foobar1962

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by foobar1962 2y ago
Archiving of broadcast material is rather difficult: should it be the final result that was shown over the air with all the overlays and graphics superimposed, or should it be the raw feeds? There is a board of people that make these decisi
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by foobar1962 2y ago
I was involved with two projects to digitise 20,000 hours each of analog audio and video: I built the database to select the tapes to digitise and manage their destruction. One was in the late 2000s the other 2020s. One of the challenges fo
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> You can reasonably easily imagine doing this with film too – just move it past the slit at a steady rate – not dissimilarly from taking an old-school panorama camera and moving the body instead of the lens. No need to imagine, this is
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by foobar1962 2y ago
I read that in Kenneth William's voice.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
I assume by "lethal" you mean "highly reactive" as opposed to "poisonous". Something that really wants to give away electrons and something that really wants to gain electrons are going to really get on well, a
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> This is discussed in the article. The standard is to use infinity, not zero. It's wrong. How is infinity returned as a result anyway? It's not a number, and it's not <the largest number the computer can return> eit
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Division by zero is better approximated by +infinity rather than zero. No it's not. Division by zero is UNDEFINED. How does a calculation return +infinity anyway? On the positive side of the graph, 1/x approaches +infinity. H
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Weight. A typical steam train has enough propulsion power to overcome an enormous amount drag, but its power-to-weight ratio is low.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> How on earth is speaking to the media about their own analysis of what happened going to "contaminate the neutrality of the investigation and prosecution"? Something along the lines of "if the findings are negative then
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Avoiding decades of poor health, and the cost (real and lost-opportunity) to society and the individuals.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Exactly what a manufactured comment would say. /s
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Thanks for saving me the trouble to post that. Somebody needed to. DA - RIP.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Wasn't expecting my question to hit top of HN. Thanks for asking it. Thanks too to the person that provided the thorough answer. After reading that answer - seeing all the math equations and physics that cover several disciplines
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by foobar1962 2y ago
or, like saying "media ready "
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by foobar1962 2y ago
The design drawings did not have the fault, but the engineering drawings used for building may have. They were done by different teams in different organisations at different times.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
I picked this up too: a minor error in an excellent article.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> I decided that that life, for me, was not about accomplishment. It was about happiness. He is in the unusual position to have achieved a great level of accomplishment.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
.-. - ..-. --
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by foobar1962 2y ago
You reach an age when life becomes a (text) adventure game: you wake up in a field next to a mailbox with a letter in it, and on the ground is a bag with items some of which are useful now, some that may be useful later, and others that are
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> pleasure craft... turn anti-clockwise forever if nobody is at the wheel. That's probably a result of the "paddle wheel" effect of the propellor rotating through the water: a bug not a feature.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
Cheese can be a problem for gout; yoghurt not so much because it isn't as protein dense. The "biggies" for gout are seafood, red meat and turkey, red wine and beer (generally best to avoid alcohol) and legumes. I've also
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by foobar1962 2y ago
The carbon isn't captured if it's released somewhere else in the cycle: in this case it will be released after it's eaten. Nothing in the article mentioned the nutrition of the product. It seems only to have been used in snac
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Sometimes it pays to risk your life on airplanes other people won't fly on. We have a winner!
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Car talk is a production of Dewey Cheetah Howe... Dewey, Cheatum & Howe. It's a joke name like Sillius Soddus or Biggus Dickus.
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by foobar1962 2y ago
> Also, cars and trucks occasionally do drive through homes, if the homes are next to large roads There is a Tesla in space. No homes are safe. Anywhere. In. The. Universe.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> How many pilots, trained or not, really have any experience with a 100,000 ton ship in a crash situation with responses where seconds matter? The crew would have know for several minutes that the collision was imminent. These things ha
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> Personally I would rather take the chance of being destroyed than destroy other life. Great. So don't wash your hands before eating... and don't eat.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
A broken analogy never stops.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
In Britain at least, taxes were levied on engine horsepower which at various times were calculated by piston stroke or cylinder diameter. Hence many long-stroke narrow cylinder engine designs.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I'd write that using a colon instead of the first comma, thus: "The U.S. President: a racist and a misogynist." (Donald Trump)

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