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by m000 6y ago
Phones are designed with the implicit assumption that they offer you more storage than you'll ever need. If you start shooting RAW, this assumption crumbles very quickly.
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by m000 6y ago
> a modern camera along the lines of old Leicas Fujifilm X series. X-100F currently retails for $1000. You can get the (still fantastic) X-100T for around $500 refurb.
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by m000 7y ago
I'd bet that any "privileges" faxes might had stem from the fact that they were automatically printed. This makes life a lot easier in a paper-backed office, so they made it a requirement to fax any "formal" communi
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by m000 7y ago
You also don't get a free pass to cry bloody murder after resisting all market regulation efforts and then having your ass handed to you by Jeff Bezos.
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by m000 7y ago
That piece of advice was probably valid in the 1970s: The computers were far too slow and far too expensive for any kind of random testing to make sense. Fuzzing became popular when multi-core CPUs became commonplace and RAM more affordable
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by m000 7y ago
You got it all wrong. You can wear a rain poncho when it rains. But you can't carry an A/C to cycle through the Greek summer (33C+). Plus, rainy weather can be predicted pretty accurately with some investment. NL/BE have real
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by m000 7y ago
Fines are not a solution. When you hear about fines, it is typically some government trying to save face on the media: - The collected fine will not be used to undo the damage to the market/competitors. - The fine won't ever exc
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by m000 7y ago
The objective is not fairness among companies. The objective is to keep the market competitive for the benefit of the consumers. If you can afford a 5 year lease on a slot you won't actively use, you're still stifling the competit
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by m000 7y ago
Time Machine is the Internet Explorer of backup software. Change my mind.
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by m000 7y ago
> Just go look how many people on the street are wearing watches. Uhhhmmm... Not many? And those who wear, it's either an apple watch or some cheap utilitarian model. > I'd love to have access to great watches for a lower pr
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by m000 7y ago
This was a redeeming article for me. I remember volunteering with a friend to update our university department's website back in 1997. The budget for that was 0, so volunteering sophomores like us was the best they could get. The resul
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by m000 7y ago
20 keys? Is this some kind of joke? Here's the real deal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15375892
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by m000 7y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Ansible's only dependency Python, which is already installed on 99% of linux distros? It may drag some extra python packages but those can be contained in a virtualenv to avoid bloating the
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by m000 7y ago
> A US-Iran war would almost certainly result in a democratic Iran Could you kindly remind us when was the last time USA successfully exported democracy with a war?
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by m000 7y ago
Oh those nasty authoritarians! IMHO, that's a pretty narrow point of view, reminiscent of cold-war rhetoric. There's a 2016 documentary called Black Code [1] on the weaponization of the internet. While the documentary also focuses
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by m000 7y ago
> Morally, the only fault I can say on the maintainer's behavior is a lack of transparency. Totally agree with that. The maintainer seems to have made very little effort to get compensated for his work. It would surely be nice if so
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by m000 7y ago
I strongly disliked the puzzles that quickly devolved to correctly handling a ton of corner cases. 15 and 17 were both in this category. What's the fun in that? This is like the boring part of being a developer. Without the payment tha
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by m000 7y ago
In fact I have written more than one DIY static site generators for small sites in the distant past. The bottom line of my experience was: they don't worth the effort. You will start missing features sooner than you think, and it will
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by m000 7y ago
I don't want to bash or put down anyone, but frankly I don't see any point with Makesite.py. But, why do we have a toy project that openly admits that it reinvents the wheel on the first page of HN? Makesite.py is "sold"
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by m000 7y ago
Which proves the point of @markgall.
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by m000 7y ago
I was pretty sure I got 64bit warnings for both of them fairly recently. But looking at the binaries now, they're both 64bit indeed. Still, I'm running both using a site license from my work. The upgrade cost per user in site lice
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by m000 7y ago
Now, if you only had a way to actually get your fair share of those billions...
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by m000 7y ago
> No, it isn't. Well, let's see. My main 3 purchase locations are Steam, Humble Bundle and GOG.com. I'd guess this is fairly typical, but anyone using other platforms feel free to add yours. Steam: The Steam client is st
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by m000 7y ago
Dropping 32bit support is game-over for gaming on macOS. The numbers already didn't add up for indie developers [1]. Even AAA game developers often ignore macOS because the ROI is just too low. And from the $5/month subscription
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by m000 7y ago
> I've had to use Pages instead of Word and can't use Adobe products anymore And this "doesn't seem too bad"? These are the industry standards for productivity. Pages on the other hand is only good for throw-aw
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by m000 7y ago
Mopeds have already been banned from bicycle paths [1]. Reportedly scooter-related accidents went down from 53 in 2018 to 10 in 2019 [2]. Finally, for e-scooters the situation is more complicated/fluid [3]. Only approved models are all
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by m000 7y ago
DailyMotion can be a strategic asset for a country like France. E.g. if they project a steep decline of broadcast TV and a YouTube monopoly, having a French-controlled video streaming alternative laying around may become important in the ca
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by m000 7y ago
Does it really have to do with receiving money from state-related funds? It's not unusual for a government to stop foreign acquisition of companies they consider a strategic asset for the country. E.g. Donald Trump recently rejected th
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by m000 7y ago
Yeah, you're not very good at reading. What part of "thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production company that invested in it" did you miss? Would "box office flop" even exist as a term if t
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by m000 7y ago
"In the film and media industry, if a film released in theatres fails to break even by a large amount, it is considered a box office bomb (or box office flop), thus losing money for the distributor, studio, and/or production compa

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