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541.
by sib 5y ago
Eehhhh... do you think most Western Europeans don't know what's going on?
542.
by sib 5y ago
I was on a flight just last night leaving LAX on which two adult passengers decided - 5 minutes after leaving the gate, before we got to the runway - that they would take off their masks and refuse to put them back on. The plane returned to
543.
by sib 5y ago
In a sense, that's what happened for three months last year. The government worked w/ Walmart (and, I think Amazon and another retailer) to sell the BinaxNow tests at cost and ship them to consumers. * Yes, "at cost" !=
544.
by sib 5y ago
Last I checked, T-Mobile has approximately 100% fewer nukes than Russia or China.
545.
by sib 5y ago
Wow - didn't know about this preferential focus feature. Sounds extremely useful...
546.
by sib 5y ago
That sounds amazing! I hiked up to the rim of MSH a couple decades ago, but didn't go down into it. I can attest that it's pretty big in there. And the sight of the giant blown-down trees for miles around is incredible.
547.
by sib 5y ago
If you are going to try to get persnickety, that's not "bokeh" at all. It's depth of field. Bokeh is the quality of rendering of out-of-focus highlights.
548.
by sib 5y ago
It's probably more intuitive if you say that it's "half as ineffective"
549.
by sib 5y ago
This was a good article and not too bad, given the clear "sponsorship" of the vehicles...
550.
by sib 5y ago
Sorry, I meant that "my images ... still have their basic metadata intact ... when they get to Glass" (so Glass is not trying to remove it).
551.
by sib 5y ago
When I signed up (last month), there was a free trial in place. Is it gone now?
552.
by sib 5y ago
Discovery is definitely pretty limited right now... (@sib)
553.
by sib 5y ago
It shows a limited subset of the EXIF (camera, ISO, focal length, aperture, shutter speed) - although I notice that not all images have the data, so I don't know whether it's stripped by the person uploading it or somewhere in som
554.
by sib 5y ago
But it is - sorting by timestamp is certainly an algorithm.
555.
by sib 5y ago
But that's not travel planning. That's just "creating a consolidated itinerary of the things you've used some other tool to do the travel planning in." (Which is sorta useful except that G Cal doesn't really cr
556.
by sib 5y ago
I'm pretty sure that Old Ben understood that, in order to live in society, he had to give up his freedom to steal, rape, and murder.
557.
by sib 5y ago
20 and 50 feet are both far beyond "nearsighted" range and into "normal distance," without being all that different from one another. 3,000 feet is quite different (for one thing, atmospheric effects start becoming relev
558.
by sib 5y ago
Make a living by conducting an ongoing series of < $950 thefts in San Francisco?
559.
by sib 5y ago
But 50/50 would be effectively the same meaning as 20/20. (20/20 means "person being tested sees as well at 20 feet as standard vision at 20 feet.")
560.
by sib 5y ago
As a borderline introvert, all I can say is, "wow, that looks extremely crowded and uncomfortable right outside my 'front door'." (And I have lived in Manhattan and in a mid-sized city in Germany, although I currently li
561.
by sib 5y ago
Forget deduplicating songs, how about reliably deduplicating contacts?
562.
by sib 5y ago
I guess... But it's sort of like saying "digital cameras[1] don't record in color, they record in greyscale," which is technically true, but also misses the point. By the definition they are using, even color film doesn&
563.
by sib 5y ago
Sure, but I'd guess that neither developers nor "normal people" immediately think "floating point" when they think about a month.
564.
by sib 5y ago
They don't just make more money from the ebooks, that is the only source of profit. In general, they lose money on the Kindle readers.
565.
by sib 5y ago
I think the point is that "TV" is a widely varied set of products from many manufacturers, while the iPhone is a product (line) from one company.
566.
by sib 5y ago
Yes, but in many cases it does (not-huge companies with enough data on role, experience, location to disambiguate)...
567.
by sib 5y ago
> Why do I care if some service uses them [GCP, Azure, AWS]? Because you said > I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft. So if "some service" that you use uses them, then you'r
568.
by sib 5y ago
2 of the 3 subway systems in NYC were built by private companies . It was only later that all were merged into one publicly-managed one.
569.
by sib 5y ago
>> I can do anything I want without Apple, Visa, Google and even Amazon and Microsoft. Really? How can you even know which services or products depend in some way on GCP, Azure, or AWS (not to mention product and services that are bui
570.
by sib 5y ago
But then it seems that they should say "2000MW of delivery capacity" rather than "storage capacity"

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