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by slr555 7y ago
I get so tired of the kind of hyperbole that opens this article. If an untrained person deliberately dives into 28F water mostly they get cold and quickly get out. How do I know this? Am I a physiologist? No. Am I survival expert? No. I too
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by slr555 7y ago
I am an Extra class licensee in the US and while I have a lot of respect for the Ham community, deeply entrenched thinking places the future of amateur radio in jeopardy. If we only allow CW and SSB phone as truly open and accessible operat
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by slr555 8y ago
My father worked for Aerojet General in the early 60's. I have clear memories as a child of hearing thunderous booms while the northern California sky was a cloudless deep blue. I remember the sound as loud but by no means intolerable.
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by slr555 8y ago
You are right. NYPL is about the best public library one could hope for and much is available from home login. City College is one option to look at but I don't think they have a medical library. I am an NYU alum and had extensive conv
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by slr555 8y ago
Stunningly in NYC there is not a single medical library that offers journal access open to the general public. The only publicly accessible medical library has been described to me as primarily a "historical" library without journ
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Communication and technology problems hampered Parkland response(projects.sun-sentinel.com)
2 points by slr555 8y ago|0 comments
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by slr555 8y ago
Motion smoothing TVs have to please two very different viewers. Motion smoothing is great for for sports. Football and basketball, auto racing are good examples. When a pass is thrown downfield and the camera whip pans to follow it, motion
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by slr555 8y ago
I observed a total knee replacement surgery where the surgeons were not using their preferred system due to the fact that the patient already had one knee replacement and the doctors felt the same system should be used on both sides. The re
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by slr555 8y ago
The practical takeaway here underscores the advice in Auerbach's authoritative text Wilderness Medicine. If a person interacts with potentially rabid animals and that interaction results in even the smallest scratch or contact with sal
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by slr555 8y ago
Europe's historically much higher petrol prices have created a long standing culture of smaller cars as well as smaller trucks competing for the same space. Massive Suburban's are among the most common car service vehicles in Manh
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by slr555 8y ago
But the population of Manhattan is within a stone's throw of Paris overall and the density is significantly greater in Manhattan. Overall population and density matter as the equate to more diverse needs in the population and more user
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by slr555 8y ago
Population size matters as does density because there are more people that need to fit in a smaller footprint. The original post states that other cities should employ Copenhagen like solutions but the room simply does not exist in NYC no m
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by slr555 8y ago
Amenable means open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled. NYC is none of those things. Yes cars take physical space but I think you underestimate the diverse needs and populations that drive the use of cars vs. bikes
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by slr555 8y ago
Apologies, Wikipedia list km2 first for one and mi2 for the other. I still land in the middle though with Manhattan being 6 and change more dense than Copenhagen. I apologize for my haste and error.
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by slr555 8y ago
Commenting on cycling is always fraught but here are a couple of observations. The population of NYC is 10x that of the city of Copenhagen. The population density of Manhattan is approximately 6x that of Copenhagen (corrected from earlier m
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by slr555 8y ago
I agree that at this point everything is computational. And you are right that consumers are winning big time. I'm pretty serious about photography and there are far fewer situations that arise where I think, "crud, I've only
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by slr555 8y ago
The implicit subtitle of this article is: In Smartphone Cameras. The modern smartphone certainly adds computational strength that likely exceeds the image processing sophistication of even pro-level DSLRs. After all the performance gap betw
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by slr555 8y ago
It's a bit like academia. The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low.
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by slr555 8y ago
I just submitted my vote for N2RJ. ARRL leadership has seemed out of touch for quite some time. They seem more interested in selling wildly over priced books than advancing the interests of the Ham community. Amateur radio may seem like a q
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by slr555 8y ago
You're point is valid but some of the participants are spending 10K+ for Vectronix range finders so they are pretty far down that rabbit hole already. Wind is a dark art because at those ranges it likely varies in intensity and directi
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by slr555 8y ago
Reloading is a contemplative and exacting pursuit. And single missed powder measure could cause a bullet to lodge in the barrel and the round following could cause an injurious catastrophic failure. My father reloaded on a single stage pres
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by slr555 8y ago
It is a multi-tool bracelet made by Leatherman called the Tread.
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by slr555 8y ago
This is true for farmers in many places who buy or lease machinery from companies like John Deere. Using IOT, Deere can tell when a non-OEM part has been installed and they can remotely disable the machine until the "proper" part
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by slr555 8y ago
There's no crying in H Mart! H Mart is a gift given by heavenly messengers to bring the concept of flavor to the Upper West Side. There are so many people there who would love to help you, OP. In NYC, everybody's ersatz and everyb
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by slr555 8y ago
Great pick up!!
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by slr555 8y ago
Did I miss something or should this be near the beginning in 1898 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_recording
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Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet Is Fair Use(petapixel.com)
41 points by slr555 8y ago|10 comments
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Glenn Snoddy, Inventor of the Fuzz Tone, Dies(nytimes.com)
2 points by slr555 8y ago|0 comments
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by slr555 8y ago
As a Ham I am certainly intrigued by this posting. There are a number of obstacles I can see to effectively using shortwave for financial services. Propagation conditions vary by time of day, solar activity and other exogenous factors. Anot
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by slr555 8y ago
There is a sales and marketing side to this story as well. Switching costs in photography are quite high if you are invested in a system. Changing systems means selling every lens you own at a greatly depreciated price and purchasing new eq

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