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by imagetic 6y ago
My last Mac Pro cost $3499. I did professional video work on it for 8 years. And now I can't justify / afford one. What a world.
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by imagetic 6y ago
Because the things we need don't sell for 1 billion?
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by imagetic 6y ago
I'll happily take a gmail alternative with custom domains and great spam filtering. I've yet to see anyone able to compete with how little I want to care about this topic. But it's going to be hard to pull people away from th
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by imagetic 6y ago
Good.
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by imagetic 6y ago
Communication of the open source community feels like it's down. Social media eventually killed forums and chat rooms. Social media if anything, made learning and discovering a more isolated experience. RSS isn't what it used to
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by imagetic 6y ago
+1 for backblaze B2.
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by imagetic 6y ago
I don't.
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Ask HN: Favorite Newsletter/Subcription Service
3 points by imagetic 6y ago|0 comments
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by imagetic 6y ago
that's what I was hoping for when I saw the headline!
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by imagetic 6y ago
There are actually quite a few professional and advanced-amateur photographers on HN. A lot are from the generation that had to make their own websites to self publish, hack apart wordpress for client sites, and were part of the old photobl
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by imagetic 6y ago
I have a 46MP DSLR as my primary camera. All small sensor camera photos look awful in comparison especially at full zoom. If nobody views anything larger than their phone screens and Instagram feeds, that level of detail is irrelevant. The
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by imagetic 6y ago
Correct. Good enough to the average eye to escape hiring someone.
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by imagetic 6y ago
"The best camera is the one you have with you." - Unknown Photographer here. Cell phones have become very capable cameras. I've seen whole segments of my client list evaporate with the last generation of camera phones. The
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by imagetic 6y ago
+1 for a static site generator with GitHub + Netlify. Even manual deployment to Netlify is enough for most needs. Just drag the public folder in and you're done. It's an automagical experience. I am actually in process of moving
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by imagetic 6y ago
I did the same, and then it really just wasn't a great tool. And backing out of a fully populated Google Drive was a complex process.
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by imagetic 6y ago
and isn't the death of the traditional blog just linked to the death of the personal website?
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by imagetic 6y ago
Why don't we have a modern, laymen version, universal replacement for RSS? The hurdle with RSS at the end of it's popularity is it required a special tool to subscribe, and a little technical knowledge to make sense of it all. My
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Patagonia, Quick to Close, Could Be Last to Reopen(nytimes.com)
7 points by imagetic 6y ago|1 comments
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by imagetic 6y ago
I have been loving Firefox for the last year. The only shortcoming for me is that video playback and animation playback (svg/js) is highly CPU intensive in comparison to Safari/Chrome. I basically open Chrome to watch any videos
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by imagetic 6y ago
I would agree. The old reds were far more along the lines of what Red Pro is now in terms of reliability.
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by imagetic 7y ago
I love my iPhone SE. I'd buy two to horde them if that was an option. Not particularly excited about having to move up a size.
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by imagetic 7y ago
That's a good question! https://community.anovaculinary.com/t/sous-vide-a-face-mask-...
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by imagetic 7y ago
meaning it's not tested against the actual virus. He is a materials scientist, the one who invented the process we use for n95 rated materials.
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Performance, Protection, and Sterilization of Face Mask Materials(utrf.tennessee.edu)
80 points by imagetic 7y ago|27 comments
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Furloughs, layoffs and print reductions at newspapers across North America(poynter.org)
1 points by imagetic 7y ago|0 comments
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Max Brooks: How the Government Can Mobilize in a Pandemic(npr.org)
2 points by imagetic 7y ago|0 comments
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SF Chronicle: United in Isolation(projects.sfchronicle.com)
1 points by imagetic 7y ago|0 comments
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by imagetic 7y ago
https://factcheck.afp.com/chloroquine-has-not-been-approved-...
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by imagetic 7y ago
well, as far as my neighborhood is concerned, their fiber is down. But on fiber, if I set my wifi to use a different DNS, half the internet works. Namely Google/Gmail. Most websites are still down.
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by imagetic 7y ago
While I completely agree. I think the author could have made a much stronger argument. And whenever I try canned fish from Europe, it's far better than the American brand.

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