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by perardi 5y ago
The workflow is still easier that way. I do have to go through the step of post-processing…but I'm doing that with JPEGs from the phone regardless. Completely tangential rant: #nofilter is dumb. Your camera is actually producing a l
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Does your phone read the RAW files, or are you shooting JPEG? (iOS and macOS don’t preview Fuji RAW files, which is not a surprise, given how they require very special handling as they’re not traditional Bayer filter sensors.) And how is
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Are you sure cameras don’t do that? I honestly do not know. They definitely do for still photos—Nikon has had chromatic aberration correction and lens distortion correction for quite a while, and it’s keyed to individual lenses. If they are
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Sony? Luxury. Fuji. It’s like trying to connect a Palm Pilot to wifi or something.
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Distortion correction, chromatic aberration correction, perspective correction…yeah, all nice stuff. Especially the perspective feature, which is relatively recent. It’s nice to be able to straighten up an image quickly, in the Lightroom wo
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As a photographer on the side: nahhhh. I have a “real” camera because I want control. Give me the RAW data, and I can move mountains. What have made interchangeable lens cameras increasingly irrelevant: the workflow. On a phone, somewhat
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Nah, Sun was heavily rumored to be buying Apple. And perhaps not so much as “rumored” as “they couldn’t make a final deal”. https://www.cultofmac.com/463947/today-in-apple-history-sun-... I’ve been a Mac owner since
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Frankly, it’s kind of hard to pitch blockchain if you’re at all honest with your stakeholders. “So, we want to recreate databases, except vastly slower, far less energy-efficient, and way harder to use.”
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I think a lot of the old Easter eggs are soon to be lost in time, like tears in rain. But one I remember: Breakout. http://www.mackido.com/EasterEggs/Breakout.html
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It really is worth pointing out, again, that it’s $10 billion…for the entire estimated lifetime cost of the project. Amortized out over 20 years? I’m not saying it’s nothing…but given the US federal budget, it’s kind of nothing. Compared to
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As with everything, it’s possible to get just far too down the rabbit hole and chase increasingly marginal, and possibly imaginary, improvements. (You should see my dad’s 8 tackle boxes full of fishing lures.) But…if you’re a developer o
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Yeah, gotta defend Marco here, though I have my quibbles with him on this show. (He has the most first-worldiest of problems.) He has gone in deep on performant low-level audio code, and how it integrates with the system APIs. He’s done a
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Frustratingly, no. If you insert a photo into Messages and hit Markup, the first view gives you a bunch of pen/pencil/brush options, with fixed sizes per brush. There's a plus button that allows you to insert shapes and text…
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I kind of hate-listen to ATP at this point, as the only one who lives in the real world is Siracusa… …but this is actually not easy to do via the iOS markup editor. It defaults to a pencil tool that draws way too fine of a line to mask a fa
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For Android, you’re talking about Material You, which is a bit more colorful and bubbly. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/android-12-the-ars-t... — And as to grid systems…well, that isn’t exactly a rec
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As an occasional recreational drug user: yes, the dosages listed above are spot on. Just for an anecdotal data point.
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That’s just ergonomics. You are shooting with a long lens. Unless you have the camera on a tripod/monopod, it’s much more stable to have the camera braced against your body with the viewfinder up against your eye, versus trying to hold
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I have no idea why this sticks in my head, but way way way back when, I remember Leo Laporte being adamant, on MacBreak Weekly, that he was sure the iPhone wasn’t really running a version of OS X, because it was impossible to do so. And min
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I recall some comment he made about wanting to do a “final site redesign” to make it responsive at some point, but then never got around to it. Still, it’s a bit of an odd oversight, because this is the most simplest of 1-column-with-a-side
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There are just…I can’t even start with the sheer inanity of that quote. First off, the First World War happened on the gold standard . Most currencies, notably the British Pound, didn’t become decoupled from gold until after WW1. And tho
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“It’s rare to become addicted to esoteric hallucinogens. But it’s not impossible.” I think it’s extremely difficult to become physiologically addicted to most hallucinogens. They don’t induce the severe, profound physical addiction that t
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But does Xcode convert PDF and SVG to various PNG assets? https://bjango.com/articles/svgassetcatalogs/ It's my understanding, as a designer, that it was auto-generating 2x and 3x PNGs as from your vector ass
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I’m 38. I’ve beaten the hell out of my poor aging frame. And then fixed a lot of those injuries to my poor aging frame by not playing rugby any more. All of which to say: there is absolutely no way you are possibly controlling for all varia
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Not mentioned in the post, but mentioned in the book that inspired the post: 2C-B is a fun one. Good times have been had there.
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There are apologists who will insist you can do real work on an iPad—if you get the iPad Pro, and the keyboard case. Which ends up being about as expensive and about the same size as a MacBook Air. And for any work that requires any sort of
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Ignored? By whom? I am not a virologist, but actual virologists sure talked about T-cells in public forums. Or moreover, that we have to have some degree of humility about exactly what are the correlates of immunity for this disease. https
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Well…duh, lack of sleep is bad. It’s not like I had 10 years of insomnia by choice. And I’d gather most people, besides the tiny-but-vocal crowd talking about sleep hacking† and grinding and growth hacking or whatever, are desperate for mor
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Apple Garamond was an optically compressed version of ITC Garamond. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typography_of_Apple_Inc.#Apple... You can really see it in the x-height.
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ITC Garamond and Adobe Garamond are very, very different typefaces. Adobe: https://www.typewolf.com/garamond ITC: https://www.typewolf.com/itc-garamond Adobe’s version is closer to the original version, and
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…or it totally could, if it primes T-cells to fully clear the infection, or keep it to such a low level that the viral load is minimized. HIV has a tremendous latency period. It lurks for a long time before symptom onset. If a vaccine does

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