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by ISL 4y ago
Thank you for sharing the upper link. It is serially inspiring. Watching the distances crawl up by many miles/second is kinda bonkers, and the 3D view allows the mind's eye to imagine a new pale-blue dot photo that encompasses eve
572.
by ISL 4y ago
It is so cool that we have functioning instrumentation almost a light-day away from Earth.
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by ISL 4y ago
This advice goes for... life. Don't switch over from something reliable to a newer/flashier solution until the reliability of a new system gets close-enough that you won't break critical functionality. Source: Recently swapp
574.
by ISL 4y ago
No boom needed for a big improvement -- the Blue Yeti Nano sits nicely on my desk, gets the job done.
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by ISL 4y ago
Yep -- I'm real surprised Logitech hasn't shipped such a thing. $2-400 is the sweet spot. At ~$600, one starts being able to use a Canon M50 and a 22mm f/2 for plug-and-play high-end webcam usage. There's a huge market
576.
by ISL 4y ago
For a T7, one can simply use Canon's webcam software.
577.
by ISL 4y ago
By many measures, 25 is early in life. Congratulations: you did!
578.
by ISL 4y ago
Email aliasing is more annoying/error-prone than directly hosted GSuite. I've done both.
579.
by ISL 4y ago
I love that the urgency algorithm is tunable, too :).
580.
by ISL 4y ago
Some celebrations are acknowledgements of irreversible change.
581.
by ISL 4y ago
It is also difficult to collaborate with Taskwarrior and to integrate with calendars. I really love the interface/data-structure, but have actually switched to JIRA, in support of trivial collaboration and cross-platform support.
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by ISL 4y ago
Lighting, focus, posing, etc. matters too for school portraits -- my actual point is that, from a photographer's perspective, medical imaging seems like it would fall under copyright, too. There is direction and configuration that goes
583.
by ISL 4y ago
Whoa. I sit corrected. "the Office will not register works produced by a machine or mere mechanical process that operates randomly or automatically without any creative input or intervention from a human author." would appear to c
584.
by ISL 4y ago
The existing rules also convey certain rights to the subject of an image, namely that, subject to various caveats, the image probably can't be used commercially (for the promotion of a product) without a release from the subject. The m
585.
by ISL 4y ago
Like T-bills, which return 2% for a year? https://home.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/...
586.
by ISL 4y ago
One could be offered the opportunity to bid for ad slots on your own search results -- that way you would know that someone was paying oodles for your eyes.... I doubt there would be much of a market, especially when ad-blockers exist.
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by ISL 4y ago
It seems like the lesson we might be learning here is that more of the heavy lifting in conventional combat will now by done by precision weapons -- cruise missiles, drones, self-targeting artillery rounds, etc. In recent wars, the emphasis
588.
by ISL 4y ago
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice. Peace and quiet are dear to his heart. And victory no cause for rejoicing. If you rejoice in victory, then you delight in killi
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by ISL 4y ago
It is different. People scamming people is like cheetahs engaging in cannibalism. Cheetahs, generally, are likely to be opposed. As long as there are sufficient prey/resources to go around, there is no intrinsic need for cheetahs to e
590.
by ISL 4y ago
The edge should be quite sharp. Any deformation or movement in the edge will be smoothed extremely quickly, on timescales comparable to the light-crossing time of the object -- in this case ten seconds or so. If you're a photon and yo
591.
by ISL 4y ago
As a laboratory-scale experimentalist, I heartily agree, but must also point out the existence of compelling precision equivalence principle tests. While we can only measure G to ~10 ppm, the equivalence principle has been tested at the 10^
592.
by ISL 4y ago
Whenever we learn more about the connections between GR and the rest of physics, the early corrections are likely to appear as "GR+new stuff" or "QM+new stuff". Both theories have enough predictive power that we'll
593.
by ISL 4y ago
Gravitational physicist here. Every time we look in a new place and see that GR still works, it is pretty amazing. Part of this is the fact that everyone in the field works very hard to find a crack in GR's armor, and so far it has res
594.
by ISL 4y ago
If I were looking for such a thing, I'd check out darktable and go upstream through its RAW-processing pipeline. Whatever they're using may not be the best, but I'd imagine that it is average or better...
595.
by ISL 4y ago
Yep -- even a single preparatory iteration makes a huge difference for many tasks.
596.
by ISL 4y ago
I don't think there's a need to terminate the interview at the moment of the incident, especially as they're a precious window into the culture of a company. You may learn a lot from watching the reaction of the remaining int
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by ISL 4y ago
This sort of approach only works reliably if you have a credible alternative to the negotiation.
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by ISL 4y ago
If they can precisely deliver ~22 tons of material from Florida to anywhere in the globe in ~20-50 minutes, arriving at perhaps Mach 5, one should tend to regard SpaceX as at least weapons-capable.
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by ISL 4y ago
I'm a big fan of Virginia's governor system. The term is six years. You can be governor as many times as you like, but you cannot succeed yourself. It's term limits without the limit and provides the elected official with eno
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by ISL 4y ago
"current Wordle technology" is one of the things that made it so great -- it was /is client-side. I understand that NYT didn't want to step in it, and it was probably a smart decision, but I'd love to live in a worl

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