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by offsign 2mo ago
Sounds like AI is just greasing the wheels of a long established 'grandparent scam'... goes something like this: 1) voice one: young adult calls, sobbing 2) grandparent inquires with a name... "Ben, is that you?" 3) voic
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by offsign 8mo ago
Makes for a catchy headline, but you only have to go back to Jan 9, 2024* to find a similarly 'drought free' California: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx (*Technically slivers of the s
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by offsign 9mo ago
Didn't advocate for "more highways" -- I totally get it. More offering that maybe these problems shouldn't be viewed as a purely zero-sum game, where cities get all the benefit at the expense of the larger region due to
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by offsign 9mo ago
One thing that irks me about these schemes is that they often ignore cities role as regional hubs -- i.e. many cities became cities because they serve as geographical gateways interlocking the surrounding region. They are happy to take th
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by offsign 2y ago
"he took it a bridge too far" is a massive trivialization. The guy operated a marketplace for illegal goods in order to enrich himself. The illegality wasn't just incidental, it was literally his business model -- by flouting
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by offsign 3y ago
Title is misleading... the source Le Monde article states that use of certain bicycle paths has doubled (or tripled) in certain places , as investment has gone into improving these paths. That's great, but kind of obvious that if yo
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by offsign 3y ago
One of things I've loved about HN was the quality of comments. Whether broad or arcane, you had experts the world over who would tear the topic apart with data and a healthy dose of cynicism. I frequently learned more from the debate a
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by offsign 3y ago
Water infrastructure in the west is highly fragmented and locally rate limited -- you can't just reroute water from large swaths of the state like you can with electricity. Additionally, the water consumed by agriculture is often diffe
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by offsign 6y ago
Here's how someone in the field recently explained it to me... Let's say you have a vaccine that appears effective (great, right?) You give it to 1000 willing test subjects, and most become immune (fantastic, right?). Then, three
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by offsign 6y ago
Possibly. Luminosity masks work really well for bracketed exposures, but stacking different times of day introduces new problems (shadow angles, coloring) that I've struggled to adequately resolve. (Sure it's more a reflection my
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by offsign 6y ago
Dabbled with similar photography (* not as good as Wu's), and think it would be a challenge to achieve similar results in Photoshop. Light painting in the sky is one thing, but getting the light source to simultaneously "paint&quo
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by offsign 7y ago
Had the fortune of visiting parts of Sudan in late '17. The country has such a wealth of history, much of it completely ignored / probably much more still hidden beneath the sands. When we visited El-Kurru, they had just unearthed
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by offsign 7y ago
this. anything that restricts or impedes what you can do with a home is a liability, not an asset. Up in SF, even partially tenant-occupied homes typically sell for a sizable discount. (also doubt that ~10k/year is going to make waves