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> Also I think a lot of the shake these days is added in post That's easy to check; if there is no parallax then it was definitely added in post.
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DSLR camera bodies aren't cast aluminium; they're cast magnesium (which contain 10 % aluminium or so).
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> Given that you're often hand holding a camera, being lighter is a significant advantage, it can often be the difference between a stable or a blurred shot. Lighter camera ~ more vibrations.
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They're there, e.g. old delivery trucks.
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American-style pickups in general are unpopular here (in either meaning). For transporting stuff transporter/sprinter-class vehicles are far far more common as well as 3.5 ton transporters, which can have an open cargo area (or an encl
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Or take a peek at the streets around pretty much any school these days, they are crawling with Straßenkampfwagen.
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Reader view to the rescue
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... and then you clear the scrollback (Ctrl-L) but you can't just re-run the previous command because the system is now in a different state.
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The German constitution set forth that law enforcement is a matter of the states; no federal "general purpose" police may exist. Secret agencies and police may not be mixed (although some commenters liken the excessive powers of t
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The biggest advantage is that you get transactions. (Or Not). Possibly faster small objects with less (memory, storage) overhead.
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With default mount options you can even create files/folders named foo\bar.
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Man pages aren't even in the kernel tree.
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> Ri Yong-ho told reporters in New York that North Korea reserved the right to shoot down US bombers. > This applied even when they were not in North Korean airspace, the minister added. The world "should clearly remember" i
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Haha, here in Germany people will call you out for crossing a pedestrian red light.
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Properties like source/sink volume. It's bad UX if the adjustment is performed out-of-sync with the visual (volume slider) and manual (key press) feedback.
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Firefox stopped supporting ALSA, so I had to install PA. PA gives me: a noise chirp when the PA daemon starts, which is probably some uninitialized garbage buffer. Sometimes (I don't know what triggers it, seems to be random, and no, i
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IIRC Voith developed these... I'm in no way an expert about these, but I'd guess that going gearless and using a slow-running generator would have the advantage that you get a much longer and fatter shaft to put bearings on.
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I think one of the very few remaining applications of variable-speed gearboxes are wind generators with no converter. But this in itself is rare, because it may be more reliable (?), but also less efficient than the power electronics... (af
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> and = as semi-function definition. Variable binding.
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+1 Many people commute by train from the "suburbs" or the smaller cities sprinkled around the larger cities, partly because it's convenient, partly because traffic is really bad in major cities.
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A special chip isn't really needed for this, an FPGA can do all of the above (with the correct bitstream)
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> It's like Newton not only discovering calculus but also inventing its modern syntax and writing the best textbook on the subject. Leibniz called, he wants his calculus back.
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Well there are people who use solar cycles for dating things as well.
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Doesn't look significantly worse than the American power grid ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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PV panels are not damaged by no-load conditions.
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All directly grid-connected inverters have backfeed protection built-in. Bigger installations can have automatic switching from the grid to the inverter, much like an uninterruptible power supply. (This is technically possible with smaller
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You don't need inverters, strictly speaking. For some applications the battery voltage is just fine.
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> I understand that server-side rendering is basically dead. Server-side rendering is a mature technology, don't measure it's pervasiveness in how often you see articles in the news about it...
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> It's like saying the good thing with not having a cellphone is that you avoid a lot of fight with your girlfriend cause you can't talk as much. I can't quite see what's wrong with that...
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> (which has been used for many years)
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