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It looks like a useful service but in case you didn't know: you can do this locally on macOS using Preview. Click on Tools->Annotate->Signature and add your own signature. You can even write it down on paper, put in front of webc
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Here is mine: https://gist.github.com/jay-m-z/29c145ccd21f2b70f3cafd56c6cf... Looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/d7PSU96 Based upon: https://userstyles.org/styles/166661
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For cameras, usually those use thoriated glass due to its high refractive index. Radioactivity level is too low for even slightest damage as thorium dioxide mostly emits alpha particles that is easily blocked. There are urban legends about
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If there ever was mascara on your retina you better be going to the hospital quickly.
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Model S and X are getting major refresh soon, Tesla stopped production of older spec while switching to new one. First deliveries of new Model S and X are coming "very soon".
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Level 4, but they operate only in certain areas.
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Infinitime uses DFU over Bluetooth and is non-brickable. Well, at least I didn't brick my dev-kit single time.
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While switching to LEDs can improve naked eye view of night sky, it sometimes negatively impact amateur astrophotography as mercury and especially sodium lamps have narrow emission spectrum and it can be filtered off using optical bandpass
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They connect to any iOS device in the area over Bluetooth and use its internet connection to communicate with AirTag's owner iCloud account.
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Honestly, it is just a frankenstein monster of whatever I had on hand: https://imgur.com/a/QhvmbUa 3mm thermal pad I used between PCB and cooler: https://botland.store/thermoconductive-tapes-pastes/
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I've seen similar banding in some tests when I had set analog gain to 1.0 on a warm night. With analog gain set to 16.0 and Peltier cooler attached to back of camera PCB it was gone. My guess is that IMX477 does some software de-noise
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RPI HQ camera is almost usable for astrophotography, here are few shots I did with it last year: https://terramex.neocities.org/astro/ Of course it make little sense from financial point of view as good star tracker an
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There is, click on red 'Account' button on top. https://i.imgur.com/EQtpEoA.png
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They already did, 15 minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ko7NW2yQo For those who do not know - PBS Spacetime is YouTube channel hosted by astrophysics Ph.D Matt O'Dowd, aimed at casual physics enthusiasts wi
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Ex-gamedev but I'm still in touch with lots of ex coworkers and friends in the industry and most say the same thing, somewhere between 'low productivity' and 'disaster'. Some of them meet up on their own without man
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As this thread turned into 'post your crazy idea and get told why it would not work' here is my take: use powerful water pumps and direct streams of water to flush out the sand in spots where the ship rests on it and also around t
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Ah, the classic 'speed-up loop' approach: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Speedup-Loop About the blogpost itself: The disk filled up, and that's one thing you don't want on a Linux server—or a
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No, 300mm is correct and refers to physical size of whole silicon wafer[1]. 300mm (commonly known as 12") is currently the biggest class of silicon wafers. Naka factory was producing 300mm wafers using 28nm process [2]. [1] https:
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No, in this hypothetical case you would be fine. Mimemagic case is more like 15 years ago you had a MIT codebase that contained hidden GPL-derived code. One day you are notified about that violation and relicense whole codebase to GPL, bu
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It still happens even in 'classic' synthesiser industry. Aphex Twin did a collaboration with Korg few years ago, he was providing feedback to them and created some excellent product demos like: https://www.youtube.com&#
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And the amount of man-hours collectively spent on working around this terrible, terrible GC is immense. It was the worst GC implementation I've seen in my life, could cause 0.5s GC spikes every 10 seconds on Xbox One even though we wer
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I've had exactly the same issue for 2 years and I have narrowed it to dropped packets on the network. I'm connected to internet through WiFi bridge that periodically has transmission issues (over 200 meters distance) and if averag
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They are both super hard to separate and yet they separate on their own when not observed.
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> is this maybe because of the altitude? I had similar thought when I visited Lake Titicaca (3812m surface elevation) and looked up while standing on a small hill on the shore - the sky had super deep blue shade at the zenith, even at no
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Does it? Board photo from their GitHub shows version 2.0 with GPIO pins [1], but it looks like updated version 2.1 [2] ditched GPIO and put microphone in its place. [1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1e615d82470b7e1dccbd
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Is the rear-facing camera connected using standard CSI interface and can it be swapped for RPi HQ Camera? I sometimes use HQ Cam in the field and for now I use RPi 4 with 7" touchscreen and external power bank so this tablet would be g
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> "milling" is REDUCTIVE (removing?) FYI, the word you are looking for is "subtractive" https://formlabs.com/eu/blog/additive-manufacturing-vs-subtr...
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I don't use any external password manager, only Keychain and Safari and I see this 10-15 second delay every time when adding new password to Keychain since day 1. It is my only issue with M1.
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Me and my friend do some dance pop music for fun as "Asia Europa". We both compose and produce, she writes lyrics and sings. We also did bunch of DIY music videos ourselves. Polish language warning! https://www.youtube.
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You are talking about Starship (second stage). Super Heavy (first stage booster) will not do belly flop and will use special "catching" structure, its details are unknown as of today.
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