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by hbarka 2y ago
FrontPage 98 would like a word.
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Nominations in 2024 for Unesco List of Intangible Cultural Heritage(ich.unesco.org)
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You don’t have to apologize, man. I was on a Pullman train once but it wasn’t quite a bullet train. I also rode a Western train named Orient Express.
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Strangeness of zero or strangeness of null?
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Isn’t this really just signal-to-noise ratio? The information flow can be any input, be it visual, auditory, tactile, etc. “Clutter” is not a neutral word and leads the reader.
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The headline would be better served if it said something to the effect that sell-by dates will be replaced with another date suggestion. Instead they chose this misleading headline. The whole thing is also a great example of politics preten
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Not so different from modern society. Safety == freedom.
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High speed trains would do even more for California and would be the envy of the rest of the country.
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What term would you prefer?
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Isn’t Taiwan’s success in creating a TSMC correlated to the pyramid of their workforce which supplied skill at every level commensurate for high tech manufacturing’s demands? They have a high number of post-grads in their population AND als
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by hbarka 2y ago
Brings back so many memories. WordPerfect, Quattro Pro, Novell, and Wang Computers. So long, Mr Bastian, and thank you
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Since it’s a fluid, what about the effect of head angle during sleep?
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Gut microbes may influence how you handle stress(npr.org)
3 points by hbarka 2y ago|0 comments
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It’s very common to say that a car has acceleration but since the introduction of powerful electric cars like Tesla, that quickness you feel is the third derivative called jerk, or the acceleration of acceleration. Jerk is a little strange
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The phrase ‘crack team’ has military origins.
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Interesting choice of name. It’s like safe-super-weapon.
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Tableau, once full of creatives, has been gutted by Salesforce since the acquisition.
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I wonder if this can discern for fishing nets pollution, called ghost nets, which entangle and ensnare marine animals. The scale of harm for these animals is unthinkable. Edit: the ghost nets come from ships. We need to pinpoint the “fishin
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>> Code as ETL was a huge industry shift No it’s not. Try and see what banks, retail, manufacturing, various large enterprises still use. They need scale, observability, modularity, and maintainability.
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Ford’s Blue Cruise is hands-off in mapped highways. Waymo is driverless. Musk is really getting away with all the hype for what Tesla cruise control delivers.
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Ask HN: The Starliner spacecraft issues, how harrowing for the astronauts?
1 points by hbarka 2y ago|3 comments
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Where did this meme come from? Why does the internet like it?
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Bothsidesism has become a tactic to normalize when one side does something asymmetrically and objectively awful.
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You’ve missed the entire point. Sure, anyone can shoot raw. The Fujifilm value proposition is in not having to do post-processing of raw files. The finished good is right there in the jpeg, complete in all its film-like glory.
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The value proposition is Fuji’s film stock which they have converted to software emulation. No one is allowed to copy it nor do they have the Fuji scientists who developed it. It’s unique, which makes it long term. There’s at least 20 in th
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The astonishing revelation is that their film line is responsible for the success of their digital camera line. How so? Call it nostalgia or a realization that the film look is more aesthetic, but in any case Fujifilm turned their historica
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Increased risk of flight turbulence due to climate change (2017)(news.agu.org)
2 points by hbarka 2y ago|0 comments
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https://news.agu.org/press-release/flights-worldwide-face-in... A new study published online in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, has calculated that climate change will signifi
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Fujifilm’s revenue is up 20% YOY, hardly dire. https://petapixel.com/2024/05/09/fujifilms-camera-profits-so... .
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“A September 2022 study predicts that clear-air turbulence will increase significantly around the globe by the period 2050-2080, in particular along the busiest flight routes, and the strongest type of turbulence will increase the most.” h

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