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by slantyyz 9y ago
How about something as simple as a spare tire? Having been unlucky enough (twice) to have experienced sidewall tire damage, the one deal breaker for me on a new car is the absence of a spare tire and/or a well in the trunk and the opti
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Well let me give you a better example. Because of the professional standards held by certain professions (medical doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, etc) - until they recently relaxed the rules, Canada required passport applications
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I find that with contracts in general, lawyers will throw in all sorts of clauses that may or may not be enforceable and hope they stick. That's why they add something to get you to agree "if one part is found to be invalid or un
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Don't confuse legality with morality. They may be related but they are not always in sync. In the real world the law will often prevail. Context is important. You can call non-kobe beef "kobe beef" in casual conversation, but
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> "Engineer" is not broadly considered a claim of authority. It is a claim of knowledge. Can you explain what you mean by that? The reason why I ask is this - before the process was simplified in Canada, you were required t
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by slantyyz 9y ago
You're missing my original point, which is to say the guy can't legally call himself an engineer in Oregon, at least in a professional capacity, which would be related to a profession/consumer protection. If you actually foll
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Words are protected by the law all the time, especially as it relates to copyright/trademarks, commerce, certain professions and consumer protection.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
True, but I'm only pointing out how it is, not how it should be. Unfortunately, not liking an outdated law doesn't invalidate it or prevent it from being enforced. That's a separate issue.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> He is an engineer, changing the title as you suggest makes it sound like he isn't. Is he really though? He has an engineering education, but in Oregon he's not officially an engineer. In a lot of jurisdictions, you can&
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> That being said, if I was ever to leave home automation hardware behind, it'd be a "if you want to pay x on top of the already agreed upon price for the property, I'll leave it", where x is the cost for me to ju
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> I'm so glad that I attended university before it was the done thing for students to be on laptops during lectures. I'm also glad I finished before laptops (and even www) became a thing. For me, the clicking and clacking o
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by slantyyz 9y ago
The under-represented party in that video is the hardware. Humans (regardless of whether they are male, female or other) are over-represented in that video and they add no useful information to prospective buyers.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
That almost sounds like a unibody Macbook Pro. I'm probably in the minority here, but to me, the best laptop ever made was the 15" unibody Macbook Pro, the predecessor to the Retina (so long as we forget the gpu dumpster fire that
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by slantyyz 9y ago
On the surface though, these guys look to be a small company in Vietnam, so I doubt they have an infinite budget, much less a "large" budget for this demonstration.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I wouldn't at all be surprised if all interns are let go after three months for a bogus reason ("you're toxic!") so that the company can continuously get free work from unwitting internship candidates.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Well they did sell Sketchup to Trimble when they got bored with that.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
In the pre-retina days, Mac laptops were quite easy to service yourself. I had a plastic Macbook that I spilled soda pop onto. The keyboard basically got fried. I ordered a replacement part from OWC and was able to fix it myself quite quick
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I'm in the same boat. When I was growing up, a mini computer was huge. When I was in high school, some of my programming courses were on Digital PDP mini computers. I remember writing BASIC programs with a Sharpie on optical mark reade
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> Phones at that time were mostly just laid out to render WAP pages only Well, phones in general maybe. Smart phones and PDAs like the iPaq running Windows CE (or whatever it was called - it had so many name changes I lost track) h
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by slantyyz 9y ago
Some cameras do have this. The Fuji X10/X20 (and probably X30) had a focusing distance indicator on the screen, and I loved that feature. I can't speak for the other Fuji X models since I only had the X10 and X20. I really miss th
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by slantyyz 9y ago
I have to wonder if adding the IR thingamabob they use for facial recognition to the rear camera would help improve the out of focus blurring since the dot array would help the phone figure out rough distances of items in the frame.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> they can certainly tell that it still looks better The thing is that this is highly subjective and widely varies from person to person. Sometimes it's related to the content (subject) of the photo, sometimes it's the colo
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by slantyyz 9y ago
That really depends on the platform. If you're willing to go with a higher crop factor you will see real world size reductions in the lens. For example, compare the size of the Panasonic M43 35-100/2.8 to the Canon 70-200/2.8
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> But it's silly to say that this hardware can compare to pro hardware. Yes, that is true for people who have some knowledge. For most non-photography-buffs, the comparison goes as far as "hey, that looks as good as the pho
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> 20 years ago is a bit of a stretch 20 years ago, in 1997, I bought my first -consumer- digital camera, an Epson Photo PC500. It had a resolution of 640x480. If I'm not mistaken, I think I paid around 700 CAD at the time. And t
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by slantyyz 9y ago
>> That's very strange. Not really. A layperson takes stuff for granted because they don't know better (or what to look for). An expert knows better and can appreciate the differences.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
There are many of these for car names: Chevy Nova (no va), and Mazda Miata sounding phonetically similar to mierda in Spanish.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
But in a way, the system did work, right? To me, the greatest thing about open source software is that you can fork a project for whatever reason, even if it's a bad one.
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by slantyyz 9y ago
It's funny. Personally, I only use about 10% of Sublime's functionality, yet I keep upgrading to new builds (even though there's nothing new that I need), and I plan on buying a license upgrade when 3.0 goes official. I don&#
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by slantyyz 9y ago
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