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photojosh
13y ago
As someone who benefits from people who do this, even though I'm in Australia: thanks! (The local MTB volunteer group keeps the trails in impeccable condition, us trail runners enjoy.)
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photojosh
13y ago
Which roads were you driving? We drove all the way through outback QLD->NT->SA, and it was pretty reasonable coverage on the highways. That's with Telstra though, the other telcos suck.
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photojosh
13y ago
Yes, but when you're actually working on a hi-PPI display, you can then lean in to view more detail, rather than zooming in. Much like we inspect things in the real world. As a photographer, this means a great deal. I can verify the sh
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photojosh
13y ago
What about getting your H-bridges the wrong way around and the smoke hitting the ceiling... the night before your final project is due?
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photojosh
13y ago
Correct. There was a population of animals that at some stage started to approximate what we would call human.
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photojosh
13y ago
Thread mill? He's sewing garments while programming? Kudos!
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photojosh
13y ago
Have a read about the "Famine Response". You need to stop trying to lose weight to let your body adjust its setpoint, then go again.
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photojosh
13y ago
Absolutely. Combined with the geekery of quantitative tracking with something like Strava or Runkeeper and I was very motivated.
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photojosh
14y ago
$60 for 60 hours of play is exceptional value for entertainment. :)
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photojosh
14y ago
The beauty is that SSD/Flash pricing is directly affected by Moore's law... so as has happened with RAM, prices halve / capacity doubles roughly every 18 months. AFAICT hard drives seem to increase capacity fairly linearly, so we might very
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photojosh
14y ago
Agreed. The OWC after-market SSD upgrades are $450 to go from 240 to 480GB. Apple isn't gouging on the SSD at least.
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photojosh
14y ago
Looked into selling our 64GB WiFi+3G iPad 1 just after the launch of the new iPad. Going rate on eBay was ~AU$350, originally AU$1050. For that, plus the losses in fees, we just kept it.
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14y ago
Agreed. I hated browsing the web on the iPad one because it could only hold one tab loaded at a time, and refresh the others when you moved between them. iPad 3, sorry, 'new iPad' is vastly improved. iPad 1 is now kid's iPad: iView & ji
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photojosh
14y ago
The Apple TV has hardware to support Bluetooth already. No reason Apple couldn't release a dedicated game controller.