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by la_barba 7y ago
There are number of reasons as you can imagine. Those lenses would be enormous (think 10lb lens + camera). It is very difficult to manufacture large lenses (with high quality), requiring a complete change in the tooling. It would also be la
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by la_barba 7y ago
That's not really accurate. You can't 'remove' optical flaws, but they can be masked - to an extent. Correcting for those flaws via software isn't 'free', you can only do it at the expense of image quality
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by la_barba 7y ago
Given the insane advantage today's lens designers have in terms of materials, coatings, lens simulators, etc it is becoming harder and harder to design a bad lens. Maybe you just have a manufacturing defect in yours?
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by la_barba 7y ago
All they mean is that medium format cameras are perceived to be slow, while 'mirrorless' cameras are not. Its no different than people thinking "AMD chips run hot" when that hasn't been true for years. There is a lo
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by la_barba 7y ago
Assuming equal resolution (i.e. not equal pixel size), the nice thing about moving to medium format sensors from full frame is that it relaxes the tolerances required to create high quality lenses as far as optical quality is concerned. But
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by la_barba 7y ago
Under the hood, there is already a very very long list covering those 35 years.. virtual memory, pre-emptive multitasking, micro kernels, mandatory and discretionary access control, advancements in file systems, system administration, etc,
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by la_barba 7y ago
Isn't LoC an outdated metric for... pretty much anything? Without context, the LoC doesn't really tell us anything. Also is this code that was simply added, or just moved over from somewhere else? We need more information!!
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by la_barba 7y ago
They want you to go to all websites through them, instead of typing the URL. Basically use them as a combined bookmark/history/web search. I admit, its a very nice convenience.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Maybe in the future it will become a giant link-farm. Google is slowly becoming the kind of site they used to ban from their own search results not too long ago.
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by la_barba 7y ago
They also reward click-bait material with more ad-revenue making it more likely that people produce such content.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Without knowing who the audience is, its not very responsible to recommend people do certain kinds of training for "fixing" physiological issues. If you have access to medical services, please make sure to get an evaluation done b
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by la_barba 7y ago
Apple still makes very good products, but they're starting to move away from differentiators that made them successful over others. A lot of computing products are what I'd call "engineered to fail". In that, the design
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by la_barba 7y ago
I guess "hacker" doesn't really mean what it used to mean. I thought it used to mean people who are curious and like to tinker. Maybe it now means "busy people who have no time to actually tinker but like the idea of tin
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by la_barba 7y ago
The exact ratio could be argued, but there are customers with varying levels of familiarity with computing tech. Calling people "wrong" is just plain silly.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I don't agree. There should be no copyright claim or other legal protection status possible on public domain information. That is not the same as saying Google should be forced to hand it over. I'm talking about crawling their web
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by la_barba 7y ago
They mentioned Malta but they were responding to a comment that was made in a general context. There are benefits to having a regulated taxi system. Saying that unless those benefits are realized at every single place on earth, they don&#x2
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by la_barba 7y ago
Its easy to be and stay principled when you're not the victim.
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by la_barba 7y ago
The other moat is that Google will blacklist you if you try to scrap public domain information like operating hours from google maps.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, many modern UIs are anti-UX dark-patterns of past.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Do you have links to example 3D UIs that you're talking about?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Taxi's are not allowed to price gouge, they also cannot refuse you service, etc, etc. I don't see that as a bad thing.
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by la_barba 7y ago
There is another problem, that software developers in general hate maintenance work. People should be working on keeping existing stuff working and well-oiled. We want exciting work where we get to learn some new tech. Nobody wants the jani
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by la_barba 7y ago
What is your alternative that the world can switch to without an enormous cost? Utopias are fun to think about, but I am skeptical if flawed humans could ever produce one.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Yes, months of uptime === no updating. The 'months' part was just to show that Windows10 doesn't necessarily suck for every single person. I'm quite happy with it, but I'm happy with Ubuntu and W7 and OSX too. I ha
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by la_barba 7y ago
Well.. everyone thinks "basic desktop user" to mean different things. The problem is I don't think there is such thing as an average user. Every workplace is domain-specific, and domain specific software is simply a tool to g
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by la_barba 7y ago
Depends on if you're a technical user or just a casual user. There is a ton of difference under the hood. I appreciate the new security features like LSA protection, hardening of the heap, improved ASLR, etc.
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by la_barba 7y ago
Just as another anecdote to yours, I regularly get months of uptime with my Windows 10 dev box. Its been nothing but rock solid for me (so was 7 and 8 before that).
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by la_barba 7y ago
Can an author typeset their work using the EPUB format?
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by la_barba 7y ago
Ah.. okay. I didn't know that. Yes that makes sense now that I think about it. They wont be able to do a full sequencing at their current price.
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by la_barba 7y ago
I'm not an expert but AFAIK VCF isn't "raw" data. Raw data would be the output of a sequencer (fastq) which would be several gigabytes. I recently processed raw data from sequencing a tiny virus (~20k base pairs) and it

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