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by xdennis 3y ago
Bankruptcy is not the same as going out of business. They restructured and still produce color film and slide film, but not Kodachrome. It was a very sophisticated film which could only be processed in a specialized lab and they couldn&#x27
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by xdennis 3y ago
How is that done? I'm using this to send what's copied into the clipboard to the other target: bind r run 'xsel -bo | tmux load-buffer -; tmux paste-buffer -t .+'
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Some have changed a little, some a lot. I compared one set of before/after and was surprised how much has changed: all the buildings seem to have changed in that one... until I noticed I was comparing images from two different location
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by xdennis 3y ago
> It's current year! But in all seriousness. Using a debugger can be useful, and even though I've given it a try numerous times, I mostly avoid it because it doesn't fit the way I think. Debugging is about searching for th
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by xdennis 3y ago
I tried using ChatGPT as a search engine, but it's too slow. With DuckDuckGo/Google you can just go to the domain, type, enter and you have your answer. I haven't used it in a few months, but with ChatGPT you have to log in,
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by xdennis 3y ago
I just went to http://download.com . On the frontpage they have demos for NFS Underground 2, Vice City and Age of Empires II. It's like I've entered a time warp. So many memories!
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by xdennis 3y ago
Here you go: https://imgur.com/XgSRnHi The viewfinder isn't mounted in that picture. The two knobs on the right are from the lens to control the speed (125, 250, 500) and the aperture. The knob on the left is the shutt
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by xdennis 3y ago
I like that it includes a large rope around the edge to prevent coin debasement.
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by xdennis 3y ago
I have a Fairchild K-20 [1] lens from WW2 and I created a 3D printed camera for it so I can shoot large format 4x5 inch film handheld. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_K-20
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by xdennis 3y ago
My biggest frustration with Google Maps is its insistence on always showing me Marx's grave. I live in North London, and whenever I plan a photography trip Google always shows me that genocidal maniac's grave. Oddly enough if I zo
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Can you imagine being in the middle of some work, Googling a term, only to be hit with "Sorry, we're over the government limit and can't fulfill your search" Programmers are often overconfident and think they can im
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by xdennis 3y ago
My test for whether I should play a game is to check if has sexes or body types. Unfortunately I can't play this game.
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by xdennis 3y ago
The Drug Enforcement Administration? What does that have to do with physics?
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by xdennis 3y ago
The people who created the term: the Open Source Initiative. Before, people most often used "free software" as defined by the free software movement, but some disliked this term because it's confusing (most think "free&q
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by xdennis 3y ago
> a single monolithic magnet How can you tell though? There are magnets which look like a single thing, but the polarity switches on the same side multiple times (sorry, I don't know what they're actually called).
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by xdennis 3y ago
Relevant Veritasum video about levitating things like strawberries or frogs: https://youtu.be/g0amdIcZt5I?t=1017
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by xdennis 3y ago
Ha, it really does look like the Balkenkreuz[1]. Although it was in use before Hitler and it's just a cross. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkenkreuz
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by xdennis 3y ago
Please don't call that guy Vlad. Vlad is short for Vladislav. You're looking vor Vova. It's like saying Ben is short for Bennett.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> He sounds rather bitter and arrogant. That might be your interpretation of it. I think the Germans would call it being straightforward.
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by xdennis 3y ago
The fact that it lacks Super keys is one non-subjective argument against it.
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by xdennis 3y ago
There are over 50 long term effects[1] of long Covid, with the top 3 being fatigue, headache, and attention disorder. To me it sounds like long Covid is just a series of various ailments caused by various reasons but all blamed on Covid. [1
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by xdennis 3y ago
You would be surprised how accommodating US trademarks are, like how you can't make pink insulation because it's "owned" by Owens Corning.
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by xdennis 3y ago
Previously people were banned for tweeting (...sorry x-ing): "men are not women". Twitter is the same anti-free-speech cesspool, just different management.
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by xdennis 3y ago
> In fact, after the war surveys showed French people overwhelmingly credited it with winning WW2. It was decades of american propaganda that reversed that. Contributions aren't judged by polling random people. Russia would have los
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by xdennis 3y ago
> and since Stalin didn't look to move westwards, Pardon my French, but WTF are you talking about? Stalin took half of Europe. It confounds me how people think WW2 ended with a success when millions were killed or enslaved as a resu
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by xdennis 3y ago
> it is widely accepted that Molotov-Ribbentrop pact was a necessity What horrible russian propaganda! The pact was about splitting Europe. That's why Russia invaded Poland[1], the Baltic countries[2], Finland[3], and Romania[4] aft
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by xdennis 3y ago
> Saipan and Okinawa invasions were humanitarian disasters, despite US forces best efforts. How is that the Japanese's fault? The US invaded. Americans always justify the genocide by saying "we had to bomb them otherwise we wou
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by xdennis 3y ago
I used to think that way too until I learned from Louis Rossmann that it's basically just blaming the victim (who might not actually have a real choice). For example it might be a rented place, or maybe he's just saying there temp
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by xdennis 3y ago
> someone who might racially abuse them Agreed, but note that "abuse" is the operative word here. It's possible to be racist and not be outwardly hateful, and it's also possible to be non-racist and horribly abusive t
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by xdennis 3y ago
Unrelated, and sorry in advance if this is unwanted advice... but I see on your homepage that you say your name is pronounced /'rafau pastoohshak/. But that's an English interpretation and /.../ is typically us

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