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by blincoln 3y ago
"unique radio-electronic weapons based on new physical principles" sounds an awful lot like the breathless tales of secret Russian Tesla death rays that have been circulating since the 80s, if not earlier. If Russia could "ne
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by blincoln 3y ago
The Museum of Flight also has an entire SR-71 cockpit (salvaged from a crash) that visitors can sit in. It's the only place I know of in the world where regular people are encouraged to touch one.
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by blincoln 3y ago
The Getty website claims that this system will somehow compensate the original authors of the work that went into the training model. Have they discussed the specifics anywhere? i.e. is it a blanket fee of some fraction of a cent per image
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by blincoln 3y ago
FWIW, I'm not a professional, but I've worn a full-face respirator while spending entire days working in extremely hot crawlspaces, demo'ing and removing heavy antique cast iron drain pipe, running a wet saw for large-format
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by blincoln 3y ago
I've got a 3M full-face respirator as well, and I agree. I've worn it with P100 filters for 8+ hours (minus breaks to drink water) doing hard work in uncomfortable conditions many times, and never found the respirator to be a burd
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by blincoln 3y ago
> But now I realize that modern developers don't want a GUI to manage their config. I think, like almost all software, it depends on personality and other factors like how frequently someone has worked with a language/tool&#x2F
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by blincoln 3y ago
It's not cheap. When I still worked in the city, I was always blown away by how much of their salary most of my coworkers were willing to spend on restaurant lunches every day. Typically I would expect a restaurant lunch in a major cit
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by blincoln 3y ago
There have actually been a surprising number of computing platforms that implement fault-tolerant processing. It's often called "lock-step" execution. https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarket
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by blincoln 3y ago
I was wondering the same thing, especially since it arguably involves mapping/geolocation information.
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by blincoln 3y ago
There are a lot of things to dislike here, but it's particularly unbelievable to me that Unity would try to retroactively apply this change to games that were in development or released before the change to the licensing model. I'
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by blincoln 3y ago
Agreed. It's my favourite fruit flavour. It's very distinctive, so I imagine it's a love-it-or-hate-it taste. In the US, there are few domestic products that incorporate blackcurrant, but just about any European-import groc
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by blincoln 3y ago
The migrated VB6 code I saw back in the era when VS2003 came out was a thin glue layer over some compiled DLLs. So the result of using the converter was a thin VB.NET wrapper around very outdated, vulnerable, unsupported third-party code. M
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by blincoln 3y ago
The lights I'm referring to aren't navigation lights. They're arrays, usually on arms that stick out from the side of the vessel, for attracting squid. They completely overwhelm the navigation lights in the photos I linked to
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by blincoln 3y ago
The PDF specification is wild. My current favourite trivia is that it supports all of Photoshop's layer blend modes for rendering overlapping elements.[1] My second-favourite is that it supports appended content that modifies earlier c
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by blincoln 3y ago
The author even suggests as much near the beginning of the article. Are red lights on those ships common? I found lots of articles[1] about their fleets, but the photos always seemed to show green or white lights. [1] e.g. https:/&#x2
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by blincoln 3y ago
How is fission not renewable, when one can literally make more of the material in the right type of reactor?
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by blincoln 3y ago
I think the safe default assumption is that if the ambulance driver didn't use the right lane, there was probably a good reason. Clearly the firetruck driver agreed with them. Maybe traffic was moving so quickly that they'd have t
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by blincoln 3y ago
Yes. I still buy everything I can on BD (or DVD as a fallback)[1], and nearly every release has separate stereo and surround mixes for the primary language of the film. Sometimes even for multiple languages. I assume only having one audio m
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by blincoln 3y ago
I don't know how big the market is, but there are definitely musicians out there who would love to be able to buy clones of a wide variety of out-of-production analogue ICs to restore vintage equipment, build kits that depend on those
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by blincoln 3y ago
Many of the scabbards in the article are so curved that it would be impossible to pull a blade of the same shape out of them. I'm sure that's what arthem was referring to.
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by blincoln 3y ago
Imagine how much more expensive a car seat designed to be fully reusable after a collision would be, then consider how often most people are involved in serious collisions. I'm in my 40s, and I've been a passenger in one collision
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by blincoln 3y ago
Is an array of 100,000,000 lasers realistic/practical, or is this more of an "assuming a spherical cow" theoretical exercise?
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by blincoln 3y ago
Costco actually pioneered that approach. The traditional corporate strategy had always been to have a bunch of different house brands fpr different product categories.
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by blincoln 3y ago
But is Maps actually a net loss for Google, or are they using Hollywood-style accounting techniques to make it <i>appear</i> unprofitable as an additional disincentive to the lawsuits that AlbertCory mentioned?
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by blincoln 3y ago
I grew up in a house that was next door to a radio rebroadcasting facility, and we could definitely hear the radio station coming from the walls of our house sometimes, e.g. even their station identification so there was no ambiguity. I ass
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by blincoln 3y ago
> Satellite data is extremely idiosyncratic. It's coarse (~10m at best), infrequent (every few days at best), and oh you have to deal with the fact that the planet is covered in 50% clouds at any moment. Are the coarseness and cloud
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by blincoln 3y ago
> There is nothing inherently wrong with Java serialization. I would argue that it's a footgun for the vast majority of developers when a deserialization mechanism: A) Does something other than restore the exact logical state of the
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by blincoln 3y ago
Code execution in a JVM is typically equivalent to code execution on the host where it's running. Because this vulnerability affects both clients and servers, it sounds like a good way for someone to write a worm that ends up creating
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by blincoln 3y ago
I'm 45 (i.e not a Millennial) and I've turned subtitles on when possible for many ywars because I dislike having to go back and rewatch repeatedly when dialogue is ambiguous. It's not hard to pay attention to both aspects of
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by blincoln 3y ago
It depends on the person who owns it and the expense/level of effort required. Some game collectors are motivated by the idea of owning something that no one else has. For decades, there were no preserved, shares versions of Marble Mad

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