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by harywilke 3y ago
It was not not built 'by hand'. For example here is a photo of a steam powered excavator being used. https://original-ufdc.uflib.ufl.edu/CA90000065/00001 The entire site is fascinating collection of photos fr
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by harywilke 3y ago
I was fortunate to be at the Tate for that exhibition and got to see when they turned the 'sun' off at closing time. I was visiting my brother in London at the time, he wasn't a big fan of modern art, so we split up, I went t
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by harywilke 3y ago
The natural outcome of the non delegation theory is that every member of congress needs to work at the mint printing money as that power can not be delegated to anyone else, federal prisons must close because there is no way we have enough
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by harywilke 3y ago
What survives is sometimes just by sheer luck. In the Acropolis Museum, there are a few reproductions of sketches on display by Jacques Carrey, a french artist who happened to visit Athens in November 1674. The Venetian's siege of the
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by harywilke 3y ago
It's amazing that barely a 100 years ago The Great Debate in astronomy was weather the Milky Way was the extent of the universe or things like Andromeda were their own 'island universes'. In the 1920s, Edwin Hubble showed tha
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by harywilke 3y ago
Dr.Becky goes over this in a video [0] from a year ago about the divergent results obtained by the two main ways we measure the rate of expansion. Cosmic Microwave Background Vs. Supernovae. As the accuracy of each method has improved, the
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by harywilke 3y ago
Really surprised not to see any mention of the 2x2 grid Jobs introduced in 1998: Pro, Consumer, Desktop, and Portable. It was the solution to exactly this problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10cZg8pLmXk about 6 minutes
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by harywilke 3y ago
just use firefox.
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by harywilke 3y ago
This is not a 'food brand' thing. And has been going on for ages. It's awful exploitation. From Microsoft getting their packaging for Windows '95, to Victoria's Secret,Nintendo, and Starbucks.Just to name a few. ht
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by harywilke 3y ago
Welcome to the modern web. It sucks. See all the comments (well intended, but illustrative of how bad the default experience is): "Use this defensive technique to keep the hordes of hell from your experience".
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by harywilke 3y ago
The screenshot could be more clear by highlighting 'file' and 'Translate PlusCal Algoritm'. This could be useful in skimming the documentation, but i think this could be a case of where text would be the clearer option.
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by harywilke 3y ago
Etymology. Chicago +‎ land. Generally thought to have been popularized by Robert R. McCormick, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune, first using it on page 1 of the July 27, 1926 issue, although it may have been coined much earlier.
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by harywilke 3y ago
In in astronomy, they used to use a similar technique to 'spot the difference' between photographs of the night sky to find moving objects. They used a special stereo microscope that would place one image in front of each eye. The
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by harywilke 3y ago
“I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do b
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by harywilke 3y ago
I've been reading an excellent book on the building of the Palomar Observatory[0]. It's amazing how small we used to think the universe was, a few tens of thousands of light years across. The book is very much a page turner. [0]
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by harywilke 3y ago
To give a sense of the scale of this building: Part of the convention center empty: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8535338,-87.6124521,3a,75y,6... From what used to be Meigs Field. You have to back up quite a bit to s
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by harywilke 3y ago
The Strong Songs Podcast had a really excellent dissection of this movie. https://strongsongspodcast.com/episode/talking-heads-stop-ma...
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by harywilke 3y ago
This is an aside. This [0] is what an attempt at balancing logging, locals, and forest conservation ~150 years ago looked like. The checkerboard effect [1] is pretty striking. This strategy ended up being a disaster for some animals, famous
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by harywilke 3y ago
I remember seeing exactly one movie like this. I was with my friends family in the early 1980's. It was terrible. I do remember that they all got up 3/4 through the 2nd screening and we walked out just when it was getting good.
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by harywilke 3y ago
Cost of living is somewhere between 40% to 70% less in China.
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by harywilke 3y ago
This was the reasoning my friends parents gave for getting her older sister a stick shift. After driving stick a while it just becomes habit. You don't even think about it. Though i do prefer being able to drop down a gear for extra ac
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by harywilke 3y ago
Hated him in architecture school. Was assigned the incomprehensible Towards a New Architecture as a first year. Had an argument w/ my professor over The Modular, his 'based on human' measuring system. It's a failure if y
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by harywilke 3y ago
And about themselves to induce fear in their enemies. 'The Spartan Mirage' comes to mind.
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by harywilke 3y ago
"* The US leases airbases in Turkey, with nuclear penetration bombers and nuclear warheads stored on site." My understanding is that the bombs are on site, but the bombers are not. This from 2019 by The Federation of American Scie
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by harywilke 3y ago
Yes. It is the stated position of the Texas GOP that they should secede. "33. State Sovereignty: Pursuant to Article 1, Section 1, of the Texas Constitution, the federal government199 has impaired our right of local self-government. Th
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by harywilke 3y ago
There's the BEEF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
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by harywilke 4y ago
So once upon a time my parents in the states sent me, a newly minted ex-pat living in the EU, a package for my birthday. It was mostly cheap plastic kitchen things, a couple of oven mitts and stuff like that. It went to customs. Not only di
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by harywilke 4y ago
In Greece, the iconic whitewashed island house has a public health angle to it. "In 1938, a national order mandated the painting of island homes in blue and white. At the time, Greece was suffering an outbreak of cholera during the di
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by harywilke 4y ago
yup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_attainder
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by harywilke 4y ago
In Athens, Greece my favorite example of this is where you walk over the ancient city walls. There is a section of wall revealed by a dig in Kotzia square[1]. The nearby paving traces the walls, and further on the National Bank is raised up

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