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by slantyyz 9y ago
Stadiums that serve alcohol use and need cameras like this. The Toronto Blue Jays have had issues with beer throwing idiots during post season games in 2015 and 2016. The incident in 2016 was particularly bad when a guy threw a full beer ca
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I tend to think this 120MP sensor is probably going to be sold commercially as a surveillance product first. There's a lot of need for products like this in stadiums, arenas, large public areas etc.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
If they fixed my two biggest pet peeves with Windows 10, I'd be so, so happy. My number one pet peeve after switching back to Windows from Mac is the search. On Mac, I used a hotkey for Spotlight to launch apps. It always found the rig
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I've tried the stone scrubbers, they work at least as well as a metal bristled brush, but they leave stone crumbs stuck all over the grill and require additional work to clean them off. Not a huge deal, but could be a dealbreaker for s
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by slantyyz 9y ago
A trick I learned from a friend is to cover all the grills with sheets of foil, close the lid and heat the bbq to a high temperature for a short period of time and then remove the foil. Most of the crud should come off easily after that.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Back in the old days of the Mac, I used to play what I believe to be an "official" Tetris [1] on a Macintosh SE. Odd that there isn't an official one on Mac today given how just about every other platform has a version. [1]
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I am not a graphics professional either, and in the past couple of years, I've started to dislike Paint.NET a lot (I was a huge fan in the early days). These are, off the top of my head, what I consider to better than Paint.NET: Mac -
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by slantyyz 9y ago
> Paint.NET is by far the best the best picture editor I've seen. That's quite a statement. I would only say it with the following qualifiers: Paint.NET is by far the best free picture editor I've seen for Windows . I&#
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Is GimpShop still actively maintained to keep up with the latest Gimp (the Gimpshot site is a little vague on these details)? Didn't that provide a decent migration path for PhotoShop users to GIMP?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
It's been a while since I've used Inkscape to import .ai files, but does Inkscape still have a tendency to mangle them when you try to import them? If you're moving from one platform to another, you want legacy files to impor
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I bought Affinity Designer when I was still on Mac, and it was the first affordable non-Adobe app that I used that could open up Illustrator files without mangling them. When I eventually switched to Windows, I basically ended up repurcha
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Wow, hadn't heard the name "Dark Castle" in eons. That was a pretty good game, but as someone who has pretty much sucked at platformers forever, I could never get very far in the game. The game I probably ended up played the
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> facebook has very successfully created an ecosystem which makes it very very hard for you to escape and remain sane. Really? Ok granted, I'm probably "old" for an HN user, but to me Facebook is a system that creates
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> friends lists, photos, address book, messaging, groups. What you're listing sounds very similar to... email or one of the many instant messaging platforms.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> I'm still very confused as to why you believe that your communications over a company owned platform should/would be private. Is this a generational thing? When I got my first job, there were cultural norms about not maki
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by slantyyz 9y ago
> It's about price differentiation between different regions. I thought the DVD region locking had to do with the old school movie distribution rights systems that were in place. i.e. Fox would sell the rights to their movies to mul
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I always guessed (a guess not based on facts) that it had more to do with music licensing rules and how those work geographically, since most games have music?
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by slantyyz 9y ago
No. Without getting into too much detail (the /r/gpdwin subreddit can provide more info), the battery has to be a specific voltage, high drain and a specific size because the chassis has very little room in it. There are knockoffs
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I have the GPD Win 1 (Windows only) and while it's a pretty good pocket computer, I'm reluctant to ever buy another product from them because the support is lacking at best. Several users have had batteries swell, and GPD has not
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by slantyyz 9y ago
People interested in this topic might want to check out the Skept Vet's web site: http://skeptvet.com/Blog/ The site is run by a veterinarian who "takes a skeptical and science-based look at veterinary medici
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Generally speaking, the "trap" they use is to provoke you into lying to them, because lying to them is a felony (Title 18, United States Code, Section 1001). [1] [1] https://reason.com/archives/2018/02&#x
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by slantyyz 9y ago
While there might be some valid solutions that can be conceived for the problem, I highly doubt the problem will ever go away. People on the Internet use the veneer of anonymity afforded to them by the Internet to behave in a manner very di
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> it's easier not having to always pull out my phone. Not just that, but you don't have to hunt for apps and fiddle with UI. Asking Alexa to set the heat to 21.5 degrees is way faster than finding the closest mobile device,
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> it's also about avoiding fraud. It can also prevent a spouse or common law partner from winning the lottery in secret and taking off with all the money. It's happened more than once in Ontario, Canada, with one story maki
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Yes, but I'm guessing the reliable mechanical feeding of the cards is the harder task than the actual image capture.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
You could probably get something like a 10+ year old document scanner like a Scansnap 500 cheap. Those can hit 18ppm. edit: I realize this isn't 13pps, but it's not bad.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
In 1985, my high school inherited an old PDP mini computer and we had to use optical cards to write BASIC programs in my Data Processing class. It was kind of a trip, since most of the computer nerds had Apples, Commodores or whatnot at hom
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> HomePod might not be a success, and it definitely has some shortcomings. Well, it is early days. I wouldn't judge HomePod's success until it's been around for a year or more. Let's not forget all the criticism o
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I suspect Homepod is just the first in a series of products. I would not be surprised if Apple releases a soundbar type solution (maybe even with a built in Apple TV) in the future.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Usually you buy Bose for the looks and the prestige, not for the sound quality. Well people wouldn't buy Bose if they sounded bad. I don't think anyone who buys Bose hasn't been told they can get better sound for the

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