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by jonah 3y ago
Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things is a great intro to human factors and covers a number of high-stakes environments as well as more mundane things like door handles. Highly recommended reading. https://en.wikiped
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We have an architecturally significant, historic house (built in the 1930s) for our office. I was tasked with replacing the Eero WiFi mesh with something that actually worked. We needed APs both upstairs and downstairs to provide sufficient
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Here's a joke I like telling: Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "It is not a bad way to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for your luggage."
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by jonah 3y ago
The regular iPhone 15 has last-year's Pro chip, the A16, and the 15 Pro has the new A17, so it's not simply a matter of binning or disabling features.
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Find your local clubs and go to some meetings or see what kinds of things they are doing. I did a lot of infrastructure work - bringing my existing skills and going to remote mountain tops to climb towers and hang antennas and long distance
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by jonah 3y ago
Study for both the Technician and General licenses. I think it's universal that if you pass the Tech, you can take the General at the same time for free. The tests are 35(IIRC) multiple choice questions out of a pool of several hundred
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by jonah 3y ago
We've been listening to a lot of Hidden Brain lately. If you're in the PNW or interested in that area the Timber Wars series is a must listen.
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I recently saw Nathan Pieplow's talk The Language of Birds. It was a pretty good intro to the kind of things we know about bird communication (a fair amount) and what we don't know (a lot). https://earbirding.com/b
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by jonah 3y ago
If a merchant mails something you didn't order, you are allowed to keep it. https://about.usps.com/publications/pub300a/pub300a_v04_revi... https://faq.usps.com/s/article/What-Option
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by jonah 3y ago
Sure looks like an electric ice cream maker but it's not the exact model pictured. Look at the pattern of vents on top of the motor, how far the "arms" overhang the pot, and the thickness of the pot lip for example. ;)
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TFA says he bought mothballed planes outright. HiFly seems to be refurbishing and then servicing them.
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I grew up in the Mid-South and when I was using the sky presets in Bryce, I thought: "man, these folks must have been on some good stuff when they came up with these." But after I moved to CA and started working at MetaCreations a
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They had merged with Fractal Design Corporation who created Painter and was based there.
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The True Size of Africa – Kai Krause(kai.sub.blue)
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And if you want to see how graphics work was done in Photoshop "back in the day" before layers and all that fancy nonsense, be sure to peruse the Kai’s Power Tips & Tricks archive of his graphics posts on AOL: https:/&#x
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by jonah 3y ago
MetaCreations had product called MetaStream which was an early 3D technology for the web. It's logo (ca. 1999)[1] looks interestingly similar to another more recent Meta's logo. ;) [1] https://imgur.com/a/FnGz
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[I worked at MetaCreations in the latter years.] They definitely did some amazing stuff and had world-class engineers. It's been fun to see where they've all gone since - you all are probably using some of their subsequent work in
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It was absolutely usable. It didn't use OS-standard UI controls or idioms so there was a learning curve, but many many people used it and created amazing stuff with it.
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Hi Sree! I worked under Fegette and then Javier. Such an amazing place and time and group of people. I hope you're well. (And yes, the end was pretty sad - I was there until the end when the "dark side" was practically empty.
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Right-to-repair is now the law in California(theverge.com)
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But is "that way" actually "Correct" or not...? Technology Connections dig in to this in "Power outlets are topsy turvy - but does it matter?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNj75gJVxcE
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I remember some prototypes of that same packaging many, many years ago. Cool to see someone finally "bring it to market".
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There are modern versions. e.g. https://fauntrackway.co.uk/defence/air/aircraft-landing-mat https://fauntrackway.com/
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Nobel Prize Awarded to Covid Vaccine Pioneers(nytimes.com)
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The Arlington Theater: https://www.arlingtontheatresb.com https://www.arlingtontheatresb.com/gallery?pgid=kxxp519a-a6f...
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Our local theater - which held the West-coast premier of Gone with the Wind - renovated their organ and showed The General with live accompaniment as the first event. Was fantastic.
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Even now, it seems it may be up to interpretation. In searching for those numbers, I saw a post in a amateur high altitude balloon forum asking which modules were "or". (Presumably since it's a little more likely your balloon
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by jonah 3y ago
My - few years old, mid-range - Android phone shows that it is using 5 of the 6 GLONASS satellites in view as part of its fix. (In California, USA.) Edit: Using GPS Test: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?
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I can't help diagnose that for you. There are other ways to get your current location, etc from your phone though. I have GPS Test[1] on my Android - it's pretty neat to launch it while on a flight - seeing the speed in realtime i
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If you have location permissions enabled in your camera app, the image's exif data will have the coordinates in it. (US Civilian GPS units are prohibited from working above 60,000 ft above sea level and 1,000 knots due to ITAR munition

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