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by bragr 2y ago
>M-CAM 1 took this long-exposure photograph of Mercury's north pole I'm curious how this works. The dynamic range between the sunlit parts and the dark portions must be huge at that distance from the Sun. Anyone have the techni
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by bragr 2y ago
Neither any of the articles I looked up nor his obituaries name the illness so I assume he wanted that kept private. Probably not how I'd handle it, but to each their own.
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by bragr 2y ago
Both unfortunately. Many neighborhoods seem fully engulfed based on the maps: https://www.fire.ca.gov/incidents.html#
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by bragr 2y ago
I have a good view of the smoke column from Brentwood. I've also never seen a fire spread that fast. Same thing, in about an hour it went from a small fire to the smoke blocking out the sun. As a testament to the speed of the winds, I&
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by bragr 2y ago
The Getty Villa has reported that some landscaping burned, but the buildings and collections are safe. https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/getty-villa-threatened-pal...
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by bragr 2y ago
To be fair to Akamai, they were providing their services to Krebs free of charge.
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by bragr 2y ago
They are fairly rare. They are the least printed bill [1] and aren't included in a typical cash register, so just randomly stumbling upon one in the wild is a pretty rare. Sometimes people think they are fake because they've never
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by bragr 2y ago
I don't know about the details of this prosecution, but having served on juries, it is important to remember than "not guilty" is a finding that the government didn't meet the burden of proof, not necessarily a finding o
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by bragr 2y ago
Probably a combination of heavily regulated, the lack of choice for employer provided plans, and the difficulty in building out a network of doctors and other facilities. Would you sign up for an upstart health insurance with a tiny network
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by bragr 2y ago
When Oracle bought Sun/Solaris, they took down the public Solaris forums which made my job working with illumos forks very difficult without all the years relevant Solaris 10 questions and answers. In that case, it was a naked attempt
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by bragr 2y ago
1 out of 115 kids recognizing a microcontroller doesn't seem that surprising considering many kids play with little electronics kits these days.
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by bragr 2y ago
Why not? The navy confused infrared lens flairs of UFOs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs
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by bragr 2y ago
>people don't seem to realize that there is no USGOV tracking of drone-sized objects Anything 250g or heavier has to have Remote ID now. Now that doesn't exclude the possibility of illegal drones without it, but it isn't t
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by bragr 2y ago
>not all planes that fly need to have flight plans and transponders Technically true but since 2020 almost all aircraft are required to have transponders to fly in controlled airspace. You could have a small GA aircraft without a transpo
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by bragr 2y ago
Not to mention that the first couple of responses were very professional. At some point you just have to call a spade a spade, or not suffer fools, or whatever expression you prefer.
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by bragr 2y ago
I'm not sure that's an accurate characterization. He's specifically voiced concerns about the ambiguity of whether what he's doing violates ITAR, even with the "this isn't a tutorial, I've left out informa
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by bragr 2y ago
With what payload? >The comparatively lightweight rocket amounted to 330 pounds That's a total weight less than any warhead available for ATACMS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATACMS#Comparison And then there a
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by bragr 2y ago
Amateur rocketry is relatively common, although space shots are a considerable engineering effort. A good example is BPS.space (Joe Barnard) on youtube [1], who is making significant progress towards a space shot (over the karman line) and
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by bragr 2y ago
This reminds me of how my father (a lawyer) sent fake subpoenas to invite people to his brother's bachelor party. Most found it hilarious but it freaked a few people out. I suspect that this would have the same problem.
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by bragr 2y ago
>There was a time in the 1960s when the oceans were considered to be as important to explore as space. Arguably a lot of that was just cover for cold war military submarine/anti-submarine research. Seabed hydrophones for tracking so
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by bragr 2y ago
I don't know about whether it is more or less common, but there has been international drama over conjunctions over the last several years https://spacewatch.global/2021/12/spacewatchgl-share-chinese...
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by bragr 2y ago
>The weapon falls under the suspicion of violating the Firearm and Sword Control Law.
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by bragr 2y ago
There's a name for this: Shadow IT
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by bragr 2y ago
>Wifes license runs out in January next year, eep Genuinely asking, how does that qualify as "eep"? Is renewing onerous or expensive in Germany? I ask because in the US, renewing a license is usually cheap and done quickly onli
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by bragr 2y ago
>people should not be living there How do people afford to move and start new lives when you can't sell your property because it is uninsurable?
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by bragr 2y ago
The fire insurance that is unaffordable or just straight not available anymore to those same people?
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by bragr 2y ago
NVENC is trash, fast trash, but trash none the less. Encode the same source file with FFMPEG at the same bitrate using NVENC and the CPU and the loss of quality with NVENC is readily visible. NVDEC is fine, but if you're encoding with
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by bragr 2y ago
That's a valid robots.txt, but "proper" is entirely dependent on what you want to achieve. If you aren't looking to treat different bots differently, and are looking allow all of your site to be indexed, then that is exa
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by bragr 2y ago
It appears to have been forked: https://github.com/mchehab/zbar
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by bragr 2y ago
>I cross where ever when it is safe and convenient

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