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by quercusa 4y ago
The optical performance of the telescope continues to be better than the engineering team’s most optimistic predictions. ... The image quality delivered to all instruments is “diffraction-limited,” meaning that the fineness of detail that
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by quercusa 4y ago
Photographic prints were re-shot through halftone[0] film (or 'screen') producing a 'screened' version of the image, with dots at various sizes instead of continuous tones. The screened image was then used to expose a se
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by quercusa 5y ago
As a new rider I was surprised to find that when it's hot enough, going fast on a motorcycle is not cooling; you're just moving through more hot air. The only way to cool off is to ride to the mountains.
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by quercusa 5y ago
> fiber7 costs only 65 CHF per month and comes with a symmetric 1 Gbit/s connection. 65 CHF = US $67.89
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by quercusa 5y ago
The big ORM-D* sticker was a pretty good clue as well. *'Other Regulated Materials - Domestic'
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by quercusa 5y ago
Concise, on point, unexpected - a perfect specimen.
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by quercusa 5y ago
There's a significant downside to congregating (e.g.) solitary bees - they can get cleaned out by predators. We had every tube in a 30-tube hotel opened and emptied over a weekend by some kind of parasitoid wasp. Now we leave old flowe
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by quercusa 5y ago
> were never as good as I wanted them to be It's kind of like chess - hours to learn, a lifetime to master. I've made thousands of b&w prints and there are two, maybe three, that I thought were as good as they could possi
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by quercusa 5y ago
In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When peo
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by quercusa 5y ago
The remaining XB-70 would be reason enough to visit the US AF Museum (Dayton, Ohio) - it's a stunning plane. That said, the museum is easily worth two days.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Yep, Passover Coke with cane sugar comes in 2L bottles with a yellow cap.
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by quercusa 5y ago
That plugboard brings back long-suppressed nightmares of bad wire-wrapping jobs.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Maybe they don't need to go to bat for you; maybe they just don't jump on the chance to throw you under the bus.
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Edwardian Life: Lost Photographs(historygeek.co.nz)
1 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
The NYC camera stores were famous for this: "That Nikon lens is out of stock but we've got a Zeus lens for the same price and it's actually a better lens".
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by quercusa 5y ago
This line in that post is mystifying: they peddled Infiniband, an inferior design based on bus technology, but repositioned as a point to point network
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by quercusa 5y ago
I wonder how many €0.01 per unit they saved by not having enough storage to keep the old firmware version while they loaded the new one?
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ADHD Drugs Are Convenient to Get Online. Maybe Too Convenient(bloomberg.com)
2 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
We found that homeschooled kids were able to play with kids of a wide range of ages, while kids in formal schools quickly separated themselves into age groups, often to the detriment of the younger kids.
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by quercusa 5y ago
It's possible that the site is hanging waiting for GTM to load. Issues: Tracking deliverables across multiple customer divisions, having to go through customer-side project managers who don't understand the questions that are bein
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by quercusa 5y ago
As part of a team going through several overlapping onboardings right now, this is very attractive. However, performance is worrying. It takes almost 4 seconds for the home page to load (on a reload, with almost everything in cache) on FF
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by quercusa 5y ago
The trees reflecting afternoon sun?
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by quercusa 5y ago
Harbor Freight is there for you!
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by quercusa 5y ago
I wish there was an option to add explanatory hover text for this kind of submission.
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by quercusa 5y ago
Look closely at the image - you should see little tiny dots of color. On a newspaper they'll be fairly large and frequently the colors don't align ("aren't registered"), which is most visible in the corners of the i
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Microsoft implements unbeatable captcha system(answers.microsoft.com)
7 points by quercusa 5y ago|0 comments
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by quercusa 5y ago
The camera app in Google Pixels running Android 12 tries to "fix" some URLs encoded QR codes, resulting in wrong URLs being shown and opened by the browser if the user clicks on the suggested link.
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by quercusa 5y ago
When I had only been around NYC and the Newark airport, I used to laugh at the license plates that said "New Jersey - The Garden State". But South Jersey is an amazingly lush and productive farm area.
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by quercusa 5y ago
That's funny - "astronaut" has always been a token - I'd never stopped to think where it came from.
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by quercusa 5y ago
I love this: > the “sky sailors” (as naval aircrews are called in the French Navy)

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