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by perardi 5y ago
I am extremely skeptical masks will stick in suburban and rural areas. Urban areas with mass transit? Maybe. I think wearing a mask on the Red Line during cold and flu season would be smart.
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by perardi 5y ago
I mean, that wasn’t stated , but when the bar leads with the line “Circuit music returns…”, it’s implied.
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by perardi 5y ago
Yeah, I live in a weird bubble, but Saturday’s bar excursion was “no masks, no shirts, no distancing”, and the 1-hour wait in line would suggest that there’s plenty of demand for that.
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by perardi 5y ago
Politico just had a decent piece on some of the smaller societal changes… https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/31/covid-rules-liquor-... …though arguably expanded telemedicine isn’t “small”.
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by perardi 5y ago
I’ve seen a number of trend pieces along these lines. This is not my experience so far. Nor my friends’. If anything, I feel like we need trend pieces along the lines of “whoa, slow down, don’t dive in nose-first”.
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by perardi 5y ago
And how long has it been since Hasselblad has been particularly relevant? They were sliced into pieces, and now they are owned by DJI. https://www.slrlounge.com/dji-now-majority-shareholder-of-ha...
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by perardi 5y ago
Preach it. Shooting on an interchangeable lens camera is still effectively like shooting a film camera. They do have software to pair to your phone. I am most familiar with Fuji’s solution for that, which is, to put it charitably, execrable
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by perardi 5y ago
Also cameras and lenses are (generally) much much better than they used to be. They really are. The cheap-o kit lenses they include nowadays use molded aspheric elements, and they are designed in such a way to take advantage of in-camera
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by perardi 5y ago
Your phone camera is not as good as a cheap DSLR paired with a cheap 35mm f/1.8 in absolute terms. Your phone camera is way better at the job to be done , which is to quickly share pics of your cock, cats, or kids, depending on what a
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by perardi 5y ago
That’s an interesting point, so I went and checked briefly on what used Canon lenses are going for, at an online dealer that specializes in such things. https://www.keh.com/shop/lenses/canon--canon-eos.html And wh
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by perardi 5y ago
Have you…done ketamine? Ketamine can be intense. I would not like to take a clinical dose of K, while in a depressed state, sans supervision.
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by perardi 5y ago
It probably goes without saying, but don’t try this at home with ketamine you score off the grey or dark web. I am generally a fan of the occasional self-prescribed party drug, but if you suffer from severe depressive disorder, you should n
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by perardi 5y ago
I won’t pretend there isn’t big fat profit in there, but I have to think the cost has more to do with this being an IV infusion. You’re more paying for the medical care, including being under observation.
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by perardi 5y ago
I think it’s worth even reading one paragraph past the headline… “A strong push by Wall Street to open up access to Bitcoin investment is meeting resistance from a bipartisan group of lawmakers and regulators in Washington, setting up a lo
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by perardi 5y ago
This Lexicon Valley podcast goes into the “having a vocabulary for large numbers is actually weird” thing. https://slate.com/podcasts/lexicon-valley/2021/03/english-la...
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How inevitable is the concept of numbers?(writings.stephenwolfram.com)
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Sleuthing DarkSide Crypto-Ransom Payments with the Wolfram Language(blog.wolfram.com)
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by perardi 5y ago
…son of a… Oh that’s embarrassing. I do still have Power Nap enabled. Well let’s give that a shot. Thanks for the reminder about that option.
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by perardi 5y ago
Sleeping the mac does not sleep the mac, it wakes up at all sorts of times This sure used to work. My 16-inch MacBook Pro (as in, the new keyboard model) just does not want to stay asleep if the screen is open. Even if I put it in Do Not
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by perardi 5y ago
So the weird thing is: I can’t find a CBC report on this announcement on Wednesday. Nor any other Canadian news source, even in the weeds ones like iPolitics. Maybe I’m just not searching properly, but I don’t see any other reporting. I mea
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by perardi 5y ago
Yeahhhh, that’s a fair point, they sell every one they can make of those EcoBoosts.
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by perardi 5y ago
…what a non sequitur. The F-150 is already a bloated monstrosity, it makes no difference if it’s electric. It’s some tiny bit faster, but they’re all fast enough.
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by perardi 5y ago
I have no idea if this’ll be lightning or a lead balloon, because a significant amount of pickup truck buyers do it for the machismo. Which sounds like some city-slicker talking down to the cheap seats, except, I grew up in a town named Far
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by perardi 5y ago
I have no specific comment besides: bless your heart, I had no idea you could do this. Thanks for pointing out that shortcut.
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by perardi 5y ago
Yes, fine, the particular bus service I utilized in school was remarkably evil… Suburban Express allegedly denied credit cards from ZIP codes with high Jewish populations, instructed employees to avoid handing out coupons to certain studen
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by perardi 5y ago
As someone who had the distinct pleasure of some long bus rides in college: I would rather staple myself to the bottom of a semi than ride a bus between 2 cities. I’d rather hitchhike, end up temporarily imprisoned in a grain silo, and figh
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by perardi 5y ago
“At the same time they're also introducing two new dSLR models.” Hm? What now? That can’t be… https://nikonrumors.com/2020/11/24/recap-of-recent-nikon-pre... Huh.
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by perardi 5y ago
I was oversimplifying a bit. I should say “most will not miss these DX lenses as Nikon moves to Z-mount APS-C cameras, which have the potential for both better optical quality and smaller size.” To whit: https://www.zsystemuser.c
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by perardi 5y ago
Yeah, nobody is going to miss those DX lenses. That’s not a surprise at all. But I am a bit surprised they discontinued that 200mm, as they don’t have native Z mount super-telephoto lenses yet. Maybe there was a weird supply chain issue,
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by perardi 5y ago
Here I go, being skeptical about getting work done on iPads again… …but is there any “pro” software like this that is succeeding on iPad that isn’t part of a larger cloud/subscription service? I believe Office gets some actual use on

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