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by gerikson 7y ago
> Many lenses from the 80s/90s hold their own compared to modern designs Possibly in tele designs. There's been a ton of progress in wide-angle designs, and in fast normal lenses. Of course these come at the price of expense an
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by gerikson 7y ago
Waugh is one of the funniest writers in the English language. I highly recommend his "Sword of Honour" trilogy.
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by gerikson 7y ago
I love that to be able to take these images he uses a digital camera + software (the pole tracker)
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by gerikson 7y ago
The site I’ve found to have good info about this (including lenses) is lonelyspeck.com
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by gerikson 7y ago
I agree, I've resorted to writing Perl to generate the tables in some cases.
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by gerikson 7y ago
I mean, when I did have to make them I used dvips ... but that was a long time ago. And tables in LaTeX are no joke either.
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by gerikson 7y ago
I use pinboard.in for bookmarking, and Simplenote for private stuff, OneNote for work.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> How do you make PDFs? I don't :D
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by gerikson 7y ago
I just ”shell out” to HTML for tables.
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by gerikson 7y ago
> Unfortunately, most bodies of law have amassed a huge amount of technical debt, and nobody seems interested in solving it. That's because law professionals make a very good living by dealing with the technical debt - a bit like th
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by gerikson 7y ago
8" disks were like 5.25" - a plastic disk inside a plastic envelope. I did work experience at a printer in the mid 80s, and their photosetting machine used 8" floppies.
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by gerikson 7y ago
MS Teams can blur the background on video.
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by gerikson 7y ago
I'm a Perl fan, and I'll be the first to admit that something about Perl makes it easier to write idiosyncratic code that the writer understands, but the maintainer may not. The almost fanatical adherence to an official idiom one
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by gerikson 7y ago
Perl was probably culturally influential - scripting glue - but as a language it's almost uniquely eclectic. There are influences from all over, mostly shell and AWK but also from functional languages.
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by gerikson 7y ago
"_" has been an option to separate digits in Perl for ages. I use it all the time if the integer is >10,000
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by gerikson 7y ago
Philip Hazel (author and maintainer of the Exim mailer) has written a memoir where is discusses writing a program for typesetting music. It's well worth reading for that and other fascinating stuff: [pdf link]( https://drive.
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by gerikson 7y ago
Was Modern Series 7 compatible with the 4-line system? The thesis seems to imply the 4-line system and Times New Roman Series 569 were linked. (page 13 compares hand-set Series 7 with 4-line set Series 569).
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by gerikson 7y ago
The author won a Monotype Foundation scholarship on the basis of this dissertation http://ultrasparky.org/work/experience.html
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by gerikson 7y ago
I wonder if that's where Gibson got the term "the Jackpot" for the slow-motion catastrophe that overtakes future Earth in The Peripheral .
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by gerikson 7y ago
Most loans are against tangible, reposseable assets, or against future income streams. A bank that just handed out loans without commensurate interest rates to avoid the risk of default would quickly go out of business.
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by gerikson 7y ago
Anyone can write an open letter. Whether somone acts on that is another matter.
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by gerikson 7y ago
If we’re looking at a situation like the Great Depression, we might have deflation. In that case your dollars will buy more and more as prices fall.
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by gerikson 7y ago
SAS is furloughing 10K employees.
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by gerikson 7y ago
In my opinion: the latter.
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by gerikson 7y ago
The area is now, and was then, densely populated. Here's an article (in Swedish) about the roads in Skåne. Covers a long period. https://www.sydsvenskan.se/2017-03-25/alla-landsvagar-bar-ti... Malmö was even then
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by gerikson 7y ago
The area around Bornholm (Skåne, Denmark, Germany/Prussia) has some of the best agricultural lands in Europe. The roads were just fine.
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by gerikson 7y ago
That was a pretty amazing death scene.
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DangKiller: Eliminating Dangling Pointers Efficiently via Implicit Identifier(arxiv.org)
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by gerikson 7y ago
According to Peter Norvig, you were half-way to Lisp using Python: https://norvig.com/python-lisp.html
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by gerikson 7y ago
This one comment managed to insult both K and Perl coders...

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