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Using the camera as a scanner has a long history in satellite cameras and other aerial photography

"Opening a window or a door costs nothing." Central ventilation system at my job can handle open windows. So that is prohibited :-(

Side point, but clothing industry are some of the biggest pollutors in the world

I think TV series are bigger than films now. They have established characters and story line spanned over several shorter episodes with cliffhangers and recaps etc. Once you get in…

Interview with Dan Ingalls here where he talks about inventing BitBlt www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102738237/

Lowercase E is unusual in the text. Is it a special teletype font?

Insects comprise a total weight to about 1 billion tons.(1) Which is roughly the same as the weight of all people and farm animals on Earth combined. (1) https://www.jpost.com/envi…

The video I posted is an excerpt for this over 2 hour video.(1) It is an amazing view into the mindset of a musical genius. He is extremely good at explaining how he thinks and how…

Musician Stanley Jordan program solar system in APL and Python with visuals in Blender to make a musical calendar

Insane g-force in the spin up. Reminds me of Gerald Bull who wanted to launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull

The creators publication frequency is also an important factor. If you don't put out content at least once per week you fall off the recommended and lose a lot of views. Once your …

So its an office job? I know people who makes this exact music described in the article and it's part of their daily work to earn a living as music producers. Other musicians play …

I must go and get my hearing checked

About a week both to start working and weening off

I think I suffer from this. My theory: There are muscles in the ear canal that try to modulate the sound and those muscles tense up and cause issues. I also have sore muscles that …

I was thinking the same. Technical perfection and artistic perfection on a Venn diagram are two not entirely overlapping circles

Orchestral music composition and performance is quite different from painting and writing. When you are dependent on a large amounts of other highly skilled people to create and pe…

For me its also physical. My legs get more tired waking a few hundred meters in a museum than just walking kilometers outside.

Moray for POV-ray on MS DOS (1) Good times on a 386 in beginning of the 90th. (1) http://www.povray.org/news/moray-announcement.phphttp://www....

Bureaucracy on a certain level can almost be described as an artificial living organism. It starts to behave in certain ways that nobody can control.

If GDPR is at all questionable, Microsoft is not able to push this to EU countries. The risk for a business to get in GDPR trouble is to high.

I heard that ships have cleaner fuel so their exhaust don't block as much solar radiation.[1] [1] https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2023/ea/d2ea0... !

Airships, virtual reality, flying cars, space hotels... What other tech tropes are there ?

"In 1839, in exchange for lifetime pensions, the French government bought their photography technique and it became the first publicly available photo-taking system. This availabil…