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Yes. https://esahubble.org/projects/fits_liberator/download_v23/
> Amazon Fire tablets

I received a 7" one as a gift about 5 years ago, but never logged into it. It's always been as slow as hell. Two months ago, I got curious and looked up if LineageOS supported it, and it required a hardware mod to root it. (Opening the back cover, and shorting something out while plugging it in.) Did that, and got LineageOS (albeit outdated) running. Should have done that years ago. It's actually usable now! Bye Bezos!
Throw an airtag in there before you leave and then bluster your way through! Shouldn't be that hard if they're all that overworked /s
Changing speed limits does nothing to slow down traffic, roads need to be re-designed to trick people into driving slower.
A guy was on Irish radio and he said he bought the cheapest outbound ticket he could find. Managed to get to the arrivals lounge and find his bag there.
The question is, do the people being policed want them to?
"eierdop" for me means the shell of the egg (Afr) ???.
Amazing, thanks for sharing.
Boring, unsexy, effective: Improve your SaaS landing page conversion
Earlier it was Schiphol, now Heathrow... I wonder why there's such an issue with airports.

Of course the direct answer is "inadequate staff" but the next question is why is that so much more now? Why aren't the airports doing more to entice workers like perhaps better benefits, pay or flexibility? Are airports already operating at thin margins? (If anyone from the aero industry could comment that would be great!) Did they overestimate the downturn due to covid? Are traffic volumes legitimately larger than what was expected/predicted in 2022 (even ignoring covid's drop)?
Exactly. I could see it as "Verified visitor" for the various things that could indicate a real visit. Or some businesses use Stripe for payments, and they send me emails. Again, google sniffs all emails. This could be used to corroborate usage.

Again, they could be faked, with things like GPS spoofing, and using Wigle to determine local wifi there to fake that. But again, each step there significantly raises the bar of fraudulent activity.
People should consider using Air Tags with checked luggage this summer: https://www.cnn.com/cnn-underscored/travel/travel-apple-airt...
> Crypto hedge-funds money is a cold-wallet

Is this the case here, specifically? (I assume so, just curious)
Usually comes down to one of

* I don't see any divide by zero bugs. Approved.
* Some inane argument about code style that the linter enforces.
* I spent 8 hours figuring out what you did, why you did it, reviewing how code matches the requirements, running the code, testing all the scenarios.
* Can we rewrite this entire thing because I prefer a different pattern?
Do psychologists have a term for this Doom-obsession? Can we call it Spispopd Disorder?
> I know it's greedy and irrational, but I want everything centralized into one service so I don't have to think about where to go to watch a thing. I want a monopoly, but without the problems that come with a monopoly, and I suspect a large enough percentage of users feel the same way that other platforms just can't get off the ground.

Podcast model. Client handles discovery and "subscriptions" and all that. Hosting is separate. YouTube's immense control comes from controlling all of that, but there's no reason you have to have a single provider to get the everything's-in-one-place effect—you can instead empower client programs. That kills the "ugh, but I don't want to go to another site..." effect because it's simply not an issue. You click "subscribe" and it's in the same "app" as everything else, regardless of where the videos are hosted.
Downloading a car has never become more realistic
Technical Guidance for Mitigating Branchtype Confusion – Retbleed [pdf]
Beautiful Chinese Versions of Writing Interpreter and Compiler in Go Are Out
The Publisher's website： https://www.ituring.com.cn/book/2882
https://www.ituring.com.cn/book/2883
Damn that opening was beautiful. Like this format, never heard of this show. Noam is so old now though... Still listening, a lot more philosophical than I was expecting. He really quoted Bakunin? :) Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t ride in cabs that much (US) but I never had the dysfunctional racket experiences described in this thread. They didn’t show up once, but that has happened with Uber too.

edit: And Uber charged me a fee to cancel the no-show ride and I had to call and argue with them to take the charge off.
What you describing doesn’t sound fundamentalist to me.

I was referring more to the sort of people who, for example, see homosexuals having gay pride and start worrying it’s the end times and they must cleanse the world through adherence to their religion or something like that.

Let me re-write the comment I was responding as a fundamentalist would write it.

—-

Only sinners and heathens are able to "enjoy the world as it is, in all its messiness."

Because that's what it takes to ignore abusive levels of homosexuality and systemic threats to the continued survival of the church.

The point is not about what happened in the past, it's about what is still happening now - and how the narratives from the past continue to be used to justify it.

Ignoring this is neither compassionate nor realistic - although it is heretical, pretty much by definition.

—-

I am 100% percent convinced that there are fundamentalist christians or islamists or whatever who would read that re-written comment as go “oh yeah, that makes complete sense”.
By that logic any employer could do anything because "working for a bad employer is a bad decision"
So, am I to get this right? The universe, it's big. Like really big?
Yep. That comment came remembering the pointing and laughing and explaining it to the kids.

