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by sho 9y ago
I'm bullish on food robots in general, but I have to say that as a fan of caesar salad, the output of that robot fails to impress. It looks exactly like what it is - a bunch of ingredients randomly dropped in a bowl. The lettuce hasn&#
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by sho 9y ago
> You can't equivocate the n=1 case and the n=10000 case. Fair enough, but the comment I was replying to was equivocating those cases too. I was simply pointing out that maybe, just maybe, a service like this might have some value a
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by sho 9y ago
> A quick script in a cron job could also do this I love comments like this. You couldn't hope for a better example of "shit's easy syndrome". Yeah, a quick script in a cron job. Oh, but now we need 2 pages monitored.
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by sho 9y ago
> a high DOF iPhone portrait is better than a portrait with razor thin DOF with silky bokeh shot on a Sony A9 I agree completely. I appreciate the gear like anyone else, but it's all about the end result. A recent iphone plus in por
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by sho 9y ago
Well, you could collect a huge amount of light and send it through to the phone sensor; that would have the same effect. But you're talking a very big lens. The pro DSLRs have a 35mm sensor - that's ~865mm². The iphone's is w
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by sho 9y ago
Ha, I actually didn't touch this part of the comment but yeah - 20 years ago, no. As part of my job at the time I had access to the very first sony mavica floppy disk digital camera, and a contemporary kodak I don't recall the mod
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by sho 9y ago
Who the hell would "irrigate" their fields to a depth of 1 foot? That's not irrigation, it's a literal flood! Unless you're growing rice in a paddy I guess?
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by sho 9y ago
> Biggest game in DSLR world right now is low light As an a7Sii owner I couldn't agree more (the D850 looks great too). Phone cameras are going to have a hard time catching up there. There's only so much light and at some point
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by sho 9y ago
It's been a secret little dream of mine for quite some time that Apple would just buy Sony. Sony's imaging hardware is the best, full stop. Their software sucks, full stop. I wish Apple would just buy them and fix that and my god,
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by sho 9y ago
> for the average picture taker none of it is a big deal I think this is a pretty cynical view. OK, maybe the majority don't give a damn, but quite a few people obviously do. Someone's buying iPhones, and S8s, etc. It's pr
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by sho 9y ago
> the incremental gains we're seeing with each new phone cycle are almost unnoticeable I don't think so. As someone with a whole lot of expensive "real" camera gear, I was astonished - and I don't really say th
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by sho 9y ago
What a great read. Insta-buy. I'm always fascinated to hear such detailed, even loving, stories from other people's lives and careers - and this one is so well written and obviously passionate that I can't wait to hear more.
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by sho 9y ago
For those like me for whom "acre ft" means absolutely nothing, it's about 5,172Hhds[1]. Just kidding, it's 1,233 cubic metres, so 92 acre feet =~ 113,500m³. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogshead
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by sho 9y ago
> competition is such that you can get an excellent product [..] for $1,000 The really interesting part is that for ~$1000 you get the best product available at any price . That's the magic of economies of scale in consumer markets
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by sho 9y ago
I guess you and I and everyone else have a lot of different interpretations for what the original text might mean. The fact that it is ambiguous is demonstrated. It was simply a poor choice of words and I'm sorry to have made too big a
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by sho 9y ago
Oh I'm not doubting you. But that's slightly different. Putting in a good word for you and making introductions to eligible young co-workers isn't quite the same as "here's your bride!", which is what it soun
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by sho 9y ago
> my boss assumed that it would be sourcing the bride Are you sure you understood him correctly? That would be highly irregular, to say the least. More likely it was an offer to pay for a matching agency. Arranged marriages between speci
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by sho 9y ago
> My point is that we shouldn't look at corporations as agents for freedom It's mind-boggling that this even needs to be stated. Of course we should not. Anyone who does needs to step back and seriously re-examine how they look
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by sho 9y ago
You might not like the (totally valid) point this comment makes but that doesn't stop it being true. Stop with the downvotes.
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by sho 9y ago
These numbers [1] are old but are probably still in the ballpark. US healthcare workers are compensated well, but not all that much more than comparable developed countries. And quality of healthcare in the US is top ten at best [2]. No, th
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by sho 9y ago
> $130k doesn't sound unreasonable for a delivery of a baby While I'm accustomed to hearing this kind of thing from the USA, know that for citizens of any other developed country, that is an absolutely absurd amount, to the tun
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by sho 9y ago
What the hell? Where did you see that? The price in Australia is AUD$30 (~USD$24) for a 12-pack of 100mg tablets [1]. That's totally unsubsidised, although you do need a prescription. How on earth could they literally cost thirty times
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by sho 9y ago
> I get the feeling there is more that the author's personal situation that he isn't saying Yes, I definitely think so too. And the article about cycling in tokyo he links to [1] hints at this more. I've cycled very exten
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by sho 9y ago
I don't mean to be rude but that's not a coherent argument. I don't understand what you're trying to say. Nature is certainly not "perfect" in any interpretation. I don't doubt that you have well-intention
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by sho 9y ago
> From an energy conservation perspective nature is perfect I don't understand. Energy is always conserved no matter if it's nature or humans - literally the first law of thermodynamics. Nature, humans, aliens, anything else is
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by sho 9y ago
Ha, I'm one of those techies you're talking about. Spent an embarrassing amount on camera gear, and I'm always "that guy" with the ridiculous rig at someone's casual party. But you know what? I love this shit.
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by sho 9y ago
> There might be a hard barrier to our intellectual capabilities we can't see I guess? But there's no evidence for that, and you're not even presenting a theory.
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by sho 9y ago
Then we are in complete agreement. I am only commenting on the physical possibility . It could very well take a thousand years!
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by sho 9y ago
> arguing that one day dogs will be able to talk, because why shouldn't they? You misunderstand how evolution works. Humans are the product of over 10 million years of brutal selection pressure in favour of intellect. Before that, w
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by sho 9y ago
I really think you should examine your way of thinking. I'm sure charlatans have been making and breaking promises about pretty everything you can think of since the beginning of time. It's meaningless and is no basis for estimati

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