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by foldr 6mo ago
A quick Google search suggests that Brazil and the UK have similar levels of smoking in the adult population. So the UK's already succeeded in reducing smoking consumption. The aim of this legislation is to eventually eliminate it.
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by foldr 6mo ago
Depth of focus doesn’t present itself in the final image. It’s generally irrelevant to practical photography from the point of vide of the photographer (as opposed to the camera designer or lens manufacturer). The first quote is talking abo
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by foldr 6mo ago
Incredible that current Linux kernels still have 486 support!
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by foldr 6mo ago
The Neo's targetting a different market. The MacBook was a premium ultraportable product. If you were buying it, you were willing to make all kinds of sacrifices for a thin and light laptop. The Neo is a general purpose consumer laptop
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by foldr 6mo ago
No, but I think it’s unlikely that Apple actually has this information in a format that it could easily publicly release. They aren’t going to make any special effort to make Linux on Mac easier, but they also aren’t actively blocking it.
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by foldr 6mo ago
Why would Apple writing some Linux drivers wipe billions from its share price? You can already install Linux on a Mac if you really want to. Back in the day, you used to be able to install Windows on an (Intel) Mac, and that didn’t seem t
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by foldr 6mo ago
The middlemen are giving your book some (still probably rather small) chance of being bought in significant numbers. If you just want a big stack of books and don't care if anyone buys them, they're not especially expensive to pro
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by foldr 6mo ago
> there are limits on how shallow your DOF can get on smaller sensors. Only in the sense that you generally use a smaller sensor because you want your camera to be small. If you take a full frame SLR and attach a 100mm f1.8 lens to it, y
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by foldr 6mo ago
The first quote is clearly talking about depth of field, not depth of focus. See also what I quoted in my original comment. Depth of focus isn’t really relevant to the rendering of an image (except insofar as you want your camera to be buil
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by foldr 6mo ago
It’s only the focal length and f-stop that affect depth of field. Sensor size affects it only indirectly, because you need a different focal length to get the same angle of view. From an optical point of view, light does not bend differentl
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by foldr 6mo ago
No. Depth of field is determined by aperture and focal length. Whether or not a lens has a retrofocus design isn’t relevant.
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by foldr 6mo ago
> And, the combination of wide-angle-view and super-high-aperture would literally require light to pass through the metal of the camera in order to reach the sensor: This isn’t necessarily true when using a retrofocus wideangle design (a
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by foldr 6mo ago
That seems like a slightly off definition to me: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/feral And feral certainly is a term with negative connotations in English. Are you in a "wild and unsupervised" stat
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by foldr 6mo ago
Hmm, no, my comment didn't say any of those things. Specifically, I did not comment on (and do not care if) unsafe blocks are a Rust invention, and I made no comparison between Rust and C or C++.
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by foldr 6mo ago
I am not sure what point you're trying to make. Who are the 'naysayers', and what are they saying 'nay' to? And what do they have to do with anything I commented on?
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by foldr 6mo ago
'Feral' seems like an odd choice of word, given the activities you're describing. It sounds like they're just out and about doing totally normal stuff. I bet you wouldn't appreciate someone describing you as 'f
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by foldr 6mo ago
It helps a human armed with only a tool as crude as grep. But if Rust didn't have the requirement to mark unsafe operations with the 'unsafe' keyword, that information could trivially be added back automatically. If you'
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by foldr 6mo ago
Grepping for unsafe blocks doesn’t help that much for formal verification, because you have to verify all of the code. The easiest way to see this is to note that ‘unsafe’ itself doesn’t have any semantics, so it can’t possibly allow anythi
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by foldr 6mo ago
That's far from trivial in Rust because of 'unsafe' blocks. There are approaches to verifying unsafe code in Rust, but formally verifying a Rust program is still likely to be significantly more complex than formally verifying
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by foldr 6mo ago
People also immigrate in the other direction. And more generally, it obviously happens sometimes that people move from one country to another with a lower average quality of life.
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by foldr 6mo ago
Totally fair that you prefer JLC's approach. There's clearly room in the market for different models. Part substitution is mainly a question of trust. As far as I understand it, you preorder parts through JLC's website, so JL
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by foldr 6mo ago
Ah yeah, maybe it's easier than they make it seem, but I've found PCBWay preferable for small batch assembly because they just take a list of MPNs and give you back a quote, which is the service that I really want. Preordering etc
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by foldr 6mo ago
Does JLC now easily allow you to use any component that’s available from LCSC? Last time I checked, there was only a limited component library available for the standard assembly process.
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by foldr 6mo ago
It’s just an analogy. I can understand if you don’t think the analogy lands, but it hardly seems grounds for doubting good faith. And err, yes, not everyone is billed for water or electricity on the same terms as private homes. >This is
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by foldr 6mo ago
I guess to me this seems a bit like saying that free markets are the default setting. We’re not in some kind of perfect state of nature. We’re in a complex interconnected society where virtually everything of any importance is regulated to
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by foldr 6mo ago
What would be the model of a country with stronger net neutrality laws? I think EU regulations are now a touch stronger than UK regulations due to post-Brexit divergence, but by world standards, the UK has strong net neutrality protections.
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by foldr 6mo ago
It doesn't meet a perfect theoretical definition of net neutrality, but it's a set of defined legal limits on the extent to which providers can treat different kinds of traffic differently.
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by foldr 6mo ago
There aren't anywhere near enough British nurses for the NHS to use only British nurses. Can you point to a credible long term plan to change that situation? That's what you'd do if you had a goal beyond just stirring up unju
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by foldr 6mo ago
> That should be always supremely easy and never contain work But bills?
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by foldr 6mo ago
You know that the NHS crucially depends on immigrant doctors and nurses and that their contribution is overwhelmingly positive. Your original comment was a completely transparent attempt to derail the discussion with a single cherry picked

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