I do tend to check the labels, sometimes there are jokes hidden there.

For example, a computer bag I have from during the Bush Administration has a label with the text:

Ne pas secher a la machiene
Ne pas repasser
Nous sommes desoles que notre president soit un idiot.
Nous n'avons pa vote pour lui.
Not only was Simcity's dial home unnecessary but their servers were extremely underprovisioned for the load[1]. For the first few weeks pirates actually got a significantly better game experience since they could play the game while legitimate players were generally unable to even play in single player.

Simcity was an excellent example of DRM providing no benefits and actively lowering the user's experience - that's almost always the case but it's rarely this extreme and obvious.

1. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/03/clogged-streets-simci...
To point 3, they are absolutely keeping many, many maps of the pixels and dark current for all of their sensors - this is a good picture of the process for a standard astronomical CCD: https://cdn.nightskypix.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/calib...
why September 11th? This is the stuff conspiracies are written from.
Why would you assume this?
Really? I assumed it’s just some wires in a seat..
Maintaining Software Correctness
One form of clickbait is to take mundane processes that the general public is not aware of, and to publicize them as if they are news.

Is this unprecedented at Heathrow, or normal course of action? Will the average Heathrow traveler or prospective traveler a face any consequence anything from this news?

Some of the items do seem like they would impact travelers and potential travelers, so I would not classify it as clickbait yet. Unless I found out this was every summer.

But if this article means that people should avoid Heathrow because the experience will be worse than prior years, then I would say this is relevant news to share with the public.
While Photoshop is widely used in artistic and creative imaging, it also contains a powerful suite of tools for image processing in arbitrary color spaces. I'm not even a serious user and across various hobby projects I've used it for stuff like manipulating 3D depth data and deriving logical bit masks.

Photoshop can do just about anything with spatial image data and if it's not built-in, you can probably find a plug-in to do what you want or write a script. The trade-off is the software can be very complex because over the decades it's grown to support an incredible number of use cases.

Over the years I've also seen PS used in unexpected ways at work. If you need to do something programmatic to image or spatial data, PS is a good host platform for custom code because it will handle importing file formats, color space conversion, bit plane manipulation, alignment, scaling, cropping, perspective correction and masking before your custom processing and then it'll export the output in whatever sizes and formats you need. And it will do it on gigapixel data sets under script control. That's a lot of grunt work you don't have to implement. I've even seen it wired up to Matlab.
Hipsterism. You cannot trust the taste of anybody who touches either of them.
Crypto or not, when a large, heavily leveraged hedge fund implodes, it's really complex to unwind. It was the same when Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital failed last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archegos_Capital_Management

The day they got wiped out, the liquidations caused a 27% drop in share price of ViacomCBS. The various lawsuits and charges of fraud and racketeering will take years to work their way through to completion.
to me the title sounds like its cancel all flights, like its closing. but that doesnt really make sense, it's just phrased badly. its borderline clickbait, it sounds really bad(worse than it is), and the only way to understand what the title means is read the article. 'any more seats' - i think a 'more' in there would make the title ok
Their app size problem is because of an unusual development constraint: they need the user to be able to move halfway across the planet and still have the app work without downloading any new resources. All the UI needs to be preloaded so that, say, if you travel from Rio to Toyko or Cape Town to Jakarta, you get off the plane and can hail a cab on even the flakiest of connections.
How are your platform and app team orgs modeled?
> what’s the difference between printing money and deducting the same amount of money from taxes

Inflation.

But it's actually much more complicated than just that. An economy is a complex dynamical system. It is chaotic in the formal mathematical sense, which is to say its response to changing circumstances is not 100% predictable. But in general if you print money the result is inflation. In the long run, the value of the money supply has to aymptotically approach the value of the goods and services in the economy. (This is an example of a "natural law" of economics.)

So the answer to your question depends on the details. Do you print money once or do you do it on an on-going basis? If you do it once then you get a transient response. You will eliminate some short-term hardship, but in the long run the economy will most likely settle back into its previous equilibrium with slightly higher prices. If you do it on a continuous basis you will cause hyperinflation and the currency will collapse. Depending on the availability of alternatives, the currency collapse may or may not take the rest of the economy down with it.

Redistributing wealth through taxation doesn't have that problem, but it has other deleterious effects. Figuring out what those are is left as an exercise.
QR codes should be REVERSED.

ALL vendors should be required to have a camera. I have an app that produces a unique QR code for each transaction.

The VENDOR scans MY QR code and REQUESTS for my to PAY them, showing me my receipt for auth on my device.

The only VENDOR QR-read codes should only be for information about the product, menu etc.

