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by whyenot 3y ago
Just to clarify your clarification, it means in this particular case the authors performed controlled experiments that attempted to account for other factors that might explain the difference they found. Of course people have talked about d
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> So the global shutter will have no benefit today for most users. It will have a benefit for anyone who is also recording video using their DSLR, likely the majority of users. It completely eliminates rolling shutter. Now, is it a benef
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It can. But sometimes the important thing is not the gear, but rather being in the right place and having the skill to frame a good composition or get good footage.
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It's interesting that almost all of the assemblers are women.
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> One guess as to what caused the collapse in agricultural employment. Cheap oil and the rise of mechanized agriculture that it has allowed. Petroleum products have made human lives immensely better over the last century or so. ...but th
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As a botanist, I have been pretty impressed with Seek's plant IDs. If it is uncertain, it will almost always only ID to genus or family. It doesn't always get IDs right, but it's good.
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Thank you for posting this. I'm going to see about setting up one of these for my mom, who is a VERY avid birder (I already have the Pi and outdoor enclosure). It looks like one slightly difficult issue is finding a good weatherproof m
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The problem is that in many cases tropical hardwoods are so slow growing and so intertwined with other species (both physically and metaphorically) that there isn't a way to harvest them sustainably. As a planet, we need to decide how
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by whyenot 3y ago
The most common CALPERS retirement formula is 2% at 62. If you retire at 52, you will get 1%. The formula would be: 0.01 * (years of service) * (final compensation) Where final compensation is usually an average over your last 36 months. If
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by whyenot 3y ago
Here I sit as an employee of the State of California, at the top of my profession, at the top of my salary band... and living in the Bay Area, if I didn't have supplemental income I couldn't even afford to buy a new car. This isn&
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by whyenot 3y ago
Blowers are really useful for moving leaves, lawn clippings, etc into piles where they can be easily moved into a compost pile or yard waste container. I can understand your confusion if you have never used one, but it is much easier and qu
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It looks like their losses per vehicle have been decreasing every quarter. I think they are on the right trajectory, I just hope they go positive before the money runs out! I have been seeing an awful lot of them on the streets in the Bay A
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by whyenot 3y ago
Switching to electric is better for everyone. Almost everyone I know in the arborist/landscaping industry has some degree of hearing loss.
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Will the IRS version also do my state taxes? Can it "slurp" in the statements from my brokerage accounts? Can it do rental income? I have no love for Intuit and all the rest, but even with the constant up-selling and the other BS
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by whyenot 3y ago
Ah yes, I remember biking with friends down to the San Antonio Shopping Center, stopping at the Menu Tree for donuts, and then Thrifty's for that super inexpensive, cylinder-shaped ice cream. I must have been about 12 years old at the
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by whyenot 3y ago
water? septic? Peeing and pooping in the woods is not scaleable.
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Yes, there are annual plants that evolve significant adaptations to avoid water loss within five generations (5 years), in response to drought. Things like having smaller flowers, flowering earlier in the spring, and smaller leaves. Many pl
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Are dragons cold blooded? I thought most of them breathed fire.
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A significant number of mammals have generations every year (or less).
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Broadly speaking, there are interpretative rangers who provide information and education about national parks and there are law enforcement rangers who exist to protect people, park features, and provide emergency services. If you don’t wis
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by whyenot 3y ago
I was recently in a fairly remote area of the Sierras and my iPhone when totally haywire and then died. Somehow water had gotten inside. That makes me a little concerned about depending on my phone for everything in the backcountry, but may
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by whyenot 3y ago
There is an ongoing attempt to legalize them through California’s initiative process. https://decrimca.org/ A previous attempt in 2022 did not get enough signatures to be on the ballot.
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The way I look at it, we (us in the US) aren’t willing to pay enough in taxes to cover our expenses, so instead we pay in interest, and by extension, inflation.
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by whyenot 3y ago
If you were on HN a decade ago, you would have seen "pivot" all over the place. Times change, but we are still human (mostly) and it seems to be part of who we are to mold language to fit our needs and circumstances. Take "bi
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Maybe it's a "beautiful thing" for some sports, but for contact sports like football, it doesn't lead to a "healthy mind." Instead, it leads to brain damage. CTEs didn't go away just because we stopped tal
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Whisk ferns (Psilotum) lack many of the characteristics of other vascular plants and based on their morphology were thought to be among the most primitive (ancestral) vascular land plants. We now know, based on DNA evidence, that they are a
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It seems like the Osmo Pocket line has stagnated a bit. I bought a Pocket 2 in the summer of 2021, and more than two years later, it still is the current model. That's a shame because while it's a good idea, the camera has some pr
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It really makes me sad that Apple decided to kill off this app. Apple Weather may have much of the same functionality, but its interface is not nearly as well thought out. For now, the app stay on my phone, in my "App Graveyard" n
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So I guess they have gone a full 180° on that "Don't Be Evil" thing. For Google employees with a moral compass, that must be a little confusing/upsetting.
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What is the conviction rate in Illinois? In California it's 72%. From what I have read. it sounds like there can be a lot of variability in this number depending on how you count conviction. Still, while many accused people are not gui

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