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There's measurements to support your feeling that primes are better than zooms: https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2019/11/stopping-down-some-... and https://www.lensrentals.com/blog…

No more absurd than US card schemes dictating what I can and can't buy in another country.

As you say, network programs activating from a master network management is, of course, the history of Unix. It's ironic to see knee-jerk complaints about it.

This to me is interesting when it comes to free software projects; sure there are a lot of people contributing as their day job. But if you contribute or manage a project for the p…

There are already companies promising to attack Wikipedia and product LLM-bait YouTube content. Ship's sailed.

Foxes live happily in urban areas all over Britain. The problem here is the Google employees.

> AI companies aren't seriously arguing that copyright shouldn't apply to them because "it's bad for business". AI companies have, in fact, said that the law shouldn't apply to the…

If you cared about your privacy, why are you handing all this stuff to Sam Altman? Did he represent that OpenAI would be privacy-preserving? Have they taken any technical steps to …

> Designers hated Nielsen. Several of the designers I worked with liked him, in as much as he gave them research to back them in their arguments with clients that the site should a…

I imagine Telegram-based training data will bias Grok to reflect Musk's own views more reliably than any other platform out there.

You're correct that Christian Zionists only care about Jews to the extent that the right number of them will be in Israel to be killed as part of the End Times prophecies based off…

Man, I remember the absolute hysteria here over the non-profit trying to reign Altman in. You'd have thought they were murdering babies. I agree with your analysis, but it's hilari…

> South Korea The West supported an brutal military dictatorship in South Korea for decades. South Korean democracy is the result of internal struggle by the South Korean people.

I mean it's true that there's a rule, but at this point in US history I think we have reason to be sceptical that it will be enforced.

And yet South Africa and Israel aren't glass.

It's stupider than that - a lot of people believe that the manufacturer will just eat a 25% hike in tax. Build a tariff wall and make China pay, as it were.

Before the election: "Project 2025 isn't real". Now: Oh you better believe it's real.

> This is obviously aimed at the Leica/Ricoh crowd, No-one who shoots M-mount at this point is giving up their rangefinder for an LCD-only camera with no viewfinder.

"Worse glass" is a religious position if we're talking about Sigma glass. Especially considering how likely it is that any given name-brand lens is actually a Sigma design, or a Si…

Firstly the main failure of connectors in cameras isn't the connector per se, it's generally the board that the connector is mounted on breaks off from the mainboard. Secondly, and…

"We need you in the office for CoLlAboRaTIon." "OK, we'll have coffee after our morning standup." "Absolutely not."

Would you say the East India Company had no command when its armies conquered India?

The only CEO who I've worked for who I would describe as winning at capitalism is a former bank CEO who worked in the job for 8 years, retired in his late forties (IIRC) having pul…

The only formal study that I've seen shows that there is 15% more fraud in remote financial services work. Do you have any studies pointing to this being wrong?