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Comment · 1 month ago

I really enjoyed this, and will come back to it. Hadn't heard of that variant before. The backstory is great.

Comment · 8 months ago

Cool. Found my way to this updates page that has a summary of volcano and seismic activity from different observatories if you click the tabs: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcano-updates#yvo

Comment · 8 months ago

No exemptions for medical life flights, local law enforcement, or even the military. You can read a more normal NOTAM posted for New Orleans likely for Mardi Gras (https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2231)

As a Minnesotan I wonder what this does to the deportation flights going to and from Camp East Montana.

Comment · 9 months ago

The FBI working to recover stolen property on behalf of a private citizen who was the victim of a crime is something different. Harder to defend a reporter holding stolen property just because the victim is related to a public official. Would actually feel better about defending O'Keefe if the diary did have launch codes.

Comment · 2 years ago

Google Deepmind is based in London.

Comment · 2 years ago

Link to the video from the bottom of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_nk21389u8

The video includes side-by-side comparison between the original upscaled 480p and 720p. Around 7:00 you hear about what it takes to get 720p and maintain around 30fps gameplay. Not only a great article, but also a great video to summarize the changes needed get the higher resolution.

Comment · 2 years ago

Found this in the acknowledgement section of the article: https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas

Edit: cool examples here https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas/blob/master/pys...

Comment · 2 years ago

Collected Fictions[0] is a wonderful group of Borges stories that includes the ones mentioned in this article.

There are some amazing short story collections out there if you are the kind of reader that has a hard time staying with an entire novel. Ted Chiang has a couple[1][2] collections of stories that feel very Borges-like.

[0] https://www.librarything.com/work/25106 [1] https://www.librarything.com/work/28008 [2] https://www.librarything.com/work/23195758

Comment · 3 years ago

Taking this opporuntity to link to Charles Proteus Steinmetz[1]. Among the many, many things Steinmetz did, he invented the Metal Halide Lamp which was later refined for mass production decades later. This took the innovation of others less well-known to history[2]. So great example, bringing up the light bulb!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Proteus_Steinmetz

[2] https://americanhistory.si.edu/lighting/20thcent/invent20.ht...

Comment · 4 years ago

Can you provide a better source? I know about the waste in large nonprofits, but am also personally benefiting from grant-supported research that if it otherwise didn't happen would leave me and a lot of others dead.

Comment · 4 years ago

American Tower might have info for you. "If we don’t yet work together, but you have land, towers, or a rooftop you want to sell or lease to us, we want to talk to you about a competitive package." https://www.americantower.com/us/property-owners/

Comment · 5 years ago

This negative comment got me thinking about why I liked the original post so much.

The URL of the product itself very clearly tells us what the product is (at least, if you are in the target audience)

So many web apps have inscrutable names. This is just refreshingly clear, it's a free option screener .com!

Comment · 5 years ago

I don't understand at all why an enormous company like Spotify is so neglectful of the entire apple ecosystem.

Part of this might be the legal friction between Spotify and Apple in the past. Here's an article that describes a coalition that Epic Games, Spotify, and others formed just last year to counter Apple's platform cut. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/09/epic-spotify-and-oth...

Comment · 5 years ago

The author has said many times that the Iranian Revolution was part of the origin story of the book. The book is set in America, so what do you expect?

Comment · 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover Fascinating read, sounds like Robert Moses of the Navy