stung in the very same way over 15 years ago, looks like their business practices haven't changed much since.
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by acherion 3y ago
Right, but this is a discussion about their documentation, not whether Feature X in a version of Laravel is still around in the latest version. I'm not attacking the framework, as I said I love using Laravel. I just have criticism abou
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by acherion 3y ago
I struggled with sorting out Contracts vs Facades vs Traits. I graduated from university 20 years ago with a software engineering degree, where it was drummed into me that simpler often is better, and much more robust. Reading the Laravel d
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by acherion 3y ago
> Laravel is [...] reasonably well documented Hard disagree. Sorry, I don't have a computer science degree, why does their documentation make that assumption. I find their docs very hard to grok. PHP.net docs are no-frills no-fuss,
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by acherion 3y ago
Many years ago I got mylastname.com for a normal price (like $20 a year or whatever) and then forgot about it. It helps that I have a very unique surname. A few years afterwards, I woke up one morning with the bright idea that I should prob
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by acherion 3y ago
A registrar I use for my local domains (I'm in Australia, and use a local registrar for .au domains) has my CC details on file including the expiry date. They send me an email out a couple of months before the expiry date reminding me
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by acherion 3y ago
The machine depicted in the clip is an Apple IIe, which first came out in 1983. But this might not be a 1983 model, because the monitor depicted with the machine is the ColorMonitor IIe, which came out in 1985. Because it's a computer
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by acherion 3y ago
I had read some years ago that putting this "fee" on sending email wouldn't really deter the spammers, when they find one sucker (and they do find them, and there's usually more than one) they can extract so much money o
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by acherion 3y ago
The indicator should be on the outside, so you can change gear (in a manual transmission car) and indicate at the same time. It's just common sense. I am used to the indicators on the left though when driving my BMW, so I experience th

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