I don’t write about gaming a ton on this site, but the circumstances around CD Projekt Red and Cyberpunk 2077 are too unique to let pass by without comment. I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a decent game with a really great aesthetic. It had impossible expectations, and the fact
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Below is the 45th issue of my Birch Bark newsletter, which I started back in February of this year. I was not expecting to have the year I had when I started, but I'm very proud to have published this every Friday since then. While I don't collect any analytics
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When I worked at Target, there was a list of 16 or so “personal leadership qualities” we worked from whenever we did reviews. You would have three that you were good at and three others that you needed to work on. They were all a bunch of generic things, and
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Fitness Totals is out today and is a pretty cool app for seeing how you're doing in your fitness goals. It's just out today, and I've given feedback on things I would love to see in the future (like graphs), so I hope this gets enough traction to let the
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One of the Greatest Feats in Human History - Synapse The reason this vaccine didn’t take as long isn’t that Pfizer skimped on safety protocols. It’s because instead of doing each step of the process sequentially one after another, Pfizer and other companies took on enormous financial
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The original iPhone had a 3.5” display at 480x320px resolution, or 163 points per inch (ppi). The iPhone 12 as a 6.1” display at 2,532x1,170px resolution, or 460ppi. Pretty much everyone with good eyesight would agree that the iPhone 12 display looks much sharper than the
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One of my favorite things to post are concepts for how Apple could improve their platforms in the future. Sometimes I'm dangerously close to what they end up doing, and other times I'm off the mark, but I like to do it because it is an extension to what I
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Understanding ProRAW. A journey into cameras, RAW, and a look… | by Ben Sandofsky | Dec, 2020 | Halide To understand what makes it so special, the first half of this post explains how a digital camera develops a photo. Then we go on to explain the strengths and weaknesses of traditional RAWs.
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ProRAW enables a lot of power in users, but it also allows Apple to get a little more creative in how it handles the processed JPEG/HEIC file it gives you with the RAW image. Check out the video below, but the gist is that I would love to see
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Is Google Chrome slowing down your Mac performance? - 9to5Mac What piqued my interest was the technical side of this story, and some questions that I thought of while I was reading Loren’s report. Those questions were: Is it possible for a process to hide itself from Activity Monitor
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