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I found some on sale for around $300 on Etsy. Shipping is very expensive, so they would probably make sense only if you can manage local pickup.

I saw this via Lobsters yesterday and enjoyed reading it. The animations helped me understand bidiBFS. But I'm confused by the example showing the buggy version of the algorithm fa…

Merlin is fantastic! But it it's not 100% accurate and currently focuses on birds from Canada, the US, and Europe.

There is an email address to send errors and such. A secretary prints them and he marks up the hard copy (if necessary) which is returned with a reward check (when appropriate). I …

He fixed the issue quickly after I sent an email.

I'm somehow on that list twice, which looks like a bug. I wonder if there is a reward for finding an error in the reward list.

Agreed. I posted a lot in the 90s, especially to groups like sci.math and rec.arts.books.tolkien, and there is almost no trace of any of it in Google groups. When Google bought the…

Years ago I had one of these. It slowly stopped working and my wife got sick of it. Without any way to fix it I got rid of it, which I now regret. The toaster we have now browns un…

I just checked, and it is on by default for me, too.

Apparently floating these monsters is now a solved problem. But doing maintenance on a 200 m tower bobbing in the waves is still a challenge. I'm a subscriber so I don't know how s…

BirdNet has been around for several years now, while Merlin just got sound-id recently. Merlin has coverage for about 450 birds of North America, while BirdNet can id around 1000 b…

That is true, and why to the solution to the US's slow internet providers isn't "get Google fiber to everyone". It should be "make it easy for new companies to provide service, eve…

The writer is suggesting that the "FCC can mandate right-of-way rules similar to those granted Google Fiber to all credible competitors". He isn't saying that the "free market" wil…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause "... securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right...". The weasels in Congress get around this by retroact…

Oh, good lord. The definition uses max, but I was thinking of min. Face palm.

I don't understand. The definition of order is s = score(ups, downs) order = log10(max(abs(s), 1)) and the poster says that "order will always be positive". But that isn't true. It…