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by jfindley 7y ago
Apologies, I read too quickly and thought that the GP was referring to focus as well as exposure. The rest still applies, however.
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by jfindley 7y ago
Really? I think maybe you might be talking to quite a limited subset of photographers. Lots of landscape and architectural work is done fully manual for many reasons. Some of these are: 1) tilt-shift lenses are almost always manual only. 2)
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by jfindley 7y ago
I know we're veering somewhat off topic here, but I wonder how true this is in practice? I can't find a lot of testing done at this sort of speed with regular cars. Racing cars and some high-end sports cars are exceptionally stro
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by jfindley 7y ago
I very much enjoy the right to opt out of paying for the BBC, whose programming I no longer have any interest in watching. I'm extremely glad that it's not paid for by a compulsory tax.
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by jfindley 7y ago
Yep. I've found the dissonance here particularly jarring - collective shrug when Apple hides the URL, but if Google does so we get huge outrage and assumptions that this must clearly be done primarily for malicious reasons. I know it&
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by jfindley 7y ago
I've used https://www.paperspace.com/ in the past, and they seem reasonable. They're cheaper than AWS but I don't know how they compare to hetzner.
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by jfindley 7y ago
Given the description of the videos in the article, I'm not sure that merely paying the moderators more would solve it. I think for most people that I'd want to be moderating content (e.g. not sociopaths) making them richer isn&#x
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by jfindley 7y ago
I don't think I am. I can certainly understand that it's doubly frustrating when after all the explanations you still don't get an answer - but there's a couple of further issues with your point specifically. As has be
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by jfindley 7y ago
Sure, there are cases where seemingly-ridiculous things are actually needed. Where a lot of people commenting on this article are failing, though is thinking only about their needs and what they want. The people responding to your IRC mess
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by jfindley 7y ago
From the article: "In particular, [they] opposed proposals that would have forced them to be more transparent about their business models" Hm. It's not immediately clear to me why fake news regulation would require Google an
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by jfindley 7y ago
In the days of film photography this was an important issue - negative/slide film chemistry had a huge impact on the output of your work. I used to shoot a lot of Fuji Velvia due to its excellent contrast and reasonable resolving power
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Towards better vendor security assessments(blogs.dropbox.com)
1 points by jfindley 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfindley 8y ago
> Similarly, a low-energy scream in the montain can trigger a high-energy avalanche. While this is a popular myth, it's actually entirely false. You can shout and scream all you want - there's not enough energy transmitted to
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by jfindley 8y ago
I'm struggling to understand how fewer casual gamers buying consoles would impact indie developers. Could you expand on your point? Indie developers don't get a cut of console sales, but they do care about how many people buy&#x2
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by jfindley 8y ago
No. Plain text user passwords should never, in any circumstances, be entered into a search engine (which is what elasticsearch is). There is simply no possible excuse for this. There is no way this is elastic.co's fault, this is ent
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by jfindley 8y ago
There's a lot of politicians who have been very happy criticising every "what do we do now" proposal, without having any constructive alternatives. Even a general election wouldn't really help, as it would force MPs to
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by jfindley 8y ago
Could it, really? I know that nginx has some builtin load balancing, but unless it's vastly vastly changed in the past few years, it's still a LONG way behind haproxy for load balancing. nginx is an excellent high performance web
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by jfindley 8y ago
Is there any chance they have stumbled upon the same weakness that Bloomberg tried to report[0]? The industry at large has been pretty sceptical of Bloomberg's claims, and rightly so, but what if they just got the details wrong and it
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by jfindley 8y ago
Thanks! I'm not sure if you're involved in the Phippy project at all, but the way it's worded sounds to me a lot like the author believes that encoding == encryption, and I'd maybe consider just dropping that line entir
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by jfindley 8y ago
"secrets are base64 encoded at rest" Umm. I hope this is because the author of the slides doesn't understand even the basics of encryption and used the wrong words. If they are actually using base64 encoding in place of c
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by jfindley 8y ago
It's one of my least favourite things about vault as a product - it would have been technically feasible to not require unsealing for read-only operations, and thus not made a 2am restart a critical failure. I made a PoC once (I don&#
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by jfindley 8y ago
Okay, my other link turned out not to be London-specific, sorry about that, so by that metric it now looks like they're on a par, which is good news, as they didn't use to be, by my recollection. Certainly the comparative salary f
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by jfindley 8y ago
I'm not sure I find this convincing. There are lots and lots of skilled tech workers in the UK that want permanent roles, but the really good ones already have well paid jobs, usually either for the finance sector or with Google/
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by jfindley 8y ago
I am continually amazed at the cynical attempt by hiring managers to try to pretend that the laws of supply and demand shouldn't apply to non-exec level staff. If you can't hire the people you want for what you're offering t
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Dropbox dropping support for most Linux filesystems(dropboxforum.com)
1 points by jfindley 8y ago|0 comments
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by jfindley 8y ago
For IPv4, at least, if you connect via 3/4g you're going to be behind CGNAT. Far as I'm aware, there are no mobile operators left that don't NAT IPv4 traffic. IPv6 is different, of course, but I'm uncertain how we
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by jfindley 8y ago
Isn't that likely to be the same as what people 90 years in the future will say about us, though?
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by jfindley 8y ago
How do you control for people's abstract desires not mapping well to what they actually want? Example to illustrate my point: Focus groups over the past 15 years or so have consistently told car mfrs that consumers want larger cars -
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by jfindley 8y ago
To hit their noise target they'll have substantially modified the gpu package to have much more passive cooling than normal for this gpu. Making that work in a way that allowed end-users to slot in another gpu from an off-the-shelf pa
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by jfindley 8y ago
So he spends what looks to have been a substantial amount of time carefully disassembling and commenting on the manufacturing processes and material quality of two speakers, without ever even looking at the actual speaker cones and housing

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