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by js2 4mo ago
> The full Rec. 2020 color space can be reproduced only with laser projectors, because it uses monochromatic primary colors. All of the non-commercial triple laser projectors I'm aware of are single-chip DLP, so they suffer rainbow
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by js2 4mo ago
Nothing stopping you from buying a few scopes, sending them to him, then subletting access. :-)
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Astrophotography is a hobby like any other. People enjoy capturing their own images of the universe. Most hobbies with gear have setup costs and it's not unusual for that to be in the several thousand dollar range, and maintenance cost
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He's got 10 barns with retractable roofs to maintain, plus he offers maintenance of the scopes themselves. On top of that, it sounds like a full time business he's running. But yeah, a very nice business.
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I was rewatching The Abyss for the first time since 1989 and wondered just what is the process for reviving an asystole heart[^1]. [^1]: It was only relatively recently that I learned you can't shock an asystole heart. e.g. https:&#
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Ice water drowning survival of young patient (2025)(jacc.org)
204 points by js2 4mo ago|138 comments
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by js2 4mo ago
I hear this sentiment a lot, but I've not had a problem with Time Machine in years across multiple MacBooks in my household. Backing up to TrueNAS. Unifi networking. It Just Works. I just checked any my oldest TM backup for the MacBook
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Modeling the Performance of the Burevestnik Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile(text.npr.org)
6 points by js2 4mo ago|2 comments
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"Modeling the Performance of the Burevestnik Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile": https://bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.mit.edu/dist/6/1499/file...
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by js2 4mo ago
Are you not a programmer? Do you not ever find yourself having to debug an issue? When you have to, are you not glad when there's sufficient information in the log files to do so, even though 99.9% of the time you never look at the log
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by js2 4mo ago
> This is the type of attitude This is the type of attitude that makes me regret ever commenting on HN. FFS, git is a tool for programmers.
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It's not useless information, any more than the tachometer or a temperature gauge instead of an "idiot light" in a car is useless information. Again, "because git is an open-source project written by nerds, it shows you
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I'm not here to engage in rhetorical combat. I was simply answering niek_pas's rhetorical questions, that's all, because maybe they piqued someone's curiosity and I can contribute a little of my esoteric knowledge about
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574124
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I understand there's friction in contributing to git, but it's absolutely possible to improve the docs: Contributions from jvns: https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agit%2Fgit+jvns&type=commi... Here she explain
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ESPHome Voice Assistant for the Guition JC3636K718C(github.com)
2 points by js2 4mo ago|0 comments
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Objects are your files. Underlying git is a content-addressable filesystem. The objects are referenced by trees. A tree is just a directory. The trees are then referenced by commits and/or tags into a DAG with named pointers into vario
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by js2 4mo ago
I was just able to create an account using `rei@<mydomain>` on rei.com w/o any issues. Now, figuring out how to delete the account is another matter entirely...
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> The real decline started after Edward Snowden and all the information that came out about the NSA. It really sparked distrust in the government. Do you have evidence of this? Because I'd bet 90% Americans have no idea who Edward S
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Previously: (2012, 246 points, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3636047 (2013, 170 points, 63 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6575994 (2021, 208 points, 158 comments) https:
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> Aesthetically it looks horrible, it slows my iPhone 13 — which never before lagged in all its life since iOS 15 – to a maddening crawl I have an iPhone 13 mini and have not experienced this.
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Where in the world, and when, does this human artifact belong?(anthropeum.com)
1 points by js2 4mo ago|0 comments
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NYT converage: "Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/science/humans-walking-ve...
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Individual locomotor bias drives counterclockwise motion in pedestrian crowds(nature.com)
6 points by js2 4mo ago|1 comments
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This is a discussion of garbage collection of Unix domain sockets in the Linux kernel. (i.e. `AF_UNIX`, and btw, AF is short for "address family").
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StopTheMadnessPro > Protect History. https://underpassapp.com/StopTheMadness/
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A couple caveats. Doesn't support EC2 Macs, so you can't use this to build iOS apps. (Understandably. EC2 Macs are a pain to support and can't reasonably be scaled elastically due to a combination of Apple licensing restricti
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I use uBO lite with Safari on macOS/iOS and maybe I just don't know what I'm (not?) missing, but it seems fine? I rarely see ads. Is uBO lite for Chrome that much worse than uBO?
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You can do the same with GitHub Actions. Spin up a server and start the actions runner on it and done! But if you want to dynamically scale your runners in response to load using a Kubernetes cluster, then they provide Action Runner Control
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by js2 4mo ago
For me it's my AirPods launching the Music app, something I rarely want. At the same time, it's one click in the menu bar to disable noTunes in the rare circumstances I want to use the Music app. It's made worse by the fact t

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