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by gkanai 5y ago
> When I upgraded my 2015 to Big Sur last year, it essentially became unusable because it ran so slowly. Thank you for this. I haven't upgraded to Big Sur and now I never will.
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by gkanai 5y ago
Look at the author of the piece: "Aya is an aspiring journalist who is into everything related to culture. A curious explorer and traveler, she graduated from the faculty of Arts with one mission in mind: experience everything. She is
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by gkanai 5y ago
Everyone in Japan knows this animated show.
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by gkanai 5y ago
obligatory link to the canonical Neal Stephenson article on undersea cables: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by gkanai 5y ago
> I should just be going to the bose.com store and cutting out amazon. There is one significant negative with going direct, which is the fact that online stores are often hacked. Amazon has yet to be hacked (afaik) so leaving your data w
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by gkanai 5y ago
I remember in the 90's there used to be a replacement bar for mountain bikes that was sort of like a long oval with one portion in the middle that, once installed, pointed forward. So it provided multiple new hand positions. I haven&#x
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Japanese Technology Shaped Dance Music – Attack Magazine(attackmagazine.com)
33 points by gkanai 5y ago|5 comments
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by gkanai 5y ago
Commercial pilot Juan Browne covers this on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ph7OR6C90w
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by gkanai 5y ago
This is why I choose not to purchase streaming services (at least for music.) I buy the tracks I want on CD or vinyl or download.
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by gkanai 6y ago
[Lady] "Gaga singing into the wrong side of a $20k microphone live on 3 networks is the single greatest example of the importance of audio engineers there may ever be." https://www.instagram.com/p/B_JHzRsFnIA&
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by gkanai 6y ago
C800G is no longer for sale by Sony. Famously used by Mariah Carey.
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by gkanai 6y ago
Beam CEO Yinan Du is the same guy who was CEO of Groupon clone in China, 24quan who's company did not pay wages and debts before it's eventual bankruptcy. https://www.techinasia.com/tag/24quan https:/&#
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Margaret Mitchell fired from Google(axios.com)
302 points by gkanai 6y ago|801 comments
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by gkanai 6y ago
> A bad actor could create a really good open source library or package, wait for everyone to use it and then introduce malware into it. This often happens with Chrome browser extensions that change hands and the new owner then injects m
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by gkanai 6y ago
> AWS and Visa feel like the former, though they are legally the latter. Back in the day, you had to rack your own servers in your own data centers and manage them yourself. Had any of these 'free speech' services spent any tim
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by gkanai 6y ago
One issue you did not address in your otherwise solid article is the issue of audio sync latency IF you don't pass your audio via the camera's HDMI. This becomes an issue when you decide to use a nice mic/audio interface for
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by gkanai 6y ago
> it's truly a shame we can't get clean/raw video out of a modern smart phone. https://petapixel.com/2020/09/09/filmic-pro-update-adds-clea...
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by gkanai 6y ago
> not that reasonable in Tokyo It depends on which part of the 23 wards of Tokyo you refer to. Central Tokyo, yes, it can be expensive, close to Manhattan rents. But farther outside of central Tokyo, you can get very reasonable rents. An
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by gkanai 6y ago
Yes- it is a joint development with BMW, who developed the engine. So if you want a hardtop, get the Supra, if you want a convertible, BMW sells the same vehicle as the Z4.
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by gkanai 6y ago
> I'm surprised the US allowed this, Boston Dynamics seems like the sort of company they would keep close to home. South Korea is a treaty ally with the US. The US has thousands of soldiers at bases in S. Korea. S. Korea is not a co
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by gkanai 6y ago
It should be illegal to use "own" in an online service if that is not true- if you can't download the content and keep it.
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by gkanai 6y ago
I was an Adobe customer for decades. I stopped when they went subscription and NEVER plan to buy anything from them EVER again.
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by gkanai 6y ago
We, the users of Google's services, are not Google's customers, even though we think we are. The advertisers are google's customers. So when you reassess the 'relationship' this way, Google abusing users is totally
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by gkanai 6y ago
why not just have the glass replaced?
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by gkanai 6y ago
This short story was recently mentioned when Kara Swisher interviewed Elon Musk in the NYT. I hadn't heard about this story before so it registered for me. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/opinion/
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by gkanai 6y ago
I thought it was crazy to read a huge article on space junk and no reference to Planetes.
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by gkanai 6y ago
This was a great read! Highly recommended.
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by gkanai 6y ago
There has never been a great mouse from Apple, except maybe the old Apple II mouse. The hockey puck mouse was terrible. This mouse was terrible. How they were selected to go to production says a lot about Apple's blind sides wrt usabil
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by gkanai 6y ago
Don't forget Neal Stephenson's classic, "Mother Earth, Mother Board." 25 years old but still relevant. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by gkanai 6y ago
So 'holocracy' is a failure, alongside with Hsieh's fever dream of revitalizing downtown Las Vegas. Holocray was always a creepy idea to me.

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