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by trm42 1y ago
One interesting detail is that the Chinese have been improving their photography lens production and quality in rapid pace and cheap price. The legendary Zeiss is producing the lithography lenses for ASML, so it looks like China is pouring
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by trm42 2y ago
Best practices and such shouldn't be obeyed as "laws" but guidelines for general work. Once in a while there's good reason to avoid / skip them for whatever reason. The bigger issue is that developers (me included)
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by trm42 2y ago
Haven't used any Linux Distribution on Desktop so cannot comment that side or the installer but my home server has been running Ubuntu LTSes for over a decade. Last night I upgraded it to 24.04 LTS and I was really surprised how well a
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by trm42 2y ago
Happened to upgrade my PowerMac G4 Digital Audio model with OWC's PATA SSD (actually was SATA SSD with PATA adapter), It wasn't a slouch with the probably original PATA HDD but SSD made things even faster and I don't have to
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by trm42 3y ago
The N95 was super awkward to use. It had all the bells and whistles that you could cram into a phone at that point and it all was in small menus under menus under menus etc. N95 being a best seller was one of the reasons why Nokia was so su
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by trm42 3y ago
For Symbian phones Nokia was designing different icons for every phone model. When times started to go bad for them, they introduced common icons for new models and hailed that as a big design innovation.
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by trm42 3y ago
The 3310 was the culmination of Nokia's really good UX work. Symbian convoluted all that and made it a big mess. The manuals for symbian phones were thick and heavy and mostly no one except the engineer-natured people could actually us
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by trm42 3y ago
It was super nice to use at the time but it was also completely unsealed against weather so if a bit of snow or water got beneath the wheel, you would get unusable phone quite fast. Happened to mine even though I was super careful, luckily
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by trm42 3y ago
Ooh, Tintin is one of the first comics I was introduced after Donald Duck (the Carl Barks stories are still as good as then!) Luckily the Franco-Belgian comics have been readily available in Finland and usually with good translations as wel
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by trm42 3y ago
Oh wow, before this I haven't used old System versions than 6.0.8 or so and it's just super amazing how ready and well thought even the System 1.0 feels usability-wise! Compare to any Windows before Windows 95, which finally caugh
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by trm42 4y ago
My home server has currently running: - Nextcloud (for normal collection of files etc) - Home Assistant - Zwave JS (for Home Assistant) - Couple of Minecraft servers - Pihole for DNS based tracking and ad blocking - Not continuously running
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by trm42 4y ago
The Snowman is a tradition here in Finland as well but it airs in the midday just before the announcement of Christmas Peace[1] (which is aired live every year from Turku and watching that as well is a tradition for some). Quite many Finnis
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by trm42 4y ago
Good list. With a paltry experience of 14 years, I would add one silly thing that kind of feels too obvious to even add: When there's an error or exception, read the error and the stack trace thoroughly and figure out what it means eve
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by trm42 4y ago
This reminds me of a quite Mac centric[1] BBS system called Firstclass[2]. Its client felt almost like a normal Mac OS Classic Finder windows and it was so intuitive compared to normal text based BBSes which I also used at the time. [1] I r
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by trm42 4y ago
Bought a Canon EOS-3 year ago and it's funny how it almost feels like DSLR but with film. The amount of electronics and what in can do is amazing. Well DSLRs are basically film SLRs but with a sensor instead of film + some R&D impr
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by trm42 4y ago
One thing that's forgotten nowadays is that the old and even older 35mm films were a lot more grainier the ones we have now. 35mm started to gain bigger traction in the 60s and after that as the film stocks improved. Also 24-36 photos
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by trm42 4y ago
My routine has been: * Vitamin D * Philips Wake Up Lamp for the mornings * Home-assistant controlling Trådfri lights with Flux so that the color temp changes throughout the day. Ie daylight style light in the mid day and then getting more o
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by trm42 4y ago
Photography in general after I started coding for a living 15 years ago but for the last few years I've been getting into film photography and somewhat into film camera collecting. Especially in medium format. Don't get me wrong,
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by trm42 4y ago
The Canon EF 40mm f2.8 is fun lens for DSLRs but with adapter to mirrorless bodies, the adapter eats the small size benefit as with the other small SLR-era lenses. Sony has been keeping the mirrorless full-frame lenses quite small. The old
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by trm42 4y ago
Haha, sounds super boring compared to 2004 when I bought Fujitsu Siemen's cheapest Pentium M laptop and had to build some kernel modules, build custom rules for power saving scenes (as there weren't that much of ready rules) and f
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by trm42 4y ago
Every phone is nowadays a slab with a touch display so there hasn't been big surprises for a long time. Just gradual improvements and small new features once in awhile. To follow the scene I've noticed it's easier to follow n
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by trm42 5y ago
I had partially forgotten the pixel graphics style of 80s - 90s Macintosh scene. Damn, it's crisp and graphical compared to Amiga and PC graphics. It would be fun to read about the similarities and differences between it, PC, C64 and A
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by trm42 5y ago
Yes there is. Google for "film dx code stickers" to find some examples. Useful thing to have with point and shoot film cameras which are not offering manual override for ISO for push/pull development. (I'm looking at you
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by trm42 5y ago
My personal pet peeve is that the Chrome's different User Profiles is so easy to use. I'm aware of the different plugins that can offer similar functionality but the setup Chrome is offering is so simple and intuitive that switchi
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by trm42 5y ago
There were Macintoshes here and there at least in Finland where I live. Saw first Mac in 1989 or 90 and did see them here and there but they were not common household items. C64 was kind of a national computer for the 80s but there were oth
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by trm42 5y ago
It feels that Apple gathered around the creative professionals needing computers and Commodore 64 and Amigas gathered all the future creative professionals that affected game and software for long time. So even when the prices were less tha
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by trm42 5y ago
I've come to the same conclusion for the main product which always moves forward and currently has limited and tightly coupled relations. If the product gets lots of external consumers, then making it more versioned might make sense. B
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by trm42 5y ago
Out of curiosity: Is it possible that the US Government will do the same for Xiaomi that they did to Huawei? If so, how long will it take?
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by trm42 5y ago
I like ORMs for simple things like basic joins and wheres but in many cases more complicated SQL feels actually easier and more predictable than trying to convert them into ORM syntax. There's a limit to the usefulness of the ORM synta
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by trm42 5y ago
Same here! Was expecting speculative implementation or comparison how their setup would be and what kind of algorithms etc there could be.

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