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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I'm writing this reply on a Surface Pro 9 - the hardware is underpowered but is also the only reasonable option if you need a tablet that runs a "real" PC OS. But MS has had a heck of a time convincing ISV's to make soft
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I'd like to think that it's all due to them canceling The Peripheral, but it's probably more complicated than that...
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
All I want is a low-power passively-cooled replacement for my aging 5GB Quadro P2000 that doesn't crash out while running the new Lightroom denoise algorithms. None of these seem likely choices in that area, sigh.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
You drive a car of type Model Z. Someone, looking at a crash of a Model Z which was going 50 mph, discovers a design flaw that is particularly acute when the car is driven faster than 70. Do you: * adjust your driving behavior in accordance
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
One of the underappreciated health benefits of birding is the increase in upper body strength you get from lifting all that heavy glass you end up purchasing ... ; ) And, yes, Merlin has been transformative for me, too.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Isn't AdaCore handling the DO-178 side? Or does Ferrocene intend to have an offering here, also?
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Seeing that they're the one who, if there were more alternatives (like those generated by low-cost taxi services enabled by autonomy) would be less likely to have licenses, I don't think this follows at all...
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
That's behind a paywall. Do you have a link to the SwissRe paper by chance? (Which might also behind a paywall, of course ; )
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Perhaps because in the absence of the kind of alternative route to getting to work that autonomous cars offer, no one in (the US at least) is going to levy an economic death sentence for something that serious?
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Probably true, and I enjoy using my phone for social snapshots. But the way in which everything ends up looking "iphony" annoys me for anything where I care about the image, and so I'm shooting more with my dumber digital cam
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Yes, and particularly in the case of commercial landscape work. People photography, however, might actually be helped out more than hurt. Imagine all the post-processing you could do to "clean up" wedding photographs, for instance
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
And iPhone default camera settings lean toward the same direction. All my iPhone shots look like they are targeting Insta (which makes a kind of sense). One fun activity (for me, anyway) is to take the same landscape scene with my phone, my
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
If only there was some way to segment our user base by risk tolerance... : )
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
And tubeless tires with a good sealant allow you to have all the benefits of flexible tires (rolling efficiency and light weight) without any of this fancy mumbo-jumbo. I've been running tubeless tires within racing casings for years o
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
As a grad student at MIT in the mid 90s, I took my elderly Toyota to Ray's garage to get worked on several times. I was amazed to find out that often as not Ray would be the one working on my car. He was as funny in person as on the sh
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Crazy but intriguing stuff. Surprising (to me) thing to note - the first goal is to be able to construct "sentences" in Sperm Whalish not necessarily understand them. The next step is to figure out what they mean.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Consumer Reports, which presumably has test driven a wider array of cars than you or me, is pretty much constantly complaining about how the trend toward larger wheels is compromising ride quality. (In particular, when discussing trim level
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
It would be great to understand (and perhaps everyone else has figured this out already) how much of this stuff is just bad people responding to incentives created by social media design for anger and how much is directed (at least at some
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
In the things you can't do (at https://ai.meta.com/llama/use-policy/ ): "Military, warfare, *nuclear industries or applications*" Odd given the climate situation to say the least...
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
I doubt it. However, luckily for us someone has already invented called a vaccine that is far safer and plays a similar role in achieving herd immunity ; )
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
The HP is usually at least 30% off and has ECC memory - so depending on your use case it may still make sense.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
And there's a season just for that last category: https://www.birdandmoon.com/comic/four-seasons-of-bird-watch...
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Driver quality in the US is much lower than in cycling hotspots like the Netherlands or Denmark. Infrastructure helps, but better drivers are critical.
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by twoWhlsGud 3y ago
Not to mention everyone else who is not driving a 9000 lb Hummer - e.g. see how fear of being squished by a giant SUV dominates the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35827974
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
Indeed! And they arguably should have continued down that path - the workflow on "real" cameras still generally sucks much harder than it should. If they at least exposed decent API's you could at least scaffold around the li
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
No. I've been riding a road tubeless setup in Seattle and surrounding countryside for half a decade now and the feel has nothing to do with Slime. 55mm x ISO 559 lightweight road tires with Orange Seal. (In the NW we like wide road tir
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
"As a young man, the documentary filmmaker Errol Morris pressed himself into graduate school at Princeton, hoping to study with Kuhn. The experience wasn’t what he had hoped." Never expected to find a connection between Morris and
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
Indeed. The interchangeable lens camera market has stabilized (on a revenue basis at least), but it seems unlikely to ever again be a fast growing consumer market. That said, we're talking about a pretty affluent community of users. Ke
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
I used to think that, but the more I take pictures with my phone the more I disagree. My iPhone is very very good at taking iPhone pictures. That is to say all the places and people I take pictures of with my phone look the same. It's
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by twoWhlsGud 4y ago
I also see a lot more older folks walking around outside not staring at their phones. So while having built up habits without phones isn't a cure all for later ills, I think it can help.

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