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Fun idea of a metric, but if I'm reading this correctly, we get roughly one apocalypse warning per year? > Level 5 is calibrated so only the highest daily peak in the trailing year…

The starting cost for a drone show is around $20k USD, so it wouldn't be hard to fake what they are doing. It's hard to say if this a functioning system that can take down drone sw…

This would be pretty nice to carry around during oncall shifts, albeit, probably not the most productive device to have in the event you get paged.

Save you some time, this post never answers the question in the title.

I find this building's title of cottage preposterous, this is a mere hovel if I've ever seen one.

Pretty neat, but I wish they would have emphasized safety a bit more and put up a full sheet of plywood behind the target.

This would have been perfect if it ended a paragraph earlier.

It's unfortunate that he went back to work instead of quitting and filing patents on the device.

The deer lobby must be strong in Wisconsin.

I'm surprised the article didn't mention the atlatl which would have been the true historic answer to "how far did cavemen throw spears?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spear-throwe…

Does a swat team have to show up for it to be swatting?

After working with declarative systems for some time now (terraform, kubernetes), I've concluded that things will generally be declarative, but you're bound to run into edge cases …

Money.

Sounds like the root cause was due to not obeying the rule of five: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(C%2B%2B_program...

You sure there isn't someone there doing A/B experiments for motivating the pickers and having to choose whether or not to try motivating them with the message "how would you feel …

From what I recall about compression, the artifacts are at the high frequencies which also tend to get muted with age / sound exposure. Rather than play the game of determining if …

It's quite amazing how the human body has defense in depth to mitigate changes in protein shape due to mutations.

Did everyone stop using the internet and stick strictly to cash? If not, is it possible that someone made a purchase or search that may have related to what people who need nappies…

Did you do searches related to the condition that caused you to be prescribed Voltaren?

I'd like to see a study on the percentage of people who's heart, lungs, or brain got filled with micro clots and now have permanent damage. The serious effects of COVID need to be …

It's almost like every major world power suffers from hubris and needs to show that they can succeed in controlling Afghanistan.

Braid was a novel puzzle platformer for it's time, it's exciting to hear that he's coming out with a new game.

tl; dr - It's not legal to hang stuff from the rearview mirror, so it's a technicality that officers will use this infraction to pull people over then interrogate them.

This is an insane amount of money. The article doesn't even mention if it's going to be available on prime, or offered as a premium for purchase title. In any case, I wonder what t…

Taxing the unrealized gains doesn't seem like a good idea, however, taxing stock used as collateral for loans would be appealing since that seems a loophole to access the gains wit…