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by wumms 2y ago
i3 with Jetsons sound (fake but fun): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NgSZ8sjDgU
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Seems to correlate nicely [0]: > Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and 1951 to 1955 > Died 24 January 1965 [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill
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From [0]: > Bennu's basic mineralogy and chemical nature would have been established during the first 10 million years of the Solar System's formation [...] > Bennu probably began in the inner asteroid belt as a fragment fro
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"The city stream is redirected in an underground, invisible loop so that it flows backward, or upstream, for a short distance. However, the backflow is always just outflow in reality. This is because the watercourse has a continuous gr
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> The influence of the Dana Scully character on my generation of girls is known as the Scully Effect. The linked PDF is offline; archived version [0] from 2018; created somewhere between 2016-2018. [0] THE ”SCULLY EFFECT“: I WANT TO BELI
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You're absolutely right! I'm curious if more photos from the same series exist. I posted a comment on the site asking for more information about the collection where the author found the photo. The comment is not online yet. The p
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> The photo is from the back of Johnny’s album It is not - from the same series though.
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Digital watch for power.
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Reminded me of: The dangerous playgrounds of 1900s through vintage photographs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31855163
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> Some experts not involved in the research also highlighted that much of the research included in the umbrella review was weak and also cautioned that the findings do not prove cause and effect.
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> At random. That's why it's background. From the github page: # The order in which the audio files are played # Can be either "Random" or "Alphabetical". playback_order = "Random"
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> Just like computer code, it must be transmitted precisely. if it’s missing one letter, it won’t work. LLMs are quite forgiving in that regard now.
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> “You agree that, you will not sell or otherwise attempt to sell the Vehicle within the first year following your Vehicle’s delivery date,” without getting permission. Breaking the deal could result in your truck being remotely deactiva
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Now I'm curious if sound waves (or vibration) could induce piezoelectricity in certain soils at comparable amounts.
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Related: "Electroculture Gardening" (09/2023, 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37320780
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The "Convex C3480" from 1991 (at the end of the lower hallway): - 1GB RAM - 0.8GFlops - #1 in Spain in 1992 - USD 1M - huge tape drive! This source lists it at 0.4 GFlops though (search for C3480): https://www.rediris.e
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The SQLite file only contains some archive.org metadata (size, timestamp, etc.). I merged all metadata I could gather here: https://github.com/Wumms/pomological
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torrent: https://archive.org/download/usda-pomological-watercolor-col... magnet:?xt=urn:btih:2f3f472d24980c11d82cb236f04d1f74138e45c4&dn=usda-pomological-watercolor-collection&tr=http%3a%2f%2fbt1.archive.org%3a
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Marc Okrand on Klingon [video](youtube.com)
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Oh no, there's an online version: https://arcadespot.com/game/elevator-action/
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https://archive.is/zfdmS (Snapshot from archive.org)
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> evangelist - religion: a person who tries to persuade people to become Christians, often by travelling around and organizing religious meetings - opinions: someone who often talks about how good they think something is, and tries to pe
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> The team calculated that a block of nanocarbon-black-doped concrete that is 45 cubic meters (or yards) in size — equivalent to a cube about 3.5 meters across — would have enough capacity to store about 10 kilowatt-hours of energy, whic
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> Movie never published "Blade Runner (a movie) was loosely adapted as the 1983 film Taking Tiger Mountain [0], after co-director Tom Huckabee purchased the rights to the novella from Burroughs for $100." [1] [0] (movie is rate
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After the fall: in 1794, a heavenly epistle heralds the study of meteorites(thefreelibrary.com)
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> spruik spruik - in British English (ˈspruːɪkˈ) [Australian archaic, slang]: to speak in public (used esp of a showman or salesman) - in American English (ˈspruːkˈ) [Australian slang]: to make or give a speech, esp. extensively or elabo
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According to the image caption this article seems to be based on ESA's GOCE mission (2009-2013)[0]. "Detailed analysis of GOCE's thruster and accelerometer data serendipitously revealed that it had detected the infrasound wav
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(From the article) "As a result of the low pull of gravity there, combined with the higher gravitational pull from the surrounding areas, the sea level of the Indian Ocean over the hole is a whopping 106 meters lower than the global av
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> But he figured out how to simultaneously hum and whistle to mimic a dial tone. And there I was, humbly whistling in front of this comment. I managed to humwhistle "11*". Though the detector [0] might have a different accuracy
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The time between opaque and failure might be little at that pressure. Somewhat related (possible material fatigue): A 16-meter (52-foot) high aquarium has burst at a hotel in downtown Berlin (2022): https://www.dw.com/en&#x2

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