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by nullhole 7mo ago
RIP, thanks for the memories. No sci fi effect has ever given me the same sense of wonder that I got from the shot of the camera slowly travelling over the gigantic ship in the Season 1/2 intro. Btw: @dang : Grant was the co-creator, a
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by nullhole 8mo ago
Related question, unanswerable except maybe as a rough estimate: how much will it cost, in accountant/bookkeeper time, to do all the administrivia required to process all these refunds?
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by nullhole 8mo ago
Madoff as well
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by nullhole 8mo ago
Can you give a reference for The Guardian blocking IA? I just checked with an article from today - already archived, and a manual re-archive worked.
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by nullhole 8mo ago
> To be counted as proven reserve, you need to show that the mineral is economically extractable at market prices. Specifically, by starting to extract them. You don't need to be actually mining the stuff for it to be considered a r
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by nullhole 8mo ago
Wired is doing pretty well on that front, too
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by nullhole 9mo ago
EUR/USD increased ~13% in the past year https://www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=EUR&to=USD&view=1Y
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by nullhole 9mo ago
You're ignoring the speed they're travelling at. For a given period of time, a single satellite will travel through a vastly larger volume of space than a single plane.
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by nullhole 9mo ago
Where did you get the battery? Lenovo no longer sells T480 batteries afaict, and 3rd party vendors are a (dangerous) crapshoot.
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by nullhole 9mo ago
> he also died slowly and painfully of cancer I guess he got the death that he wished, personally and seriously, upon some large fraction of the Earth's population I don't want anyone to misconstrue this post as satire or e
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by nullhole 9mo ago
> The Mali trip was notable for random types firing weapons at our aircraft while we were running lines with 80m ground clearance - we had to armour the cockpit bellies and stuff the fuel tanks with mesh. Datums can get dull fast but the
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by nullhole 9mo ago
It's also typically at a wavelength that has lower risk to human eyes (ie near infrared). Laser eye safety risk is very measurable and well classified.
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by nullhole 9mo ago
It really would be nice to have a convenient renderer for it though. It's genuinely surprising something like firefox doesn't have a markdown reader builtin already.
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by nullhole 9mo ago
A linked article agrees: "... many European cars have the fuel door located on the passenger side, while many Japanese and American vehicles have the fuel door on the driver side. Both techniques have valid reasons. European automa
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by nullhole 9mo ago
As I understand it, hypersonics only got the focus they did in russia and china because US missile defence had evolved to the point where it was too much of a threat to existing ballistic missiles. No fundamental reason to think hypersonics
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by nullhole 9mo ago
The same, but for the year 2026: https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&layout=aligned-weekd...
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by nullhole 9mo ago
Is there any generally agreed upon and reliable source for replacement batteries? Given the fire risk, I'm much less willing to take the risk of substandard aftermarket parts when it comes to batteries. Lenovo stopped selling the batte
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by nullhole 10mo ago
Less serious, but still related to the topic of numbers turning sideways: https://pbfcomics.com/comics/big-numbers/
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by nullhole 10mo ago
They built the project, the bomb hasn't gone boom yet though.
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by nullhole 10mo ago
I used a similar setup to translate CEC user commands (volume/fwd/reverse/etc), that travelled from my TV remote to the TV to the CEC bus to a pi that was plugged into the TV via HDMI. The pi was running jukebox software (moo
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by nullhole 10mo ago
"In the land of telescreens, the man with the soldering iron is king"
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by nullhole 11mo ago
He's blogged for years, writing a number of short 1 or 2 sentence notes daily, on a very wide range of topics, taking positions on each of them from a lefty and analytical point of view, generally covering various political/enviro
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by nullhole 11mo ago
That is the flight pattern used on calibration flights, which are used to generate the internal/external calibration values for the camera / laser installation. Standard wide area ortho photo collection can be done with a series o
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by nullhole 11mo ago
Worth pointing out that headlights (and tail lights) aren't just for your ability to see things, they're also for the ability of other drives to see you. So, headlights are still needed in the city, even if the streetlamps are goo
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by nullhole 11mo ago
I had an idea for survey planes once. During calibration, they fly grid patterns, basically like a hashmark (#), to get overlapping data for comparison. Doing that kind of flight at night (makes sense for lidar! not so much for photo..), ag
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by nullhole 11mo ago
The bit in the article about the recovery procedure, which involves dumping info from the tape into '100-ish GB of RAM' and then using software to analyze it stuck out to me. This video on the linked github page for the analysis s
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by nullhole 11mo ago
What type of ship was it? And how was the experience, did you enjoy the trip & find enough to do to stay busy/not bored along the way?
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by nullhole 11mo ago
They have a passenger service too! €3200 for France <-> Baltimore, 13 day trip. But with that you get three meals a day, a decent looking cabin, private bathroom, private balcony, and internet service (though how solid the connection
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by nullhole 11mo ago
Don't have much to add except to mention again that the magic number for TIF is 42, and it's 42 because of the meaning of 42: https://web.archive.org/web/20210108174645/https://www.adobe...
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by nullhole 11mo ago
They also appear at a glance to use a lot less metal in their construction.

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