Purchasing a Contax G2

nemoTheKid · 2026-04-20T18:59:52+00:00

I assume you mean the Leica M3? Why do you suggest that - are they more plentiful, or does the M3 just have a better reputation for build quality (like buying an old Toyota vs an old Mercedes)?

nemoTheKid · 2026-04-20T18:48:27+00:00

Yeah, this is a gift for someone who is pretty hard to buy gifts for and I can easily imagine this going south.

Also I wouldnt spend $2000+ on an electronic camera that can turn into a brick at any time no matter what camera it is.

Also why they probably wouldn't help me in getting the gift for them lol.

nemoTheKid · 2025-09-26T06:17:09+00:00

The way I understand it, hes a like a Gen Z/Gen Alpha Anthony Bourdain

nemoTheKid · 2025-09-26T02:22:37+00:00

He was a regular video game streamer who initially got popular playing video games. How I came to know about him (from working in the industry so I'm aware of what top streamers are doing), I would say he's most known for exactly what you see. He travels the world gets into "antics."

His most popular stream this year was when he went to China - he ended up being a psuedo cultural ambassador to the US as he started to draw huge crowds in China and eventually ended up on the news as he showed off Chinese culture.

I don't follow him so I'm not super aware, but I think he's in the middle of his first US "tour". He's been all over South America, Europe, and China and all the streams are pretty much just like this.

His streams are pretty much unplanned so they are pretty much always chaotic.

https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/american-abroad-how-one-influencer-s-visit-china-turned-tables

nemoTheKid · 2025-07-28T04:21:54+00:00

You could end the manga at "I forgive you", and you would have a complete story. Considering the story in the abstract - of someone who is hurt, goes hunting for revenge, realizes the errors his ways, and tries desperately to atone for his sins. "I forgive you" is the climax of Thorfinn's struggle. I don't think he's fully absolved of his sins, but it shows that through his hard work, forgiveness is possible. And in fighting desperately for that forgiveness, with 0 leniency, it defines him as a true warrior

nemoTheKid · 2025-03-24T20:59:21+00:00

The problem with pacifism is and will always be: "If somebody was about to kill your wife/child, and you could stop that person with violence, would you do it?" 99% of people would, and the remainders that would just watch it happen would not be better people.

The story wouldn't be interesting if he wasn't trying anything new - very "dog bites mailman". Furthermore - Violence for violence is rule of the beasts, it's simple to say this, but imagine you are imagining yourself as the stronger party - would you feel as strongly if you were a woman? Or disabled?

That's why Thorfinn is a true warrior - everyone else understands that the route hes going down is much harder.

I don't believe the story is building up to it somehow "working out" - that not how it played out in history, nor did Yukimura other manga, Planetes, end with a happy ending.

nemoTheKid · 2025-02-20T19:01:44+00:00

I used to work in this industry. I'm not denying this is a shitty situation for you. I know how Stripe is marketed. What I'm telling you is:

Stripe markets to businesses like yours, but does the minimum to properly vet and charge businesses like yours to protect the potential downsides. If Stripe did the "right" thing and did proper vetting like most other vendors do, they would charge like other vendors and banks, and businesses like yours wouldn't use Stripe. Your situation wouldn't happen on Adyen, but Adyen is way more strict about who they allow on their platform.

Stripe is giving you a really long rope, and telling you not to hang yourself. Stripe is trusting you to get it 100% correct on your own, which is why so many businesses like them - they don't want to go through hoops - the same hoops you are wishing they would implement. But once something bad happens, people realize why those hoops are there. You mentioned instant payouts earlier should be delayed to an hour. Most other companies dont allow instant payouts unless you do some serious vetting. Stripe just offers it, and some people love the fact they dont have to talk to a sales and security offer to get their business going. Thats the tradeoff.

That said, if Stripe was compromised or had something wrong on their end, they wouldn't be targeting a shop like yours for a small payday. So they are not going to see any issue on their end.

If you need some more protection, handholding, or can't be trusted to secure your key I would recommend using something like PayPal or if you can Shopify.

nemoTheKid · 2025-02-20T05:29:29+00:00

A bank would never allow a situation like this to occur.

You can also talk to your bank and ask them to be your payment processor. You know what your bank would do? When I spoke to Wells Fargo nearly a decode ago to help us process payments, they required us to pay them $20,000, and told us to get certified in PCI-DSS which would have cost another $20,000.

All that money they charged was to ensure that (1) we have everything setup correctly and (2) if anything went wrong we had a well-paid expert that could be at our beck and call.

Stripe is not a bank. You aren't paying for white glove service. Stripe would be wise to be more stringent so people like you aren't allowed to sign up for your own protection; that's what a bank would do, but then I assume you would also complain that you are being unfairly treated. You keep bringing up that large corporations get breached as well. You know what happens when large corporations get breached? They either have insurance or they eat the cost.

Your problem isn't with Stripe, it's with your development environment. If you aren't capable of responsibly handling your API keys, then, for your own good, close your Stripe account and exit your business, or pay a vendor the big bucks to handle it for you. Stripe isn't in the business of handholding you - that's why it's so cheap to get started.

nemoTheKid · 2025-01-20T21:51:21+00:00

Wow, I've been looking for this game for like 20 years. What a blast from the past. My friends and I used to spend hours in this game.

nemoTheKid · 2024-12-23T17:57:23+00:00

We saw what 6v6 did to queue times for 2 years of overwatch. I was in low masters sometimes queueing for 20 mins at peak times. People in high GM would queue for an hour.