-

I used QR codes on product descriptions that led to the product page and lab testing results for said product onto which the physical size of the product was not large enough for pertinent information -- this was for cannabis product company for which I did some contracting labeling...

The upside of this, is that it ran through bitly and I was able to also, included with the QR scan, the geo-loc of the product scan which allowed me to map out the interest of various products based on the scan and location...

QR codes are FANTASTIC, but implemented so poorly...
The CSS Behind Figma
> Sometimes they’re slightly skewed where one party profits a little more than they other.

I imagine they wish they could profit. Uber isn't profitable. They lose stupid amounts of money. It subsists on investments made by capitalists looking to metaphorically burn up their car. Given your definition, if the workers were making more than nothing they would be the ones exploiting Uber.

While your definitions are correct, your interpretation is not. "Fair" in economics isn't some moral position. It simply refers to where people generally agree. If Uber isn't meeting its agreements with the workers then there may be a case for exploitation, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Your point, if I interpret correctly, seems to be that the workers are making agreements that you wouldn't agree to.
> You don't need AI

I grew up in the private server scene for a popular MMO and you're absolutely right. It was a whole lot of teenagers with energy drinks grinding through reverse-engineering minutia that adults would gawk at and make excuses to avoid doing.

That said there was a lot of automation, scripts, and other tooling, to make it easier. The best were able to i.e. update a private server automatically when the base game updated. We were doing automation at a higher level then F500 companies were at the time (mid 2000s) and we were just kids.
What is that brightest light?
electron field?
Could it perhaps be this? Interesting read about the level of effort and process invested in the Space Shuttle's software (~1996) [0]

For a TLDR, this answer [1] is great.

My favorite excerpt: The Shuttle software consists of ca. 420,000 lines. The total bug count hovers around 1. At one point around 1996, they built 11 versions of the code with a total of 17 bugs.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff

[1] https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9260/how-often-if-...
> given historical accusations linking Webb to anti-LGBT policies

So call it "ProLGBT Telescope". Or anything stupid and/or funny.

Personally I am totally LGBT-friendly, but I will never forget the situation with Brendan Eich the ex-chairman of Mozilla, whose firing use to had some bad circumstances for Firefox the webbrowser. All "unacceptable" Brendan has done was some donation to anti-LGBT community which IMO is absolutely basic human right as well as being LGBTQ+.
My god, look at the background of the first image at full scale.
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There is also some compression logic in the retina afaik , visual cortex is only interested in changes not a continual feed.
Don't learn it from HN (clueless)
I'm super curious how you could find these underwhelming. My mind is blown just scrolling across each of the images.

What exactly were you expecting from them?
As someone who has shot SLRs (digital and even some analog) for almost thirty years: It's a dying format and it should die. I have about twenty years of investment in Canon EF SLR lenses and even so, I bought a mirrorless body last year. I still have my EF lenses (and an EF-RF adapter) but I'll probably sell them gradually and never buy another EF lens again.

It's important to understand the history of SLRs. When they were invented, they were competing against rangefinders. With a rangefinder, you have a lens that exposes directly onto the film. Then you have a separate little viewing window that you look through to aim and compose your shot. That little eyepiece is off center from the actual lens and film, so what you see looking through it isn't exactly what the lens will see when you take the shot. Also, you can't preview things like the aperture, depth of field, and focus.

SLRs were a radical improvement over that. With an SLR, there's a little mirror/pentaprism thing between the lens and film. When the shutter is closed, it routes light up from the lens to the eyepiece. Then when you press the shutter button, the mirror flips out of the way (this is part of the iconic "take a photo" sound) and the light going through the lens goes straight onto the film.

In this way, what you see in the eyepiece is exactly what the lens sees. The whole point of an SLR is to make previewing a photo before taking a shot match the actual taken shot.

Digital SLRs have the exact same structure, but with a digital sensor instead of film. When you look through the eyepiece, you are looking through the pentaprism and mirror and then out the lens. So you see exactly what the lens sees, and what the sensor will see when the shutter opens. But the framing tends to not be exactly the same since the sensor may crop in various ways that the eyepiece doesn't.

Also, the eyepiece doesn't show you anything that the sensor is doing to the photo, like exposure control, ISO, noise, motion blur, etc.

If your goal—which was the original goal of SLRs!—is to make your eyepiece match the final photo, the best way to do it is to have the eyepiece be a digital display that shows what the sensor itself sees. That is as close to the ground truth as you can possibly get.

This is what mirrorless cameras do. Not only are they superior when it comes to previewing accuracy, they are lighter, smaller, simpler, and more durable because they don't need the large moving parts for the pentaprism and mirror.

I loved my SLRs over the years, but its time has passed.
Indeed, it is truly cause to pause and step back. What's the name of that phenomenon common amongst astronauts when they see the earth from afar? I feel like our society could use more of that.

edit: Seems to be called the overview effect [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
Questioning pope’s infallibility used to be a pretty big line too, and now we know it was all just bluff; there was never a proper reason not to cross it.

