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by acomjean 4y ago
Where I live, they lop off a large value for tax purposes if you live in your property: "shifts the tax burden within the residential class from owners of moderately valued residential properties to the owners of vacation homes, higher
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Dia beacon is a really great museum and fun to explore. The subject artist Michael Heizer artist has a piece there. https://www.diaart.org/collection/collection/heizer-michael-... Walking through the Richard Sera
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by acomjean 4y ago
Thanks. Great photos and good background info too. This has been worked on for decades.. They made the valley it’s in a national monument to prevent the yuca mountain nuclear storage from being readable: So:’ “City,” because it was now par
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by acomjean 4y ago
Those isolated green squares when you zoom out. Looks like a ranch. Those cattle are probably going to explore the site at night when they get bored.
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Storm king is great fun. The one Near me when I lived in white plains NY was the PepsiCo headquarters sculpture gardens. Smaller and the hours are limited to weekends and you can’t go inside the offices, but free! https://www.
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by acomjean 4y ago
I can’t figure if this is a parody or actually happened… I think the later but even after poking about a bit it’s hard to tell..
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Apple isn't doing this to be altruistic. They see a huge business advantage. Look at the hype on HN the M1/M2 MacBooks have.
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I think Digital media is ok for most artists. Almost all the commercial science visualization folks are using it (based on a web-mini conference panel), and a fair number of artist in the nonprofit I help out with use digital tools. I think
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by acomjean 4y ago
Perl and Bash don't really change too much anymore. One of the upsides of the Perl 6 never happening is that Perl is relatively static. I think a lot of the issue is that these languages love to install .directories in your home direc
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by acomjean 4y ago
I took a genomics class. Guest presenter was someone who did genetic forensics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Bieber#National_and_... Family Search first used in California in 2010. The "Grim Sleeper&q
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by acomjean 4y ago
I use a short bash/perl script to find/replace globally in large files. I have to change the search function each time, although I pass in the file name. Its not sophisticated, but its been very useful. The reason I like it is al
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As long as the same background isn’t in both cameras I think it’s doable (facing different directions for dialog) or one with a cropped closeup. Though not sure the software currently support 2 cameras.. kind of an interesting problem. My
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by acomjean 4y ago
At the bottom of the article (it was a long one) they mentioned this. basically you use a game engine (unreal typically) to act if front of circular led tv wall and act inside. It helps with ambient lighting. Details about the madelorian f
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by acomjean 4y ago
The testing results are hidden, but there is more info on the pans generally. They’re a subscription site, and mine lapsed. I have their cookbooks though.
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DRM so good, even owners of the disks can't watch it. I've always wondered why companies punish those that actually purchased their products. Those that got it though other means have no such problems.
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by acomjean 4y ago
We've been using carbon steel pan. Its like cast iron but much lighter (not light though). They look kinda narly, but you get used to it. You "season" from time to time (oil high heat) but we haven't in at least 6 month
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by acomjean 4y ago
I saw chapelle in NYC years back (the before pandemic times), they really did this. You can hang onto your phone, its just locked in a neoprene type bag.. On the way out they have a device to open it (kind of like security tags on clothes..
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by acomjean 4y ago
I don’t think it’s an austrain problem. I know in the US it’s also an issue. Leaded gasoline is one of the drivers of all this lead in soil. When I was younger fuel was labeled “unleaded” when they took the anti-engine knock chemicals o
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by acomjean 4y ago
On a construction site I was working on, the box of "recycled rags" was just old t-shirts cut up. they're still doing it: https://nowlinens.com/collections/tshirt-rags/products/pro-c...
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by acomjean 4y ago
You are supposed to. Generally its better to ask. If theyre already a customer, there is a good chance someone is going to go to your site and see it. Sometimes it gets wierd, we had a large fast food logo on our site. We had only sold to
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by acomjean 4y ago
iMessage is kinda both its own messenger and SMS client. So when you text a number, I don't think you have a choice of how to send it. If the user is "Apple" it sends as an imessage, if not message, it turns the bubble gree
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by acomjean 4y ago
The fact you can run old software on any PC still is a pretty tremendous feature. Apple kicked of 32 bit apps from Mac and iPhones, its user accept that, business PC users might not. I have a number of IOS games I enjoyed that are no long
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by acomjean 4y ago
Digital was a badge of honor back in the 80s and 90s when CDs were new. No hiss, better sound. They Used to label CDs with 3 letters (the SARS code) : A for analog D for digital. For recording, mixing and mastering https:/&#x2F
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by acomjean 4y ago
We have a roof top solar array that does peak 3500 Watts. Its not unsubstantial. But with the electric car (say about 4 miles/kwh) , we estimated about 12 miles of charge per day.
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or safari.
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I didn't go but remember it being the end of the 90s decade with a thud. I've been to few festivals that decade and beyond (Phish in Worchester/Maine/NY, Lalapoloza in NJ, Solid Sound). Those seemed pretty well run,
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by acomjean 4y ago
Amazon bought Kiva systems for 775 million a few years back to automate their warehouses with robotics. (the robots are the shelves...) I'm not sure how the automation is going, but they're definitely looking to automate as much
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by acomjean 4y ago
I went through a couple years where I was finding cash kind of a lot. Not life changing amounts, but something. At work in the secure area when locking up I found a 10 inside the door. I didn't know what to do with it so I tacked it o
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by acomjean 4y ago
When I was just a coder at a fortune 500 company, I was voluntold to be on a "Morale Committee". Not much came of it (one meeting with about 20 of us, they had an ice cream social, because people like ice cream and the work envir
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by acomjean 4y ago
I'll agree with you here. I had a MacBook pro (2015) and switched to a system76 popOS linux notebook (8th gen intel, its really a "clevo" OEMed notebook). Its not quite as well built, but the Matt screen is nice, the keyboa

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