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by thombat 9d ago
The first series of "Blackadder" has a vignette of such reportage: Messenger 3: My Lord, news… King: What? Messenger 3: Lord Wessex is dead. King: This news is not so good. Messenger 3: Pardon, My Lord? King: I like it not. Bring
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by thombat 23d ago
But it would promptly deform into a sphere, since its yield strength isn't remotely high enough to withstand the pressure of its own gravity
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by thombat 23d ago
That's tracking or dollying, a term from the days when cameras were large and fragile so moving in a straight line meant rolling it on light rail tracks. OP is correct, a pan keeps the camera on top of its fixed tripod and rotates it t
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by thombat 1mo ago
I delegated this errand to my manservant. I am quite unaware of what means of access he may have at his disposal but I trust that his resourceful nature will suffice to provide a precis of this internet website.
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by thombat 1mo ago
I'd mark them face-to-face, but here? Maybe I'm talking to a bot. Or maybe you'll be, if you reply.
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by thombat 2mo ago
Of those 15, it might be illuminating to know how many did not on grounds of principle versus merely that the cost/benefit didn't favour it for them at that time?
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by thombat 3mo ago
I used character styles that set the proofing language with hot keys assigned, so shift-alt-1 sets to English, shift-alt-2 to German, etc. As character styles they apply both to the current insertion point when typing or any selected range
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by thombat 3mo ago
The link to Criterion streaming doesn't work for "Brazil" (#51) - it shows a list of movies that likely have the word in their synopsis such as "Kiss of the Spider Woman" but not the actual film (which famously does
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by thombat 3mo ago
This note in that WP link is wild: "On July 7, 2021, Barry Cadden's original 9-year sentence was increased to 14.5 years. An appeals court court decision required the trial judge to consider patients, and not only hospitals, as vi
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by thombat 4mo ago
Feels like a proper movie that political boundaries like state lines would be significant for all concerned. One meteor for Rhode Island, one for Texas... Any questions? (Asks the alien overlord of his minions in his crisp British accent)
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by thombat 4mo ago
And then you have arrived at "Last Thursdayism", where the universe could have been created a few days ago, or literally now, or might not exist at all and you are the only soul in existence hallucinating everything, because all e
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by thombat 4mo ago
This overlooks that the Rubin telescope has a relatively wide field of view and a thirty second exposure time, so LEO satellites do routinely appear in images. The size of the object isn't so important as its relative brightness, so wh
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by thombat 4mo ago
The US requirement is that passengers on flights to the USA have been processed in conformance with US regulations _and_ since that processing have not had any contact with passengers processed otherwise. It's not in itself a stupid ru
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by thombat 4mo ago
Not OP, but it's more the warning not to underestimate the cost required for compliance, and apprehension of this cost may deter their creation.
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by thombat 4mo ago
The final phase of Symbian OS was becoming the open-source Symbian Foundation. This required the existing codebase, hundreds of thousands of files, to be categorised properly (mostly homegrown, some acquired, some licensed) and where necess
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by thombat 4mo ago
Thank you for that haunting image, of the recognition that their last user was gone, that this aspect of 65,000 years of local history had come to its end. I hope that Payirti, the one who turned back, embraced that final solitude and under
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by thombat 4mo ago
But a much shorter flight time compared to ICBMs coming from the USA, and being launched from unhardened sites, so looking more like a first-strike decapitation weapon than a retaliatory MAD capability. Of course submarine-launched ballisti
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by thombat 4mo ago
Which directly followed the USA stationing Jupiter missiles in Turkey with the range to strike Moscow. As part of the mutual climb down from the missile crisis the USA removed the Jupiters, as both sides then understood the wisdom of avoidi
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by thombat 6mo ago
But it isn't speeding by, it's heading away following a closely predetermined trajectory. A better analogy would be filming a high-altitude aircraft flying away from you, using a gear-driven tripod mount.
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by thombat 6mo ago
He wasn't wrong in that claim: for the most part the bombers did get through, especially at night. The problem was that their effectiveness once "through" was far lower than the bombing proponents had claimed, due in particul
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by thombat 6mo ago
It comes years too late, but I finally understand the reliability problems I had with a DVD drive mounted on its side. If only I'd had your insight then, I could have taken the PC to a playground and burnt disks on the carousel.
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by thombat 7mo ago
Derek Lowe's take on this, probably written before those HHS comments, was that "the agency appears to have signed off on the trial design as proposed, and I can’t see Moderna going ahead with it if the agency had done otherwise&q
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by thombat 7mo ago
Please do! It will fit the spirit of your splendid post, unpacking the complexity of a thing we take for granted (at least as native English speakers)
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by thombat 7mo ago
The historian Hubertus Knabe made the horrifying observation of the film "The Lives of Others" that "There was a Schindler. There was no Wiesler", i.e. that in the whole history of the DDR they didn't in fact have a
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by thombat 7mo ago
Indeed, this is such a central point that it's made clear in the first chapter: The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it, moreo
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by thombat 8mo ago
Absolutely! I'd read LotR many times before I first read it aloud as a bedtime story season and was abashed to find how much I'd been skipping over, mostly parenthetical details of geography and world-building, while hastening in
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by thombat 10mo ago
Both Voyagers left the ecliptic plane with their final gravitational slingshots (Voyager 1 went north, Voyager 2 went south so only the Canberra radio dishes can communicate with it) so even when Earth is further from them than the sun ther
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by thombat 10mo ago
Searching for the tech angle... "the police had used a helicopter with a heat-seeking camera, and could see that some of the waste was indeed starting to decompose." - a less exciting but cheaper and more informative option could
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by thombat 1y ago
They'll add a footnote explaining that the term "flight" should be understood as a non-refundable ticket in a transport lottery. Similarly to how most sales of entertainment now are providing you with a revokable license to a
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by thombat 1y ago
This is your receipt for your husband. And this is my receipt for your receipt.

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