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Cool technology, but seems a bit of an extreme effort just to check train position. Why can't they just use markers on the tunnel walls (or under the tracks)?
They say the best camera is the one you have with you, and your phone is usually with you. In any case, some professional photographers actually prefer shooting on their phone even for planned, high-profile shoots—perhaps they like its convenience, or that its unassuming nature puts subjects at ease. Or perhaps they find it creatively freeing to be burdened down by only minimal gear.
For example: https://www.gadgetmatch.com/time-covers-shot-iphones/
Part of the problem is that Monotype has a bit of a monopoly in the upper segment of the market though right? I know they're not the only players, but it feels like they've vacuumed up enough small, successful foundries that they now control enough of the market that they can get away with the kind of aggressive behavior that wouldn't be tenable in a healthier, more competitive marketplace.
From Wikipedia [0]
Via acquisitions including Linotype GmbH, International Typeface Corporation, Bitstream, FontShop, URW, Hoefler & Co., Fontsmith, Fontworks [ja] and Colophon Foundry, the company has gained the rights to major font families including Helvetica, ITC Franklin Gothic, Optima, ITC Avant Garde, Palatino, FF DIN and Gotham. It also owns MyFonts, used by many independent font design studios.[3] The company is owned by HGGC, a private equity firm.
For those less familiar with them, those are BIG names, and the acquisition of them could perhaps aptly be compared, for instance, to Disney's acquisitions of properties like Lucasfilm and Marvel.
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I worked as the lead UX/UI designer and frontend engineer for a small startup for the last 3 years (I am also very proficient in backend and frequently contribute to backend features). I'm most interested in working for smaller companies that value a healthy work-life balance, offer a 100% remote structure, and provide an environment where I can continue to wear multiple hats and focus on crafting great user experiences.
Prior to my current job I built and ran my own SaaS side hustle for a while which led to more than $50k in revenue and helped me develop my skill interacting with customers and understanding their needs. I also designed video content and packaging that was used at retail stores around the United States.
But in addition to determining motion blur, shutter speed also massively affects which areas of the images are above/below the brightness range the sensor is capable of picking up.
How could you change the shutter speed in post?
The US State Department website has a note about that here:
No. Erdoğan started advocating for a switch to Türkiye a couple of years ago, and the UN recently adopted the Turkish spelling. The US State Department uses both spellings, while asserting (sensibly) that Türkiye should be used in "formal and diplomatic contexts." [0] English Wikipedia still uses the established English spelling. [1]
Some Turks I know seem to think this whole thing was mostly cooked up as a distraction from other issues that have come up or worsened under Erdoğan's leadership.
[0] https://www.state.gov/countries-areas/turkey/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey
It would be similar if "intellectual property" was property in the same sense in which a table or a vast amount of money is property. However, it is not.
Normal property ownership is something we use to manage scarcity that already exists—that there is only one of something, and we have to decide where it will go and who will be able to decide how it is used. Intellectual property, by contrast, creates artificial scarcity by means of a government-enforced monopoly (in the case of copyright, the monopoly is on the right to produce a copy of a work).
It is unfortunate (and perhaps not accidental) that we settled on the term "intellectual property" as opposed to something more descriptive like "intellectual monopoly." "Intellectual property" encourages equivocating such monopolies with normal property, a mistake that tends to muddle debates on the subject.
Some films are just not available for streaming. I used the Netflix disc mailer service relatively recently for this reason. It was a pretty good "catch all" for hard-to-find titles not on one of the major streaming subscription services and not available for streaming rental.
2k is enough for most cinema purposes. https://www.yedlin.net/ResDemo/index.html
I do think 8K will make a big difference for VR though due to the extreme angle of view.
Haha but what about "pumping hot water?"
Both of these things are surprisingly difficult to do properly, with enough consistency and control. I believe temperature profile can noticeably affect the roast, and being able to consistently hit a profile (and thus experiment and improve) is really difficult with something like a heat gun.
I did the heat gun thing for a while, and the air popper thing for a while, and even modified the air popper to be able to control fan speed and heating element separately. I got good results but hit a wall and needed more control. I started building an Arduino-controlled air popper to be able to get more consistent results, then decided brewing top-quality coffee coffee was challenging enough when roast quality was delegated to experts. Since then, I've been buying from local roasters.
