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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Extremely interesting account! Regarding plan B, just to point out that the people in Roque de los Muchachos (primary alternate site) here in Spain, is organizing in favor of the TMT: https://www.facebook.com/queremoselTMT
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Well, this repository mentioned in the article comments got DMCA'd: https://github.com/r4in/typefaces
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Certainly, in most cameras the factors are in fact accounted for by setting the emissivity factor, a reflected apparent temperature, the distance to the object and the relative humidity. Thermography is certainly not an straightforward &quo
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Old Soviet joke: Radio Yerevan was asked: We are told that communism is already seen at the horizon. Then, what is a horizon? Answer: A horizon is an imaginary line which moves away each time you approach it.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Many IR cameras have actually two cameras, a normal optical one with high resolution (~10^3 x 10^3), and the IR one (microbolometer) which is low resolution (~10^2 x 10^2). They ensemble the two pictures later and produce these results.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Yep, a lot of people nowadays is using IR cameras without any calibration or understanding of the physics behind the measurement. The truth is, the camera requires an emissivity coefficient to associate the received radiation with the emitt
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
That's true, but in that case Peugeot and Citroën have been the same company since more than 40 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_PSA
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
You should submit a request to the Pinboard CEO...
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The biggest issue IMHO is how the average consumer has been deceived into the belief that current AI is pure AI, when in reality a lot of humans are looking at your pictures, listening to your recordings, crawling through your inbox and ana
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
My bankers are Hoares , one of the recurrent puns in Jack Aubrey novels.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the cleaning supplies in the average home are more dangerous than anything in this kit.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I remember a site that had such questions, specific to the knowledge of the site in question. Imagine HN asking "The L in SQL stands for: _____"
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
> Tupolev trying to build an identical copy without any blueprints. They actually did. It's called Tu-4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-4
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I know this, it's a pretty standard function that almost all cars have, and does not constitute a defeat device per se. It's also active all the time, that's how your car displays the coolant temp. in your dashboard. They sho
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
> The KBA believes that a coolant thermostat that is activated during normal driving to protect engine parts in [sic] an illegal defeat device This badly written line is the only technical information in the article. Since a thermostat
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Plus, the air inside the train is at nice ground level pressure, instead of the 1500-2000m ASL of typical cabin altitude.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Libra is "pound" in Spanish, so it will be pretty confusing because that's how we already refer to the pound sterling.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror_(Spain)#Early_outbr...
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Just to add the data, Mercury with 0.206 and Pluto with 0.248 are the only ones with a clearly visible eccentricity, the rest of the planets have eccentricity <0.1. For instance our Earth has 0.017 eccentricity, with an perihelion of 0.9
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The article misses an important bit of info: when the construction started, the Sagrada Familia was not in Barcelona, but in an independent municipality, Sant Martí de Provençals. It was to this municipality that the building permit was req
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
This reminds me of the day I disabled Youtube history, suggestions, etc: I sometimes listen in Youtube to old civil war-era songs from my country, Spain (my great uncle was a partisan who fought against the fascists). Once I left the autopl
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Just for the record, the original title of this submission was "Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-blocking"
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Terrorist are usually not devious smooth talkers like in the movies. Most will be too nervous to talk to the police naturally, or too frightened to attract police attention by self-reporting their activities, etc. That's the reason why
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Ah, that's unfortunate indeed. In my city that data is CC-BY 4.0.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
If you live in the EU, there's an European directive making noise maps mandatory: Member States shall adopt the measures necessary to ensure that no later than 30 June 2012, and thereafter every five years, strategic noise maps showin
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
So they removed a useful, granular functionality (switching off autopilot trim input while retaining electric-assisted manual trim) and made one switch simply a redundant backup, merging the previously separated functions without clear expl
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
They have in fact an updated system, which looks terribly crappy: http://www.unitysystemshomemanager.com/seriesII/Series%20II%...
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
They had quite advanced smart homes back in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BHIknNa6Eg (and to Nest shame, they still service it! http://unitysystemshomemanager.com/ )
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
A place most people associate with the largest amphibious invasion in history seems a curious choice of codeword.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The Meteosats don't directly disseminate, there is a service, EUMETCast, which broadcasts from commercial communications satellites, although you need a decryption key: https://www.eumetsat.int/website/home/Da

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