https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bT77XP52uw&t=73

“See no path oh soo bay see no path oh SOO BEE RAAAY”

I did not speak french when I was six. I do now, but apparently that doesn’t automatically translate memories from thirty years ago. It took me about 5 years of actively looking for this to find it. I found it by asking in a big forum (not reddit but that sort of thing) for something like “people driving cars deforesting space with lasers”.

This is ridiculous. If it goes into effect, the same women will complain when they see a big trans man full of tattoos in the women’s bathroom because the law has forced them to go there.

Purely and simply transphobia.

Still debatable, the weights are the code. That’s a bit like saying “X software is not open source because it has equations but it doesn’t include the proofs that they’re derived from”.

I have a Xiaomi, which typically is on the bad list of “dontkillmyapp” but with a bit of knowledge and care I’ve had zero issues.

You just have to know not to let the phone kill apps if you don’t want them killed 🤷‍♂️ but I guess many users can’t understand that.

I get that vivo phones aren’t supported, but the energy and messaging is very off here. “Vivo - no, lol” “open an issue or buy pixel”.

There’s no need to be a condescending dick to your users, you can just write “phones with aggressive task managers might kill the app and break updates”.

Plus I don’t think anybody sane is “buying pixel” just to access a widget app. 🙄

Oh, I guess I’m out of the loop, I thought this project was dead!

I switched from Goodreads to Storygraph and I love it. It doesn’t have ties to amazon and it’s a bit like goodreads minus the pointless fluff.

In 2025? Is that even a thing?

Yeah the article is quite clear but the headline isn’t. I struggle to consider “left-wing” a party that is clearly right-wing on many social issues.

Specific example from this very budget: increasing taxes on electric cars might be economically more taxing on more affluent people, but the implied message is “buy a petrol car instead” which isn’t a left-wing idea at all. Why are petrol cars not taxed per mile (but more aggressively)? Why are cars not taxed relative to cost - how is a 2.5 ton Hybrid Range Rover cheaper to tax than an electric Renault 5 (for say, 10000 miles a year), and how is that left wing???

Unfortunately I’ve seen this happen before, in Spain.

The national flag of Spain, when used by an individual, rarely ever represents “I love Spain and all that it entails” but rather “I have right-wing views, I only accept the catholic religion, gays aren’t natural, and immigrants should go back to their own countries”.

I don’t know if it can be taken back to just be the national flag, but if it can, Spain hasn’t managed to achieve it in the 20 years since it devolved into a narrow political symbol.

Maybe he’d feel more at ease if he wore clothes.

Some suggestions in no particular order. You might be aware of some of these but I’m going to try to assume no or almost no prior knowledge.

• After you buy a camera, you’ll start investing body in lenses. You will want to upgrade your body at some point, but probably you wouldn’t want that to mean you have to replace all your lenses. So try to find out what is your “dream” camera and buy the “baby” version of that, so that you get an upgrade path that is compatible with all/most lenses that you end up buying. E.g. Sony A6100 -> A7IV -> A9 Look up the style of photography people use these cameras for, pros and cons… You’re buying into a system, not just a camera. Switching is doable but expensive, so it’s good to get this right first time.
• IF you don’t mind manual focusing (that’s a big if), you can find really nice (vintage) lenses for peanuts on eBay that you can use on your camera with an adapter. This advice used to be more relevant when DSLRs were more prominent, as you had to make sure the flange distance would let you adapt all lenses, but in the age of mirrorless pretty much any camera has adapters for pretty much any vintage system. Do check this though - it’s useful unless you’re completely against the idea of focusing manually.
• If you go the route of vintage lenses, one feature that will make your life a lot easier is IBIS (in-body image stabilization). It basically means that the sensor is on a stabilised mount (not quite a gimbal but picture that) and you can take photos with longer focal lengths handheld.
• Prime lenses (non-zoom, the ones that only have a single focal length) tend to have much better performance than zoom lenses at the same price point. The problem is that you have to know you like that focal length before you buy them. Buy something that comes with a zoom lens and use it at fixed focal lengths (e.g. only shoot 50mm for a day) to see what you enjoy. You can also do try this with your phone.
• At least while you’re starting, embrace second hand. You can buy and sell lenses on eBay or similar losing very little money, so that’s a great way to try gear when you’re not sure you’ll like it.
• Lightroom is almost a standard but Darktable is free and against all odds, even more powerful than LR. I’d recommend getting started with it (or with RawTherapee) so you don’t have to pile up software costs on top of the camera.
• Try to shoot RAW as much as possible. Many modern cameras will produce great JPEGs straight out of the camera, Fujis are particularly good in this regard. However RAW files give you far broader possibilities to edit them to achieve what you want, which means that A) they’re more forgiving when you’re starting out and B) by editing and “fixing” your mistakes in post you’ll learn quickly what’s wrong with your pictures.
• Learn / research what crop factor is. The short version is focal lengths are usually referred in “35mm equivalent”, I.e. the focal length that would give you an equivalent field of view on a traditional 35mm camera. If you have a bigger sensor, the same focal length will look more “zoomed out” as the extra “periphery” of the bigger sensor will be covering more surface, if that makes sense. They’re a useful tool to compare the field of view across lenses / cameras with different sensors.
• Don’t listen to snobs - sure, you can get great photos more easily with a £5k camera but when you’re starting out you don’t need that. Save your money for when you know what you need. E.g. are you craving more resolution because you shoot architecture, or better low light performance because you’ve discovered you really enjoy concert photography? Sony (sorry for being so sony-centric, it’s the brand I know about the most) has the A7R and the A7S ranges which offer radically different capabilities, and neither is better, just geared for different uses. It’s better to start with a cheaper jack-of-all trades until you have a really good reason to spend more money on a body upgrade, as you’re really unlikely to get it exactly right early on.

I’ve seen over an over an “environmental” measure that causes this: disallowing cars only in central areas.

This means that people who actually need to use the car to get to work have to drive a much longer distance, only through less affluent areas, as if pollution didn’t matter over there.

I was in a situation a few years ago (not in the UK) where I had to drive to work because the only other way to get to the office/factory in time for the morning would have been to take a train the night before and camp in front of the factory. During that time there were some similar measures by the local government and I kept thinking how bonkers it was that using more fuel could be more “environmentally friendly”. It wasn’t - I was just polluting near people the government didn’t care about.

Agree. If you could go into every single store, house, nook and cranny of Cyberpunk 2077, and talk to all the NPCs, it would feel absolutely humongous. Gameplay significantly affects perceived size.

Ah sorry government - you guys rejected the option to regulate porn. Nowadays nobody watches porn in the UK, people watch it “from Switzerland” instead. Go ask them to regulate.

In Oxford we have a few distinct fashion tribes for sure. My favourite ones are the poor rich student, wearing jagged clothes but carrying a £6k digital Leica, and the middle aged people wearing hiking-chic (Patagonia and Arcteryx rather than Barbour).

Guardian Bikes. They’re opening a factory in Indiana.

Source? I’d expect a more realistic claim is running a microwave for 30 seconds to a minute.

I don’t think generating a sora video can definitely take 2-4 hours of GPU time as your claim suggests.

Are you ok?

Why have you written bat and ban with different “b’s” if they’re pronounced the same way?