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by aikinai 6y ago
This is exactly how it works in Japan. The country lies in the sweet spot where software development will likely never be able to compete globally, but local talent is good enough and the cultural divide big enough that local players almost
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by aikinai 6y ago
Sony's been pushing things forward quite a bit, and after catching up on most of the fundamentals, they're now working in AI/ML. Their latest cameras have incredible eye-autofocus built with ML, and they also recently announc
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by aikinai 6y ago
> The last straw was when the iPhone got portrait mode and could render bokeh/blur like lens physics. Have you looked at real "portrait mode" photos? They only really resemble narrow depth of field at thumbnail sizes, but
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by aikinai 6y ago
Totally agree that everyone notices the difference. I sync all of my α6600 photos to my iCloud library, and just scrolling through my photos to look for something to show a friend, they always comment, "You took these on your phone!?&q
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by aikinai 6y ago
"Do you" in a sentence like this is equivalent to "does one;" it doesn't actually refer to the listener, at least in American English.
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by aikinai 6y ago
It's a pain, but can you say "four colon zero zero?"
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by aikinai 6y ago
It’s also an incredibly good Nintendo game from 1991. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm_(video_game)
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by aikinai 6y ago
Doesn't negate the rest of your point, but just for your information, business parks have long been called campuses; that's not a Google or infantile thing.
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by aikinai 6y ago
Yes! I also switch to all of the Affinity apps in addition to Capture One.
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by aikinai 6y ago
If you haven’t already, try Capture One. It’s so much faster than Lightroom and, at least for my needs, has much better functionality as well.
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by aikinai 6y ago
Interestingly, I think this is the opposite in the Mac ecosystem. If an app uses the latest APIs and design trends, I expect it to be well crafted and cared for and am also rarely wrong.
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by aikinai 6y ago
Just another anecdote but I was a kid at the time and remember the selling point for Dreamcast among people I knew was specifically that you could just copy the games. Everyone had stacks of CDs they’d copy for new console owners.
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by aikinai 6y ago
Mac trackpads have lightyears ahead of other vendors since before the iPhone, so this can’t be the primary reason.
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by aikinai 6y ago
On top of what others have said (this is how it's intended to work), if the university saw fit to fund the research up to commercialization, or at least a patent, they would be the ones taking the profit.
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by aikinai 6y ago
> I'm not really excited that every meeting participant will be able to see my facial flaws in 4k HDR with dynamic surround. Do you meet people in person?
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by aikinai 7y ago
The products and pages look the same since they all copied Apple. The same thing has happened with packaging. I guess you could technically call it standard now, but it all originated with Apple.
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by aikinai 7y ago
I mentioned this in another thread recently, it I think most people do notice when they see the difference. I take a lot of photos with a real camera and sync them all to my iCloud Library. When showing someone a photo, they almost always
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by aikinai 7y ago
Companies aren’t people though, and the people embracing it now might have very little overlap with the old stranglers.
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by aikinai 7y ago
Safari has robust ad-blocking support built in and good ad blockers even have inspectors to let you block custom elements.
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by aikinai 7y ago
The article isn’t talking about the volume of patients but the stigma on medical professionals. “Collapse” was probably a poor word choice since these days that almost exclusively means going over capacity due to a surge in Covid-19 patient
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by aikinai 7y ago
I remember pressing the home button on a powered off iPhone 7 a few times. It feels like attempting to take the last step in a flight of stairs when you miscounted by one.
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by aikinai 7y ago
They're slightly different interactions and I (not the commenter you replied to) use both. I feel like the bottom swipe is a discrete action that takes you straight to the last app, and I use it when I'm very confident, like a one
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by aikinai 7y ago
I haven't used a home button iPhone in a long time so I'm not sure about them, but home button iPads definitely support the X gestures.
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by aikinai 7y ago
Super helpful reply and tells me exactly what I needed to know (I'll stick with HEVC). Thanks!
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by aikinai 7y ago
As someone up-to-date on AV1, what are your thoughts on it compared to HEVC?
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by aikinai 7y ago
Does the post claim that the NYT article was based on his work? The timing doesn't make sense unless he was working with the journalist before she published and I didn't see that claim. I would also say he's over-exaggerating
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by aikinai 7y ago
Sorry I don't know how to quote so maybe my comment was confusing between what I wrote and what Patrick wrote. Here's his Tweet claiming that and explicitly staking his reputation on this: https://twitter.com/patio
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by aikinai 7y ago
Sure happy to share. I guess most people would be surprised, but Japan has very straightforward and easy immigration if you meet the right conditions, of which Patrick is a shoe-in. He probably already has permanent residency, but if not, h
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by aikinai 7y ago
I'm all over the thread with comments like these since the whole charade is ridiculous and is only getting undue attention here since Patrick is popular on Hacker News and very few commenters have familiarity with Japan, either as a wh
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by aikinai 7y ago
The "big internet presence" is among readers of Hacker News. He's nowhere near the prominence of plenty of people in Japan making public, pessimistic predictions about the pandemic without acting like they're going to ge

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