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by devb 7y ago
Those are all birds that have been able to adapt very well to urban life. For each one of those, there are scores that haven't been able to do so.
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by devb 7y ago
They don't look that stagnant to me? Each one seems to have multiple inlet/outlet pipes, and the next pond over has an aerating fountain. If they were truly stagnant the car wouldn't be visible.
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by devb 7y ago
I see them in my area on flightradar24, running very consistent grids like this one: https://www.flightradar24.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/0...
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by devb 7y ago
Authors don't always have a final say on what the headline will be. Sometimes they don't have any say at all.
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by devb 7y ago
I wonder if there were any environmental or health issues associated with the manufacture and finishing/grinding of these lenses. The EU forced camera manufacturers to stop using leaded glass a while back because of worker's healt
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by devb 7y ago
Paulownia tomentosa. Known in my area as the princess tree, but also goes by royal paulownia, foxglove tree, kiri, and empress tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulownia_tomentosa
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by devb 7y ago
> indie music stores like Bandcamp are digital only Many bands on Bandcamp offer bundles of vinyl, CDs, t-shirts, etc. with the digital download. One example off the top of my head: https://filthyfriends.bandcamp.com/albu
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by devb 7y ago
According to the Times: >Mr. Alles was told to develop an exit plan before the arrest of a Chinese woman carrying a malware-laced device at Mar-a-Lago, exposing holes in the security of the private club. https://www.nytimes.co
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by devb 7y ago
> how would I go if I wanted to harvest large numbers of "real" photos of "real" persons? I guess you could just steal them from Flickr? http://fortune.com/2019/03/12/millions-of-flickr-
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by devb 8y ago
It is a Schlieren technique, but in this case a series of images taken over a textured background are then processed with software in a way that amplifies the differences in air density. This page goes into a little more detail: https:&#x2
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by devb 8y ago
Do you have a brand/model recommendation?
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by devb 8y ago
Compasses manufactured for the northern hemisphere have extra weight added to the "south" end of the needle because the "north" end is partially being pulled toward the ground as well as the north magnetic pole. So your
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by devb 8y ago
Very doubtful. The NYNJ system is not very high capacity, doesn't have an easy connection to passenger lines in New Jersey, the connecting lines aren't electrified, and would leave passengers in the far south end of Brooklyn.
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by devb 8y ago
I don't call the gas company, I call the fire department. They tend to take paper trails a lot more seriously.
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by devb 8y ago
It's silly, but I do carry around a notepad so I can make a list of things to look up later.
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by devb 8y ago
Just in case you didn't read the article, it makes no mention of the researchers' maintenance ability. "According to the researchers, while the study was purely curiosity-driven, the results could be used to develop more effi
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by devb 8y ago
It's actually a little less involved than B&W. You don't have to look up developer/film times and there are no agitation timing techniques to worry about, because the process is exactly the same for every roll. The only
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by devb 8y ago
Cosina was the company licensed to make the Nikon FM10 and produced rangefinders under the Voigtländer name. All of those products were discontinued last year, sadly. As far as I know, the F6 is the last one still in production.
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by devb 9y ago
Should a person not be impressed by being able to travel through two miles of incredible urban density in just a few minutes? I think vehicular traffic is far and away the most depressing aspect of NYC. All of the noise, pollution, bad atti
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by devb 9y ago
Another mixture (that I admit I don't understand) is baking soda with hydrogen peroxide. It obliterated a close range direct hit skunk spray on my jeans and sneakers with a 20 minute soak.
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by devb 9y ago
I think it's an interesting project. That's enough for me to consider it useful, or at least not worthless.
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by devb 9y ago
They used to be made in the same city as the factory in the article.
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by devb 9y ago
Good simulation, I guess...
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by devb 9y ago
In NJ there's a restriction from hunting within 450 feet of a building. In Idaho that's probably laughable, but here it leaves a lot of space where you can't discharge any weapons. There's a parallel with the charge th
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by devb 9y ago
I was just reading about Swedish prehistory and there was mention of a drastic climate cooling period.
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by devb 9y ago
It's not a simple solution, because it's not very effective. In areas with limited open space, hunting is very much an exclusionary activity. In Staten Island, the NYC Parks Department is performing an experiment in deer steriliza
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by devb 9y ago
It worked on me, I'm looking forward to buying the book. Is this the first time you've come across an excerpt teaser on the internet?
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by devb 9y ago
I used to use a 200mm lens with a reversed 50mm on a Nikon D70, and the focus is difficult. It sounds like the photographer here is using a sort of "spray and pray" technique and using focus-stacking software later. You actually d
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by devb 9y ago
Same with the 2011 Virginia earthquake! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Virginia_earthquake
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by devb 9y ago
I'd rather see a comparison between two 30-second exposures at 1600 and 6400 than what was presented here. That would give a much better idea of how much detail you're losing from sensor gain.

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