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by armadsen 3y ago
I’m not really sure what you mean. There are Himba people on the internet, of course. But there just aren’t that many of them in the world period, and there aren’t exactly a ton of non-Namibians who know any. And I thought it was implied, b
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by armadsen 3y ago
Unless “bushmen” is being used in some generic “people who live out in the bush” sense? That stuck out to me too. (I’m very closely connected to one of the foremost Western experts on the Himba and have spent time with them myself. Definite
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by armadsen 3y ago
If my son lives as long as his (still alive) great grandpa has so far, he’ll still be alive in 2110.
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by armadsen 3y ago
It doesn't take much to get "day one" access like he's describing. I was some random kid with a couple years of (completely self-taught, solo, using free tools) Mac OS X dev experience in 2008, and I had beta access to t
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by armadsen 3y ago
Yep, they explicitly mentioned (and showed, IIRC) that you can connect game controllers to the Vision Pro. Presumably it will indeed be PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch controllers, as well as the various third party controllers specifically s
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by armadsen 3y ago
I am an engineer, though not at all involved in materials science/engineering, and I've known what galvanic corrosion is since I was a teenager. It's not exactly an obscure phenomenon.
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by armadsen 3y ago
I will very likely buy one. I don't need it, or any field recorder really, although I do already own a "regular" Sony field recorder that I use occasionally, but not professionally. I'll buy it because I love well made,
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by armadsen 3y ago
A sous vide device makes it easy to hold a water bath at a precise enough temperature that I get C41 results at home that are indistinguishable from my local lab, at least to my eyes.
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by armadsen 4y ago
There used to be many of these facilities. This is the last one. The demand has gone down as OCR has gotten better and hand addressed mail volume has decreased.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I’m a software engineer, live in an area with a way lower cost of living than the Bay Area, work for a company almost exactly the same size, and $191k would be a significant pay cut for me. It really isn’t a lot depending on your role, leve
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by armadsen 4y ago
That's a bit of a simplification of what the article reports, which is that desert lions were there before being driven out by nearby farmers in 2002. They came back because of the drought and lack of non-marine prey. Seems likely th
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by armadsen 4y ago
I'm lucky in that the family I married into is strongly connected to Namibia. My wife lived there when she was young, and her family goes back regularly, so I've been able to tag along with them. Getting introduced to that place -
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by armadsen 4y ago
I visited the Skeleton Coast in 2021 for a couple days. It's just an incredible other-worldly place (well lots of Namibia is like that, really). I had no idea at the time that lions had started coming back. There's a massive colon
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by armadsen 4y ago
Panic, the company this is about, is (still) a Mac software company. They definitely still have to deal with the App Store.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I care about it. I work on a video editing app for iOS (we also target Android). Raw CPU and GPU performance has a significant impact on our ability to ship features, not to mention user experience with things like number of simultaneous st
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by armadsen 4y ago
I use my iPhone for productivity. I’ve never felt the need to filter notifications. It does seem like a nice feature. But “nobody would put up with it” is pretty hyperbolic.
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by armadsen 4y ago
He talks at length in this post and the follow up about him being able to understand why some people prioritize things other that UI design and experience. He says that having other priorities is reasonable. He’s pointing out that _his_ pri
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by armadsen 4y ago
He was writing in the context of Windows vs Mac 20 years ago. At that time especially, the overwhelming majority of people who really cared deeply about UI design used and designed for Macs, despite the overall small size of the Mac market.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I like John Gruber and usually agree with him. But his anti-remote work thing is baffling, and made even more so by the fact that he himself has worked from home for going on 20 years.
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by armadsen 4y ago
Are you my sibling? We had those plus Captain Comic, Jill of the Jungle, and Paganitzu. We weren’t allowed to have a video game console, so Mario is Missing was the closest I got to having a Nintendo.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I love this analogy and it’s the same one I use when people dismissively ask me why I do Morse code, shoot film (including large format), print in the darkroom, listen to reel to reel tape, etc. It’s not that I’m a Luddite. I’m an audio&#x2
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by armadsen 4y ago
I agree with you in general, but I think it's important to note that the web has evolved in a forwards incompatible manner. You can't hook up an older device/web browser to the modern web and have it work with modern web site
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Pentax announces that they’re working on new film cameras(youtube.com)
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by armadsen 4y ago
The vast majority of electrical engineers in the US are not PEs. I think they’re still engineers. Disclaimer: I’m an EE as well as a programmer.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I love my SL66, but it’s so (relatively) big and heavy. My Leica MP is small and light enough that it never annoys me being around my neck.
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by armadsen 4y ago
My first job (hardware engineer) after college in 2007 gave me my own office with a window! I got really lucky, and not being willing to take a job where I work in an open office full time is one of the things that led me to insisting on (m
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by armadsen 4y ago
Also, in practice, there's no such thing as a truly sharp corner, which makes sense intuitively based on the math, I think. But real systems have inertia, friction, stray resistance/capacitance/inductance, etc. so you can&#x2
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by armadsen 4y ago
Apple releases security updates for older OSes. They recently released iOS 12.5.6, for example.
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by armadsen 4y ago
That wasn’t BYU it was the University of Utah. They are very much not the same school. Also this has nothing to do with cold fusion.
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by armadsen 4y ago
Nobody that's buying this (including me) is buying it for its pure utility. They're buying it because it's cool-looking, fun, interesting, educational, or whatever. If my goal was good audio quality, of course it's not w

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