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I've considered running a simple DIY geiger counter RadMon monitoring kit (https://sites.google.com/site/diygeigercounter/gk-radmon ) however that would only give me CPM and µSv/h.
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Tracked it down to a fucking "typingAnimationFrame" function, woot... lets melt peoples computers because we can't write efficient basic animations.
Are you sure about that? When I profile it in chrome, about 50% of the time is spent in the garbage collector and "(program)". Randomly pausing the debugger most hits the ad code, which I think is what is causing the problem. It seems to be constantly loading and displaying the same ad over and over again, or something dumb along those lines. The irony is that there are only two small, mostly static adverts on the en…
Admittedly I did not check further so maybe i'm wrong, but that function is at the top of the list for the JavaScript code, if it's GC the connection is easier to establish because you can look at the objects on the heap and see if they are created by that function... if it's native canvas or webGL on the other hand I find I usually have to change the code to find the relationship... maybe there are more advanced ways, I know there is way more to chromiums dev tools that what I use.
I too pissed to dig deeper... why couldn't the site authors be bothered to properly debug some animation code that is clearly runaway.
I travelled on a (non-nuclear) icebreaker out from Murmansk back in 2012. On the way out to the open ocean we passed several moored nuclear powered icebreakers and other vessels in various states of decay[0]. It was both fascinating and disturbing to see - many of these had not yet been decommissioned and it seemed to me that they were huge disasters waiting to happen. In Murmansk itself there is a nuclear icebreaker…
How much does it cost for such a trip?
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People lost faith in media after their support for Iraq war. I haven't seen anything from them which shows they are trying to improve.
I would posit that you haven't looked very hard... http://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206
Sadly, a lot of people in the US watch Fox News and think it is the only truth. (Check out mediamatters.org for some agenda monitoring).
I travelled on a (non-nuclear) icebreaker out from Murmansk back in 2012. On the way out to the open ocean we passed several moored nuclear powered icebreakers and other vessels in various states of decay[0]. It was both fascinating and disturbing to see - many of these had not yet been decommissioned and it seemed to me that they were huge disasters waiting to happen. In Murmansk itself there is a nuclear icebreaker…
How much does it cost for such a trip?
source: https://www.quarkexpeditions.com/gb/antarctic/expeditions/an...
I travelled on a (non-nuclear) icebreaker out from Murmansk back in 2012. On the way out to the open ocean we passed several moored nuclear powered icebreakers and other vessels in various states of decay[0]. It was both fascinating and disturbing to see - many of these had not yet been decommissioned and it seemed to me that they were huge disasters waiting to happen. In Murmansk itself there is a nuclear icebreaker…
These are incredible pictures. What kind of camera did you use to click these?
"These are great pictures, you must have a great camera!"
Caveat: You can take great pictures with a camera-phone but you can't take every type of shot.
I think any DSLR with a good choice of glass (lenses) would be able to reproduce most of these shots. More expensive camera bodies are only slightly better in the optical sense but are MUCH better constructed.
Framing, aperture selection and patience plays a bigger part. Most photographers take a prolific amount of pictures, expect to only keep about 1-10% of the shots you take.
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Yeah, that was stupid. There's also a big fat note at the top of that article now, and there were probably more articles about the retraction than there were about the original article.
For me, the trustworthiness of news sites comes down to whether they issue corrections when they run questionable stories. It's the easiest binary test I know of. Mistakes and ignorance happen, it's only stubborn refusal to ever admit to being wrong that is unacceptable.
Sounds like a certain US president we know.
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> What kind of camera did you use to click these? This is an incredible comment. What keyboard did you use to write it? (Camera choice doesn't matter beyond certain ergonomics and certain capabilities (low noise, more room for cropping, shallow DOF, etc, a lot of which depend on the lens as well). Any $300+ DSLR can give you the exact same results, as can a lot of mirrorless with a speedy lens. And for most of the pi…
The role of the camera is generally overrated, however there are certain characteristics that you only get with expensive full frame cameras such as the Canon EOS 5D Mark III he appears to be using: * very low noise * very shallow DOF * long bursts of rapid images * weather proofing (including cold) * improved dynamic range * high resolution (lets you crop the part you are interested in and retain good quality) There…
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These are incredible pictures. What kind of camera did you use to click these?
Want to know how to piss off a photographer? "These are great pictures, you must have a great camera!" Caveat: You can take great pictures with a camera-phone but you can't take every type of shot. I think any DSLR with a good choice of glass (lenses) would be able to reproduce most of these shots. More expensive camera bodies are only slightly better in the optical sense but are MUCH better constructed. Framing, ape…
Digital cameras are a wonderful thing!
A good mirrorless could take most of these shots as well, though I suspect by the time you installed a lens long enough for the wildlife shots[1], it wouldn't be much lighter than the DSLR.
1 - I didn't check the EXIF data, but assume he was using at least 200mm, probably longer, for those shots.
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Nuclear reactor on the sub, yes. Nuclear warhead, no, unless there was a detonation.
You could get I-131 from a warhead fizzling. I don't know exactly how weak a fizzle it would need to be in order to escape seismic detection and whether that would be large enough to produce the measured amount of I-131 though.