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by perardi 5y ago
I'm skeptical of some of these investments though. I think once they're legal for recreational use (I kind of believe that's what most really want, medical uses are a way to normalize use and get there) interest will drop of
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by perardi 5y ago
Or BMW’s attempt to sell subscriptions to CarPlay and heated seats. https://www.thedrive.com/news/34547/bmw-is-planning-to-sell-... But still…that’s high-margin subscriptions on top of a high-margin product. I am,
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by perardi 5y ago
TVs are Netflix terminals. Why not get a TV with Netflix built in? At this point, it just makes sense to have apps on the TV.
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by perardi 5y ago
There are still lots, and lots, and lots of dumb appliances. I think you’d have to go out of the way to buy a toothbrush with Bluetooth, and I see many a non-smart fridge in the best sellers at Home Depot. ( https://www.homedepot.
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by perardi 5y ago
Largely off-topic, but still interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiotrophic_fungus I still find it fascinating that there is a fungus that lives inside the remains on Chernobyl and thrives in the radiation.
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by perardi 5y ago
Huh, the novelty of a sweaty, desperate conference call where you try to get the attention of some venture capitalist wore off quickly. Who would have thought?
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by perardi 5y ago
Except, confusingly, you seemingly cannot mount a full-frame Canon RF lens on a Canon EF-M mirrorless camera.
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by perardi 5y ago
Even though that DSLR is eight years old, it gets battery life that any mirrorless camera can only dream of I swear that my 2008 Nikon D700 had functionally unlimited battery life. My mirrorless camera would be hard-pressed to get through
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by perardi 5y ago
[pushes glasses up nose] That’s arguably not an SLR. Sort of. It’s an SLT. Used that neat semi-transparent non-moving mirror to simultaneously directs light to the imaging sensor and the phase-detect sensor. https://www.dpreview.
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by perardi 5y ago
As a camera industry meta-commentary, it sure seems like the Big 3 really only want to sell full-frame cameras. Sony, Canon, Nikon, they seem to have roadmaps for a full range of lenses for full-frame, from wide-angle to super-telephoto. Bu
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by perardi 5y ago
Sony’s entire APS-C storyline is a bit fuzzy. (Honestly, Canon and Nikon don’t exactly tell a coherent story there either…) It’s really unclear if they ever want to fully flesh out the lens line for that sensor size, and they don’t seem t
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by perardi 5y ago
As noted below: battery life and tracking autofocus is still superior if you get a really high-end DSLR; a Nikon D850 has just insane battery life if you use it like an old-school film camera with minimal screen usage, and the ability to tr
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by perardi 5y ago
Ah, and here, a source! https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/03/aol-1point5-million-people-s... As to dialup itself… “The number of dial-up users is now “in the low thousands,” according to a person familiar with th
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by perardi 5y ago
“AOL sells huge number of paid dialup based email accounts” Do they really? I am not being sarcastic. I cannot find a recent reference to this (everything seems to be from 2015), but given my experience getting my aunt away from AOL email
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by perardi 5y ago
Well when your large customer base leads you to a $5 billion writedown and a public confession that Google and Facebook are eating your lunch… https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/12/verizon.
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by perardi 5y ago
From the article: …“it agreed to sell Yahoo and AOL to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.” They apparently paid $4.4 billion for AOL, and Yahoo they got for $4.48 billion. I have to say: only losing $5 bill
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by perardi 5y ago
At the risk of responding to a throw-away comment: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/13/1016098/moderna-... They can retool very, very quickly. The slight unknown is running another trial.
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by perardi 5y ago
Well…there is state sponsorship, via the NIH. https://www.nccih.nih.gov/nih-pain-research-center/research-... “Pain” is almost never the disease. (OK, maybe CRPS.) There’s a lot of things that cause pain, almost self
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by perardi 5y ago
So how would a Linux phone possibly gain momentum? I have no idea how it solves any job to be done for almost anyone. Does it have the apps I want, including for my bank? Does it have a great camera? Does it have fantastic battery life? Rig
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by perardi 5y ago
A minor bit from the article: “The company’s most influential creation was a version of PostScript for the internet age: the Portable Document Format, or PDF, which remains a vital way of sending and printing documents from almost any mach
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by perardi 5y ago
My intuition, given the absolute (small) magnitude of blood clots, is that it’s not a huge issue. Except that it is , because it has people spooked. Humans, myself included, are just terrible at gauging relative risk, and it doesn’t really
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by perardi 5y ago
I am of 2 minds on the SD card reader thing. 1. Lot of use cases for SD cards besides cameras. Audio recorders, notably. 2. A fair number of high-end cameras are no longer using SD cards, or at least, not exclusively; lot of CFexpress for t
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by perardi 5y ago
Well good luck booting that iMac without that whole, you know, power cord thing. Honestly I think that’s an inspired bit of design. It solves for Apple’s desire to keep clean lines, and , in many offices I’ve been in, the Ethernet is wired
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by perardi 5y ago
Some of these are real howlers. “Broadband and 5G will be life-essential for most” Well no shit, Sherlock.
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by perardi 5y ago
(not saying you are, but it's a common sentiment on here). It's a kind of occupation-induced blindness, I think. Oh I am 100% guilty of that, and I admit that. I have been using Photoshop in some capacity since 1994, and I am 37
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by perardi 5y ago
I’m a creative pro who works on math software, so, synergy. I just feel like I am slogging through mud to work with versions of mockups, quickly bouncing stuff to git or onto our damned fileserver, all that administrative jazz. (I will not
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by perardi 5y ago
I fully admit I am a crusty old Mac user, who in fact started on the Mac back in those days. I perhaps don’t see the Pro in iPad Pro because I am wanting it to basically be a Mac, but tablet. Maybe it is truly an orthogonal product that doe
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by perardi 5y ago
I, too, want my rocket car Mac. But we haven’t seen what they can really do yet. The M1 sure “feels” like an iPad SoC, what with the weirdness with some of the ports and bus limitations. (External displays: little off-kilter right now in t
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by perardi 5y ago
I’d argue…well I was going to argue Dell did well with their legacy, but they haven’t. They went private, pivoted (sorry) to strong enterprise sales, and de-emphasized the cutthroat race-to-the-bottom consumer computers. Which ain’t excit
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by perardi 5y ago
Have they been perfect? No. Keyboards, App Store, still not entirely sure what the iPad Pro does, etc. But you know what Tim Cook didn’t do? He didn’t screw it all up. Which sounds like faint praise, but I really think it’s inarguable that

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