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by elihu 2y ago
This is the original source of the video: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14631 They also have some older visualizations that are similar. It's hard to tell, but it looks like they may have been based on lower resolution da
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'Tremendous' NASA Video Shows CO2 Spewing from US into Earth's Atmosphere(newsweek.com)
34 points by elihu 2y ago|1 comments
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by elihu 2y ago
"Zorlax the mighty would like to connect on LinkedIn" https://xkcd.com/1642/
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by elihu 2y ago
Huh, I was expecting that other Tetris musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8
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by elihu 2y ago
I assume he must be using the Linnstrument in MIDI 1.0 mode; I don't think the MPC supports MPE. It would be really cool if it did, though. (A friend of mine has been working on a fork of the Linnstrument firmware to add native suppo
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by elihu 2y ago
I don't own a Linnstrument, but I know a couple people who have them and they all seem pretty impressed with it. If you want something less expensive, you might take a look at the Roli Lightpad Block. It's kind of like a miniatur
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by elihu 2y ago
No and yes. GME was overpriced for a bit, but I think that was just a natural consequence of the shorts getting too greedy and putting themselves into an untenable position. Basically, the shorts told the market "please take all my mon
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by elihu 2y ago
I'd be curious to know what evidence there is that a lot of the original shorts never covered their positions and are still waiting for the price to collapse. Or in other words, why is he confident that the squeeze has no yet squozen.
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by elihu 2y ago
> "In 2021, Gill's social media activity on Reddit helped drive GameStop stock to historic highs. At that time, Gill encouraged others to invest in the stock—not based on the fundamentals of GameStop business but on his pure lo
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by elihu 2y ago
I don't hear any audio. (Chromium on Xubuntu.)
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by elihu 2y ago
Tecnu seems to help quite a bit in my experience.
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by elihu 2y ago
Weirdly enough, the food safety of urushiol was the topic of this recent and heavily discussed HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40399224 I can't say I have any desire to try it myself.
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by elihu 2y ago
Interesting bit of trivia: the Great Lakes are connected to the Mississippi watershed by a canal, and there is a section of the canal that is electrified to discourage fish from crossing to the other side. https://www.youtube.com
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by elihu 2y ago
I would expect nothing less.
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by elihu 2y ago
I didn't know he had released sheet music and lyrics into the public domain. That's amazing. https://tomlehrersongs.com/
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by elihu 2y ago
In case you didn't see it, there's a little bit of detail given if you click the question mark in the upper left.
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by elihu 2y ago
Can confirm on Chromium/Linux.
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by elihu 2y ago
Impractical compared to what? The U.S. burns about 4 million barrels of gasoline and about the same amount of diesel per day, mostly just pushing ground vehicles around. That sort of works, but I wouldn't call it practical in the lon
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by elihu 2y ago
I believe AAC is really popular in Europe too (which I suppose could just be considered another form of concrete, but it provides decent insulation, making it more suitable to colder climates).
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by elihu 2y ago
That's an option, though I think the amount of time cars spend at stop lights is so highly variable that it'd be hard to make that practical. Also, in-town driving is usually short range anyways. For that, having a 100 mile or e
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by elihu 2y ago
I think the point they were making is that a suitable technology to deliver power to a moving vehicle has been around a long time, not that everyone should get rid of their cars and use trolleys. If we combine a modern EV with 100 year old
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by elihu 2y ago
This is one way to do it: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f... Overhead cables are simpler and cheaper, but not easily compatible with cars (which would need a comically tall p
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by elihu 2y ago
Fast charge speeds make electrified highways a more viable option. There are some projects in Europe using overhead lines (for trucks) or power rails embedded in slots in the road surface (usable by cars or trucks) so that vehicles can rec
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by elihu 2y ago
That's effectively just per-note pitch bend -- which is great to have, but it's still kind of problematic to only have 128 unique notes you can individually toggle on and off or otherwise control on keyboards that have more than 1
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by elihu 2y ago
MPE is very useful if you want real time per-note expression and pitch control. (Basically, the less like a piano your controller is, the more useful MPE becomes.) It's possible to do that in plain MIDI 1.0 by using a separate channel
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by elihu 2y ago
I think the Lumatone uses MIDI 2.0, but I haven't actually seen one of those in person. I'm working on my own microtonal MIDI controller, and for now it makes more sense to just use MPE. Maybe I'll support MIDI 2.0 eventuall
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by elihu 2y ago
CAN bus would probably fix the latency/bandwidth issues with serial MIDI, and it side-steps the device/host problem and the short cable problem with USB. I'm in favor. (I'm actually working on a MIDI controller. It has
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by elihu 2y ago
It's great that it's an open standard, but I feel like the MIDI Association is kind of dropping the ball on openness. You have to register with midi.org just to read the specs. That's not a huge hardship, but it's kind
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by elihu 2y ago
One of the things I like about modular is that the v/octave CV standard imposes no assumptions on what kind of scale you're using. 12-tone equal temperament is pretty easy to use, but there's nothing forcing you to that scal
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by elihu 2y ago
That makes me wonder how often one runs across a synth that doesn't support running status. I'm working on a MIDI controller myself, and that's a thing I probably ought to enable if I want the lowest latency. It seems the st

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