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by wrigby 9y ago
I could understand this if "America" was a singular entity. In reality, it's much more complicated than that. It's American filmmakers creating a movie about how a war, which American politicians chose to fight, effected
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by wrigby 9y ago
I'm not up to speed on ZBLAN at all (had to google what it is just now), but if it can really do 0.05dB/km at 1550nm [1], then it seems like it's actually ideally suited for long distance telecom. This is like taking an off-t
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by wrigby 9y ago
The satellite antennas used to uplink a video feed like this have a very small beamwidth (around 1° depending on antenna size and the frequency they're using), so you need to keep them pointed precisely at a specific point in the sky.
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by wrigby 9y ago
Yeah, they've made it a point to emphasize that they're working on crypto / bitcoin related things[1]. 1: https://www.investopedia.com/news/overstock-goes-all-bitcoin...
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by wrigby 9y ago
Yeah, saying HFA is ill-equipped to obtain mechanical licenses doesn't make sense to me. That's exactly the role they play. Maybe they didn't obtain performance licenses though?
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by wrigby 9y ago
This is a bit confusing. My understanding of how music publishing works is that the copyright is usually assigned to the publisher (for a limited amount of time), so any rights of the copyright holder are rights of the publisher. They would
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by wrigby 9y ago
My understanding is that it's the diesel engines that don't like it (the generator head itself is fine). Basically, some of the fuel in the combustion chamber doesn't get burned, and comes out the exhaust. This builds up in t
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by wrigby 9y ago
To further clarify, my intuition (having not read the spec) is that even if a middle-box sent a 103 response and had the client download a JS or CSS file, it won't get used by the client unless it is referenced by the document that is
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by wrigby 9y ago
This. I did this accidentally - that is, I didn't move to a new place, because my state already had a system that works really well for this. The Virginia state schools are very inexpensive for the quality, and I did two years in the c
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by wrigby 9y ago
I had never heard of a para-anchor[1] before, so I just looked it up - they're really cool! It's a brand of sea-anchor[2] that looks like a big parachute that goes underwater, effectively anchoring the boat where it is without hav
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by wrigby 9y ago
Yep[1]! I used it for my girlfriend's small business site (Wordpress) and was very happy with it. I think CSS, JS, and images are cached - HTML is not. 1: https://www.cloudflare.com/plans/
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by wrigby 9y ago
I think most CDNs will add reasonable cache-control headers as well - IIRC Cloudflare does this with sane defaults out of the box.
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by wrigby 9y ago
That's what I had assumed, but this grammar StackExchange[1] answer seemed to specify that there are exceptions. Admittedly, I didn't read the articles he linked. 1: https://english.stackexchange.com/a/115200
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by wrigby 9y ago
The actual headline is 'Venmo is offering users an (ugly) physical debit card,' so the '(ugly)' part complicates this. From a quick search, it seems like 'an' is correct here, because the '(ugly)' par
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by wrigby 9y ago
Looks pretty nice! The readme says it's not useful for repos with >2000 commits, but I wonder if we could hack together some sort of cache for it to facilitate delta updates?
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by wrigby 9y ago
I just assumed it was this year, and then I noticed he linked to (presumably) his SoundCloud account in another HN comment[1], which I used as (good enough) confirmation that I had found the right video. 1: https://news.ycombinat
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by wrigby 9y ago
You're being polite by not linking, and I appreciate that. However, it's truly good and I think other people will want to give it a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31_dEOvYuY
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by wrigby 10y ago
I'm not 100% educated on the law, but my assumption is that the name of the book is trademarked, but not the story itself. My apologies if that is incorrect. It's also my understanding that book titles are not protected under trad
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by wrigby 10y ago
I think this would be more compelling if you demonstrate that 7 years is long enough to generate 80% of the revenue. For many artistic works, it can take years to produce them (writing a book for instance), and many don't gain traction
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by wrigby 10y ago
I'm relatively extroverted, and I can relate to your experience really well after working from home for the last year. The isolation and lack of human interaction can be downright depressing, and I've been led productive than ever
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by wrigby 10y ago
I agree that life+70 is too long, but just 7 years seems pretty short. I'm interested in hearing your rationale for choosing that number.
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by wrigby 10y ago
This varies from product to product; for example, meters in Pro Tools are labeled directly in DBFS[1]. So are Yamaha digital mixers (at least the LS9 and M7 - not sure about the newer ones). On the other hand, the Allen & Heath GLD has
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by wrigby 10y ago
Sometimes yes! Wikipedia has a cool picture[1] of a 13-track (and hence 13-bit) Gray code encoder in the Gray Code article[2], which would have a resolution of ~.05 degrees. 1: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com
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by wrigby 10y ago
If I remember right, tin whiskers were determined to be the cause in the crazy Toyota runaway accelerator pedals a few years back. I think it's mainly an issue with lead-free solders, which RoHS has forced into widespread usage over th
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by wrigby 10y ago
The rules in my dad's wood shop when I was growing up were pretty simple: any jewelry (necklace, bracelet, watch, rings, etc.) had to be removed, and eye protection had to be on before a tool could be turned on.
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by wrigby 10y ago
Assuming the Thunderbolt 3 device has a type-C female on it, you could simply plug the TB3 connector on the dongle into the device, and use a TB2 male to male cable to connect it to the laptop.
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by wrigby 10y ago
I would love to hear more of this story. Would you care to share more details, or maybe write a blog/medium post on it?
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by wrigby 10y ago
I thought this was really cool, and you don't even need a Dash button to repeat it (just the app). I threw a mic on my desk and recorded the output real quick, and sure enough, it's pretty easy to see the waveform. I was going to
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by wrigby 10y ago
IIRC, star trackers are used as both a position and an attitude reference. GPS gives you only position (though more sophisticated systems can be used to determine attitude). While a GPS outage is a minor inconvenience for most of us, it cou
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by wrigby 10y ago
Just bring them with you. Better yet, invest in a pair of better earplugs[1] - they have a flatter frequency response, so the music sounds way better than it does with the foamies. Most venues will also either give you or sell you (for $1)

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