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by rodgerd 5y ago
An Olympus EM-1 II has a pair of quad core ARM processors. The biggest challenge is that the hobbyist photography community is relentlessly, angrily furiously hostile to improving cameras in ways that move beyond pretending we're still
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by rodgerd 5y ago
This is a nice palette cleanser after the "disable view source" from the Chrome monopoly.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Cameron is well known as an absolute piece of shit. He brags about it, and loves his reputation.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Sure. But I don't have to upgrade my whole userland from Win 10 to Win 11 for hardware compatibility. I don't have to upgrade my core OS to run a new version of Lightroom.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I've always said "etcetera" rather than like goatse, but I guess as with all languages, there will be accents in unix as well. (I "grew up", as it were, pronouncing fsck as "fossick" which seems appropriat
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by rodgerd 5y ago
And it was a good call. PAM has plenty of shortcomings, but compared to the alternative options, it was a vast improvement.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
No, not at all. At the moment I can be sure that I can cancel a subscription without, for example, being required to call a US telephone number, as is the norm for subscription sites not using Apple. It's a huge win for developers who
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Apart from hours, special effects shops have been known to deal with such entertainment as people losing a mouthful of teeth during fight scene mocap or "dealing with James Cameron".
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Sad to see another one of New Zealand's large, well known employers get sold. We'll see. There's the risk of massive job losses in Wellington, which wouldn't spark joy, but they're an absolutely terrible employ
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's an accessible Lisp with square brackets.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It didn't help that rms was using it as a "hah hah that time I put one over on Steve Jobs" a decade later when I saw him speak. No idea if he still does.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Interesting; for me it's the opposite. I find it too easy to linger around the physical workplace and never quite get away if I'm not careful.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I have a few people that I keep up with outside work, but for me there's a couple of things I've learned the hard way, and one thing that I learned watching my parents' generation learn the hard way. I'm pushing 50, so m
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Why is that, do F1 races have a speed limit? F1 cars are mostly optimised for massive aerodynamic downforce and lightness, which allows for unholy levels of braking, acceleration, and cornering speeds, but eventually the downforce hob
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Any idea what the plan for the E10ks was? My colleague's theory was they were likely going to the oil and gas exploration modelling or nuclear research for middle-eastern states that couldn't get state-of-the-art gear.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I worked with a Brit whose company had taken an outage when theives back a truck up do a datacentre and made off with several fully-loaded E10ks.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Also, two words for people sharing VR goggles: ocular herpes.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Perhaps Google don't want to be in the news for identifying dark-skinned people as monkeys again?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> There's something about desk jobs that is frankly soul sucking Read "Bullshit Jobs".
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Maybe institutional memory: "Whether or not Toyota wanted to continue production [of the 90s all-electric RAV4], it was unlikely to be able to do so because the EV-95 battery was no longer available. Chevron had inherited control of th
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Well, no. That would be the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_RAV4_EV#First_generatio... in the 90s.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Their first electric car was a RAV4. It, along with any broader potential, was completely trashed by an American oil company and patent fuckery, costing them an absolute fortune.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> most EV versions of gasoline cars haven't sold particularly well Perhaps. But the Leaf alone is a significant counterpoint to that. Contrast with the abject market failure of the electric-from-the-ground-up i3.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> We don't want your "electric car" - we want your car, electric. Prius begat hybrid Corolla. This is all very much how Toyota rolls these things out.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
New Zealand banned it some years ago and I'm still pissed off. The supposed replacement is clinically useless, and I resent suffering through massive head pain from clogged sinuses every winter, while professional gangs still make mone
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by rodgerd 5y ago
> Why don't expensive cameras just have 256gb of onboard storage and connect over thunderbolt? People don't want to throw away their camera every time the storage runs out. They want mirroring between cards so the wedding shots
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by rodgerd 5y ago
Trump's whole business career has been a grift of doing things that he knows are illegal, and then dragging out court proceedings until the people he's ripping off give up. Why would he change now?
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by rodgerd 5y ago
I'm sure prominent Trump supporter Peter Theil can find a few.
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by rodgerd 5y ago
It's worth noting most housing in Singapore is state-owned
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by rodgerd 5y ago
If you look at many of the responses here it's sadly unsurprising: small-minded provincialism or outright xenophobia are no less common amongst programmers than the general population.

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