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by michrassena 5y ago
What you're saying starting with Leica, and then "Nikon came along" is at the root of my comments about this article. There are more than 40 years of innovation between the ur-Leica in 1914 and the Nikon F. For a famous examp
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by michrassena 5y ago
Definitely the rangefinders were more compact, but they didn't have through-the-lens viewing. What I meant to point out was the progression of smaller-sized SLR bodies and film formats, the Nikon F being a later development on that pat
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by michrassena 5y ago
You're right in that the Graflex SLRs were first, and certainly intended for professionals. It was the compactness of the 35mm SLR which seemed revolutionary. But it reality it was evolutionary, there were several series of SLRs for 12
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by michrassena 5y ago
Rather than buy some all-in-one 3D-printed camera, if you live in the United States, Graflex press cameras are relatively cheap and abundant. Expect to pay $200 with a 135mm lens, maybe a little more with a few film holders. These cameras d
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by michrassena 5y ago
I believe "revision" is used in British English to mean reviewing or studying.
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by michrassena 5y ago
Yeah, there's definitely some Giorgio Moroder vibes in there.
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by michrassena 5y ago
I have sort of an affinity for the Argus C3 as the anti-Leica, as the best epitome of the American anti-elitist, everyman-ism. Not too long ago easily, and today with judicious shopping, $100 could net you the camera and the 35mm, 50mm and
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by michrassena 5y ago
This is probably what I find most frustrating about the way things are done now. I'd really like to get some idea of how these cloud services work. Every time I'm stopped by the concern that I'd rack up a huge bill and have t
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by michrassena 5y ago
I think it more likely that Microsoft continues the ABI-hosting of Linux like it is currently with WSL. It doesn't make sense for them to use third-party kernel when the one they have works well enough and supports a long legacy of har
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by michrassena 5y ago
I've never understood the criticism of the registry. The only times I've ever had an issue with it were when there were RAM or disk problems with the computer. On Windows there's nothing at all stopping developers of standard
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by michrassena 5y ago
To add to the sibling comment, it is real. But it's more about the field of view of the lens and the depth of field. As pointed out the light doesn't know the area of the sensor. Depth of field is a matter of the distance from the
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by michrassena 5y ago
For a year or two Goodwill had an actual computer store full of random stuff. I bought a massive 22 inch CRT there for $50. SCSI drives, cables galore - there were lots of things that you wouldn't find on any other store shelf. eBay wa
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by michrassena 5y ago
Are you also familiar with extension tubes? I think in both the reversed lens and extension tube the lens sits further from the film or sensor (focal plane). Somewhat counter-intuitively, at least for me, is when the lens is focused at infi
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by michrassena 5y ago
I had the same experience with Ubuntu server a couple of weeks ago. It's true servers don't often come with wireless as the sole connection, but I still found it surprising. I had to download the packages manually on another machi
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by michrassena 6y ago
I agree, there's no question that was the real value. I should point out that whatever made it fun is gone. Whatever I found compelling about design or history as exemplified in stamps, is available through the Internet and books. If I
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by michrassena 6y ago
I've had a similar realization rather recently when cleaning out my parent's house after both their deaths. My father got me into stamp and coin collecting as a young child and it was an opportunity to bond and have something in c
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by michrassena 6y ago
I haven't seen this kind of bombastic rant applied to programming since the early days of Slashdot. Due credit to the author for putting their money where their mouth is and actually building a GUI operating system on this ISA.
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by michrassena 6y ago
The major inefficiency I see at the hardware level is the lower amount of work per instruction. This would lead to more data being fetched by the CPU to execute (though with one instruction, I suppose you only need the parameters). I'm
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by michrassena 6y ago
I don't know if it's satire, but I can't take this article seriously. The command line, for me, isn't about doing things the hard way. Nor is is necessarily the easy way either. It's an alternate interface which has
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by michrassena 6y ago
About five or six years ago I found an old CD of Windows ME. Having moved on from Windows 95 to NT, 2000 and so forth, I was curious about it. Needless to say, even a few years ago getting on the web with Windows ME out of the box was broke
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by michrassena 6y ago
Whatever the reasoning behind the ribbon, I still associate the era the ribbon was introduced with 16:9 displays becoming common, starting with laptops. In that case, users would have had less vertical screen real-estate for developers to w
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by michrassena 6y ago
I didn't realize at the time how fortunate I was to have a Tandy 1000HX when I was growing up. It was one of the only PCs I'm aware of which had DOS in ROM. Of course you were stuck with DOS 2.2 or something. But startup times wer
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by michrassena 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I don't know much about poetry, but it seems clear from this example that it's made better by being read aloud.
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by michrassena 6y ago
It took me a while to figure out what is meant by Miller's pi. I assume the most recent image is the one you're referring to, and it does support wifi on the pi, is that right? https://9p.io/sources/contrib&#x
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by michrassena 6y ago
I don't see people going out of their way either. I know it's not explicitly stated, but there's a bit of a subtext of getting something for nothing in these articles about turning laptop screens into monitors. I can see the
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by michrassena 6y ago
I think for most people this is the better option from a cost perspective. I'm nearly certain I've never purchased a new monitor, either CRT or LCD. I like the idea of repurposing laptop screens in concept, but I'm not sure w
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by michrassena 6y ago
I don't think I was consciously referencing Gumstix, but that must be where I first heard the term. I remember being interested in those at the time, but like you I thought they were too much.
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by michrassena 6y ago
I have three Raspberry Pi computers. The third, a Pi Zero came in the mail today. So I'm sold on the strong points of the system. My point wasn't about the laptop having Windows, just that there was a "Windows tax" on th
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by michrassena 6y ago
That's really an incredible price for a computer with a color display. I enjoy and use Linux, but I think it's so versatile and general purpose my inclination is to put it online, run Firefox, play videos or whatever, and then it&
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by michrassena 6y ago
There's a price point here that makes sense, and it isn't $100 + the Pi + the M2 SSD. Anything more than this and you get into the low-end laptop price range with full x64 compatibility and a Windows license.

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