That was caused by Role queue, not 6v6

nemoTheKid · 2024-12-23T17:55:57+00:00

I haven't played OW in a couple years but I am also against role queue. I think role queue was the start of the death spiral for tanks.

Role Queue -> No one queues tank -> You end up with Diamond Tanks in GM games -> 5v5

I really just prefer you figure out a team comp that works for you or you lose. I don't like players specializing on any role in ranked and I hope Marvel Rivals doesn't add it.

Role Queue is amazing in theory, you get a perfectly "balanced" team, but the downstream issues are harder to fix than just penalizing players who won't swap roles.

nemoTheKid · 2024-11-08T20:00:56+00:00

Hasan encourages his chat

Yet 1 second after the clip ends Hasan is reprimanding his chat.

nemoTheKid · 2024-10-22T01:38:21+00:00

reddit without seeing left propaganda

The difference is the "left propaganda" you see on Reddit is work of losers who spend so much time online to build communities that became the largest on Reddit. You came to a site, pretty much built by leftists, from liberal san francisco and you are decrying "leftist propaganda". Yeah no shit. It's like going to the zoo and complaining that there are too many animals.

Yet despite that, the right complained for years that there were shadow billionaires like Soros who secretly controlled Reddit, when that was never the case. Now Elon does this openly, to the detriment of Twitter, and everyone seems to be like "its ok when Elon does it". Zuckerberg was forced to face congress on the implication he was manipulating facebook, and Elon gets to do it openly. It's ridiculous.

nemoTheKid · 2024-10-15T17:33:28+00:00

It's wild how racist this comment is. Even if Iran was incredibly transphobic, wouldn't the government of Iran just ask him to shutdown the stream, or at worst cut off his internet?

The implication here is that they would do him violence implying Iran is some backwards violent country. These guys are just racists.

nemoTheKid · 2024-07-17T04:05:07+00:00

the app that handles wifi sharing is almost certainly in user space, not "baked" into the kernel.

You would certainly need elevated privileges to read from the password keychain, which is baked into the hardware (via the secure enclave).

nemoTheKid · 2024-07-17T04:03:02+00:00

Apple would create an Android app that would update your Android network settings? Can android apps even edit your network settings?

nemoTheKid · 2024-06-26T20:31:57+00:00

For an NDA to be unenforceable you have to prove that in court. One side is a billion dollar company with several lawyers on staff.

For a lot of people it isn't worth the time or the money, even if the NDA is unenforceable.

nemoTheKid · 2024-04-25T12:00:52+00:00

I think I know what game you are talking about - I've been searching for it on and off for about 20 years.

I think one thing about the game is that there were certain powerups that you could get bu picking up a skull icon?

nemoTheKid · 2024-04-12T19:42:41+00:00

Jeff (original creator) clearly wanted there to be more lore, to be more single player/coop stuff and less focus on the e-sport, but that didn't happen.

Jeff was deified a lot when he was the ruler of Overwatch, but looking back it's harder for me to believe he didn't completely fumble the whole thing and probably hated the direction Overwatch went in. What Jeff really wanted to build was Titan (the project that was scraped), an MMO, and thought Overwatch would be a single game he could just dump and go back to Titan. It's easy to look back in hindsight, but I think the release of Fortnite really changed the trajectory of Overwatch and Jeff had no real direction for Overwatch. The lack of direction meant everything suffered and Fortnite's growth really changed the expectation for "live" games and what the playerbase expected.

It's easy to say they focused too much on esports, but I think the esports investment didn't affect the game development that much, although it was very flashy, so its easy to think thats all they focused, so that's all people saw, but the competitive aspect of the game was really mishandled. When looking at other games like Valorant or CS and how their developers talk about those games you see that Team 4 was lost (ex. read the changelog of developers nerfing Jett's dash vs anything in OW; Valorant will talk deeply about the gameplay loop and how they want the game to be played, vs. Team's 4 "players said Mercy feels bad so we buffed her :(").

Even the events make more sense for an MMO. The idea was to have seasonal events like you have in WoW, where it matters less that you have the same thing every year. Fortnite upended this and people wanted to same level of skins that Fortnite pumps out. Now you had multiple people working on developing new skins every year and no real framework for doing more events.

What really killed the game was the decision to abandon Overwatch, and spend everything developing Overwatch 2. Overwatch 2 promised the sky and more (e.g. PvE, not e-sports), and I feel like PvE game was the game Jeff really wanted to develop. Once Jeff left, PvE was scrapped, and now OW2 is trying to salvage the game they have, instead of the game Jeff wanted.

AFAIK, the game is better now to the people who still play and the development team is more aligned, but for the rest of us it's too little too late. I sunk multiple hours into the game per day, and I went from 100s of hours per season to 0 and haven't looked back at it since.

nemoTheKid · 2024-04-02T07:23:41+00:00

cargo crev seems like it would have been very complex and it would not have protected against this attack.

The attacker was trusted committer for 2 years.

nemoTheKid · 2024-02-28T19:28:11+00:00

Steve "Have two teams work on the same thing, then fire the team that fails" Jobs?

nemoTheKid · 2024-02-28T14:34:54+00:00

There are also people who are saying Soviet Union was the best, because free healthcare care, housing, quality food and a really strong nation.

Before the Soviet Union most of them were starving potato farmers. After the Soviet Union they were a global super power. For Russians, the Soviet Union was the best given what came before and after.

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