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by astrostl 10y ago
Also recommend Arq against any service. At a certain scale, especially after factoring bandwidth for restores, Amazon Cloud Drive at a flat $60/year becomes more attractive.
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by astrostl 10y ago
Well, TIL on that, so thx! Still going to pop into neutral w/o engaging the clutch and coast a ton, as I've always done, though :D
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by astrostl 10y ago
I Kickstarted the Nope 2.0, and it is hot garbage: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1893116150/nope-20-live...
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by astrostl 10y ago
Picked up a copy for my father for Christmas, thanks for the rec!
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by astrostl 10y ago
Totally agree that huge prints are the historical reason for MF and higher. These days a high-resolution LCD is the most common medium of display, and most people with serious gear can't help but pixel-peep their images at 100%. I thin
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by astrostl 10y ago
Now that the Sony A7 series has "democratized" full-format mirrorless, ILC camera folks are buying it in droves. And because of things like lower noise, shallower depth of field, and increased dynamic range. Not megapixels, which
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by astrostl 10y ago
Formatting broke, but they were two discrete points. First point: "resolution," as measured in megapixels, ain't the thing.
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by astrostl 10y ago
And to add just a bit: - "resolution," as measured in megapixels, ain't the thing - the "I can bracket to get similar results" argument for full-frame over medium format could just as well be used for APS-C over ful
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by astrostl 10y ago
Lytro made single-lens light-field cameras which let you refocus an image using their software. Very, very different. I say "made" because the company has since pivoted to VR cameras.
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by astrostl 10y ago
Hasselblad and Fuji both have new digital medium format systems coming out, and it's probably been the biggest news in cameras for 2016.
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by astrostl 10y ago
The http://www.getolympus.com/us/en/e-m1-mark-ii.html is positioned to blow the doors off of this, FWIW
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DSLRs are generally worse than mirrorless cameras when it comes to live view on the rear LCD, because of the mirror and "double-clutching" to activate. With a competitive mirrorless camera, which may get more to the heart of the q
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by astrostl 10y ago
https://culturedcode.com/things/ is the best, or least-worst, that I've ever used in terms of simplicity + power.
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Square Pegs and Round Holes: Giving Up Containerized Java(maryvilledevcenter.com)
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by astrostl 10y ago
Unless we're talking about physical cash under a mattress, "stored" dollars in banking are put to use through loans and investments.
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by astrostl 10y ago
My family has a Wii U, and it's connected to the only TV we really use in the house. The Wii U game pad permits pad-only play on some, but not all, games and doesn't have any capacity for multiplayer on it. I think this addresses
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by astrostl 10y ago
Ditto. Amazon Cloud Drive is $60/year for unlimited storage, which makes a nice back-end.
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In this moment, they are euphoric.
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by astrostl 10y ago
I think a better price comp would be eBay with "epacket" subsidized drop-shipping. Various straight-from-Asia doodads, in my experience, are vastly less expensive going that route.
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by astrostl 10y ago
I never quite get these kind of comments. Scores of developers that were raised on BASIC assert that knowledge of BASIC gives you brain damage. Presumably, they do not consider themselves to be brain-damaged. Similar things happen with, say
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by astrostl 10y ago
I've been a part of running Cloud Foundry in production, both on-prem and in AWS. From a user (developer) perspective, it's pretty magical: throw an app at it, and it runs. On the infrastructure side, the footprint is huge and has
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by astrostl 10y ago
I love VSC, and use it for Python. It's the only GUI editor that's ever "stuck" for me, having bought Textmate, tried Sublime, etc. Always go back to CLI Vim. I'm coming from the perspective of someone that hates
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by astrostl 10y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co... "In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings wer
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by astrostl 10y ago
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)? I see self-help and drugs, but no description of domain-focused therapy
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by astrostl 10y ago
Modern phones can play audio for days without recharging.
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by astrostl 10y ago
I used that practice, and ended up selling the domain. Updating everything was an absolute nightmare as a result, and I couldn't make a simple request like, "please forward my one primary email address to me for the next few years
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by astrostl 10y ago
I dunno about causes, but it is known that, unlike our bodies and brains which can run on glucose or ketones, that cancer can only run on glucose. Some of the more-promising research specifically relates to starving cancer cells of fuel.
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by astrostl 10y ago
Every huge entity having their own mapping system in order to grind out a minor efficiency is probably the biggest tragedy, to me, in modern services. Before mapping, it would be the TLS certificate racket, which LetsEncrypt appears to have
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by astrostl 10y ago
Lots of jokes about horse-drawn carriages in here. Would note that, in order to legalize casinos in the STL area, they were required to give money to a dump of a horse track which would have otherwise sped (no pun intended) toward an even e
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by astrostl 10y ago
Same here. Going from no-floss to 1x WaterPik and 1x floss daily has radically lowered scraping, bleeding, pain, etc. during my regular checkups.

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