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by falcrist 7y ago
People buying vinyl are looking for a collectable. There is something to be said for the physical experience of physical media.
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by falcrist 7y ago
We kinda did keep going, except we put the grooves onto foil as little dots, and read them with a laser. Also, the whole thing is encased in polycarbonate.
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by falcrist 7y ago
I typically code in c and c#, and have been told by older engineers that it's important to avoid early returns because they can be confusing, especially when skimming through the code. I kind of see what he's talking about. It see
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by falcrist 7y ago
I happened to go back to school fairly recently. I was required to take some humanities and social science classes. I'd say there's a lot more diversity of opinion in the rest of the departments than there is in econ. I didn'
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by falcrist 7y ago
Academia is neither monolithically leftist, nor is it activist by nature. You have only to spend 5 minutes in a typical economics class to understand that that field favors neoliberal ideas. If you sit down and have a conversation with an a
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by falcrist 7y ago
> Sex has no smell most of the time. Your bodily fluids have a smell. Maybe you can't smell them, but other people can.
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by falcrist 7y ago
> "we should therefore break the First Amendment and let government censor" I never said any such thing. Please don't misrepresent my comments. > we're talking about CDNs. Not ISPs. I'm actively discussing bot
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by falcrist 7y ago
I've pointed this out many times, but Randal conflates freedom of speech with the first amendment of the US Constitution (and other similar protections against government interference) with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech goes way
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by falcrist 7y ago
> Right, which is why I'm baffled someone worried about free speech would be happy with giving them that power. Ok, I'll try again. Corporations can actively censor you. The government is more restricted in what speech it can s
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by falcrist 7y ago
The US government, at least, has explicit restrictions on how it can censor speech. They're required to abide by the 1st amendment, and even have requirements for due process and such. By contrast, none of the corporations that host
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by falcrist 7y ago
I don't think there's a contradiction between supporting freedom of expression and suggesting that such a freedom isn't absolute. There are limits, particularly when the use of that freedom treads on the freedoms of others. E
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by falcrist 7y ago
Memes aside... Sex has weird and sometimes offensive smells. This holds true for queer folks, straight folks, and even folks with good hygiene. I feel like most sexually active adults already know this. You aren't always going to get a
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by falcrist 7y ago
I don't know what they're like these days, but when I was younger, the vast majority of the phone book was a series of advertisements for various businesses.
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by falcrist 7y ago
You parse it the same way I usually do. As a decimal fraction, 4.2 > 4.11... however, version numbers aren't decimal fractions. In any case, you're not alone.
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by falcrist 7y ago
That really depends on where you're comparing Europe to...
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by falcrist 7y ago
With Microsoft, this part is almost inevitable. Same with Google/Microsoft and privacy...
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by falcrist 7y ago
As an embedded firmware developer, I really wish there was a way to outright disallow implicit type conversions in C source code. You'd have to exclude libraries, but I'm creating "typedef enum" to show what I'm doi
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by falcrist 7y ago
I remember hearing about research into germanium as a replacement to silicon or compound III-V semiconductors [1] Nanoscale devices seem like an interesting development, but all of these technologies seem like they're a decade or more
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by falcrist 7y ago
I can't let go of my intuition that complex deployment procedures carry an inherent additional risk to the mission. Now, maybe that additional risk is less than the risk of doing it a different way, but that just means the mission is p
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by falcrist 7y ago
The amount of light per area at the sensor is directly proportional to the area of the aperture and inversely proportional to the focal length. That's why we use the f-number, which is a ratio of focal length to aperture diameter. Plea
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by falcrist 7y ago
Similar depth of field and total light gathered. I'm aware that sensor size doesn't change depth of field, however if you compensate the focal length to produce the same field of view on both sensors, you then need to compensate t
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by falcrist 7y ago
I said it applied to an f/1.4 lens. In that case, you'd have to switch to an APSC f/0.95 lens. Those exist, but only in manual focus... and they're only around $500
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by falcrist 7y ago
But all of this applies to full frame with an f/1.4 85mm lens as well, yet even f/1.2 isn't that rare in the full frame world.
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I'm surprised something LIKE that doesn't exist, but I'm thinking more of f/1.2 equivalent glass.
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by falcrist 7y ago
Oh, no doubt it would be expensive, but medium format digital cameras already tend to be prohibitively expensive for anyone who doesn't have an urgent professional use for one.
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by falcrist 7y ago
That's a bit of an odd title. This is a mirrorless camera. I always found it interesting that medium format cameras generally don't have the fastest lenses. The fastest autofocus primes I see are f/2.8 and f/4, which a
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by falcrist 7y ago
It's also a little surprising when you think about it. Look how far science has come despite a very shaky foundation in the system of measurements. I'm sure most people know, but the mass of the official kilo actually drifted by t
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by falcrist 7y ago
> They are unreasonable concerns because they're not in any way grounded in reality. This is incorrect. The issues of safety, cost, waste disposal, etc are problems that people have spent enormous time and money trying to solve. The
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by falcrist 7y ago
The anti-nuclear folks often understand science and stats just fine. They inflate legitimate concerns to argue against having more nuclear plants in favor of having more renewables. Almost none of the anti-vaxx people I've encountered
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by falcrist 7y ago
I'm not making an argument that nuclear isn't safe. However, it is inherently high-stakes. A mistake that causes a station blackout for a couple hours can cost thousands of lives and make large swathes of land uninhabitable, costi

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