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by lytfyre 4y ago
The state of dedicated film scanning is so bad these days, especially for larger than 35mm formats that it seems most people still shooting film are resorting to using a digital camera and a macro lens with something to hold the film. Seems
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by lytfyre 4y ago
I'll take a crack at a personal answer to this: I'm in my mid 30's, and have been into photography since my early teens, but photography was digital from the start for me. I've sold and exhibited my work, but it's a
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by lytfyre 4y ago
The remains of Kodak does make film today, albeit in fewer varieties than they once did, and with far less production capacity. Any yes, people are all over it to the point that the most popular varieties can be difficult to find in stock,
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by lytfyre 4y ago
That's understating the difference - Megapro sell for significantly less than that in practice - pricing here in Canada is in the 30 CAD$ range from tool stores, depending on bit selection. The LTT driver is 3-4x the price once shippi
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by lytfyre 5y ago
Another vouch for Salmon and Bannock. Mr. Bannock is a North Vancouver food truck, often does some interesting fusion things. Kukum Kitchen in Toronto seems to have closed over the pandemic, but I previously enjoyed their food, and their we
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by lytfyre 5y ago
The BC covid passport verifier apps are open source - https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-Android and https://github.com/bcgov/BCVAX-iOS respectively. There is no "user" passport app - the BC
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by lytfyre 5y ago
Ahh, hobbyking. I used to order RC and electronics stuff from them, back before off the shelf drones became common enough that regulations ramped way up. Their checkout pipeline used to have a drop-down box for what percent of the orders va
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by lytfyre 6y ago
Shodan - a search tool for such things - had a pretty incredible approach to attacking this - they quietly provided most of the ipv6 hosts to pool.ntp.org, which is widely used as a linux default - and would queue a portscan up for any devi
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by lytfyre 6y ago
Appears to have been at least initially cancelled back in March, initially until the end of April - https://www.vicnews.com/news/harbour-air-cancels-all-seattle... . I haven't seen any announcement of them resuming
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by lytfyre 6y ago
Looking at their website, Harbour has actually cancelled their usual Vancouver/Seattle flights due to Covid - they don't seem to be running cross border at all right now.
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by lytfyre 6y ago
> I can't think of many stand-out moments in it To me, the `La Marseillaise` scene[1] is incredibly powerful. The crowd trying to out-sing the German soldiers with the French national anthem, and the sheer raw emotion of the scene.
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by lytfyre 6y ago
A few years ago I did probably the same dive, just off the big island. Sharks and whales are both _impressive_, but they don't have the sheer alien grace about them and their movement. It remains one of the most fantastic experiences I
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by lytfyre 7y ago
It kind of looks like it, but really isn't, in function or in result, if you try one out.
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by lytfyre 7y ago
Very much a personal preference / tastes may vary for of thing. If you're used to French press, you'll be used to the oils being part of the taste/mouthfeel experience of coffee, whereas coming from pourover (or the conv
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by lytfyre 7y ago
IIRC when Yegge accidentally posted that rant, the entirety of Amazon corp got IP banned from Hacker News from _everyone_ rushing to view and comment.
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by lytfyre 7y ago
Another really interesting figure from that article: > 3,500 people are slinging seedlings into soil [...] > punching about 80 baby trees a second That works out to about 1.3 minutes of work per tree planted. They do note that it&#x2
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by lytfyre 7y ago
There _are_ security systems that stream a lower bandwidth zoomed out stream to clients reviewing footage, then sub in the full resolution version of the region being viewed when you zoom in, as a bandwidth savings mechanism - multiple 30Mp
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by lytfyre 7y ago
You might be interested in https://response.pagerduty.com/ , PagerDuty's major incident response process documentation - a good starting point for that red binder. Having been in the ringmasters seat for major incidents
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by lytfyre 8y ago
"Software" might be a bit too broad a brush? Embedded development, or stuff that ships and runs on customer premise don't tend to involve oncall, while SaaS or internal services are more likely to.
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by lytfyre 8y ago
Not that it's a consequential distinction for your argument, but for those liking it and wanting a cheaper alternative, WhistlePig's standard 10 year and 15 year straight rye is not MGP, it's Alberta Premium. Their 12 year ol
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by lytfyre 9y ago
Along similar lines, there's a famous Canadian case where a farmer scratched a will into the fender of his tractor when got trapped under it - http://news.usask.ca/archived_ocn/09-jan-23/see_what_we_foun...
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by lytfyre 9y ago
Its harder to recommend a second step pen, as it depends more on personal taste. There's two facets to what you get as you step up the price ranges - fancier nibs, and fancier bodies. Fancier bodies is almost entirely a style thing - i
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by lytfyre 9y ago
I'd suggest trying out the Pilot Metropolitan, in a Medium nib. It's not an _Amazing_ pen, but it's got a nice solid brass body, the quality control is very consistent), it's a nice consistent writer, and they sell on Am
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by lytfyre 9y ago
Still need to take the i7 to get 16GB of RAM. I really appreciate that even the base spec, touch-bar less MBP can be fully loaded out with memory.
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by lytfyre 10y ago
Neither are really known for their padlocks, and they're both pretty hard to find at retail - at least in North America. for a reasonable priced lock (~$20) - I'd suggest American (probably the 1105) or one of Abus' mid level
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by lytfyre 10y ago
> Italy still makes the best espresso _machines_ such as Simonelli Even that I think they're losing ground on - Slayer or Synesso out of Seattle, or Mod Bar out of Indiana are pretty great, certainly right up there with any Simonel
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by lytfyre 10y ago
There are different styles of espresso, with roasters and barista optimizing for very different tastes - the Italian/Mediterranean style is one, the "third wave" style that's more prevalent on the North American west coa
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by lytfyre 11y ago
A pretty common approach (at least in Canada) is to use prefixes at intervals of 1000 - mm, m, km and then larger unit to one decimal for large values - 700m as 0.7km, 0.9l instead on 900ml, and so-on. you'll rarely see cl, dg, or hm u
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by lytfyre 11y ago
Yes, in Canada virtually every major bank issued debit or credit card for the last several years has supported NFC. There's different branding depending on the card - Interac Flash (debit), visa paywave, etc. But all use the same termi
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by lytfyre 11y ago
I converted an old DSLR to a dedicated IR camera a number of years ago - used a filter from lifepixel. Opening the cameras up is relatively straightforward, and it's far more convenient, as you can view through the viewfinder while com

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