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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Vice president is a nondemocratic executive position which is overwhelmingly bureaucratic at best. Vice president positions can be granted for any number of unclear reasons, from granting prestige to a donor’s kin to reforming the business
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
That, and war is not only a real-life phenomenon but states are are nothing if not monopolies on violence relative only to empires. Competing with either is going to require either overtaking it or cooperating with it. The common case is bo
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Interesting that the constitution will now be displayed at the Crystal Bridges Museum of Walmart.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
From a report on the cultures and politics around the Anthracite Coal Mines at the turn of the 19th century, which is linked below and is probably the most fascinating piece of journalism I have ever read: > Why the Mills Have Come to t
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
You list a bunch of libraries, but Django is not a library. It is a framework. The Django file structure, for example, is not exactly optional in Django. Realize FastAPI follows in the footsteps of Flask. Neither FastAPI or Flask are framew
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Literally everywhere densely populated outside of the United States meets that criteria.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
This is a ridiculous thing to say considering all of their hardware is useless without their proprietary software. If running the Linux kernel on Apple hardware did not require a massive reverse engineering effort (see https://as
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
How often are drones used for anything of that sort? Any actual examples? Or are you just purely fantasizing?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
If Apple did that, giant app developers would whine about it. Google was basically responsible for locking down the DeviceMotion API.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
It truly is a shame we have to choose between quality hardware and a quality OS. My maxed out 2013 Macbook Pro (the last model that runs linux without issue) has finally worn itself out and I’m in the market for a new laptop, but I can’t fi
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
The job interview hell that we go through these days selects for people unwilling to do this.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Well, sure, if you want macOS then macOS will be your best bet. I can’t imagine wanting that very particular and often very awkward top menu bar functionality. I was a heavily invested macOS user for many years and always found it a minor a
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
This is the single problem I have with running Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop. It takes about 1.5 minutes to wake up. But it does wake up, and then it’s far better than any alternatives
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Not for me on Ubuntu 20.04. I use fractional scaling on my laptop and it works perfectly. Just prefer deb installers instead of flatpak and snap, because flatpak and snap aren’t ready yet. HiDPI works great.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
I am a recent convert to Linux Desktop and it doesn’t sound like you’ve used Linux Desktop lately. I use Ubuntu 20.04 and it is far better than Windows or macOS.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
I disagree with this. Capitalism stands between what is important to us in the aggregate and what we actually do.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
What would someone have to gain out of this? And who? The biggest barrier to nuclear power is the initial cost and time required to turn a profit.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Why is it too late?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
How is this useful?
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Cheers! I could not agree more. McLuhan nailed it.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Those lends hoods are fully intact and symmetrical just as they should be.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
True, but Hasselblad is a bit of a unique situation, especially compared with Zeiss. Also, Sony and Panasonic do not disconfigure their lens hoods to accommodate the Zeiss/Leica logos.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
To be clear, they are excellent cameras! But with a very small market. They were built like workhorse cameras but they did’t have nearly enough of a competitive ecosystem to actually be workhorse cameras. It’s not surprising that they met t
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
I only suspect the camera is trash. I know nothing about drones. I know that with these new digital toys the more traditional rules of photography are no longer embraced as rules to be broken but rather they are treated as a grab bag of tec
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Yowzers. I guess I’m not surprised. I shot one once just being curious. It felt like driving a Cadillac, but the owner seemed to be struggling to find an actual purpose for it that his film Hasselblad wasn’t a better fit for.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
>Do the flourishes impact the image quality somehow? Why undergo the research to find out? Why on Earth should that be necessary? Clearly this is more a symptom than anything, but the reason it doesn’t matter is not that the “flourish” d
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
They sold a few lines of digital cameras for a while there that were beasts with large sensors like their analog ancestors, but it just didn’t make much practical sense aside from the fact that the old lenses could be used on the new camera
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
Yes, it’s very awkward to see the Hasselblad (digital) logo on a drone. Of course a medium format sensor would be entirely counter-intuitive in such a use case. So sad watching the photography industry crumble like so.
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
If “imaging above everything” then why does the lens casing/hood have 5 wacky-shaped lopsided panels? I don’t know much about drones, but it wasn’t very long ago that even consumer level camera equipment came with some degree of dignit
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by derekjdanserl 5y ago
I believe you meant to say “opposition is the barrier to innovation.”

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