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by jbarham 9y ago
With a bit of effort it's possible to create very nice images without doing any post-processing. See e.g. the book "In Camera" by Camera Labs editor Gordon Laing ( https://www.cameralabs.com/in-camera/ ).
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Gorbachev was evidently very impressed by Canadian supermarkets in 1983: "Gorbachev first visited Canada in 1983 when he was the member of the Soviet Politburo responsible for state agriculture. Gorbachev toured successful commercial f
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by jbarham 9y ago
> No one can beat an Arabian in a quick sprint Quarter Horses are faster than thoroughbreds over short distances (i.e., up to 1/4 mile, hence the name).
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by jbarham 9y ago
See https://research.swtch.com/qart by Russ Cox
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by jbarham 9y ago
In that comment you say "RISC-V is thrown around like if it's an already working CPU but it is not" which is false since there are multiple existing, functioning RISC-V implementations in silicon ( https://www.sifiv
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> You don't need to be completely tied to ARM. The point is that if you want to use the ARM ISA you have to pay ARM. Not so with RISC-V. Anyone is free to fab a RISC-V chip without paying royalties.
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by jbarham 9y ago
The Freedom E310 chip in the HiFive1 board is shipping today and is already competitive with embedded ARM: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1/#comparisons . It's comically faster (i.e., 100x) than the
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by jbarham 9y ago
Relevant article: http://makezine.com/2017/05/03/sifive-brings-open-source-to-...
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by jbarham 9y ago
FWIW Olympus already provides in-camera shot stacking for night shots in its Micro Four Thirds cameras via their "live composite" mode. See http://www.duford.com/2016/08/explaining-olympus-live-compos...
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> Low light performance is also critical for nature and landscape photographers who mostly shoot pre dawn and during sunset. Actually, landscape photographers care more about resolution and dynamic range than low light performance since
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by jbarham 10y ago
Particle ( https://www.particle.io/ ), formerly Spark Core, does exactly this. It's great.
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> Can someone explain how pensions are calculated? How do they get so high? It's based on peak earnings, including overtime : http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/20/california-public-employee... So natura
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by jbarham 10y ago
I really hope the bit about "free machine-powered psychologists" is satire, but given YC's unironic techno utopianism fear that it is not. Reading "Computer Power and Human Reason" by Joseph Weizenbaum (published ov
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by jbarham 10y ago
Yeah, I noticed that David Presotto, another major Plan 9 developer, is contributor #4.
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by jbarham 10y ago
> If you believe that H1-B employees are abused... Of course that would never happen. All American business executives and outsourcing agencies only act with unimpeachable integrity and the highest ethical standards. (Wait, what is the o
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by jbarham 10y ago
> Software developers have incredible leverage right now, perhaps more than any cohort of employees in the country Hah hah, very cute. A trivial proof that this claim is false: H-1B. Indentured H-1B visa workers have absolutely zero leve
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by jbarham 10y ago
Nikon has never been a contender in video. Canon has but it's ceding a lot of ground to Panasonic (GH4/GH5) and Sony (A7S) in 4K video as it doesn't want to cannibalize sales of its much more expensive video cameras.
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by jbarham 10y ago
The DPR review of the Yi MFT camera is not pretty: https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/yi-m1/7 The main complaint is that it has very poor autofocus ("unusable" in continuous and video modes). Good autofocu
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by jbarham 10y ago
Do what I did six years ago: Marry an Australian and leave the US. I now pay AU $350/month for private medical insurance for my family of five, in addition to being able to access Australia's world-class public Medicare medical sy
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by jbarham 10y ago
I sold my MacBook Air a year ago and don't really miss it. I do my day-to-day development work on a very small Lenovo desktop PC running Ubuntu connected to two Dell 23" IPS screens. It's fast, silent and cheap & easy to
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by jbarham 10y ago
For the record: https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
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by jbarham 10y ago
Even better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Transat_Flight_236
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by jbarham 10y ago
I live in Melbourne, Australia, and pay $350/month for supplementary private health insurance for my family of five with three kids under ten. (All Australians of course have free access to the public Medicare health care system.) Last
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by jbarham 10y ago
This device is not made by Kodak. It's made by a British company called Bullitt Group that is licensing the Kodak name. Source: https://www.dpreview.com/news/7643905711/kodak-launches-ektr...
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by jbarham 10y ago
Fun fact: The digital camera was invented at Kodak (an American company) that has since gone bankrupt. Here is a list of Japanese companies that currently all make excellent digital cameras: * Canon * Nikon * Sony (which bought Koni
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by jbarham 10y ago
The entire finance industry has been saying this is a systemic risk since ZIRP was instituted in 2008 if the economy didn't achieve "takeoff velocity". Here we are eight years later still under ZIRP and even NIRP (which is co
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by jbarham 10y ago
Quoting from the article: "At some point investors – leery and indeed weary of receiving negative or near zero returns on their money, may at the margin desert the standard financial complex, for higher returning or better yet, less ri
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by jbarham 10y ago
Another famous example is Wordsworth's "Suprised by joy - impatient as the wind", c. 1800. See e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/sep/22/poem... for the poem and ex
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by jbarham 10y ago
FWIW Plan 9 uses what it calls a "notification" mechanism: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/2/notify
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by jbarham 10y ago
I've had the Pebble Time for about a year and really appreciate it. First, the fact that its "E-paper" display is always on means it works well as an old-fashioned watch so I can instantly tell the time. (I still find it craz

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