I disagree. While a rich person's backing would certainly be helpful, I think convincing a couple of politicians with platforms and some clout on each side that spearheading a joint IP reform effort would benefit their political careers would be adequate to get the ball rolling.
If we work together, I think it would be realistic for us to attain a rollback of most recent one or two copyright term extensions by following a two-pronged strategy:
(1) Show politicians on the left how copyright term extensions have largely amounted to a transfer of wealth from the public to large corporations, and
(2) Show politicians on the right how rolling back to an earlier version of copyright would reduce the interference of the government in the lives of its citizens and return to a vision for IP that better adheres to that presented by the Constitution and defended by its framers, while leading to a more vibrant and competitive market for new works.
Meanwhile, both groups should be assured that a release of many classic works into the public domain would be popular among the vast majority of their constituents.
Who's in?
I was very recently at their central Milan location next to the cathedral for a few days and found it to be quite busy. In fact, some days I wasn't able to get a slot to use the shared space.
However, a not insignificant percentage of people in the shared space were students on a discounted membership who were there due to inadequate study space at the local university.
I also found their more central Madrid locations to be quite reliably busy.
I would like to see the criteria they are using to filter reviews. Are they removing disingenuous good reviews with equal force? Are they removing genuine, sincere, and insightful bad reviews?
I assure you that the difference between a $2k and $20 grinder is vast. Reasonably competent, usable espresso grinders generally start at hundreds of dollars and go up from there. If you can figure out how to make a good one for $20, you’ll make a fortune. Same goes for the machine.
Today would be Ima's 140th birthday.
For me, there is some value in facing the cold water head-on in the morning ("Wow, this is going to be cold, but here goes!" Great way to start the day. I have to admit though, the cold water is not super cold here this time of year.
Really cool! Thanks for sharing. I miss Apple products from those years.
As a long-time user of the Deliveries app for macOS / iOS, this is very disappointing. Other apps that aggregate shipping information from multiple package carriers also seem to be at risk, as shipping carriers apparently seek to strong-arm customers away from aggregation and into using their own, siloed apps.
To measure the meaning can make you delay.
It's time you stop thinkin' and waisting the day.
—from The Hobbit (1977) [0]
In 1790, copyright term in the US was 14 years (if registered) plus 14 more years (if renewed), for a maximum total of 28 years. As of 1998, the copyright term is 95 years after publication (or 75 years after the author's death). So if creativity is equally as difficult now as it was in the past, I would ask why copyright terms have been so substantially expanded.
It's also worth pointing out that, since the vast majority of works generate almost all their profits within the first few years of publication, such a lengthy copyright term primarily benefits rights holders of the extremely elite set of works that remain popular after decades of publication. In practice, this mostly winds up being companies like Disney, Sony, Universal, and so on. Meanwhile, the group that is most directly harmed is not the public in general, but everyday artists—who are less free than they were in the past to build on previous works, remix them, or use them as supporting elements in a larger project.
Consider that, whereas consumers wanting to enjoy an older (let's say WWII-era) work usually face a choice between paying a small fee and getting an unauthorized copy somehow, creators face a choice between enduring a difficult and extremely costly licensing ordeal or opening themselves up to substantial legal risk. Creators often lose heart when faced with this dilemma—and many projects, at least a few of which would probably have been great, will never be made because of this.
Re: "intellectual property" and "piracy," I agree. The terms are problematic and misleading. How about "intellectual monopoly" and "infringement" as more accurate, neutral terms?
Dropbox supports block-level file sync. I'm not sure if Google Drive or OneDrive support that yet? It makes a big difference when working on large files.
…thereby dropping support for their smallest currently supported phone. I still have and appreciate the original SE.
Will they include this additive in the ingredients list?
Cool! I would like to be able to use j and k to navigate up and down when in item selection mode, a la vim (to avoid moving hand to arrow keys).
I think most proportional fonts work this way by default? At any rate, enabling tabular figures is a step I expect to need to take when I want rows of numbers to align when using an otherwise proportional font.