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Comment #44675532
I'd bet on a bad update or configuration change. (likely one that prevents the affected systems from reaching the internet and being automatically rolled back)
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Comment #44663623
That's really just photography in general. Mapping an analog input (photocurrent) to a pixel brightness.
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Comment #44655356
> Are the bands too wide for this to work? For wideband filters used for stars and galaxies, yes. Sometimes the filters are wider then the entire visible spectrum. For narrowband f…
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Comment #44655220
Fixed.
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Comment #44655209
The problem with hyperspectral imaging is that it ends up throwing away 99.9% of all the light that hits your camera. It's been done for the sun and some very bright nebulae, but r…
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Comment #44655185
That's common in high end astophotography, and almost exclusively used at professional observatories. However, scientists like filters that are "rectangular", with a flat passband …
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Comment #44271723
Importantly, the planets aren't actually lined up nicely like on the site. Right now, Mars is ~5 times further then shown. That's why so many people were taking pictures of Mars ba…
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Comment #44068900
Except finding '-45 dB' is frustratingly common. Have a look at this random microphone datasheet from DigiKey: https://www.sameskydevices.com/product/resource/cmm-3125at-4... They …
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Comment #42782121
As they should. More often then not, going into academia means horrible working conditions and horrible pay... and there's job satisfaction when your instead of doing things you li…
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Comment #42745142
> 1) downloading Windows exe files from Chinese forums VMs exist. I highly doubt the author daily drives windows XP. > 2) the USB storage provided by network card can still contain…
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Comment #42497845
Another day, another LLM generated blog post on the front page. I'm not opposed to AI tools on principle, but why does this article exist? It's not because the author had anything …
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Comment #42208848
Just about all humor derives from some degree of suffering. Compared what the core could have done, the three deaths from the accident are nothing. Even things that are joked about…
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Comment #42169053
This is just a 185 stage device, but later ones would have thousands of stages, and could be chained together for even longer delays. Sample rates could also be much lower then 40 …
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Comment #42021406
Competition is generally good for consumers, forcing companies to make a better product then the other guy, rather then the crappiest thing people will buy.
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Comment #41542217
I'm not an expert on this, but there don't seem to be any reported cases of hearing loss from sounds above 30 kHz, but there are documented cases of unpleasant effects. In any case…
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Comment #40848149
Easy, the natural angle of attack is determined by the elevator position. Flying upside down is totally possible with the right inputs.
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Comment #40842001
Almost none of this is intuitive without hundreds of years of hindsight. The more subtle aspects of stability, such as avoiding oscillation mostly had to be determined experimental…
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Comment #40837865
That's the trick, you invert the logic. If you hear the word vegan, assume the person saying it is not.
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Comment #39886798
NVIDIA and one step down the chain OpenAI are making lots of money, mostly by convincing people that LLMs solve all problems. LLMs are perfect for this, super flashy, with a ton of…
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Comment #39542194
Very nice.