jdelman
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I try to upvote greyed out comments that aren't off topic, trolling, or in bad faith.
- jdelmanWhen you sign up for an Apple account, you aren't "buying" anything. In fact there is a set of terms & conditions you agree to when signing up which most likely includes language stating that your account can be closed with the discretion of the platform owner. What we need isn't a shift from "buying" to "renting", but instead something akin to a Consumer Bill of Rights that states that you are entitled to appeal account closure if you are in good standing and can prove as much.
- Ok fair enough, was a bit hostile there. No involvement with the project, and it’s practically vaporware at this point. But I don’t think it’s unreasonable to dig through people’s post histories, though. I also found the reference to 1599 buried in the FAQ.
Having said all that, film labs and rich enthusiasts do seem to be the target market for this product, if it ever launches.
- This is even worse on voice mode. It's unusable for me now.
- > I had never even heard of an uncut developed roll of film before
That's how film is developed. Someone at a lab has to cut it.
> who is honestly shooting that much 135 film
How about a film lab? A place where "uncut developed film" is extremely common.
>it's worth 1600 Euros to buy a faster scanner for it
Price is 999 euro.
> pros who still shoot film would use a larger format
Some do, some don't. It depends on the project. I'm a little surprised by your comment looking at your history. You say you're a retired professional photographer and you've never heard of "uncut developed film" before? If you're retired in 2025, you must have been working when all photography was on film. You never developed a roll of film before?
- The workflow for this scanner would allow you to thread an uncut roll of 35mm film through it. You'd have to spend more than $0 to get that kind of speed on a DSLR rig.
- > Yes. We’re collaborating with several film labs in Berlin to benchmark Knokke against Fuji Frontier and Noritsu scanners. > Sample results will be published before the Kickstarter campaign, so you can make a fully informed decision.
I don't care how cool your scanner looks or how "modern" the workflow is - it's samples or nothing. Additionally, if they were really smart, they'd collaborate with a well known film photographer instead of using someone's walk-around point-and-shoot photos.
- I've noticed a big problem with AirPods Pro 3 on the NYC subway. Maybe my fit isn't right, but Adaptive/Transparent mode is a lot less "transparent" with really loud background noise - I can tell I'm listening to a processed signal rather than the natural muted sound of the AirPods Pro 2.
- This is cool. I noticed that, after testing a few URLs, hitting the back button in my browser popped some state to load the previous iframe URL, but the URL of the whole page itself didn't change. It would be nice if the URL had a query param to reflect the currently shown iframe URL.
- Listen to the episode of The Talk Show with Louie Mantia. They really rip on Alan Dye and Liquid Glass. Not so much the _idea_ of Liquid Glass, which I think they appreciate, but its execution, which is shoddy, inconsistent, and reveals a dearth of holistic thinking about UI design.
- You don't think Wozniak is using "happy" to mean "fulfilling"? This is a strawman.
- Whenever OpenAI releases a new ChatGPT feature or model, it's always a crapshoot when you'll actually be able to use it. The headlines - both from tech media coverage and OpenAI itself - always read "now available", but then I go to ChatGPT (and I'm a paid pro user) and it's not available yet. As an engineer I understand rollouts, but maybe don't say it's generally available when it's not?
- I definitely didn't "randomly" suggest it, unless you're suggesting all human actions are the result of randomness. I also just re-read the guidelines and I didn't see anything about in the letter of the law, but I agree it probably goes against the spirit. I'll take the downvotes and keep it to myself next time.
- Speaking of irony... did ChatGPT help you write this comment?
- I see lots of framed iPhone pictures. I have a few in my house. They’re not big, but they’re pictures of happy moments that are worth printing. Using the 5x lens helps, but good composition, cropping, and fine tuning colors does as well.
- My wife and I have been using Berkanan (an iOS app) for many years for this purpose. It's not very good - unlike literally every other chat app, it presents conversations in reverse chronological order, and the interface is janky. But it gets the job done when there's no WiFi (airplanes, though this is becoming less of a problem) or cell service (crowded venues).
- It's kinda nice to see a non-AI project on here.
- Agreed on Biden's ego being a problem, but when did he ever promise to be a one term president?
- The ability to express joins in terms of SQL with Estuary is pretty cool. Flink can do a lot of what is described in this post, but you have to set up a lot of intermediate structures, write a lot of Java/Scala, and store your state as protos to support backwards compatibility. Abstracting all of that away would be a huge time saver, but I imagine not having fine grained control over the results and join methods could be frustrating.
- The word "just" is doing a lot there. How easy do you think it is to "just" switch?
- It's very funny that The Register still calls Apple "the iGiant" and the "the iMaker".