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  • As far as I know the 1DXIII is still being produced, nearly 4 and a half years after its launch.

    Single lens reflexes have one massive advantage: the sensor is not being used while you’re composing or idle, which means the sensor doesn’t heat up as much. Hot sensors generate noise, which you then have to compensate for (by doing an equal exposure with the shutter closed to remove the hot pixels).

    But mirrorless is faster, cheaper to produce, smaller. It’s inevitable that DSLRs will soon be a relic of the past. But they won’t be for a while: 30% of the enthusiast market in 2022 was still DSLRs.





  • I think you’re misguided about the APIs. Gmail supports IMAP and SMTP. Proton supports those too if you run an encryption bridge on your computer. Fastmail supports IMAP/JMAP/SMTP (they invented JMAP to try and innovate).

    Email providers most likely must provide SMTP and IMAP due to compatibility requirements with Apple Mail and other clients.


  • Email is ridiculously complex—the technology is dead simple, but the number of exceptions and (undocumented) rules you need to abide by or risk getting banned by half the internet without being told is nothing to sneeze at.

    I should know: I have built multiple support platforms that worked through email (amongst other channels).

    You mention wanting to start at the SMTP level, and then building a Qt interface. So you’re going to write an SMTP client, an IMAP/POP3/JMAP client, a storage engine, a user interface, and a better search system, all on your own? You’re describing a gargantuan task.

    No offense, but each one of those could be a project on its own. You probably think they’re all simple tasks (they’re not), and that you can follow a few RFCs to get things going (you can’t), and that it’ll be easy to debug (it won’t). Finally, I think you’re underestimating how large people’s email maps get.

    Why not write a plugin for Thunderbird that improves the search?





  • You cannot prevent your employees from discussing wages. It is literally illegal to do so, and you cannot reprimand people for doing so.

    Under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or the Act), employees have the right to communicate with their coworkers about their wages, as well as with labor organizations, worker centers, the media, and the public. Wages are a vital term and condition of employment, and discussions of wages are often preliminary to organizing or other actions for mutual aid or protection.

    If you are an employee covered by the Act, you may discuss wages in face-to-face conversations, over the phone, and in written messages. Policies that specifically prohibit the discussion of wages are unlawful as are policies that chill employees from discussing their wages.

    You may have discussions about wages when not at work, when you are on break, and even during work if employees are permitted to have other non-work conversations. You have these rights whether or not you are represented by a union.

    https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/your-rights/your-rights-to-discuss-wages




  • Il ne faut pas tout mélanger. Protéger l’Ukraine, c’est protéger l’intégrité de l’Europe. Je ne parle pas de l’UE, mais de l’Europe d’un point de vue géographique. Si on tolère que la Russie envahisse nos frontières, on va devoir faire face à une nouvelle catégorie de problèmes, pour lesquels on n’a franchement pas le temps, ni les ressources. Vous pensez qu’on va “finir en cendres” si on les oppose maintenant? Que va-t-il se produire lorsqu’ils auront réétabli un bloc similaire à celui de l’aire Soviétique? À mon sens, il manque un peu de réflexion sur les effets long-termes pour tenir ce genre de propos.

    Il n’est pas possible de dire que Macron et le FN sont les suppléants de la Russie, et du même revers rejetter sa proposition d’une intervention anti-Russe en Ukraine. Soit c’est un pion de poutine, soit il ne l’est pas.

    Aussi, stop le spam. En 30 minutes t’as posté 5 articles dont 3 du même site.




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    I’m a bit sceptic when I hear that you don’t even have a computer but somehow you’re the amazing diver of the bunch. I’m not solo certified, and I don’t ever intend to be, but I don’t see how it is compatible with renting all of your gear.

    It sounds like you’re the one breaking your own rules as well: you decided to screw the plan (of sticking with your buddy) in order to not lose sight of the DM. You can’t really have it both ways. You can’t go for super cheap insta-buddy groups and expect a tier 1 diver. You can’t blame everyone else when you’re making the same mistakes.

    Talk to your buddy pre-dive. Don’t be condescending by approaching them and saying “this is how we’re going to do things” as they’ll just start fighting you on everything. Instead, talk to them, ask what kind of thing they want to do, how close/far they want to be (to you, to the DM, etc), and try to adapt to that. It’s also during this discussion that you should try and figure out whether you’re compatible.

    If you’re not, or you don’t think you can rely on them, then don’t dive. It doesn’t matter that you’re about to lose the DM if your buddy has an OoA and now you’re 20m away, looking in the wrong direction, and now your buddy is fish food, or the other way around. Stay with your buddy.




  • The FSR is a very nice first stage. I’ve never had the pleasure, as I dive XTX50/DST. Our second stages are basically exact replicas, except for the chrome faceplate.

    When you mention the fart sound, do you mean fluttering? There’s a Lake Hickory video about it. If that’s the sound, many 2nd stages will have that, as it’s just the diaphragm resonating with the body of the second stage at your specific breathing rate. I only notice it when I’m doing my buddy checks on the surface.

    Regarding the overcompensation, I wouldn’t know, never experienced that. I would maybe reach out to some others techs and see if they know about this, or even Apeks directly, and see what they have to say. Your LDS, after all, is just one tech with training dating back a decade or so.

    If you can get the work of breathing issue sorted, I don’t see why you’d change… unless you really have the 1500 quid burning a hole in your pocket, but there’s better things to spend it on than yet another set of regs.