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by perardi 4y ago
I had a D700. What a camera. Not surprised you had it serviced—if it’s a reasonably cheap repair job, that is still a great body if you don’t care about resolution. (And people put way too much emphasis on resolution.) I swear that thing ra
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by perardi 4y ago
I didn’t realize Apple One Premier was that expensive. I…guess it could make financial sense? If you do use Apple Music for streaming, and you do watch shows on Apple TV, and if you have a family that could plausibly use 2TB of backup stora
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by perardi 4y ago
“Day after day, I swipe the Hinge profiles of girls endowed with the greatest gifts known in the universe, only to find that their hobbies are sleeping and eating. The last million years of evolution has been wasted on them; they might as
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by perardi 4y ago
I am a 38-year-old. I am perfectly capable of assessing what is of worth to me. It got me out exploring my new neighborhood. I made casual friends which made me feel connected to the area. Got my dog lots and lots of walks, especially when
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by perardi 4y ago
I agree. Or…that’s how it used to be. COVID neutered quite a lot of that. Though in retrospect it was a bit silly to be that scared of being outside…let’s not go there… But more so, Niantic’s responses really killed in-person gameplay. You
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by perardi 4y ago
I could make some quite obscure Smogon references here, but I will stop myself.
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by perardi 4y ago
Yeah, but that’s way harder to find good alliteration for. Some of the big flying Pokémon were also terrible to interact with. Nearly off-screen if they moved.
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by perardi 4y ago
I immediately turned off the “feed your Pokémon AR mode”. While it is theoretically fun to plop your Piplup on a table and feed it a Pinap: it’s slower than a Slowking to do so, and got very old very fast.
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by perardi 4y ago
I will admit to only playing Pokémon Go, and nothing else in their portfolio. And I finally gave up on Go about 6 months ago, after playing since 2016. (Maybe they made some amazing updates since then, and my points here are totally invali
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by perardi 4y ago
From one of the best camera industry observers: Yeah, no. https://bythom.com/newsviews/nikkei-needs-new-staff.html It is self-evident that DSLRs are basically done—I would be surprised if any totally new cameras with
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by perardi 4y ago
I am not entirely sure where that comes from. Let’s take a look at GM, as those numbers are readily available. GM Financial: $13.419 billion in 2021 GM: $127 billion in 2021 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Financial S
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by perardi 4y ago
“There is only so much government money and resources to fight diseases, this one seems like low hanging fruit that the affected community could solve with some leadership, personal responsibility and group effort.” Listen, as a gay man,
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by perardi 4y ago
Also from the Times: “Will There Be Enough Monkeypox Vaccine?” Jynneos, the company that makes the better vaccine for monkeypox, was in the middle of refurbishing the one plant that produces it. “The manufacturing facility that could make
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by perardi 4y ago
Yup, I sure did. That…is seemingly a thing they should have done a long time ago…but it’s still smart, and I’m glad they’re doing it. Now they don’t have to rush the QA of a point release to vanquish yet another PDF parsing security threat.
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by perardi 4y ago
I think it's reasonable to think Apple will iterate quickly on this. Why? The iOS 15.x update history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_15 Lots and lots of privacy stuff in the point releases. (And accessibility
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by perardi 4y ago
Matt Levine got into this earlier this week. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-15/crypto... I just want to block quote the second paragraph, but instead, just the first sentence. “The deeper
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by perardi 4y ago
Because it’s possible to be passionate about rocketry and spaceflight, and what SpaceX has accomplished, and be proud of how you’ve contributed to that… …and then be quite concerned that the CEO’s attention is seemingly quite scattershot no
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by perardi 4y ago
I believe that Mac OS X only ran on “New World ROM” machines. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_ROM (Could be wrong about that—that was a long time ago.)
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by perardi 4y ago
Although it’s best practice to run images through a compressor at some point in the build/deploy practice…in reality not everyone does that. But if you work with Photoshop-generated PNGs with alpha transparency: try to work in some sor
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by perardi 4y ago
Push it back to 2033, save us from the pain. …OK, that’s too dismissive. I do know that certain web apps and sites have legitimate uses for push notifications. But I encounter these far, far more often on news sites, where I profoundly do
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by perardi 4y ago
Good faith answer? Supply chains. Good ol’ supply chains. The “Mac” is really the “MacBook”—very solid majority of devices sold are laptops, followed by iMacs, then minis, then a teeeeeny sliver of Mac Pros. Well, probably. People infer it
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by perardi 4y ago
The M1 already has VP9 acceleration in the “media engine” chunk of the SoC. https://singhkays.com/blog/apple-silicon-m1-video-power-cons... Though Apple doesn’t super explicitly say that. As for AV1…well, we don’t real
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by perardi 4y ago
And what’s quite interesting about the pseudo-panspermia hypothesis… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis#Homochirality …is the chirality of the molecules we’ve found on comets and meteorites. The amino acids and
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by perardi 4y ago
“7. The cumulative escalation in pollution causes a dramatic increase in cancer, which overwhelms the ill-prepared health system.” That’s the one that stands out as an unambiguous miss. The rest of the predictions were either spot-on (Rus
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by perardi 4y ago
“Handwriting recognition was a key part of the plan.” I was pretty young during this era of computing…but it felt that handwriting input was going to be The Thing in terms of next-generation computer interaction. Mind you, all I had acces
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by perardi 4y ago
And at 99.81% full support on mobile browsers. I can’t think of a particularly plausible case where someone is using a browser so old it can’t support SVG—because if they are, they are on something like IE 8, and they are obviously going to
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by perardi 4y ago
Define “stuff”. And I’m not being pedantic. I am aware, in passing, of the purity of club drugs. I mean, theoretically. Totally in the abstract, in case you’re a DEA plant. It heavily depends on what, and where. In my…research… Street-level
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by perardi 4y ago
What is an illusion and what is reality? How do I present an objective true image with a camera? And this is not some superficially dumb dorm room philosophy rambling. I can stand in one spot and get a radically different photo depending on
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by perardi 4y ago
I am a Putin hater through and through… …but be reallllll careful thinking through the consequences of “any means necessary”, because a lot of those means end in a huge escalation of the conflict which further reduces access to minerals and
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by perardi 4y ago
“matching size and design of iPhone 13 Mini” So, by all accounts, the iPhone mini has been an extremely slow seller. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula... Why would that form facto

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