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by pgreenwood 6y ago
I got an 8" Dobsonian about ten years ago at still am far from exhausting the possibilities. I got the Bintel (GSO) brand which seemed a little better, came with three eyepieces decent focusser and finder, and moon filter. You can move
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
How about an ordinary electric car with a small trailer carrying a fuel generator?
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
Could be countered with active noise cancellation paired with Shazam type audio track identication.
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
We were within about 10kms. Ethernet connection, no wifi.
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
During lockdown I was able to have music jams with high quality uncompressed audio at 10ms (effectively real time), using Jamulus for the audio, and Zoom for the video. Then the whole thing was live streamed to Twitch.
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Australia: Facebook, Google forced to pay for news content under new media laws(sbs.com.au)
3 points by pgreenwood 6y ago|1 comments
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
Check out this great 1.5 hour interview with Chuck Yeager from 1991. His comments on NASA were particularly interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqLOBPl_zLc
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
There are 2n symmetries for an n-sided polygon. In this case five rotations and five reflections. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/490054/symmetries-o...
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Risk Variant for Severe Covid‐19 Inherited from Neanderthals(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by pgreenwood 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
And Poland cracked Enigma in 1933, and then shared their techniques and Enigma clones with the British in 1939!
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Fun and Uranium For the Whole Family in This 1950s Science Kit(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by pgreenwood 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
I support the idea of UBI in principle, but I think it needs to be combined with a land value tax in order to work as intended. Rents are charged at the highest the market will bear, so the UBI could just flow into the hands of landlords, a
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
i.e., a bat phone.
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
What oil soluble dye did you use? I was looking for oil dyes for another project and I found them hard to find.
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Naked-Eye Observations of Jupiter’s Moons (1976)(denisdutton.com)
1 points by pgreenwood 6y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
"The Symmetries of Things" [1] by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. A fantastic and beautifully illustrated expository work describing symmetry groups such as the 17 wallpaper groups in the plane (think Esc
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
Love the subject matter but the hyper saturated over blown HDR makes me feel like I have a brown acid hangover. HDR is great, but if you can tell it's there its too much.
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by pgreenwood 6y ago
Interesting, the book worked for me, particularly because it did address reasons (that I thought I had) like cognitive stimulation, social connection, and taking a break. I'd like to add; that I think that all of the stimulants mention
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
A great loss. One of my greatest inspriations to train as a mathematician. I'm so sad I never got meet him. I did get to see one of his lectures in Australia in the 90s. I remember him joking that he has a recurring nightmare that he w
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
Reminds of the Messerschmitt KR200 from the 50s and 60s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200
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Our critique of Behringer's proposed TD-3 variant with Devil Fish functions(firstpr.com.au)
45 points by pgreenwood 7y ago|45 comments
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Scientology-linked drug rehab centre sued over $150k sniffer dog bills (2017)(theage.com.au)
7 points by pgreenwood 7y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
I call stocks that don't not pay dividends speculation. I do not count them as investment.
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
Yes, you can actually put them anywhere in the string.
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Bushfires: A Darwinian Perspective [pdf](publish.csiro.au)
1 points by pgreenwood 7y ago|0 comments
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
"The Symmetries of Things" [1] by John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, and Chaim Goodman-Strauss. A fantastic and beautifully illustrated expository work describing symmetry groups such as the 17 wallpaper groups in the plane (think Esc
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
Right, it's pay for what you take instead of what you make.
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
Looks great! A fair bit more functionality than similar apps. I'd love to see an option to use orbifold notation as well as crystalographic.
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
Sounds like she might be seeing the new forth primary colour squant. https://www.negativland.com/archives/015squant/story.html
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by pgreenwood 7y ago
David Lynch Cooks Quinoa is one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSP-ewdJYJc

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