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·2 anni fa·discuss
even the non-cheap recorders produce a huge quality loss. It would be slightly easier, but if you're considering archiving something, why not do it as good as possible
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·2 anni fa·discuss
It's not only that - the bag prices mess with price comparison web sites so much, that it's impossible to find the best deal. Win-Win for the airlines.
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·2 anni fa·discuss
VHS is indeed horribble, if watched on today's TVs and wasn't that great back then. European PAL was a bit better than NTSC. And, while it's full of noise, it doesn't have the smear of digital noise reduction.

Scorsese grew up with this TV resolution and I'm sure he would have preferred high quality for things we cared about, but for day-to-day use, having VHS was fine. (If he really cared, he could have gotten a betamax recorder or a super-VHS recorder to record off the TV)

I'm pretty sure that he'll stream better copies - but for those not available, having a noisy VHS is great. And with streaming/digital "sales" you never know which films you're going to lose next...
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
Yes but for your own projects you could have a first page with a "no JS" div and attach a HTMX load request. That's how I did my first HTMX project and it works well informing you to turn on JS.
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·3 anni fa·discuss
The other two downsides are: Some people may chose not to have their email account on the phone. Personally I don't want to carry around access to my main email at all times (the same goes for access to my main bank account, BTW.)

Also, email delivery sometimes takes a very long time, it can be minutes, if you rely on email forwarding to protect your main email address.

Auth apps are better for 2FA, at least for me.
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
It also needs a section on the main page explaining the licensing and sources of the icons. I left the page immediately when I couldn't find it.
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
My situation exactly. We're sharing a 4 screen account with 3 friends and no-one even watches netflix every month - we just liked the idea of having access, in case we want to watch something. We already decided, when netflix doesn't allow low-use sharing any more, we'll just cancel and forget about it.
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
There's a big difference between a private copy for your own enjoyment and redistributing that on a larger scale. The first one is consuming something you were not meant to consume, with little or no cost to the rights owners. The second on is giving away something that someone else had substantial costs to produce.

In my mind it's fair game to record and watch anything, if it's an unencrypted, freely available broadcast somewhere (local laws here back me up) - That includes the use of VPNs to access it. Sports broadcasters know this and make the use of VPNs quite hard, still if you get it to work, good for you. That includes other sneaky trickery like VPNing into Switzerland, where rebroadcasting other countries' FTA TV is legal, if you can receive them there (e.g. all of the UK's FTA TV) or setting up a remote controlled TV receiver in the country for you own use.

Making these streams available publicly is a different game. Depending on where you live, passing on streams privately again may be OK - for example the country I live in allows passing on recordings to a handfull of friends.

If at any time during the chain from the broadcast to you there's a need to break an encryption to make this possible: No fair game, pirate!
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
Try the travel/event booking business (where I'm in) - and no, people don't dump their mistakes on the next guy here - to the contrary, the "hacky" Python solutions are supported for years and teams stay for decades (allthough a decade ago we had not discovered how great Python was)

What business owners actually don't like at all is how long is takes traditional software development to actually solve problems - which then don't really fit the business after wasting a few years of ressources... and the dumping and running away is worse in Java and other compiled software. With Python you can at least read the source in production if the team ran away...
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
Totally depends on the business you're in.

If you're dealing in areas with short time limits then Python is great, because you can't sell a ticket for a ship that has sailed.

And I've seen "the right way" which, again, depending on the business may result in a well designed product that is not what's actually needed (because people are really bad at defining what they want)

What's brilliant with Python compared to other hacky solutions that it does support test, type hints, version control and other things. It just doesn't force you to work that way. But if you want to write stable, maintainable code, you can do it.

That means you can write your code without types and add them later. Or add tests later once your prototype was been accepted. Or whenever something goes wrong in production, fix it and then write a test against that.

Oh and I totally agree you should certainly try to "do things the right way", if the business allows it.
airtag
·3 anni fa·discuss
There's also a free, open source vim style browser called Qutebrowser which you can control like Vim if that's your thing. It works well, also with complicated web sites.

https://qutebrowser.org/
airtag
·4 anni fa·discuss
I've been flying with an airtag in my luggage in Europe since summer this year.

It's been great. My luggage missed a connection in december, when I arrived at the destination I could instantly see that it still was at the other airport. So while the others were waiting for the bags, I could already file a complaint (at the nearly empty complaints queue). Then three hours later I could see bag movement to the tarmac and knew that my bag cought the next flight.

Also, when in a city, it's a lot of fun to say: bring me back to my bag instead of looking up the hotel address.

For anyone with an iphone & checked bags I can really recommend it.