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by carl_dr 5y ago
And since that article was posted by NASA, the sunshield has successfully been tensioned : https://webb.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/deploymentExplorer.... Flawless deployment so far, fingers crossed the deployment
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> ML trained on video, applied to gamedev, seems like a matter of time. You could do it right now. Indeed! Photorealistic GTA V using ML : https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/5/12/22432945&
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If you are in iOS, it does a good job of finding acronyms for you. Long press “GOAT”, then select “Look up”. The answer is the second item listed.
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Have you seen Doom on a pregnancy test? https://twitter.com/foone/status/1302820468819288066?s=21
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Indeed. From that Wikipedia page : "In the case of stars orbiting close to a spinning, supermassive black hole, frame dragging should cause the star's orbital plane to precess about the black hole spin axis. This effect should be
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by carl_dr 5y ago
He meant first-party tracking. Reddit aren’t doing that.
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How directors shoot films at three different budget levels(youtube.com)
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It’s pretty obvious now I know what it means : Photomicrography, photography of objects under a microscope. Some of these photos are amazing, well worth spending 5 minutes of my day to slow down a bit and scroll through them. (Correction, 1
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Taken from the parent comment : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22788678
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Muphry's law strikes again! The bug affected Gitlab, not GitHub.
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Random hint, unrelated to these two posts, but might of of interest to PHPers : Use single quote around the string you pass to PHP to avoid having to quote variable names. php -r ‘$a=“thing”;’ Doesn’t matter in the parent post’s case, but s
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Not at all, my 9.25” telescope has a focal length of about 2.4 metres - a focal ratio of f/10. You’ll recognise f/x from camera lenses and such. The diameter does control how much light the telescope “swallows” though, you’ll need
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That’s on the developers. From TFA : > The lawsuit says that after the company filed a DMCA takedown notice to remove the projects from Github, the defendants filed a bad faith counter notice to have the content reinstated, thus trigger
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From the filed complaint, Take-Two quote one of the developers : > GTA 3 and Vice City were originally written in [programming language] C++ . . . The compiled executables that are shipped are in machine code. So the general task is to g
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> If they decompiled the code and just cleaned it up it’s very grey. From the filed complaint, Take-Two quote one of the developers : > GTA 3 and Vice City were originally written in [programming language] C++ . . . The compiled execu
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> Are they going inspect all data at rest? From TFA : > When AWS Trust & Safety is made aware of abusive or illegal behavior on AWS services, they act quickly to investigate and engage with customers to take appropriate actions,&q
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> I wish there were a “robots.txt” file for Git to disallow certain bots from training on anything I have written. It’s simple. If you are concerned by this, don’t host your repositories on GitHub.
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Thanks for clarifying.
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> If the rider pedals hard enough to create excess energy (more than is required to power the motor at the current speed), that energy is dumped into the e-bike’s battery to be used later. I’d want that to make the bike move faster. Tha
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They’ve got it compiling on MacOS in the past few days. The link also mentions that it’s now compiling on Windows too. It references 0.9.0, but maybe pre-compiled binaries will appear for 0.8.0. https://github.com/vegastri
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It’s a single store, which has loads of different departments in it - perfumes, clothes, electricals, homeware etc.
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MacRumors reports this may increase the price of the next iPhone - https://www.macrumors.com/2021/08/26/iphone-13-price-increas... Lots of “reportedly”, “may”, “could” in there, of course. (I’m linking that a
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I’m late to this post, but I’ve read through it and can’t see this addressed, so here is a genuine question. What is the law in the US regarding photos captured either in public or on private property? So I invite my friends around, one cou
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by carl_dr 5y ago
Agreed, I experience exactly the same, and is the weakest (read: most easily understood) example shown. The others are all very good, I really like that I can understand why I am perceiving them the why I do, but despite of that can’t “fix”
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I feel they are being short sighted about this. Sure, protect the broadcasters who have spent lots of money on their rights to the coverage, and certainly crack down on unauthorised broadcasts of entire events. But … banning athletes showi
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Maybe? But you would save yourself $50 and get the non-TouchID one surely?
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Yeah, it does, M1 is Apple silicon.
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Yeah, indeed. My 2019 MacBook Pro has a touchbar, but 90% of the time, I use it in clamshell mode with two external monitors. I can use my Apple Watch to authenticate things like passwords in Safari, but I would MUCH prefer to not have to
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Only for Apple silicon Macs. Shame.
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Out of interest, have you read https://qntm.org/abolish ?

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