Wistar

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by Wistar 11mo ago
The first I ever saw of it was the NYT story about the deadly avalanche at Stevens Pass in WA state. I liked it for that story but not so much for this product site. https://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall&
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by Wistar 11mo ago
The Redmond City Council made a recommendation to turn off the cameras on Nov 3rd, two days before the ICE arrests. There had been local concern aired the week prior about feds/ICE possibly accessing Flock camera data. I think it was
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by Wistar 11mo ago
I don’t need or use reading glasses. I have tried some +1.0 readers but they quickly cause me vertigo.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Hmm. I am 67 and require no corrective lenses. Two years ago, at my last exam, the doctor said I was “the one percent of the one percent of people” my age that do not require glasses. All of my siblings and both of my parents wore glasses.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
I was wondering if Flock shares the private-contract camera data with law enforcement.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
Well, I knew what he was talking about.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
I love the Stanwood area.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
There are quite a few private Flock camera installations (HOA, neighborhood, business) in my locale. I assume those are exempt from FOIA requests but wonder if law enforcement can access that data.
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by Wistar 11mo ago
In the US. Maybe I am wrong but I see what appear to me to be multicolor ink jet POP printers. I see matrix in restaurants and shops and they are distinct as they are slow and noisy.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I rarely see thermal printers at grocery checkouts. Almost all that I see are ink.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I am reminded of the story of the American who stole rare feathers from a British museum. The Smithsonian wrote up the story: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/great-feather-... After the magazine article w
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by Wistar 1y ago
In the early 80s, a friend restored a 1936 Mercedes-Benz 170V Saloon that he found in pieces in the attic of an old downtown Seattle body shop. It took five pickup truck loads to get the entire car to his shop and about three years to compl
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by Wistar 1y ago
I had a neighbor a few doors down who ended up pouring a concrete slab for their coop because rats were tunneling in to the coop. He ended up sinking 12" of stainless mesh into the ground around the slab to stop the rats. The rats also
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by Wistar 1y ago
Si, si.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I do not doubt this for a second. I hope that this does not alter Wikipedia.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I sure liked Aldus Freehand a lot more than Adobe Illustrator although it has been so long that I don’t remember specifics other than I generally understood how to use it a lot better than Illustrator.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Except it is now owned and run by the father and son who founded SmugMug. It probably has a chance of surviving under their leadership.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Oh, that is simply fantastic.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Well, I miss Director which I used a lot for demos/prototyping.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Here is a brief piece, with photos, of a few of the various lunar retroreflectors that have been installed on the moon. https://tmurphy.physics.ucsd.edu/apollo/lrrr.html#:~:text=Co...
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by Wistar 1y ago
Good thing I use AI to do all my writing.
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by Wistar 1y ago
I think they’d need to be first-surface mirrors. Here are some 94% reflective acrylic mirrors. They are not outlandishly expensive. The high end glass ones are, though. https://www.firstsurfacemirror.com/acrylic-first-surfac
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by Wistar 1y ago
I went and looked at those on Edmund and, oh boy, they are expensive—at least for the solid prism ones. https://www.meetoptics.com/mirrors/retroreflectors/corner-cu...
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by Wistar 1y ago
Mirror
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by Wistar 1y ago
Seems an awfully extravagant use for extended periods of time. The hourly cost of operating a helicopter, particularly a turbine ship, is very high, several hundred per hour.
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by Wistar 1y ago
Last night I encountered a 3 min+ ad on YT about the construction of the iPhone 17 Pro. A few seconds were devoted to the cooling system. I watched the whole thing. It was better than the video it interrupted. https://youtu.be&#x
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by Wistar 1y ago
I always carry cash. Just tonight, I saw that the local sandwich shop that I frequent put up a NO CASH ACCEPTED sign. I asked why the change and the worker said it is due to employee theft. I asked if the tip jar still accepted cash. “Yes,”
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by Wistar 1y ago
I use “ ” if I really need a blank space.
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by Wistar 1y ago
"McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think." — Tracy Kidder, author of The Soul of a New Machine and many other great writings.
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by Wistar 1y ago
My friend’s Aga was natural gas. I remember him saying it cost very little to run (early 1990s). I doubt that is still true today.

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