You need some amount of telephoto, otherwise even an F1.2 will not look right. Also, a telephoto at F4 will have more car in focus as well as background separation, vs a wide F1.4 or the likes. 200mm takes a good bit of space but will produce the right background compression even with F6.3 lenses, just make sure the…

It still baffles me that there are so many people who believe, on an ideological level, that digital distribution is flawless and physical must die.

Reasons I always go physical if possible.
I don’t have to have access to the internet to play something, yeah it may be an un-updated version.
Can just bring the game over to a friends house instead of lugging around my console.
Can let people borrow them.
When the store for the console inevitably shuts down I still…

“While recognising the need to retain top executives”

This isn’t a need. It’s the biggest lie in the corporate universe, in fact.

The difference between a “top executive” and “other executives” is literally a lottery pull. The vast majority of them are staggeringly incompetent or ineffectual people that just ride…

What prompted someone to say “I think this will help your eye infection”?

I first encountered Daniel Stern online in the early-mid 1990s on usenet in either rec.autos.driving or rec.autos.tech or one of the more specialized groups in the rec.autos hierarchy. This was before the world wide web reached any sort of significant usage level. At that time if memory serves me correctly he was…

If you own your place, invest in a mini-split. You can DIY, or have it installed. There are ductless options. It’s the cost of a bathroom renovation but I would expect it to pay off come house-selling time.

They showed it lying down towards the end. With that round stand underneath it. Probably for air flow purposes.

At some point the black delegation is going to have to settle on a name for male Karens

Exactly. It’s not enough to just say “Come race and do burnouts here instead of on a public street”, you have to have liability insurance and fire and safety crews. Otherwise the city is just asking for lawsuits for wrongful death, injury, or property damage.

They can’t even get the BO smell out of the stores what the heck do they think they can do with coronavirus?  

...died on Saturday in a tragic accident.

Owning a plane is wildly expensive and not really comparable to owning a car, and though in some ways it is like a house, your house doesn’t cost hundreds or thousands of dollars an hour to operate (yes, an hour). On top of the mentioned fuel and overhaul cost, there are a myriad of items that require an annual…

Get yourself a cheaper monitor that runs at 144hz.  That will make a bigger difference than resolution or display size will.  There are plenty of good monitors that are way cheaper than these overpriced gamertastic monitors.

Get yourself a cheaper monitor that runs at 144hz.  That will make a bigger difference than resolution or display…

Part of the EV ownership experience to know where to charge and plan for it. It eventually becomes a second nature.

What dream? Buying a bunch of cars that you’re not driving and you’re probably not even looking at them much anymore because they’re all jammed together? I appreciate cars, but not when they’re just tossed in a shed and nothing is done with them. I’d rather have 10 cars in good running order that I can enjoy than 250…

The issue with 3rd party docks are pretty well known, mainly that they don’t have a dedicated PD chip or that the ports are poorly designed. These guys seem to not only understand that, but actually wrote an article on it, that has been picked up by Ars: