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To come back and admit that I was wrong: "In Port Isabel, a city about six miles northwest where at least one window shattered, residents were alarmed. " from [0] posted to HN [1] …

the wide angle makes it look a lot further away from the rocket than they really were - The camera is about 440m away from the rocket. The damage shown in the video appears to be e…

It's amazing to me that every post that has anybody arguing against the restrictions or similar gets flagged, no matter the source or rationale. It's really the most divisive issue…

Having never actually seen the statue of liberty my sense when seeing these comparisons is that it's much smaller in real life than the version in my imagination - no matter how ma…

Our API is just appsync (graphql) + lambdas + dynamoDB so, theoretically, we shouldn't have been affected. But about 1 in 3 requests was just hanging and timing out. As others have…

Seems like an example of the AI effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect although I think when autopilot was invented, the concept of "AI" didn't exist, so maybe not a perfe…

Yes, all of the headsets do some form of reprojection if frames are not generated fast enough, or to account for the latency between generation and display. If you turn your head f…

14cm, not 1.4m

Sure but in small GA planes you're not likely to be travelling so far that the magnetic declination is significantly different so just keep it in mind each time you reset the DI. O…

The direction indicator is gyro based rather than magnetic so for most GA it would probably be enough to just learn the offset for the area you are flying and add that when you set…

I really wanted this back then when it felt like I was missing out. Then twitter released their version and I got a taste and decided I wasn't into it after all.

> Does this make it "freshly-re-copyrighted until 2004 + 70 years?", or is the year that counts for copyright the original publishing date? Any changes (spelling, typos, the typese…

https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go is perhaps similar but doesn't go very far or in depth

https://online-go.com/ is the main & best web based server (and open source like lichess as well)

The pop-up menus also have a very fast transition (compared to many websites) which aids in the feeling of snappiness. I don't know why so many sites insist on very slow transition…