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by shpx 7y ago
There are at least 5 providers that will rent you a $5/month server: DigitalOcean, Lightsail, Linode, UpCloud and Vultr. There's a guy that publishes benchmarks of their $5 instance regularly https://joshtronic.com&#x2F
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by shpx 7y ago
Google Maps uses aerial imagery (photos taken from planes)[0] because it's higher resolution, and I bet that's what you're seeing here. They don't fly those planes often and they don't fly them over random uninhabit
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by shpx 7y ago
Planet Labs images all land once a day at 3m-5m resolution and will sell you the data. At least that's their goal/pitch and they get reasonably close https://nbremer.github.io/planet-globe/
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by shpx 7y ago
I wonder if there's anyone scanning satellite imagery for the word "HELP", or if we should agree on some other symbol people could use to ask for help that would be easier to discover with computer vision and wouldn't be
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by shpx 7y ago
Both ways are mentioned on Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsarina but Tsarina is clearly more common https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=Tsarina,Ts... . Mine's tru
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by shpx 7y ago
A woman should be called a Tsaritsa (Царица). A Czar/Tsar is a man.
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by shpx 7y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification Imagiŋe if all the "n"s became "ŋ" if you accideŋtally used the Helvetica British foŋt instead of Helvetica Americaŋ oŋ your website.
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The Silicon Valley Heavyweights Who Want to Settle the Moon(bloomberg.com)
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by shpx 7y ago
There's a list of some enterprise Linux distros and their default python versions and their end-of-life dates on the Wikipedia article for CPython https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPython#Distribution
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by shpx 7y ago
Also Gentoo since mid-2018. Although their package management requires manually specifying the minimum accepted Python version for every single package, so they have thousands of packages that would run just fine on Python 3.7 but no one ha
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by shpx 7y ago
> Pixel phones get Android version updates for at least 3 years from when the device first became available on the Google Store. > Pixel 1/Pixel 1 XL: No guaranteed Android version updates after October 2018, no guaranteed securi
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by shpx 7y ago
If you want privacy, use Tor. Like Richard Stallman https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html Anything else like a "VPN" (which is really just a proxy under a cooler name) is somewhere between a half measure, a
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by shpx 7y ago
Because with Google you only have to trust one organization that flat out says in the FAQ that they do not "correlate or combine information from temporary or permanent logs with any personal information that [you] have provided Goog
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by shpx 7y ago
The Pixel 1 XL has a good camera and you can buy a used one for under $200.
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by shpx 7y ago
No one wants to fiddle with keybindings. Occasionally using Ctrl-c in the terminal (which forces me to redo my text selection or worse) or Ctrl-Shift-c in the browser (which brings up the dev tools that I have to close with Ctrl-Shift-i) is
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by shpx 7y ago
It's not as simple as swapping the keys. On macOS you use the "win key" for system shortcuts but you can also use the Ctrl key for emacs-style movement systemwide. For example I can type Ctrl-b while editing the URL in the br
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by shpx 7y ago
I disagree, but regardless, this sounds more like a comment for the article's Talk page instead of HN. Better yet, you could go find better examples (with a free license) or take your own and add them to the article. Contributing to Wi
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by shpx 7y ago
You could track container ships, in fact they're probably so easy to detect you could run a small computer vision model on the satellite and only transmit those photos. Obviously the most interesting container ships are the ones that y
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by shpx 7y ago
Mecca from space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPgU5OYpwCs
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by shpx 7y ago
When I signed up last year I also got a free two week trial period where I could see the daily data. Looks like these days they even let you see what coverage they have of the daily data with a free account, but at very low resolution. You
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by shpx 7y ago
Super cool. It even worked for me at night, although I was walking down a brightly lit major street. I wonder if it could work in a dark alley or do indoor navigation in malls.
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by shpx 7y ago
The parents have to set up automated cameras in their house and car and ask their employer to set some up in their workplace as well. Then let the kids get automated messages with the photos. It would only be fair. https://en.wik
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by shpx 7y ago
> According to the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the 10-kg drone suffered an uncontrolled crash “in a wooded area of Zurich’s university quarter only 50 yards away from a group of playing kindergarten children.” So
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by shpx 7y ago
https://www.idris-lang.org the book is great. https://urbit.org/docs/learn/hoon/ has a small, welcoming community. It's pretty out there though. There's also nim (fast Python) and Crysta
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by shpx 7y ago
December 2015: Elon Musk drops his prediction of full autonomous driving from 3 years to just 2 https://electrek.co/2015/12/21/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-drops-pre...
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by shpx 7y ago
I hope you installed uBlock Origin and not Adblock/Adblock Plus/uBlock (not Origin), because these people bought into the protection racket euphemistically referred to as ""Acceptable" Ads" back in late 2014 h
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by shpx 7y ago
We probably underestimate how much worse the evolutionary pressure we're exerting on bacteria will make the lives of future generations.
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by shpx 7y ago
There's a Wikipedia article about that comic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(xkcd)
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Swedish Solar Telescope: Solar Closeups(svs.gsfc.nasa.gov)
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I remember installing Linux when I was like 14 and having a hard time trying to understand what x86/x86_64/x64/arm64 was. Knowledge that is mandatory, isn't explained in the place where kids encounter it for the first ti

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