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by jeffwass 6y ago
NightCap https://nightcapcamera.com/nightcap-camera/
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Here in London we’re treated to many ISS flyovers, some almost directly overhead. We had a nice flyover yesterday, with perfectly clear skies. See below link to a long exposure star-trail photo I captured with my iPhone. https://
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Emo Philips has another joke which I think was voted somewhere as funniest joke ever, and is a great take on western religion : “When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work
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In London the deliveroo motorcycle drivers are often very aggressive and dangerous. The company seems to incentivise drivers to deliver as quickly as possible without regard to safety or traffic rules.
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Anyone know how to see the page without consenting to cookies? There’s no optout on the pop-up. If I click the cookie policy link I can withdraw my never-given consent but then must click accept again to get past the pop-up to visit the pag
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While he was home sick too... That said, the bar for failure is not so high as the ability to hack up a robotic dvd loader in two days from scraps while you’re sick.
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Dead Sea Scroll fragments found in desert cave(edition.cnn.com)
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This is interesting! It’s great you’re dogfooding your own product for personal use, but I’m curious how your offering (which seems specialised for businesses) compares to something like Mint which is designed for personal use?
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You say only farmers and home builders create value. But the farmers and home builders who work at scale require tools and resources created by industry, which in turn require raw materials, an ability to process these materials, and an abi
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Is the image in the article real? The image shows a real Elon Musk tweet with a reply by another Blue-Checked Twitter user @joshymcb (Josh McBride), except he changed his display name to Elon Musk (with Unicode variations). His reply had th
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Here’s something I don’t understand. Are NFT’s all on the same blockchain? Otherwise couldn’t someone put the same asset on an alternate blockchain (or even the same asset on the same blockchain) and claim its the real one? How then do I kn
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Interesting suggestion. I read the OP's article a few years ago and it totally resonated with me. And I'm glad to have seen it here again, and wrote out my own experience above. Maybe one day I'll publish a longer version of
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This article resonates quite strongly with me. I also did a PhD in physics which I grew more and more disillusioned with as it progressed. I did physics in undergrad, then worked for a few years as an engineer. I was the only one on my team
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Actually he resigned from Wall Street some time ago and is now a writer.
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That’s not the case here. In this case the ship was ‘hovering’ due to an atmospheric effect called Superior Mirage. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage#Superior_mirage
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I think it was here on HN many years ago someone mentioned they "plan the mountains, pants the valleys", which I think beautifully encapsulates the process (at least very similar to how I do it). I'm primarly a pantser, but I
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I really like your comment, may I ask why you have no intention of publishing your own works? I'm also in the process of writing a few different works (I have one kids sci-fi novel draft finished, and a couple others in various state o
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Ron Lancaster’s “tinaja” webpage was my dad’s browser homepage for years, I think starting back in the late 90’s. Maybe it still is. My dad loves it because it has links for just about everything he’s interested in.
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I live in the UK and we have BSL (British Sign Language). It’s absolutely bonkers that two fairly different sign languages exist for the same base spoken language. That said, BSL uses a lot of facial cues, not just hands and arms, to allow
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I have a HomePod in the kitchen and use Siri for two main things : 1. Hey Siri, add Olive Oil to the grocery list. Super easy. When I’m cooking and running low on something, no need to break my stride and pull out my phone, or clean my hand
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How long does it take to go from room temp to proper pizza operating temperature?
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This is also why op-amps are named that - Operational Amplifiers, they can do many mathematical operations. My college electronics prof was old-school enough who told us back in his day it was “standard practice” to use pp-amps to solve dif
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Bitcoin tops $20k for the first time(telegraph.co.uk)
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It's not just ugly fruits/veg, it's food that would otherwise be discarded for any reason. I've only been receiving their boxes for a few weeks now, and gotten some strange J-shaped cucumbers, but most of the produce loo
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by jeffwass 7y ago
> since NASA is no longer doing world shattering stuff like landing on the moon NASA has its Artemis program which is doing exactly this, returning to the Moon with a goal of a longer-term lunar base. And they just held a period of appli
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I’m curious, do you stand under the cold water the entire time? Or kind of get wet quickly and step out of the stream, lather, rinse quickly, etc.
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Seconded. It’s a quick read too. I think Asimov said often people would ask him “What’s that story called where ...” and he’d cut them off and answer “The Last Question”.
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You also didn’t have ATM’s in the 50’s, which meant a fancy dinner required planning ahead to visit a bank branch during working hours. But yes, I think the cool factor of taking some friends or clients to a restaurant and walking out witho
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This is great! CNN has really pissed me off the past few years, not because of their reporting, which I love. But with their insane in-your-face ads and auto play vids, scroll-jacking, clickbaity links to cheesy spammy sites, etc. A terribl
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Try taking a look at #vss365 (very short stories, daily prompt) and other hashtag writing prompts on twitter. Owner gives a word and you construct a story Or other snippet or poem in 280 characters. Often I try to do it with a line from my

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