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by foobar1962 3y ago
The Australia market was dominated by Fountain Tomato Sauce, and possibly Master Foods. Heinz Ketchup wasn't easy to find, and it may have been named Tomato Sauce rather than Ketchup here.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
@iou never said anything that suggested "anti-religion" and only commented about gullibility. The best place to get "God told me to do it" working was a defence will be in a Church. The "smartest/best" can
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by foobar1962 3y ago
It sounds as though mission life has as much to do with funding for ground staff (not something I ever considered) at least as much as it has to do with the life expectancy of deployed hardware.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Not a budget lens, but it was extremely good value for money at the time and had excellent image quality for an ultra-wide zoom. Later lenses were better...
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I'm not a lens designer, but want to play one on TV.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Some Canon lenses like the EF 17-40mm L use "replica" aspherical elements... Replica aspherical lens elements are produced by using an aspherical surface mold and ultraviolet-light-hardening resin to form an aspherical surface lay
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> Fluorite just has low dispersion and therefore a lens made from it has less chromatic aberration than glass. So why not make the entire lens from fluorite? Because pairing an element with one with different refractive index can lower t
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Possibly a poor analogy, but imagine making a particle accelerator with the goal that objects of different mass put into it are accelerated and leave it going the same velocity. The current state of technology allows that the best we can do
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> Computers make the optimization extremely fast these days... A lot of computer design is now aimed at optimising for tolerances in lens elements and mechanical housings to reduce precision necessary when assembling them: they can drop
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> in the context of apochromatic lenses: those that are optimized for three different wavelengths of light, not just two, which an achromatic lens does. Achromatic lenses (corrected for blue and green) was acceptable for black and white
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I have 16BG too. I have a Time Machine backup set up for a disk plugged into an AirPort Extreme, could that be the issue? (The machine connected to the network using WiFi if that matters.)
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by foobar1962 3y ago
If it refers to random beach balls for 30 seconds when accessing disk ether directly or through apps... yeah I get that. I found it disappointing, a flaw in an otherwise great machine (M1 Mac mini).
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Yes, and the article writer is suggesting that more AI training will be done on the client computer, and gave spelling and grammar checking as an example.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
The prison sentence was for obstruction of justice the matter of crashing the plane hasn't been addressed yet.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Kodak had more patents in digital imaging than any other company. Why they failed is partly because they underestimated how much the overall photography market would decline and what needed to be done to be successful in the 10% that was le
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Artists had been saying that photographs had no soul for almost 100 years.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Electronic imaging in terms of television has been around since the 1940s or 50s. We all watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. It was a pretty safe bet that resolution would get better until it exceeded film.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
But not common for english tutors to have mansions.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
From the article: > ... more than one-third (36.6%) of the population had at least one antimicrobial prescription subsidised by the Australian government in 2022... of antibiotics and antifungals... The prescriptions were for antibiotics
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by foobar1962 3y ago
Right.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I heard this story on the radio today. They started off with references to fire flys and other creatures that generate light (I dunno the name for that phenomenon) the led into the main story that lots of mammal fur fluoresces under UV ligh
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> I find myself becoming more and more sensitive to this basic mistake: We know relativity is wrong somehow. We know quantum mechanics is wrong somehow. Please don't use the word "wrong". Alchemy is wrong. Astrology is wro
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I worked at UTS from 1991 in the IT department, starting just as NCSCA Mosaic and HTML was killing off Gopher and Turbo Gopher. UTS was the backbone for AARnet and I had a couple of computers with IP numbers that were directly accessible fr
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by foobar1962 3y ago
He's also in Tropic Thunder.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
The design of pressurised aircraft is probably a good example to study.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
You'd just use your phone for GPS. Doing something useful with that information may be a challenge. All that is moot if they are locked on the wrong side of the airtight hatchway.
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> Can any engineers comment on whether that task is easier for a vessel exposed to compression (under sea) as opposed to vacuum (space)? I believe the pressure where the Titanic lays is 300 atmospheres. The pressure differential for the
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by foobar1962 3y ago
> Im curious how many blacksmiths there were back then... The sword is bronze, blacksmiths work with iron. Bronze is usually cast, iron is usually forged (heated and hit with a hammer).
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by foobar1962 3y ago
A question for the metallurgists: how would a bronze sword compare to an iron sword, even if the iron is low quality (ie, impurities, not heat treated etc)?
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by foobar1962 3y ago
I saw it too. I found that the hand painting process resulted in every pixel of frame constantly changing, even otherwise plain backgrounds, which made it exhausting to watch. The frame rate was pretty low too.

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