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by vr46 3y ago
My 600SE has been largely out for action for years, with only a trickle of film available. Results were predictable when Polaroid and Fuji peel-apart film were available. The modern Polaroid film is anything but predictable or even vaguely
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by vr46 3y ago
We always called weirs drowning machines too. Even my son knows them as this from an early age, my head instinctly regards them as scary now. There's a lot of them around in the UK.
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by vr46 3y ago
This is just about priorities and theirs are different to yours - firstly, we don't know that they don't have a system that catches and warns of possible errors, we only know that articles may be published without addressing them.
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by vr46 3y ago
It was correct when I just looked at it, and you still read it, though. Eventual correction works and is less important than getting the news out. Any-way - the fact that they have a system that seeks to improve the copy and direct it towar
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by vr46 3y ago
The Grauniad finally building electronic counter-measures. Great newspaper regardless.
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by vr46 3y ago
That last comment is a tad disingenuous - a photographer cloned extra smoke from attacks in a fairly obvious way that was quickly picked up, and another was a crop, fairly standard practice. Hardly a “history” of “doctoring” pictures.
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by vr46 3y ago
My pal is OBSESSED over making a book of 8 x 10 Polaroids. Has been talking about it for years. He is planning on getting: Intrepid 8 x 10 view camera 8 x 10 film holders Changing bags Polaroid film next time it's in production Two len
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by vr46 3y ago
Film used be about a steady-stream of operational costs, amortizing film, processing and printing over many years. Digital has always been about huge up-front costs of cameras and computer processing. Film purchase and processing now have s
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by vr46 3y ago
Amazing article. I made a specific point to go and see Shellac when I was at Primavera in 2018, a bucket list gig. Complicated guy. I was hoping he'd also renounced his hatred of jazz when I opened the article, but no such luck it seem
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by vr46 3y ago
Ditto. Power gives up nothing without a fight.
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by vr46 3y ago
The UK Land Registry, where all property searches are made, offers a free service to notify parties if any kind of search is made on a property to protect against fraud. Strongly recommended. https://www.gov.uk/guidance&#x2F
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by vr46 3y ago
They’re avaricious bastards, it’s what they are. Huge, vast amounts of money flows through businesses and straight to landlords in London, strangling investment in small businesses, their employees and the wider economy. Businesses with hig
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by vr46 3y ago
About three or four years ago, I asked the owners of a closed-down department store if we could turn a big chunk of the 4-5 storey section into a climbing wall and was told to F-off as they had bigger plans for a new commercial centre with
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by vr46 3y ago
IIRC Secondary legislation can be challenged in the courts and this is hopefully where the fight will take place between the well-heeled cat 1 service companies and Uk.gov Else companies will leave or simply ignore the legislation, e.g. Sig
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by vr46 3y ago
I honestly hate my current government with all my heart. Let this series of badly-thought-out bills be destroyed in the courts once the courts find that reality bats last. There’s probably a clause in there that decrees Pi must be four fro
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by vr46 3y ago
Documentation has definitely gotten better, especially as people realize that this drives adoption and sales of the language/library/product. For more complex problems that are better served by a call-and-response loop, Discord se
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by vr46 3y ago
I very much miss Pete Townshend’s articulate and incisive commentaries on music and society which were more frequent in the press many years ago. I knew this story but not the part where he wrote a message to the family on Scott Halpin’s de
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by vr46 3y ago
The presentation of the data doesn't support the conclusions drawn, i.e. women have been actively impeded in songwriting - they might have been, but the data doesn't say that on its own. Also, some credits were only there due to s
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by vr46 3y ago
The last Intel Macs were mind-numbingly expensive - my i9 MBP16 in 2020 was around £4.5K I think - and I would be seriously irritated at not being able to sweat this particular asset, or even sell it on. At least it still boots Windows. Sti
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by vr46 3y ago
As an aside, I once went to the Apple Festival in Cambridge (UK) where several hundred varieties were available and the queue for the, erm, apple store, was around the block. The choice was amazing but it’s unrealistic to offer consumers so
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by vr46 3y ago
No kidding on the boutique shops, an expensive street in Covent Garden is super cool to pickup a bike from but running a specialised servicing department from there was clearly commercial suicide. For profligacy this was topped only by a da
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by vr46 3y ago
Bike theft is rampant in London, but I never had any worries with the X2, combination of inbuilt-lock and an Almax chain saw to that.
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by vr46 3y ago
Well the AirTag arrived about two years after the bikes, and Apple won’t go track the thief down for you and retrieve the bike.
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by vr46 3y ago
In Hamburg and London, bike shops absolutely have six week backlogs.
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by vr46 3y ago
Yeah, I hear you, the risk of buying something so integrated factored into my original decision. I was in London at the time, and after diagnosis of an error code I had, they simply shipped me a new wheel and motor as I said I could fix it
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by vr46 3y ago
Obviously not, but the point isn't to make a public model, but to make something out of my own - my question was how does ownership work? At some point, somebody is going to be making something out of their own massive archive.
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by vr46 3y ago
There's around 1M images in there, I was wondering whether the labelling and object detection would be more important than the quantity.
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by vr46 3y ago
Reading these discussions with interest as I am in the process of making and training my own personal model using my 31+ archive of photography, pictures taken and owned by be, which goes against this idea that models are not trained on dat
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by vr46 3y ago
I bought an X2 in July 2019 and still use it most days. There have been a few niggles but nothing major and customer service has been good. Would buy again. Given the cost, however, I really need to sweat this asset (while mildly sweating m
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by vr46 3y ago
Oh Lord, SRB in the Almeida’s Richard II was a chore, good at despair but the play was pared down and confusing instead of challenging.

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