We got gifted a plastic rack for garden utensils. My mother in law bought it for us from the local supermarket (which has various cheap crap every week). Anyway, we placed a few items in it and it broke in a day. Utterly useless.
Elon should be allowed to say whatever he wants without anyone contradicting or fact checking him. His power to be free to say whatever he wants should be absolute!
A dentist once answered this question. Better to eat it at once than soak your teeth in sugar for the entire day. Even better if you brush your teeth after, of course.
Yes, that was very precisely chosen eight uninterrupted minutes of absolute cringe by the American leadership I saw. I'm sure the rest more than made up for the uncut embarrassing clown act the legacy media had chosen to air.
They weren't whistleblowing, they were going public. IIRC Snowden did use the whistleblowing path first but got nowhere. I guess, because he wasn't outed at that point, his identity was protected. Nothing else happened though.
My old Samsung phone could output to two Bluetooth devices at the same time, but it wasn't exactly synchronized. I don't think Bluetooth is good at getting the timing just right.
Me neither, but honestly it could go either way. On the one hand he's super pro privatisation and giving rich people more money. On the other he's releasing all the prisoners. The white Nazis anyway.
I had the exact same experience when starting a new job. The team had very strict rules that absolutely could not be broken. When I finally asked an architect he said the same thing: it's just a general guideline, but of course if it makes more sense to deviate, then by all means.
They fostered this culture because they mostly had junior programmers, but they never evolved beyond that because they were taught "good code" but never learned why it's good code.
To me, what sets apart good coders from mediocre ones is one thing: understanding why we do things. Don't just implement the thing because that's the task. Understand why it's required and your implementation will be better. Don't blindly follow best practices. Understand why they are best practices and when they apply. Understand what's going on rather than just do what you're told (but probably also do what you're told if you want to keep your job).
I know people who have been at it for many years and they don't understand why we do things this or that way, they just know that's how we should do it.
What do you intend to take macro photos of? I have the canon EF 100 f/2.8 and it's pretty versatile, not to mention a pretty good choice for portraits (although on a crop sensor you do get a bit far away). For macro a little distance is good so you don't block the light or, if that's your deal, scare off the insects.
"Resynthesizer is a Gimp plug-in for texture synthesis. Given a sample of a texture, it can create more of that texture. This has a surprising number of uses: Creating more of a texture. (including creation of tileable textures)"
Oh, the rest of the world is definitely feeling the ripples.