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by armadsen 4y ago
My wife reads a pretty consistent 200 books per year (not audio books). She's not a very fast reader. She's just very consistent, and reads anytime she has downtime, even in waiting rooms, etc.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I've really only ever thought of Sunny 16 as a rule to use when shooting with a camera that doesn't have a light meter. Another trick you can use is to enable center weighted or spot metering on your camera, then take more control
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by armadsen 4y ago
I agree with both statements. I'm an electrical engineer and a programmer in my late 30s. I have a pretty good handle on how complex electronic devices are created, because I've worked on them myself. On the other hand, if asked t
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by armadsen 4y ago
There are both adapters for Silver-oxide batteries, as well as Zinc-air batteries specifically designed to replace Mercury cells for cameras. See https://shop.criscam.com/products/mr-9-mercury-battery-adapt... and htt
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by armadsen 4y ago
There is some precedent for Lego bringing outside ideas in. Adam Reed Tucker started doing architectural models outside Lego before they brought him on to create the still-running Lego Architecture line. Earlier sets even had his name on th
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by armadsen 4y ago
It's not socialist to allow private entities to build the housing that the market demands on the land they own in order to make money. It's much closer to "socialist" to have state apparatus dictating that people not bui
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by armadsen 4y ago
Nope. I'm lucky in that I have dedicated home office (ie. bedroom that we don't need for a bed), but I absolutely don't get sick of it. It's much better than even the dedicated offices with a door I've had at some
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by armadsen 4y ago
To me, the SLR has always seemed like a somewhat inelegant design that nevertheless solved real problems present in rangefinders (and other non-reflex cameras). The whole idea of a big, heavy, loud, flappy mirror mechanism just seems clunky
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by armadsen 4y ago
The Z9 has made quite a splash, though. So it's hard to criticize Nikon's most recent moves. That said, I switched to Fuji (from Canon SLRs) almost 10 years ago, and Fuji certainly makes the most interesting cameras to me as a d
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by armadsen 4y ago
Absolutely. For example, my parents in law, who are very much non-technical, had a Canon DSLR, and a film SLR before digital, that they used to take normal family/vacation photos. They've long since switched to just using their ph
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by armadsen 4y ago
apple2.org.za has hosted a ton of useful Apple II content for a long time. I believe the owner of the site is in Joburg. (He is providing hosting for this project, but isn't one of the main contributors, AFAIK.) I've always though
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by armadsen 4y ago
I know this is completely subjective, and his millions of subscribers tell me my opinion is far from ubiquitous, but he's also just straight up obnoxious to me. One of those people whose voice, demeanor, appearance, everything, just im
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by armadsen 4y ago
You can indeed configure the MBA with 24 GB. It's a $400 upgrade.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I think you’re thinking of Aspyr, and they are still around: https://www.aspyr.com/
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by armadsen 4y ago
My mom knows I'm a software & hardware engineer, but I'm not sure she knows too much beyond that. My dad is also a hardware & software engineer, and I've long been a little disappointed at how little interest my mom h
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by armadsen 4y ago
I've been lucky enough to be able to spend my entire software engineering career so far working on software that end users use and pay directly for. I often say that I really only want to work on software that makes money because it do
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by armadsen 4y ago
Right, it was introduced publicly as an API in Mac OS X Leopard, but my understanding has always been that it was actually conceived as part of iPhoneOS, then ported to Mac as well. The iPhone shipped a few months before Leopard, though of
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by armadsen 4y ago
There was one of these basement houses in my neighborhood (mostly built in the 40s) until a few months ago when it was flipped and they built a top floor on it making it look like a completely different (and unremarkable) house.
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by armadsen 4y ago
Indeed. As far as I know, Core Animation was originally created as part of work on the first version of iOS (née iPhoneOS), where the target device, the original iPhone, was pretty severely memory and CPU constrained.
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by armadsen 4y ago
Storyboard, but I don’t think that would have made a difference in the time it took me.
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by armadsen 4y ago
Just for fun, I timed myself doing the first one in both AppKit and SwiftUI. I started with Xcode running but no project created yet, and hit stop when the app was launched and I had clicked the count button. It took me 1m57s to do it in Ap
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by armadsen 4y ago
Yeah, I'm primarily an AppKit developer, and honestly the circle drawing task seems a bit easier than the CRUD task to me.
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by armadsen 4y ago
I’m with you. I’m also an iOS (as well as macOS) developer. I started doing Cocoa development a few years before the iPhone came out, when it was much more of a niche than it is now. I’ve never had trouble making a very good living doing
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by armadsen 4y ago
Apple's Wearables business is a ~$8 billion per quarter business. That includes AirPods and a few other products, but Apple Watch is obviously a major part of it. To me, $8 billion per quarter is far more than "modestly successf
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by armadsen 4y ago
I agree with you, but it's worth noting that shortly after Jobs' death, Scott Forstall was kicked out, and Jony Ive took over software UI design as well. The result was iOS 7 and its flat UI.
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by armadsen 4y ago
> However, what really helps me is developers who document when support for an old OS was dropped, and continue to make older compatible versions of their software available for download and purchase. I'm a Cocoa developer and go ou
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by armadsen 4y ago
n=4 for me, but I’ve had the same experience. Unlimited really has meant unlimited. And I take advantage of it, taking maybe 4-6 weeks per year average. But twice I’ve taken a single 6-8 week international vacation in the summer with no com
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by armadsen 4y ago
I have had two separate unlimited PTO jobs where I was gone on an extended vacation for ~2 months and no one batted an eye. The time off was discussed beforehand of course, I didn’t just not show up one day. But I got no complaints from any
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by armadsen 4y ago
I think this is only really true outside of the US. I only have WhatsApp installed because I've spent time outside the US (Africa, specifically) and it's defacto standard there. I literally never use it to talk to people in the
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by armadsen 5y ago
Yes. You can explicitly set your project's aspect ratio, including 9:16 (which is the iPhone vertical ratio) and edit it that way. You can also include vertical video in a non-vertical project with black bars on the sides ("fit&qu

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