altarius

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by altarius 4y ago
Fuji has had the film simulations since the original first-gen X100. Every generation gets faster, has better AF and an added film sim or two. The first and second generation are slow by today's standards and AF is not fast or reliable
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by altarius 4y ago
Some would call that "machine learning". I know it's hard to make a distinction, but the term "AI" is too ill-defined to argue about what constitues "real AI" and what is mere machine learning. Are those e
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by altarius 4y ago
In my opinion, housing is mostly inelastic unless people have to sell due to external circumstances (like being unable to pay mortgage). I don't expect the housing market to decline more than 15-20%, as the more people are "underw
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by altarius 4y ago
Plus, if you want to fly it "really" legally you often can't. In CA, according to my own research: - you can't fly over private property, - pretty much _ALL_ parks&rec departments and counties in the Bay Area prohibi
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by altarius 4y ago
It sounds like they need to hire people that have the most basic understanding of security and authentication -- but that's just too expensive when most customers are looking for the cheapest camera and barely care. Also, you know... b
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by altarius 4y ago
Correct, it was the iphone 7 that launched in 2016. Iphone X or thereabouts hits about the sweetspot for me.
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by altarius 4y ago
I can definitely tell a big difference in colors and details (sometimes a tad too much) from a 2016 iphone 6 to a 2020 Pixel 4 eg. But the jump from the Pixel 4a 5G to the 6 Pro wasn't that big, maybe 10-20% subjective improvement. I e
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by altarius 4y ago
Exactly, I wouldn't be surprised if a driver's paycheck is a substantial part of the total cost, so you might end up needing two to four trucks to haul the same payload due to extra weight of the batteries (and there's an 80k
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by altarius 4y ago
Late to respond but I'll do it anyway. I'd estimate about 75% of the US population would have access to an Uber when the car needs to go to the shop (and $650 would buy a few rides). I wouldn't buy a 15 y/o Fiat/Chr
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by altarius 4y ago
On the other hand, I'm surprised how few people are worried at all about taking the COVID-19 antivirals.
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by altarius 4y ago
Is it any worse than paying $650 literally every month (avg car loan payment now afaict)? The problem is that people can't save. It'd be prudent to buy the car for $2k and save the remaining $3k somewhere to cover repairs instead
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by altarius 4y ago
If VR takes shape as imagined by Meta, though I personally don't believe it will, they will absolutely be in an excellent position to market to and profile you. I think the vision is that everyone spends most of their online time in VR
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by altarius 4y ago
Correct, but historically the price had been stable and predictable. Imo you're just trading "beholden to the usgovt" with "beholden to miners, whales and wall street" plus wild price swings. Former or latter may be
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by altarius 4y ago
I had to return one of these because the connectivity was abysmal. The second one feels about average, no more complaints. I have a feeling that some of these may have assembly or hardware defects, and only kinda sort of work. The differenc
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by altarius 4y ago
I don't know. This comes up all the time in photog discussions but I think it's just a matter of older Pros being used to it. Last Olympics was the first time I saw almost as many Sony cameras as Canon in the stands, so we will se
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by altarius 4y ago
So this includes annual issuing, physical transport of coins and bank notes ("cash"), ATMs and points-of-sale and card payments, wire transfers and debit as wells as "banks" (under bookkeeping!). Compared to just "i
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Turning Downtown Offices into Housing Isn’t the Solution You Think It Is(sfstandard.com)
1 points by altarius 4y ago|0 comments
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by altarius 4y ago
Possible, but not as cheap and easy as it might seem. https://sfstandard.com/housing-development/turning-downtown-...
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by altarius 4y ago
Having used both Python and Ruby professionally and Lua in a hobby setting, they all have their place. To me, Python feels rooted in procedural programming (as imo evidenced by how many of the built-in base functions behave, statements vs e
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by altarius 4y ago
The article also states that an expert "consultant" thinks the car will not pass the German roadworthiness inspection and will not be allowed to drive on public roads thereafter (which has to happen every 2 years?). It's like
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by altarius 4y ago
> "Recycling does not work, it never will work, and no amount of false advertising will change that," said report author Judith Enck, a former EPA regional administrator. Yet cross-checking a few other countries, Germany seems
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U.S. plastic recycling rate drops to close to 5%(reuters.com)
11 points by altarius 4y ago|10 comments
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by altarius 4y ago
This may not be the case here and I couldn't quickly find data -- but Tesla has done "drops" in the past where they deliver many pre-ordered vehicles in a certain month and completely annihilate other EV sales that month. Tha
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by altarius 4y ago
Edmunds comes to the same conclusions independently [1]. Maybe Tesla's efficiency is overstated? No idea. ID.4 seems to outperform their WLTP/EPA range numbers whereas most Model 3s seem to under-perform in the real world. Maybe V
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by altarius 4y ago
> Why? Twitter included lurkers in its dataset, this article didn't, why should that impact stats in the direction of fake accounts being smaller? Because you usually don't create fake accounts to lurk, but to do "somethin
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by altarius 4y ago
That's a pretty common scam in the US with FedEx as well... someone must have access to lots of tracking numbers, they sell stuff on ebay and provide a tracking that sort of matches your city and paypal won't do anything as long a
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by altarius 4y ago
Definitely. It's also mostly Steve Jobs'/Apple's definition. But in the context of discussing Apple, many often solely talk about the shiny exteriors and looks of Apple products while neglecting usability. We may disagre
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by altarius 4y ago
I don't think it's the design, it's the usability. I might argue that it has always more about usability than design. Sure, the iconic designs of the G4 Cube, iMac, metal Powerbooks and later Macbook were what drew people in,
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by altarius 4y ago
Always found it interesting how the small cars grow and then the manufacturer has to slot in a new model at the bottom (eg i can think of the VW Golf and Pluto, VW Tiguan and now Taos).
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by altarius 4y ago
I'm always curious about carbon fiber recycling. It is my understanding that as long as you're using an epoxy matrix the best you can do is "down cycle", i.e. you shred your part, literally burn off the resin and reuse t

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