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by spchampion2 6y ago
Wait until they learn about cedar fever. Juniperus ashei pollinates in the winter, starting right about now through February. Pollen levels are still relatively low, but by January the trees explode and people are miserable. Last January th
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by spchampion2 6y ago
The camera drops to 12 bit when shooting in some modes such as continuous, bulb, or long exposure. This is true all the way to the A7rIV and the A9II as far as I know. Here's an article with analysis: https://blog.kasson.com
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by spchampion2 6y ago
Sony cameras have clumsiness all over the place. Can you confidently count on getting 14 bit RAW files, or will you sometimes only get 12 bits? Are their RAW files losslessly compressed like every other manufacturer's? These issues are
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Astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system(phys.org)
6 points by spchampion2 6y ago|1 comments
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Surviving ventilators, only to find lives diminished(bostonglobe.com)
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The Octo-Bouncer(electrondust.com)
334 points by spchampion2 7y ago|28 comments
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by spchampion2 7y ago
> Most business books push a singular narrative around negotiations: Go hard or go home. The advice is tied to the idea that the negotiation table is a place of conflict where one party must best the other. Good business texts haven&#x27
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by spchampion2 7y ago
> Art isn’t something you should protect from yourself. Just run towards it full sprint and embrace how ridiculous your ideas are, how unguarded, how close to something a child might think up, lying on their back in a field overgrown wit
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by spchampion2 7y ago
> Has there been a single example in which a strongman government peacefully gave way to "strong modern democracy?" Spain - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democr... Czechoslovakia -
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by spchampion2 7y ago
45m is well below the range of recreational diving, which has a limit of about 40m. Below that you're looking at needing multiple air cylinders, special breathing gas mixtures, and decompression stops on the way up. On the other hand
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by spchampion2 7y ago
I had a very similar experience, including a very late night trying to fix a weird integration problem along with my project team. We had spent hours trying to find the issue, but nobody was thinking effectively and we were making stupid de
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by spchampion2 8y ago
A wonderful book that's a little off the beaten path for HN is "Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life," by Anne Lamott.
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by spchampion2 8y ago
Here's a simple example for explaining what this means. Imagine I'm the government, and I sell bonds where I promise I'll pay you back $100 in 5 years or 10 years. Because I'm the government, and I can print money to rep
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Nasa's Super-Sized Space Launch System Might Be Doomed(wired.com)
2 points by spchampion2 8y ago|0 comments
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Boeing 737 Rudder Issues(en.wikipedia.org)
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by spchampion2 8y ago
Wait, this is somehow a mystery? Two people who had no experience flying 727s fueled up a plane, somehow got it airborne, and flew out over the Atlantic Ocean never to be seen again. Oh, and 727s require three people to properly fly them. T
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Dark matter may not exist – and our alternative theory can be put to the test(phys.org)
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by spchampion2 8y ago
American opera is suffering from the same problem faced by a lot of mainstream culture from the 20th century - it's too used to operating at scale and too expensive to cut back. This isn't to say that art is dead, and I always hat
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by spchampion2 8y ago
This wasn't National Grid's gas line. It belonged to Columbia Gas.
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by spchampion2 8y ago
The F-22 is an air superiority fighter that was always intended for exclusive use by the Air Force. There was never a plan to have a carrier based version of the F-22. Perhaps you mean the F-35? There are two carrier based variants - the F-
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by spchampion2 8y ago
I searched for "Cnn" and got 0 results. I searched for "Amazon" and got a five random results, including the IMDB page for "Rambo, Part 2." If this were really like AltaVista, I'd get 3 trillion results an
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This Is Why Cars Use AC-Producing Alternators When They Run on DC Power(jalopnik.com)
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by spchampion2 8y ago
I've always wondered why those cabinets are so big. Traffic light controls seem like the kind of thing that could be reduced to a much smaller package given greater computing power combined with smaller and more efficient hardware. Wha
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by spchampion2 9y ago
This is great! I'm not sure if I'm missing it somewhere, but it would be nice to be able to see the resulting HTML without having to view the page source.
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by spchampion2 9y ago
From the article: "A search for the X-ray signatures of low-mass black hole binaries in the Chandra data turned up 12 within three light-years of Sgr A*." Three light years is not that big of a distance in the grand scheme of thin
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by spchampion2 9y ago
A few years ago I was working with a custom builder on a house plan (that we didn't end up pursuing), but one of the things I suggested was future proofing the garage for electric cars. Given that a Tesla can charge on 80 amps, it seem
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To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It(nytimes.com)
57 points by spchampion2 9y ago|15 comments
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Flaws in the clinical trials for Gardasil made it harder to assess safety(slate.com)
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To Unlock the Brain’s Mysteries, Purée It(nytimes.com)
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Google Cloud Brings in Former Intel Exec Diane Bryant as COO(techcrunch.com)
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