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by slantyyz 7y ago
> Don't compare consumer-grade $300 laptops/PCs to Apple hardware that costs $2,500+, please. If you're the type of person who doesn't put your hardware through a beating, I find that name-brand consumer PCs to be fai
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by slantyyz 7y ago
My early 2011 15" Macbook Pro barely lasted 4 years before being bricked by a design flaw. These particular MBPs have ended up dying post-recall as well. Two out of the three that I know of in my social circle that got the recall fix d
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by slantyyz 7y ago
But once out in the real world, the camera you actually have with you wins every time.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
They used to be more plentiful before everyone started copying Apple. When I had an iPhone 3G and iPhone 4, I did not use a case. All I used was a vinyl decal to protect the back, and I was fine. IIRC, my Moto G and Moto X Play were fine wi
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I have an LX3 too. It's still a great camera. If you shoot RAW and use a fairly recent Lightroom equivalent application that has good noise reduction, etc., you can still get the LX3 to shoot above its weight. One thing in particular t
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by slantyyz 7y ago
One could also ask the question "how many people would prefer to have a phone that didn't --need-- a case"? Given the choice between a thin phone that needs a case and a phone that is as thick as a thin phone with a case that
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by slantyyz 7y ago
If the virus was called [Geographic Origin Optional] Wildlife Wet Market Coronavirus, and that naming caused the permanent banning of wildlife wet markets worldwide, I think I'd be all for it.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
SARS did not have a regional name, and it did not stop ignorant racist behaviour against people who appeared to be ethnically Chinese, even in a multicultural city like Toronto, Canada, which was hit hard by SARS. And keep in mind that this
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> True, but if your transcription was being handled by a professional typist... I tend to think business users at the time had the fancy typewriters or word processors, while home/student users were limited to whatever correction to
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> were mostly write-only devices. True. In the mid eighties though, there were electronic daisy-wheel typewriters (I don't consider those to be word processors in the same vein as the Wang word processors that had full green screens
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Well, back in those days, styling choices could be incredibly limited (depending on whether you were using a green screen vs gui), especially if the word processor's output was limited to a daisy wheel printer. I think the vast number
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I had a summer job around 1990 as a word processor using a Wang and a dictaphone. While this was definitely at the end of the era of the dedicated word processor, it was an interesting environment to be in. I was one of two dedicated word p
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by slantyyz 7y ago
>> looking straight down at a flat screen seems like terrible ergonomics. Real typewriters weren't much better though. You were basically still looking down at the piece of paper in the platen.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Some might view that drawback as a plus. Before the emergence of laptops, the Radio Shack TRS-80 Model 100 was incredibly popular with professional writers/journalists. While one might argue that an iPad is better, I think one of the b
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Didn't offices in that era have an area called a "typing pool" to confine the noise to a dedicated area to keep common areas quieter?
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I had a CoCo as a child too. I remember thinking the Microsoft "Extended" Basic for the CoCo was pretty cool. Although it was pretty painful manually typing in source code from magazines to try new programs (I think the main magaz
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> Markdown got it wrong You're right. The problem with the statement is that there's a presumption Markdown was created for the world at large, and I think it was originally designed for one "customer", who also happe
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> markdown is opinionated. This. If I were to guess, Gruber made Markdown to make writing for his blog easier. Then he made it available for whoever wanted to use it too, which was very nice of him. Given how there are already multiple f
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> Doing this basic formatting in ascii text is just mind-numbingly stupid. It might be today , but many of us who are older used Markdown-like formatting even before Markdown was even a thing, because on BBSes and other applications, ev
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I'm in pretty much exactly the same boat as you. Not a fan of the PM or Premier of my province, but am not unhappy with how things are being handled. While I have a lot of issues with the messaging (in that it could be blunter and clea
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by slantyyz 7y ago
There's now a report that the CDC may start encouraging people to cover their faces in public. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/490308-cdc-may-u...
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AMD's most important product ever – Ryzen 9 4900HS(youtube.com)
2 points by slantyyz 7y ago|0 comments
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by slantyyz 7y ago
> I just wish it could properly injest .AI files. For me, it's the only non-Illustrator app that I tried that didn't mangle them too much (visually speaking). I had tried so many free and non-free (but inexpensive) apps on Mac
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I have Affinity Photo, but I find I don't even use Photo for photos at all. It's usually for manipulating non-photo raster stuff for the web. For photos, I pretty much use DxO (Lightroom equivalent) exclusively. I have found Light
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by slantyyz 7y ago
Dr Michael Lin, the author of that PDF on COVID that was posted here a while ago had this to say: "A T-shirt is 79% as effective as a surgical mask. So if someone is coughing next to you and you can't escape, breathe through your
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It also gets your heart rate up to cardio levels (according to my fitbit at least)
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UX Researcher comments on pandemic messaging(reddit.com)
3 points by slantyyz 7y ago|0 comments
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by slantyyz 7y ago
It wasn't top tier when it was released either. The 2017 Gen 1 switch was using a variant of the X1 chip that had been around in other devices since 2015.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
The best type of evangelism is adoption by one of the most heavily used sites in the world.
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by slantyyz 7y ago
I like it a lot. I mix it with Just Dance and Fitness Boxing. I only have fitness based software on my Switch.

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