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by ansgri 4y ago
Sure, my use case involved a black dog among sunny landscapes, that stretches the need for dynamic range and color grading flexibility. Maybe with better shooting technique it’s less of a problem, but I’ve got used to post-processing flexib
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I wonder if there will be progress in higher-frequency canceling given there’s an engineering reason for limiting canceling to lower frequencies. The current ANC technology makes outside speech quieter yet more intelligible, and that very m
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At least they have “decline all” that works.
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a5100 FTW! It must be very cheap now, and with a compact prime lens or even the very versatile 18-135 it fits in most larger pockets.
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a6400 is mighty powerful indeed. I upgraded to it from a5100 (which I still have for its compactness) and was amazed by its customizability. Also with mirrorless you can adapt pretty much any old cheap manual-focus lens and get creative bok
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To deny entry next time.
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More likely due to association with sanctioned entities.
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For the battery part, any boring Dell Latitude is no worse. As probably are other common business laptops. It’s much easier in most of the world actually – your local dealer might have one in stock, no need to ship overseas. And Linux suppo
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Infrastructure in largest cities, especially Moscow, is world-class. The public transportation is (was?) one of the best globally, most services are digital, banking is very modern with good mobile apps and instantaneous operations. And I r
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Step 0: get all those tens (hundreds?) of thousands of mostly highly-educated professionals fleeing the military draft to Kazakhstan, Armenia and Georgia (mostly). Even though Russian government says IT workers are exempt, everyone that can
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Also the prints are much more stable, the laser-printed documents tend to lose toner if paper is folded or crumpled, while dot-matrix prints are basically as permanent as tattoos.
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As a former academician, “created by academicians” is for software as bad an advertisement as it gets, especially for something foundational and impossible to change later. I don’t think it’s a meaningful factor in case of Julia though: mor
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The Framework laptop sorta has it -- it has 4 bays for 'modules' which are actually USB-C interfaces of some fast variety, and you can put a bootable 1TB SSD there.
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Case in point, the generally-loved C# feature, LINQ, is modeled after SQL. Except for a nonexistent (or at least not standardized) type system, SQL's just fine for data modeling and often analysis.
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As it’s very old, probably an in-house framework.
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That was Pro 10.5 2017, it’s still a very fast device. The Logitech keyboard didn’t have this dedicated button and I last used it like a year ago, so I’m glad the issue is nonexistent now with proper hardware. Thanks for the response.
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by ansgri 4y ago
Yes, I was responding more to the “prepaid, without ID” part. I may not even know what a proper “contract” in US terms mean FWIW, I’ve always used prepaid plans, for me the paper thar registers SIM with your ID is the contract.
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These don’t exist in most countries, you need to show your ID to get any SIM.
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Good, maybe it was related to the Logitech keyboard. How do you switch layouts, cmd+space? It opened a small window that blocked all input until it auto-closed half a second later.
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It, uhm, works with a keyboard. While touch-based UX is nearly flawless, there are some weird delays, e.g. when switching keyboard layout (you may not know of this problem if your language uses Latin script) -- very annoying since it tends
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Unfortunately this proprietary marketing-speak BS makes it easy to sell to creative professionals and those who care about color, and does signal somewhat well-defined properties. DolbyVision works well if you have the proprietary stack (it
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Rust seems to get serious corporate support, which future-proofs it and guarantees ecosystem growth. Not sure about Nim. Edit: others mentioned Julia, and it indeed looks like a valid choice since they don’t seem to program embedded or safe
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For research you use Python or whatever. For production you compile your models to whatever their proprietary equivalent to TorchScript and ONNX is, which is surely executed by hyperoptimized C++/Rust/Cuda code.
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That would be Modern C++ /s
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I’ve researched current platforms for technical/scientific blogging, and decided to go with Quarto. It’s powerful and quite pleasant to use to a person with nearly zero web dev experience.
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I don’t believe it’s possible to create a non-mediocre product of such complexity, especially if you need to support a variety of hardware. Without this requirement, iOS comes closest, though the UI discoverability is often abysmal. And Lin
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How are videos better?
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This, especially compared to the Octo Finissimo they “out-done”.
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One could say that giving somebody money without a detailed plan is completely bonkers. US has quite a unique perspective on financial risk-taking.
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980 > 1920 / 2, making split-screen view on a typical laptop very annoying. What’s the reasoning behind this number. Like, make it 900 and drastically more cases are covered.

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