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by hn8305823 3y ago
No, and I'm absolutely not willing to give up the mechanical camera shutter I have on my laptop for that feature. They could add a mechanical shutter to the hidden camera in the frame but why do all of this. Edit: Should have said &quo
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> He said the pilot procedure the FAA approved as an interim solution — urging pilots to make sure to turn off the system when icing conditions dissipate to avoid overheating that within five minutes could seriously damage the structure
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by hn8305823 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch > In 1963, under Welch’s management of the facility, an explosion at a factory blew off the roof, and he was almost fired for that episode. Checks out
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Uncanny Valley(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> I am really relaxed about the US primacy in tech "Resting on your laurels" always ends badly. > It has all the systemic advantages Then let's take full advantage of them. We must remain extremely hungry for science&#x
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by hn8305823 3y ago
"position and hold" was the old phraseology in the US. It changed to "line up and wait" on 2010/09/30 to match ICAO standards and because "hold (on the runway)" might be confused with "hold short
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by hn8305823 3y ago
In GTA Vice City one of the first ways you can make money outside of missions is to sneak over to the main island, run over parking meters downtown and collect the money. It doesn't take long to collect enough to buy the cheap shack re
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Dick Watson was a much less rebellious character than Tom; he’d even permitted his father to accompany him and his bride on their honeymoon. 1) What
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Servers don't necessarily have to run 24/7. I'm curious, do you actually run servers for a living? I'm wondering what a typical use case is (aside from crypto mining) where powering off and on physical servers due t
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by hn8305823 3y ago
From the perspective of a worker being replaced by AI, and having to re-train for a new career it is extremely disruptive.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
I don't think larger single mirrors is going to be a thing. The numerous advantages of hexagon arrays far outweigh (pun intended) the single drawback of the large hexagonal diffraction spikes. The point spread function (PSF) is very we
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> the guy His name was Richard Jewel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_jewel
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by hn8305823 3y ago
This correlates with my personal experience. If I take paper notes, I rarely have to go back and look at them. Even then it's usually just to confirm my memory. If I take notes on an electronic device, I'm far more likely to have
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by hn8305823 3y ago
The Cirrus SR-22 (the best selling general aviation plane every year since 2003) has mechanically linked side sticks. They aren't fly by wire like the Airbus but it shows they can be linked without a complex motor system.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Thus, as we sleep on our coil-spring mattresses, we are in effect sleeping on an antenna that amplifies the intensity of the broadcast FM/TV radiation. Asleep on these antennas, our bodies are exposed to the amplified electromagne
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by hn8305823 3y ago
I heard a warning on the radio this morning that "Google is going to delete your account, here's what you need to know blah blah blah" One silver lining of this is that non-tech people are becoming aware of the arbitrary and
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by hn8305823 3y ago
The opposite of the "design by committee" method that resulted in the F-35 disaster. A plane so bad in every imaginable way it was put (and kept) in production purely and reluctantly as a jobs program.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Kids back then had fucking nothing. Yep, Gen X is the last generation to have played with literal rocks and sticks.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
This article was posted just a few weeks before ChatGPT was released: https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/googles-rest-vest-days-for-s... Too little too late?
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> Look forward to: David Attenborough narrates porn. Here you go: https://youtu.be/kwAEVII8FRM?si=oF0Vu5Zgk7fUgvDz&t=491 (NSFW!)
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Walmart, Costco and other companies rethink self-checkout(cnn.com)
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Back in the 1980's this was the standard. Don't come back until dark. Try that today and you'll end up in jail with your kids in a foster home.
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Makes sense since the entire point of school is to give you enough executive function to perform well in society. Learning can happen too, but school is obviously not optimized for that.
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Microsoft, Meta to Combat "Election Disinformation" with Meme Watermarks(reclaimthenet.org)
3 points by hn8305823 3y ago|1 comments
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Asteroid Dinkinesh is weirder than thought after NASA probe finds contact binary(space.com)
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PW1000 Observatory System(planewave.com)
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by hn8305823 3y ago
Euclid has a 1.2m primary mirror. For $600k you can have a 1m telescope in your backyard. You will still have to deal with the atmosphere, clouds, and Moon, however. Especially clouds. https://planewave.com/product/pw10
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by hn8305823 3y ago
If the Sun were replaced by one solar mass black hole, we would freeze/starve to death but the Earth's orbit would be just as stable as it is now. In fact Earth might survive (as an ice planet) much longer than it would around the
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by hn8305823 3y ago
> formed within the first half-billion or so years of the galaxy. Universe?
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by hn8305823 3y ago
tl'dr, this seems to be the most important point but the video/transcript is full of insightful info: > The third era that influenced Russian thought in a great manner is Mongol Russia. In the 1240s, the Mongols conquered Russi

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