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by yzydserd 3y ago
20 years ago so had a 4000 dpi film scanner. It was very slow, noisy, and memory hungry. But it made great scans. I have hundreds of rolls of B&W 35mm and 6x7’s on 120 film that I’d love to rescan. I don’t own a digital camera to take a
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by yzydserd 3y ago
I received the same email today.
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by yzydserd 3y ago
Tube time is great podcast time.
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by yzydserd 3y ago
The music player I had in the early 2000s was great: a 2001 IOmega HipZip that took 40MB Clik! disks. I'd pop 3 albums on 3 disks for a day of listening around the city. No complaints at all. Nostalgia. https://www.reddit.co
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by yzydserd 3y ago
The dividend strategy of a company has, or should have, minimal if any influence over the valuation of the company. Capital appreciation alone is sufficient. Indeed, in theory any issued dividend is merely a planned dilution of value.
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by yzydserd 3y ago
To be fair and complete after my parent post, Mistral granted API access to me after 3 days.
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by yzydserd 3y ago
"endpoints are available in early access" is in reality "we have a waitlist (of unspecified length) for early access to endpoints" When I try to access: “Access to our API is currently invitation-only, but we'll let
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by yzydserd 3y ago
Seeing Halley’s Comet. I was lucky enough to be born in a year where I may see and remember the “once in a lifetime” event twice.
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by yzydserd 3y ago
Mastodon has inbuilt rss feeds for every user, for any given hashtag on an instance, etc. Eg https://mastodon.social/@gargron.rss
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by yzydserd 3y ago
It brings joy that “Put that cocktail down. Your HandBrake encode is complete!" Has lasted through all the years.
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"I'm calling from Israeli intelligence"(bbc.co.uk)
57 points by yzydserd 3y ago|42 comments
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by yzydserd 3y ago
Kagi searches are soon to be unlimited (fair use policy?) for the $10 plan. If I understand correctly, this may happen around October 2 when other new features are released. I use search a lot in my workflow and my usage is showing 2k/
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by yzydserd 3y ago
>”vast majority of it is not held for investment purposes.” “Vast” may be going too far. Each year, gold acquired for investment or by central banks is about the same as that acquired by the jewellery industry. Not the greatest link, but
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by yzydserd 4y ago
“I plan to add a paywall as APIs are not free.” If that’s the motivation to charge, rather than to make money yourself, then why not permit BYO API keys like other services? Or just open source it?
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by yzydserd 4y ago
This seems erroneous "~50,000 DAU (1.4M MAU)". It can't be true that the average monthly user only interacts once per month (1.4M/50k). How do you explain the figure? Dividing MAU by 30 would not be a good approach.
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by yzydserd 4y ago
"[UK] Consumer group Which? measured the caffeine in cappuccino, espresso and filter coffee at Caffè Nero, Costa, Greggs, Pret a Manger and Starbucks. It found Pret's single espresso had six times as much caffeine as Starbucks&#x2
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Caffeine levels in High Street coffee vary, tests find(bbc.co.uk)
11 points by yzydserd 4y ago|2 comments
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by yzydserd 4y ago
TL;DR - Apple makes a huge profit on selling AppleCare. Recent estimates [0] shows that in 2021 Apple had revenue of $8.5B on Applecare while claims cost $2.6B. Also, the claim rate has been dropping YoY while revenue from AppleCare has bee
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by yzydserd 4y ago
Thanks for this. Pocket Cast user 2013-2018 Castro user 2018-2022. I switched to them after an awful PC rewrite. Snipd looks interesting. May be my 2022-2026 daily driver.
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by yzydserd 4y ago
The famous “Rules of (Test) cricket as explained to a foreigner”, anonymously penned decades ago, resemble GPT-3 prose. “You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when
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by yzydserd 5y ago
> It must be noted that the satellites were not directly damaged by the geomagnetic storm. The storm warmed the atmosphere which caused it to expand, leading to additional drag that prohibited the satellites from leaving their low "
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by yzydserd 5y ago
I don't use hand written or electronic lists or reminder systems. You might say I use a biological memory system but I don't see it in any way as a list. I'm aware that I have tasks, and they have deadlines, priorities, effor