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Besides that, even if you are pointed at the same thing, you might disagree on or have different needs for gain, exposure time, and filters. GP’s comment is hilariously confident y…

Is there an RSS feed for this newsletter? The RSS link at the bottom of the site leads to the same thing as the News button on the top, which was last updated in Oct 24 and doesn't…

This has inspired me. I do a lot of stargazing and have experimented with voice memos for recording my observations. The problem of course is later going back and listening to the …

In the US, wilderness area is a specific legal term[1], which have very restrictive rules about what visitors are allowed to do. Very specifically, dogs are _not_ allowed off-leash…

I'm currently on the free trial of Capture One Pro. It's a $300 license for the current version, which gets updates for a year. It's super pricey but it's the only program I've fou…

Financial institutions in the US do this constantly. They call you, and then they ask you for stuff like the last four of your SSN and what loans you might have with them to prove …

This so far is the biggest sting to current Tesla owners. A lot of the stupid stuff it was kind of possible to ignore because it didn't affect the ownership directly, but this is i…

> Health officials maintain — and experts agree — that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus. > “Right n…

The federal government is not beholden to federal employment laws, ironically

My credit union seems to blanket ban European IP addresses. You basically get an nginx 403 page if you try to access their site from anywhere that isn’t the US. It’s dumb but I lik…

> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible. Which, in the worst case, will start a fire that will burn down your house. It's not worth th…

It depends on the kinds of changes you mean. The kinds of local changes I have are just env variables that allow the software to run locally a little bit differently than in the pr…

I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route bet…

The latest Tesla heat pumps can extract heat from the air to heat the battery and cabin down to -10C. Past that, they have to use resistive heating which is much less efficient. I …

I agree that it’s pretty intuitive if you’re used to it, but we also all know how users won’t read basically any text pit in front of them. If you know where the supercharger stati…

Public key authentication, with your private keys in your .ssh folder and your public key in the server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file

Yeah, I was looking at the histograms too, having trouble comparing them and thinking they were a strange choice for showing differences.

Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq

If you look at the specs of the regular, Pro and Max chips on the M1 and M3 generations, it's easier to see M1 Pro as a sort of "Max Lite" chip. You got identical CPU core counts o…

It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.

It's worth noting that Cobalt is now the problem element for BEVs [1], though there is a lot of work that is being done and has been done to reduce the amount of cobalt in Lithium …

If I understand correctly, both of those technologies use quantum dots to increase brightness. The difference is that QD-OLED also increases contrast since there is no backlight, a…

Currently, none of the big players in the passkey space support exporting or importing of passkeys, because the spec for doing this securely has not been agreed upon, and nobody wa…

Out of curiosity, could you clarify what you think is a good email? I feel like I have this skill but since I've never really been taught it, I don't really know.