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by pimlottc 6d ago
This is based off a NASA article, which has an expanded version with more details here: https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Manipulating_Satellite_Photos_Now_R...
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by pimlottc 6d ago
The app is called DStretch, it's available for iOS and Android https://dstretch.com/Apps/index.html
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by pimlottc 9d ago
The borders on the pieces obscure the edge details that you need to help match the pieces up. Often there were pieces with letters that looked like they were needed another piece to complete them but actually they were whole but the border
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by pimlottc 14d ago
Note this definitely has a big spoiler if you haven’t seen the end of season 1!
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by pimlottc 14d ago
I don’t understand what the timers labeled “still yours” mean in the sample images. Is that just a user label or some sort of special category for eg uncategorized time? I also don’t understand what the different colored parts of the ring r
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by pimlottc 14d ago
This is viable option if you are generally okay with the way the world around you works - if you live in a safe place with a good economy and a fair, well-functioning government. Unfortunately this is not the situation for a lot of people.
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by pimlottc 18d ago
Okay, now I really want to ride a steam-powered monorail
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by pimlottc 18d ago
And Jóhann Jóhannsson (RIP)
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by pimlottc 21d ago
The full backstory of this clip is a great read: https://www.vice.com/en/article/an-oral-history-of-tim-curry...
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by pimlottc 22d ago
CO2 sensors are not all created equal. The price of a good one is a large chunk of the cost of the device.
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by pimlottc 22d ago
And yet it didn’t accept JORTS :/
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by pimlottc 22d ago
Incredible, by far the most comprehensive review of techniques for beautifying and branding QR codes. What I would love to see as a companion to this is some sort of rigors benchmark for scanning that attempts to quantify how much real-worl
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by pimlottc 23d ago
Screenshots of Vette! at MobyGames: https://www.mobygames.com/game/799/vette/screenshots/dos/
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by pimlottc 23d ago
I don't think that's quite correct; every CS program I've seen involves writing code, quite a lot of it. What they don't teach is /software engineering/: working large codebases, maintaining code, dealing with
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by pimlottc 27d ago
Good lord, why would you make your website so intentionally hard to read?
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by pimlottc 27d ago
Michael Jackson was a pop star. Selling out was never a sin in pop music.
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by pimlottc 27d ago
Agree, this needs context. I thought this was like some sort of unclaimed government funds thing or something at first.
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by pimlottc 28d ago
There was one in Strasbourg, France, by the cathedral
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by pimlottc 29d ago
This is arguably what MVP is supposedly to mean
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by pimlottc 29d ago
The episode is "Mark Zuckerberg: The Worst Person of the 21st Century (So Far)", in three parts (eps. 43-45) [1] [2] [3] 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srIt1RFE-Zo 2: https://www.youtube.com/wa
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
*cues
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
If the idea of spending a summer in a firewatch lookout tower sounds cool to you, I highly recommend the indie narrative game Firewatch [0] 0: https://www.firewatchgame.com/
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
> they're all sold out to froufrou boogies! That's specious, Trader Joe's is cheaper than other stores for plenty of items
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
For me, the images and text are out of sync; by the time the focus in the image has moved to the next item, the text is already hidden under the image.
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
Does not work in Firefox's reader mode, unfortunately
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
Sometimes I think people forget how capable computers are. 500k is not much. You can just slap that in a Lucene instance. This is a solved problem.
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
Oh jeez, I hadn’t thought about the blocked element being different than the aria-tagged one. What a nightmare
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
I literally just left a Trader Joe’s and I couldn’t find a single tin
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
What's with the xpath selector? Is that just matching deeply nested elements?
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by pimlottc 1mo ago
What is a "finished" cookie?

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