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Another discussion about corruption in India from 2019: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088870

I never realized Lenna was a Playboy centerfold until years after I first encountered it, which was part of an MP in the data structures class all CS undergrads take at UIUC. There…

Do you view Microsoft as too big to fail because of the federal governments use of Office?

In your experience, how does VC-2 compare to JPEG XS from a quality perspective? The JPEG XS resources I’ve seen say JPEG XS has higher visual quality, but curious what it’s like i…

Another good option is U-Pack if you have more things that can fit in PODS. ABF Freight drops a container off on your street and you have a couple days to fill it. Then they pick i…

John DeMarsico directs the SNY broadcasts for the NY Mets and sometimes posts behind the scenes for how all the cameras come together into a production. I think they are pretty int…

MLB does something similar called Gameday 3D. https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-gameday-3d-guide The main difference is that it's rendered client side so you can control the camera for …

If you participate in charitable donations and are able to itemize deductions, after a period of capital gains you can also donate the low basis shares and then rebuy the shares wi…

I haven’t used a bandsaw a lot, but I have seen some photos of gnarly lost fingers. I use a table saw quite a bit and think there are more ways things can go wrong, most of which s…

Netflix is trying to expand into live sports. This event wasn’t a one off thing. There is an NFL game they are streaming at the end of the year.

Lots of discussion inside the comments about how this could have happened, and whether OP just made a careless mistake. Thought some people here might find it interesting.

I’m running into a similar situation with an electric Ego lawn mower. 1 year old mower stopped turning on, took it to the authorized repair center for warranty work, some PCB needs…

We do something similar at work. We have a Slack channel and a private leaderboard, but we also have prizes for getting a certain number of stars, and also do "challenges" like mos…

I believe gstreamer has support for fMP4: https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/fmp4/index.h... I stumbled upon a MoQ video by kixelated a couple months ago and have been…

I understand that, but shouldn't OMNY only receive the anonymized static card number? If I use the OMNY tool [0] and enter in the un-anonymized card number from my physical card, I…

Does anyone know how this was done for payments made with Apple Pay? I thought the card numbers were anonymized when Apple Pay is used.

I had a similar experience. /r/turning had no memespam and good wood turning content, but I found the actual American Association of Woodturners forum to have very wide breadth and…

I think the problem is that zip webpage URL http://familyphotos.zip is a download to a file archive that people will open.

The leagues did. I was never disputing that fact. There's a common misconception that blackouts are in place to protect attendance, but that is (typically) not the case. The Chicag…

NHL blackouts (at least today’s NHL blackouts) are not for getting fans into arena seats. They exist because local cable broadcasts own the exclusive rights to broadcast games in l…

> Capable terminal emulator (macOS’ Terminal.app doesn’t qualify) Why doesn't Terminal.app qualify? I used to use iTerm 2 because I liked its pane management, but after switching t…

Highcharts has had a "boost" module for a long time (at least back since 2015/2016) that switched the rendering over to WebGL for large data sets, but I don't think it ever got up …