To put it differently: the law must keep up with times. The law we have wasn’t designed for the business models we have today, from Facebook to Uber.
Can't you mitigate just the Javascript VM? JS is a slow scripting language anyways. Seems like a waste to slow down the entire system.
Reminded me of Thinking Forth (http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net). Lookup tables FTW.
The letter says "so we are asking our airline partners to stop selling summer tickets to limit the impact on passengers." I do read this as selling any ticket, which is the title of the article.
In this case it is, producers are responsible and are best situated to deal with the problem. You can hold them accountable but you can't reasonably hold consumers accountable. Guilt-tripping is not accountability.
Well if y'all are gonna be like that I'm just going to call you guys Anatolia. I'm bringing it back, baby! /s
I love to sign-up to news letters and get a discount. Of course I am giving you my spam account I set up for this exact purpose.
">I shoot everything JPEG, usually 16:9, immediately download to phone, and basically delete the raw as soon as the edits are done in Snapseed or VN. Photography in the age of social media is highly ephemeral. It's there for a day and then people are onto the next story or snap dopamine hit."

Different take here.

I do show some photos to family / friends and keep web album for that. But mostly I photograph for my own viewing on large 4K screen. Photos from smartphones just do not cut it for me so I stick to mirrorless. The fact that most are happy with smartphone is irrelevant to me. It is my hobby and as long as I am happy the rest does not matter.
I suspect that the cameras on low-end phones would struggle with OCR text in suboptimal conditions (low-light or damaged text).

QR codes have redundancy, which makes them resilient in a variety of conditions that plaintext isn't.

Also, you can 'hide' ugly tracking urls in QR codes (e.g. a short-link that lets you count number of scans or update the redirect location).
Your "lots" is unsubstantiated. "Some" is probably more like it.
I once had an idea to generate "hidden" qr codes in art and photos. Initially I wanted to take a photo of a giraffe and replace one of its spots with a QR code, and hang it in my living room for guests to scan. It turned into this (broken) website: https://www.qraffe.com/. I don't have a lot of time right now to fix it. The pdf rendering is broken. If anyone likes this idea and wants to help with a PR, I'll be mighty appreciative. https://github.com/joeframbach/qraffe
Entirely true, though Linus Sebastian would probably disagree. In terms of receiving content without paying the tithe of attention/money/time, though, one could consider it a form of """piracy"""
Yep recognizing a cat from a hamster - is it just pixels or broken down into higher level concepts like head, body, legs and tail.
That part I agree with you, you are reaponsible for the government you tolerate.
In my experience, code reviews are currently viewed as time sinks because of the cognitive load they put on the reviewer. I agree with the other comments here about a team culture that values code reviews as an important process. IMO, the tools surrounding code reviews can be improved. In particular, any time spent trying to make changes smaller and easier to follow is a big win. We use and develop DiffLens (https://github.com/marketplace/difflens) for this. As a team, it's made reviewing our changes easier and lets us probe deeper into the changeset. If your code base is mostly TS, JS and/or CSS, feel free to try out DiffLens! We're around to answer any questions or take feedback :)
It's certainly not clickbait. If I wanted to fly to London for a meeting in 6 weeks and then fly home, I can no longer do so via Heathrow. It's not like I can just get an earlier or later flight, travel a day earlier, whatever. It's just not an option. That's a rather big deal.
Advanced E.V. Batteries Move from Labs to Mass Production
extremly underrated tip! thank you
This is correct. Unfortunately most people are pretty naive when it comes to the reasons and the history behind copyright and patents.

Without any concept of authorship, moral rights and prior art we would go back to early 1900: a lot of technology was not only secret but even actively obfuscated.

Companies would be secretive and uncooperative and society progresses much more slowly.
Drivers were harmed too, and we should not overlook that.
I wasn't implying the rules and regulations shouldn't benefit consumers. If you think taxi services shouldn't have X regulation then change the regulation.
Bluetooth Auracast – New local broadcasting
I don't know which filters were used to generate these mediagenic images, but you can see the available filters here: https://jwst-docs.stsci.edu/jwst-near-infrared-camera/nircam...

Note that the "colors" used in that graphic are also false, since only F070W and F090W are in the human eyeball's passband.
yeah it does seem like a weird and stupid date to pick.
> domestic workers

That's a bit of a stretch. Finnish agriculture (which is rather small) has not been able to live without Ukrainian and Vietnamese workers for several years. But there are legal frameworks to get them the required permits. It's not free of problems, all kind of exploitation happens. But then the rules will be tightened again.

I think it's the same over most of Western Europe, with domestic workers alone farming could stop.