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Excellent on stage in A German Life, even when the writing wasn't up to her acting. And the Lady In The Van!

RIP Maggie Smith

What people say they won't do and what they actually won't do are not the same thing

What issues did you find with the file storage? I’m using it backed by S3 and it hasn’t given me any issues at all so far, be nice to know what to watch out for.

This seems slightly off-topic, describing solely young women and giving off Daily Mail/Richard Littlejohn vibes.

Some people are terrible with money, in a way that bears no resemblance to the way a central bank deals with monetary policy and macroeconomics, so I really don’t understand why you posted this little rant.

I worked on a Laravel/Next.js project last year and couldn’t believe how much stuff you didn’t get for free, from debugging PHP to building the assets.

Rails JS build support is confusing and messy, but seems to be under control now, and is as much a fault of the JS ecosystem/hellscape as the maintainers. Turbo seems a bit uncertain too. But on the whole, it is ridiculously easy to get stuff done.

Things I would like addressed better:

* Authentication and Authorization

Actually, that’s it.

The very cool Bonsai dealer(?) I once bought a tree from summed the bonsai pruning tips for my limited memory as, (1) no criss-crossing branches, (2) nothing pointing down, and so far, those have proved very useful to me, but I've enjoyed reading more and more styles.

I barely use it but when I do need to look something up it’s great. But conscious that it’s not super robust, I simply save bookmarks in Zotero now and that works even better on all counts.

His words, in the context of Indian, Britishness, colonialism, his own writing and the suffering of those he had left behind - he himself apologised for the message "being tone deaf & reeking with privilege" and I think it was quite reasonable that people were irritated by his posts of palm trees and sunny beaches while so few others had the choice.

And secondly, he lives there, it was not a "foreign" country and he was not "stranded". He lives there.

Very good writer, but he personally wound me up with his public "Great Escape" from India during the pandemic and laid himself open to the criticism that followed, of being a fairweather friend.

Capless EF, Diamine Red Dragon. We cannot be talking about the same books, my friend ordered one and found the same problem, not sure what they were using. Bled badly with a Pilot C4, as well.

Leuchtturm paper bleeds like a napkin, so hopeless. Moleskine works. Hobonichi rules.

The ratio of pictures OF cameras to pictures FROM cameras is still too high, though, at least on my new Threads feed.

I have a wonderful collection of old CAMERA Magazin issues, and plenty of old brochures and pro magazines from the 1990s, and technical image quality has not advanced as far as people think it has, even if pixel peeping suggests otherwise. That alone helps me calm the GAS down when flipping though the PetaStoppers of the web today.

A mate has been desperate for a Hassy for, I swear, a decade, and has finally bought his dream 907 or something, and the only pics I saw from him so far were shot through a plane window. If it makes you happy, I guess. On the MF itch, I found a cheap-as-dirt 645Z and as you suggest, the images and colour depth are a marvel.

So much for not lugging heavy cameras around.

The arguments these days are at least well-spread out, suggesting people are finding great fit between themselves and kit. I neglected an X-Pro 1 for years before giving it away, but lovely camera for the right person. My mate shoots Olympus stuff, looks really well-made and professional.

Personally, I am occasionally taking full advantage of bargain top-notch kit on the second-hand market, as older gear and stuff that doesn’t fit people gets sold off.

I’ve not seen one in the wild, except maybe at Photopia Hamburg. It sounds staggeringly accomplished, as all Nikon flagships, but people who have no experience or have forgotten how much big cameras weigh are in for a shock. I bought a used 1DX once and it was both heavy and complex, nothing improved about my photography until I sold it. But it satiated a long desire to have the bestest baddest beast there was.

At least it has helped to dig Nikon out of a hole, and the market is competitive again. I still have no need for any of it yet but maybe if I take up birding when I retire…

But… you can’t flush baby wipes, unless you want to be a monster that contributes to sewer pipe fatbergs or local blockages.

Most excellent breakdown, I wonder who these machines were targeted at?

This is interesting as I have been a photographer for decades as well as playing various sports, and have had endless fantastic discussions with my opt over the years about the various merits of different lenses and glasses but this has never come up.

I wore only contacts from December 1992 to maybe a few years ago, when presbyopia made things impossible, and I have been lamenting - truly lamenting - the state of things with glasses.

I procured some Natural Vue lenses for multifocal vision last month, as I had previously tried them with decent results, but the outcome is not good at all. My near vision is rubbish.

I wish I could wear contacts again, my QoL has taken such a massive hit. I’m -10 in specs with astigmatism.

Awesome, love love Zotero, very thankful for all their efforts.

+1 for Taylor Branch’s three-volume biography of the Martin Luther King years, outstanding.

And barely scratches the surface of the catastrophe. What with mobile integration and my own shifting needs, what I didn’t need was the workflow confusion that Adobe introduced.

Lightroom was the ultimate one-stop shop but I’ve now come to split my workflow up so much that the editing is now hot-swappable. C1 is looking vulnerable to RawTherapee, I gotta say. Lightroom is sadly a dot in the rear-view mirror.

Annoyingly, the products are extremely good and mature. Lightroom aside.

I find them annoying to use but am happy to not have Adobe.

I keep a crate in the basement, drink one per day, it’s great. Not sugary or synthetic-tasting, but just like a mild tea. Win for me.

Crap article. Here’s a better one on pitch grass and turf.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/jun/15/silicon-val...

Yes, after she apologized for yelling at him.

I mean, he evoked sailor superstition to claim women were bad luck on a ship. Talk about old-fashioned.

As far out as the music was, everything about him was fabricated, but music and mystique aside, it’s still disappointing to again see an African-American man contributing to the marginalization of women, a long tradition that ought to be understood just as well as the contribution to culture.

For all the words portraying Sun Ra’s visionary attitude, that might be something others have projected onto him, for his real views and self-importance were the opposite of some of the suggestions written here.

For example, he objected to the late, great, Carla Bley, being in the Guild because she was a woman!

“In one meeting, Sun Ra said aloud to all the members of the group that I would sink the ship because that’s what women do. I was furious. I got up and said, ‘You son of a…’ I really yelled at him.”

Well that was all worth it

Yes, the first thing I thought was, “Tomb Raider”!

What is not talked about is that Mac pricing seems to have shot up over the last decade and my last Intel Mac, the lovely MBP16, cost an absolute bomb. We’re getting - speculatively - to the point where Apple’s OS is barely exceeding the AppleCare support or the amortized tax write-down.

The cost per hour, that’s what I’d like to see.