cnntth

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by cnntth 9mo ago
OP makes zero comments about content generation, and the complaint is about upscaling introducing artifacts not in the original source. No different than hating a bad 4k remaster / sharpening.
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by cnntth 2y ago
From the Boston(ish) area, the Smithsonian has a 200 year old house they reconstructed from Ipswich. Really cool exhibit detailing all the different people that went through it and the renovations it underwent. https://americanhi
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by cnntth 2y ago
"What is the price for an experience? The price for a single trip will be €120,00. The price for a return trip will be €160,00. This is part of the total cost price based on the EASA cost-sharing principle." From the website'
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by cnntth 2y ago
Addressed in the article! Apartment buildings need less elevators than offices since residents tolerate longer waits. There's still elevators, just less.
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by cnntth 3y ago
Fair! I was trying to be both succinct and communicate the setback to someone who might not follow the details. For those who might know TACF is working on seeds and makes them (with some hoops) attainable to the public, ceasing that distri
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TACF is no longer supporting development of D58 American chestnut trees(tacf.org)
200 points by cnntth 3y ago|58 comments
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by cnntth 3y ago
The current seeds given to the public the ACF were counting on have very poor survival/growth metrics and they're giving up on that line; big shame as those are the seeds they offered to donors (and thus a way of getting involved
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by cnntth 3y ago
The land is interchangeable, and 'human food corn' encompasses a lot more than just corn eaten directly by humans. Almost every processed food in the US uses some corn derived product; and animal feed is still part of the supply c
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by cnntth 3y ago
To tag on to the others, the former 'chief of disguises' for the cia does interviews[1] all the time, I think also on the board for the Spy Museum (and featured quite a bit in it about both disguises and being a woman). Depending
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by cnntth 4y ago
To bring it back: Governmental policy vs individual choice? If I, a consumer of electricity want to reduce my GHG impact, I can only lobby the source of my electricity so much. Rooftop solar might be less efficient than gridscale for the sy
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by cnntth 4y ago
I haven't kept up with the debate over the 'Mediterranean' diet, has there been a consensus of the benefits of the diet? IIRC, a big flaw in the proponents of the trend was that a lot of those benefits -- cardiovascular, weig
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by cnntth 4y ago
Overwatch is a particularly interesting example to use here -- the reason the Boston Uprising exist is precisely because Blizzard went with the city based team model of traditional sports. I agree with the premise of your comment, but &#x
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by cnntth 4y ago
Transit companies get shafted in municipal budgets politically. Increasing ridership by increasing frequency (more drivers / more cheap diesel or lng buses) is a better investment of limited budgets than electrification. But also somet
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by cnntth 4y ago
Safer for whom though? Drivers are not the only road users.
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by cnntth 4y ago
Disagree - especially in cities -, but I think road design is a better way of enforcing speed limits. If everyone is going faster than the speed limit, the road is the problem not the limit.
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by cnntth 5y ago
Boston is /very/ walkable, the whole city can be walked end to end in a few hours and Somerville is one of the densest neighborhoods in the U.S. I'll also say D.C. (and to some extent Northern Virginia and select parts of Mar
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by cnntth 10y ago
Slightly unrelated - Mustafa Al-Bassam, the researcher quoted, was TFlow, one of the younger LulzSec members. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Al-Bassam
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by cnntth 12y ago
As a freshman who took the course that uses this book, I can say I'm still cursing the name. I figure some of the value will become clearer, but aside from commenting functions clearly and testability of code, I don't think I got