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by Bluestrike2 6y ago
Credit where it's due: my link was posted by phreeza at the top of this discussion. Anyhow, you're right: the difference between a 28mm focal length and a 400mm one is...extreme. Here's a set of images (just a landscape; not
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by Bluestrike2 6y ago
The first was shot with a 400mm lens; looking at the second (the 28mm shot), you can see a grouping of people across the width of the path in the distance. It's possible that the shots were taken roughly at the same time and location,
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Pizza Hut had a 1984 patent for a mobile delivery/kitchen truck that would cook the pizza en route to the customer.[1] Zume's patent even cites it[1]. Just skimming over both filings, I'm kind of surprised it was issued in th
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
> I have to believe they bought it with the idea of doing much much more but hadn't figured out how. The video gave me the impression of a kitchen designed by a chef or line cook, with a manufacturing robot tossed in there. If the g
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
That's likely to be closely related to the same dynamics that make maintenance funding so politically difficult. Big new projects are visible, whereas things like maintenance funding or less obvious improvements...aren't, and that
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
I think the parent is most likely referring to the rise of the Nazi party in the Weimar Republic, specifically the eventual support of wealthy industrialists once they became a major political party after 1929 and the role of some of the sa
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Delegates do, however, have floor privileges, the right to sit on committees and vote with them, and the right to vote on legislation. Under the current House rules for the 116th Congress, delegates can also vote with the Committee of the W
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Possibly, but I don't think there was much of a risk. Boeing already had--presumably--at least a pretty decent idea about the review's contents by piecing together hints from document requests and questions or maybe even someone c
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
For what it's worth, many of the impacts don't seem to be well-reported in popular media. Consider this 2013 NASA report[0] on its socio-economic impacts: an IMPLAN input/output analysis shows NASA directly generates $2.60 of
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Silent switches aren't completely silent; near inaudible is relative, and given that you're evaluating switches in terms of their sound on a recording, "near inaudible" might work great for you. There are a lot of variab
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
> The top left portion of the image is redacted. Which suggests it was cleared for publishing. That's a rather peculiar interpretation that begs new questions, given that it was an image that was shown to POTUS in a briefing. Why wo
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
At the very end. It also uses the word "maybe" to equivocate on the subject, and describing it as a "nice enclosure" both minimizes the importance and avoids mentioning the very dangerous risks. The sentence assumes pr
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Generally speaking, US school systems consist of separate elementary, middle school/junior high, and (senior) high schools with staggered start and end times for the school day to accommodate buses. For example, back in high school I t
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
There are opportunity costs and risks associated with holding onto excess cash. Continuing to hold that cash sort of implies at least some difficulties in making a decision on what to do with it. Doing nothing, or just sticking the cash in
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
As far as coal's negative externalities go, carbon emissions and their impact on climate change were only some of the most well-known. There's extensive air and water pollution from both mining and electricity production, with neg
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Amusingly enough, they never actually describe that part as a vulnerability in their blog post. It's a "concern" about a "seamless join process." The word only gets used with regards to the DOS vulnerability, which
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
It's not about ignorance. Ambiguous contracts are bad--and risky--for both parties, period. Worse, the relevant section from GrubHub's TOS appears to be written in a manner that purposely maximizes that ambiguity[0] to the company
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
> Fuck the modern life. As I age, I am getting more and more grumpy. Can someone explain why electric cars have to look like a fucking spaceship!? Why can't they just be regular cars with electric drivetrain? That's probably th
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
There's a CSS & FP Working Group note that listed variables--or more specifically, symbolic constants--as a proposed future extension to CSS2 back in 1998,[0] and I'd assume that there are even earlier discussions on the matte
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
INT. OFFICE - DAY MRING'S BOSS "Ah, I see. You missed last night's email. The number is now seven."
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Except for sanders. If you use one of them for a bit, you'll have no problem signing away an organ or two to Festool. And the dust collector, of course. Maybe a Domino joiner. But other than that, you don't have to give them all
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
The Venice Charter is a set of conservation and restoration guidelines, not an international treaty with the force of law. There are other ICOMOS doctrinal texts,[0] as well. The 2003 ICOMOS charter Prinicples for the analysis, conservation
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
I think that part is generally out of mind for most users; what's so surprising when you look at the My Activity page is seeing many of the details that make up those profiles laid out in one place. It appears more...real, even without
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Destroying the satellites--or enough of them to sufficiently degrade Starlink's ability to operate in mainland China--would be a very expensive bit of overkill with a great deal of international blowback. Destroying one satellite with
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
My family's been in the cemetery industry for about 60 years, and your last observation is rather interesting from my perspective. You're absolutely right that cemeteries aren't for the dead. They're for the living, some
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Not the best photo in the first link, but these articles have photos captures the sheer size of the poster a bit better than the one in the original article: https://www.visitpepincounty.com/1885-artifact-uncovered-at-...
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
It's a tough effect to analyze effectively, given how indirect and disconnected the effect they're aiming for is from their ops. But the thing is, they're really, really cheap in relative terms. With the ones run by nation st
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
That's likely a large party of why the NSA prioritized gaining access to their data through various programs, some of which have been exposed over the years. And when you're talking about nation states, even minor Hail Mary effort
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
That's the not-so-funny element. Companies like Exxon were the first to hire independent researchers back in the 70s and helped pioneer climate research, with management being briefed on the as far back as 1977, and had developed its o
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by Bluestrike2 7y ago
Mercedes also has a touchpad that hovers above the command wheel, along with the a tiny little touchpad on the steering wheel for your thumb. Just in case you wanted additional options, though neither work with Android Auto (for 2017 models

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