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by perardi 6y ago
I imagine so. At the risk of angering Leica fans: they’re shipping not exactly state of the art technology at very high prices, with a lot of the R&D actually being done by Panasonic. (Or, in the case of their Lux compact cameras, they
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by perardi 6y ago
I fear for Nikon, even though I suspect they have lifelines, given Bank of Japan’s quantitative easing. They’re the least diversified of the big camera companies. Sony has…a lot, from semiconductors to financial instruments. Canon has high-
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by perardi 6y ago
It’s not so much that a secret that MindGeek is the holding company behind all this, it’s more that MindGeek itself is a cipher. From the article… “No entity exemplifies this more than MindGeek, which with very little scrutiny or accountabi
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by perardi 6y ago
The Foveon, which is used in Sigma cameras. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor It hasn’t really gone anywhere. Partly because of technical issues of getting the signal out of the layers of photosites, but a
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by perardi 6y ago
I doubt there's benchmarks from ye olde days, but are you sure? I thought the first PPC machines managed to outrun 68040 machines, even in emulation. I fully admit my recollection could be wrong there. But regardless, that entire pre-G
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by perardi 6y ago
who is this store for? The big one at Bloor and Yonge has very nice bathrooms. There’s that.
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by perardi 6y ago
Which is still pretty much a Bayer sensor, just with a different filter layout. You still have to demosaic to get a usable file. And a well-tuned RAW convertor to do so.
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by perardi 6y ago
I’ve been an amateur photographer for over 10 years now, and I’ve never seen such an easy-to-understand but still mathematically in-depth explanation of depth of field until now. Bravo. This is excellent.
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by perardi 6y ago
There are now some updates with improvements to the Russian-language bits. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/12/where-did-combin...
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by perardi 6y ago
Whew, I forgot I was looking at the US price…up here in the frozen tundra of Canada, they’re $880.27 after taxes.
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by perardi 6y ago
I am a total apologist for the price of the AirPods and AirPods Pro. I have tried a lot of wireless earbuds. Jabra, Samsung, Jaybirds, Anker…and none of them have the combination of bullet-proof pairing, keeping a connection, audio quality†
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by perardi 6y ago
Yes…but even in that class, they sell a teeny, tiny percentage as diesels. https://www.dieselforum.org/vehiclesales/u-s-vehicle-sales-d... And though I cannot find a citation, I swear I have heard the best-selling F-15
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by perardi 6y ago
And to check myself… https://www.dieselforum.org/diesel-drivers/clean-diesel-vehi... Yup, outside of heavy-duty body-on-frame trucks and SUVs, they are gone now. Although I swore the Mazda CX-5 had a diesel option…
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by perardi 6y ago
Sigh, oh, that lovely passage in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time when he writes of diesel exhaust…
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by perardi 6y ago
…why do you need to use straws?
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by perardi 6y ago
My new local coffee shop is package-free. No disposable cups, no straws, no lids. They have mugs to use if you’re outside drinking coffee, but they encourage you to bring or buy a reusable thermos. Which requires a very slight bit of adapta
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m wondering if it's more to do with diesel passenger vehicles. You have to work really hard to even find a diesel passenger car in the States. Whereas, at least for right now, they’re ubiquitous in the EU. (I mean an every day consu
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by perardi 6y ago
So, does Cadillac’s pivot to electric (boy they have had quite a few pivots over the past 20 years…) have much to do at all with North America, or is it for China, which is their largest market for Cadillac?
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by perardi 6y ago
The seemingly important bit: “The new agreement calls for G.M. to sell fuel-cell technology to Nikola. Gone are provisions for G.M. to take a $2 billion stake in Nikola, and for G.M. to produce an electric pickup truck for the Phoenix-based
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by perardi 6y ago
That’s about what I hear. The video on the 5DmkII was apparently something they popped in without much thinking. Like, just capture the Live View video and dump it to the card.
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by perardi 6y ago
That’s well known, and not what I am thinking about. More like… • Dumb frame rates. • Lack of good flat color profiles. • Lack of clean HDMI output. • Dumb codecs.
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by perardi 6y ago
All good points. It just feels like all this video stuff…I don’t know, since the 5DmkII came out, I can’t figure out the marketing strategy. You’ve got big-sensor beautiful video, and then a whole bunch of weird limitations that make them a
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by perardi 6y ago
I am generally not of a conspiratorial mindset, but in the very particular case of these photography-centric cameras, I can’t help but wonder if these video features are purposefully subpar so as to not steal market share away from their mo
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by perardi 6y ago
We were still using Adium at work until September of 2019. Most people were on RocketChat, but we’d had a Jabber server up forever, and people were just in the habit. We finally turned it off. Tangent, sort of: RocketChat is just awful. P
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by perardi 6y ago
Ah, memories! I had some teeny, tiny contact list that took up hardly any space on screen. Something like: https://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=1473 Compare to Facebook Messenger for Mac, which is gigan
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by perardi 6y ago
Do people get tweak-y with their systems as much any more? I used to get extremely into customizing Mac OS (as in, Classic Mac OS), and early versions of OS X and iOS during the jailbreak salad days. Now, not so much. I tend to run closer t
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by perardi 6y ago
I can remember that too, and that will eat away at me for a bit, because that’s non-trivial to search for now.
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by perardi 6y ago
This seems to be more of an illustration of the “platform owner copied and obviated your idea, so what’s even left to do?” problem.
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by perardi 6y ago
Pour one out for a fondly remembered enhancement to Mac OS X. In a somewhat similar nostalgic vein, I remember haxies… https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Haxie …and as linked in the blog post, Adium. https://adiu
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by perardi 6y ago
I am clocking in at 2.13GB on my 16-inch MacBook Pro.

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