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Modern QGIS is very good. As a former professional turned casual home user, it covers my all requirements personally, but on the other hand there is certainly room for other options in the industry. On the other topic of online offerings: P
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This will probably sound more cynical than it's meant, because I do admire this, but here we go anyway - Whenever I see these impressive-looking online data visualisation projects, I think: What would be interesting - and/or convi
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One (scientifically) imagines that the adult entertainment industry would be a driver in the consumer space of this technology.
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It's annoying how, in the world where a few boys could code Second Reality in 1993 in barely a megabyte or two, on computers that were a tiny fraction of what we're using today, we (collectively) have somehow obfuscated the matter
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I don't mean this as any disparagement of the base claims - which are themselves somewhat a function of the fact that the majority Android market is fragmented into many, while the minority iOS market is One, as we all know - but the u
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by crtified 3y ago
Layperson question : does it help if the Faraday cage is grounded, so that the waves it picks up have somewhere to "go"? or does it not work that way? (I fully expect it does not work that way!)
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by crtified 3y ago
As somebody located outside the few main western market centres (US, EU, perhaps Australia), and thus having most Amazon orders also incur added domestic tax, plus shipping, plus wait-time, most of the advantages of Amazon are stripped away
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On the topic of compatibility of old games, it's worth noting that Linux's wine is also very good when it comes to running old Windows software and games. In a retro gaming group I frequent, we sometimes find that our chosen o
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I assume the same principle of microplastic contamination applies to some degree, not only to bottled water itself, but also to many other food and drink products where a primary ingredient is that kind of commercial plastic-filtered water.
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The SEC should never have put itself in the position where it was vulnerable to this type of online impersonation. This seems less about crypto - after all, crypto will crypto - and more about " why the heck did the SEC normalise Twitt
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> closed due to too many cases of harassment. Yes, some say that the reported 70/30 male/female split among the Antarctic employees, along with a macho culture, and liberal access to alcohol - that being one of the most effecti
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by crtified 3y ago
I first saw Tom Scott onscreen around 2010, when he appeared as a contestant on the esoteric - and very good - BBC quiz show Only Connect . Link to 2022 Reddit discussion, which includes video [0]. It is a fun look back at a ponytailed Tom
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This old forum thread details a similar project I did (on the data side) for somebody about 10 years ago. https://forums.overclockers.com.au/threads/calling-all-sketc... Quite outdated now in many respects - and using
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An interesting case study in measuring one's own land. I have a former working background in surveying calcs and mapping, and have also been long considering embarking upon a similar DIY project for my own property. One aspect I note,
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Being "managed out" (as this is sometimes called) of a long term role can be very traumatic. Especially if you-the-employee approach the situation with a natural and genuine desire to fix or heal the situation, in the face of the
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by crtified 3y ago
Regarding Atropine : A July 2023 report from NIH (the US government's biomedical and public health research body) is titled " Low-dose atropine eyedrops no better than placebo for slowing myopia progression ". https:/&#
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Another possibility (or rather, an extension on the idea of punishment) is that it's a form of irreversible social segregation. For better? as in: " we, the enlightened and courageous fingerless! ", or, more likely-seeming, f
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There's no easy answer, beyond the two infinite (and equally, vague) options : "make more", and/or "spend less". Many who make it have the key advantage of having been nurtured into that outcome across their f
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I agree with your point. But the quoted statistic is confusing. Under what specifics would 300 people = 0.5% of the total prison population? As I understand it, the total prison population of the USA is over 1 million, and the subset design
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by crtified 3y ago
In traditional painting, since hundreds or thousands of years ago, many drawing techniques relied heavily upon using different physical brushes. The properties of each different brush would make certain tasks easier for the painter. In more
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How quickly do the (damaging to nearby solar systems etc) effects of a supernova propagate through space, in relation to the speed of light? Or, to put it another way, could we detect the damaging effects of a nearby supernova expanding tow
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It's interesting that, on long running and well regarded (but obviously, not authoritative) site "HG101’s Top 47k Games of All Time" [0], the top 50 ranked titles includes virtually no games - 1? 2? 3? arguably - of a technic
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<looks at previous comment's dv's> Fair enough, it is indeed a cruel world where our children can't even eat animal faeces in safety, and any levity to the contrary should indeed be harshly punished - thank-you-sir-may-
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Mittens and muzzles. (I'm joking, I'm joking!, look, we're 4 levels deep in HN's 50th joyous t.gondii thread here, allow me this innocent shitpost)
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In the limited (but probably dominant, here at HN) context of middle-class-ish urban dwellers, I daresay there would be a sizeable proportion of clean, well-sealed modern homes in which rat ingress is at, or almost, zero. Doubtless there is
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As a fellow Monkey Island 2 and iMuse nostalgiac, I also really enjoyed the user-controllable musical segue effect used in the recent game Sea of Stars. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dOG4DECEGk (technically speaking I as
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I struggle to separate the man from the ideals, when it comes to political and economic matters. The fact that Tolstoy was a (no disrespect meant, but I'll use the modern term: ) 'nepo baby', born and raised into nobility on
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Whether or not Google truly 'lost data', any backup is only as good as the last verification done by the datas owner. Simply putting varying degrees of closed-source Syncing App in place long term, then expecting them to just keep
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[see me answering my own question, at bottom of comment] Is there scientific data supporting the verbal "it's really good" and "we did lots of research" claims? Such as mdfourier testing and comparison with the orig
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I'm not here to judge crypto, but regardless : casual, loosely-regulated financial investment, in a famously volatile space, and controlled via smartphone app, is a scenario that warrants cautious decision-making.

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