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by shrx 3y ago
Ken Shirriff*
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by shrx 3y ago
This looks neat at a first glance but who actually wants to read the newspaper standing up facing a wall? I personally prefer to do it sitting down in a comfortable sofa or outside on a park bench.
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by shrx 3y ago
This looks like a thinly veiled ad for timescale.
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by shrx 3y ago
> They look like they were painted yesterday. Actually, some of the pigments van Gogh used have significantly faded or shifted in color over time. https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i5/Van-Goghs-Fading-Colors-
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by shrx 3y ago
Or use https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
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by shrx 3y ago
Hmm, it could be dependent on which app you're opening the links from. I remember having issues before Link Eye.
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by shrx 3y ago
I'm using Link Eye [1] which lets you open any url in the application of your choice. It's fantastic, also enabling you to open youtube links in NewPipe. [1] https://f-droid.org/packages/kuesji.link_eye.fdroid
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by shrx 3y ago
Also previously discussed on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36119920 edit: and a live stream chat with the article's authors, worth a watch for the quirky tilings by Yoshiaki Araki alone: https://ww
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by shrx 3y ago
You can wear slippers
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by shrx 3y ago
They claim that "[t]he colour gradients are perceptually uniform and ordered to represent data both fairly, without visual distortion, and intuitively", however on my calibrated screen many gradients are visibly biased with non-un
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by shrx 3y ago
I can happily report that the Vindstyrka is silent, so it's a reasonable upgrade (also supports Zigbee out of the box).
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by shrx 3y ago
If you don't scratch the surface the teflon coating is at least as safe as the cast iron.
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by shrx 3y ago
It's kind of funny that heating up the oil to the point of smoking is considered a healthy alternative to teflon coated pans. When oil is heated up to the point of smoking it produces carcinogenic compounds.
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by shrx 3y ago
Thanks, this looks exactly what I want. Sensible interval origins [1] too (January 1, 2000 for months and years, and January 3 2000, a Monday, for weeks) and also configurable. [1] https://docs.timescale.com/use-timescale&#x
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by shrx 3y ago
Mildly related: can anyone recommend a time series database that supports easy aggregation by week (with the ability to configure the start of the week) and month? I'm looking for something to switch from InfluxDB which I'm curren
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by shrx 3y ago
Interesting, I'm an amateur astronomer and didn't know that, I've never noticed any stitching artifacts when shooting with my Canon 6D. Found a relevant discussion on DPreview[1] which suggests that not all cameras do this, i
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by shrx 3y ago
Wouldn't the water just condense inside the nanopores due to surface energy, and render them useless?
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by shrx 3y ago
EU citizen here, they're not putting it in salt here, but in toothpaste.
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by shrx 3y ago
> One time I made a very negative comment on Reddit about a fantasy book, and the author actually responded to me. When that happened I felt incredibly bad But why? Was your comment dishonest?
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by shrx 3y ago
The novel is "El Señor Presidente" by Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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by shrx 3y ago
That's why electric cars are required to emit an artificial noise when driving under 30 km/h to alert the visually impaired pedestrians. The Renault Zoe car makes a very strange noise, almost like an alien flying saucer from a 60s
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by shrx 3y ago
No lenses except the cheapest Chinese ones made for CCTV cameras exhibit noticeable chromatic aberrations. It's really annoying it's being pushed in video games so much lately.
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by shrx 3y ago
The industry should only ever be prioritized for purchasing the Compute modules. Regular Pis should always be for end users only.
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by shrx 3y ago
Here's the plant's CABI Compendium entry: https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/10.1079/cabicompendiu... Reading it is quite chilling. Getting rid of the plant is extremely difficult, requiring displaci
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by shrx 3y ago
The highest concentration is in the root.
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by shrx 3y ago
From the README: > You can now use Bark with GPUs that have low VRAM (<4GB).
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by shrx 3y ago
Found a list of models that are blacklisted from being added to insurance policies [1]: 2015-2021 Hyundai Accent (all body styles) 2015-2021 Hyundai Elantra (two-door and four-door) 2015-2021 Hyundai Kona 2015-2021 Hyundai
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by shrx 3y ago
Is there a list published somewhere documenting which Hyundai and Kia car models are affected?
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by shrx 3y ago
Looks fine in firefox on Linux: https://imgur.com/lmxTyrt.png
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by shrx 3y ago
I park my car inside a garage, no way to charge it. If everyone would have to park their cars outside this would take a lot of additional parking space.

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