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by Wistar 2y ago
Oh. Good. It’s not just me.
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by Wistar 2y ago
He was flying a vintage T-34 Mentor, a pretty bad-ass craft. https://wingsmuseum.org/exhibits/beechcraft-t-34-mentor/
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by Wistar 2y ago
Alas, there are yet ongoing attempts to break-up and/or privatize the NWS. Project 2025 specifically calls for the break-up of NOAA.
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by Wistar 2y ago
A couple of weeks ago I noticed that the cashier at the local gas station convenience store was wearing a body camera. I asked him if he was required to wear it. He replied that he bought the camera himself to back up his side of the story
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by Wistar 2y ago
That may well be true. In my case the water is splashing on hard porcelain.
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by Wistar 2y ago
I don’t have a suggestion as I am not really qualified to evaluate the importance of a paper about any aspect of cryptography. I know him personally—a little bit—and know that Dr. Beneloh is very well regarded in that world.
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by Wistar 2y ago
My favorite Simons interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNznD9hMEh0
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by Wistar 2y ago
When running some water to warm up before turning on the shower head, I can tell when the hot water has arrived by the distinct change in the sound as it splashes on the shower basin. The splash sounds soften when the water starts to run ho
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by Wistar 2y ago
My piano has a Dammp-Chaser automatic humidifier and dehumidifier system that works well. My piano tech uses a moisture meter to check the soundboard at tuning time and the wood’s moisture has been fairly stable for more than two decades.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Unsurprised to see Matt Blaze’s name; surprised to not see Josh Benaloh’s name.
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by Wistar 2y ago
One morning a few years ago as I was getting ready to get in the shower a spam call comes in to my landline. I don’t remember the exact bogosity but I think it was the ol’ your computer has a virus thing. When he asks for payment I say I wi
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by Wistar 2y ago
I buy most, but not all, of my tech at B&H and have now for more than a decade. Especially peripherals.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Intentional. The pilot was very good at it and his airplane, a highly-modified 170, had exceptional performance.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Usually in a cross-controlled “slip” where the fuselage is held at a fairly dramatic angle relative to the slipstream (relative wind) and the fuselage “blanks out” one side of the main wing.
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by Wistar 2y ago
I have been a passenger in a C-170 with a STOL kit that flew backwards over a beach on the Washington coast. We landed well behind where we took off. The takeoff and landing were both nearly vertical. Had a steady wind from the ocean.
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by Wistar 2y ago
I spend a few hours a day manually editing photos of shiny stuff to remove certain reflections—mostly reflections of the photographer. This is tech I could use.
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by Wistar 2y ago
Yes, I have, just now, been thinking about how few, and featureless, syllables I can utter to determine if an unknown caller has a legitimate reason for calling, such as a large-delivery driver, medical lab or other real call. It seems the
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by Wistar 2y ago
“In [a Feb 2024] interview with PetaPixel, Sigma’s CEO Kazuto Yamaki explains that it hasn’t moved past stage two of three in the sensor’s development — a stage it has remained in since 2022.” https://petapixel.com/2024&#x
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by Wistar 2y ago
I lived in a rural area growing up and it was not uncommon to come across the cow magnets in fields, sides-of-road, and so on. I think I still have a couple of them stowed away somewhere in my pack-ratty shelves. I recall that they were not
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by Wistar 3y ago
These days—meaning the last few weeks—I get: • Home remodeling come-ons. So many. They know my name. Often “I’m calling for my Dad’s construction company, xxx, who is working in your area …” It’s a different company name every time. • Medic
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by Wistar 3y ago
Relatedly: "The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods." "A mature redwood adds, on average, a ton of wood to its mass every year." https://www.noemamag.com/the-extraordinary-lives-of-coast-re...
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by Wistar 3y ago
Related: here is last night's Fresh Air interview with Dune director Denis Villeneuve. It is 37 mins long. I listened to it on my drive home. It is a good interview. NPR Fresh Air: "Storyboarding 'Dune' since he was 13,
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by Wistar 3y ago
A small point: Needs to be in something other than 44.1kHz. The two to which they make comparisons are at either 32kHz or 48kHz, both of which are friendlier for video work, something for which I think AI audio will be used a lot.
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by Wistar 3y ago
This is what always stops me at quora’s door.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Someone close to me has the original of the “Car” cartoon. Gary gave it to him as a gift shortly after it was published. It is pen and ink and Letratone on paperboard and is about 18” wide. For a year or two in the late 90s, the artwork wen
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by Wistar 3y ago
Mine, too.
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by Wistar 3y ago
I own six sets of Evie lights and they are the best I have ever seen. Three light sets with an induction charger sell for $75. Here is a pre-release writeup from Product Creation Studios in Seattle about the development of Evie lights. htt
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by Wistar 3y ago
See also the 2021 New Yorker piece about Stanford researcher and doctored image spotter Elisabeth Bik. "How a Sharp-Eyed Scientist Became Biology’s Image Detective" https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements&#
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by Wistar 3y ago
Most ballpoints aren’t very good at delivering variable stroke darkness, either.
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by Wistar 3y ago
Here is a great 1989 recording of "The Girls in Summer Dresses" read by Canadian actor Jonathan Frid who played the reluctant, guilt-ridden vampire Barnabas Collins on the TV soap opera "Dark Shadows." https:/&#x2F

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