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by hug 9y ago
Anecdotally, my experience with Bluetooth headphones is that they’re easier. I don’t have to do anything more complicated than you do — if I turn on my Bluetooth headphones in range of my computer, they connect. If I turn them on in range o
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by hug 9y ago
A word of warning: The 'clickpad' on the X240 is the most unpleasant piece of computing hardware I have ever had the displeasure to use. The clickpad has a ton of travel, and all of that travel is mushy. It sometimes doesn't
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by hug 9y ago
About the only camera that I know of that will currently saturate the bitdepth of a 14-bit ADC/RAW with DR at base ISO is a Sony A7S II, so right now, yeah, shooting in JPEG is the real issue. This will change in the next few years. If
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by hug 9y ago
The answer is the 500 rule. To avoid star trails, exposures should be less than 500/focal-length-in-135-equivalent. In other words, if he shot this on his 'favourite' Rokinon 24mm, an exposure time of 20 seconds is reasonable
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by hug 9y ago
ISO is not just software gain. On a lot of higher-end cameras (read: just about any ILC) there's a definite analog gain stage prior to ADC. Since there's a fixed level of sensor noise, when you increase the analog gain you decreas
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by hug 9y ago
You had it right the first time. ISO on most cameras is very much implemented via analog gain up to a certain point, beyond which "digital gain" is applied.
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by hug 9y ago
To satisfy your curiosity, he did not. The lens was borrowed from his workplace (a camera store) for the purpose of the video, and was returned unharmed. The creator of that video hangs around on /r/photography, his comment is her
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by hug 9y ago
LensRentals do all possible repairs internally, so I suspect that the downtime on an expensive lens like that is minimal if possible. Roger mentioned on the photography subreddit that the aperture replacement was a $200 part and 3 to 4 hour
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by hug 9y ago
I'm tempted to be pithy. I'm tempted to write something like "and that, of course, is why Microsoft as a company completely folded after the death of the desktop PC," but it wouldn't really be worth reading. On the
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by hug 9y ago
Anecdata: Office 365 will put you on an APAC CDN instead of an AU CDN if you use Google Public DNS from Australia, but not so if you use local ISP DNS (like, say, Telstra's).
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by hug 9y ago
In what world is Scott Aaronson, a professor whose primary research area is computational complexity, unrelated to a P=NP solution?
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by hug 9y ago
Maybe a silly question, but what is the issue with the ampersand?
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by hug 9y ago
> trying to convince the world they don't want meat via rational arguments is futile Of course it is, because it should be pretty obvious that they do want meat. If they didn't want meat you wouldn't be having the argumen
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by hug 9y ago
Not entirely. The students who were banned were those visiting from out of country so it's possible to argue that the students performance is increased by preventing them from being drug-tourists. Not sensible, but possible.
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by hug 9y ago
I could accomplish anything. Except, maybe, being an astronaut: I've aged myself out of that one. But who cares ? You might, but I don't. What I have accomplished and what I continue to accomplish and what I care about accomplish
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by hug 9y ago
Thank you for listening, and for thinking. No more, no less.
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by hug 9y ago
Just to clarify -- although I was hoping it would be conveyed by the tone and the flavour of my original post -- I don't have life problems. I also don't have a struggle to fulfill ambition: I passed the goal I set for myself at f
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by hug 9y ago
If you're ever in Melbourne, let me know. I'll buy you a beer, or your favourite non-alcoholic non-judgemental beverage of choice.
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by hug 9y ago
Have you ever gone twelve months drinking and eating only the exact, blandest food required to sustain your life? Have you ever gone twelve months spending time doing anything other than your favourite activity? Have you ever gone twelve mo
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by hug 9y ago
Would it be pithy to tell you, simply, that you're wrong? If it is, I'll expand: I'm thirty and change years old. I don't have children because I don't want them, because for all I know about myself I think I'd
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by hug 9y ago
Good for you. This is, to be honest, the best way to enjoy alcohol. It gives you the social-glue that you need to network, it gives you the social-relaxant that might deepen your interpersonal relationships, and it gives you all the fun and
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by hug 9y ago
From the bottom of my heart, thank you. I'll come clean: A lot of what I've been writing in this thread has been practice for writing in general. None of it is untrue, none of it is exaggerated, and none of it is even different in
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by hug 9y ago
Man, that sucks. Like really sucks. Not that you were self medicating -- that's probably, like, not the worst thing you could have done, all things considered -- but that you have ADD & bipolar. I hope that, despite the setbacks yo
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by hug 9y ago
I'm not going to go to an AA meeting. I don't need to go to an AA meeting. I'm glad you're the kind of guy who is looking to give people advice so that they can be their best, but this isn't one of those situations
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by hug 9y ago
Mistakes aren't always regrets.
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by hug 9y ago
I don't really want to offer unsolicited advice to a stranger on the Internet. That's not my place and it's not me. But it sounds like you're telling me that you're not okay with your drinking, and maybe you haven&#
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by hug 9y ago
My grandparent post is talking about a man greater than I can ever expect to be, and all of the great things he achieved. Oh and also he drank his own volume in alcohol a week and smoked enough cigars to keep a tobacco plantation in busines
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by hug 9y ago
I don't know you and you don't know me, despite the fact that you say we're in the same boat, but it sounds to me like you're saying you really think it's time to start bailing. I hope by the same boat you just mean
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by hug 9y ago
Who said I only drank four beers a day? I said I exceeded that mark, I didn't say I aimed for it. That said, the definition of a "standard drink" is, in the United States, any drink containing 14g of alcohol. And while neithe
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by hug 9y ago
Thirty. Old enough that by now I should probably know better, but old enough to know that if I haven't learned by now, I probably never will.

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