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Posting because someone has to say that "Witch From Mercury" was literally Shakespeare's Tempest (which I thought was amazing). I mean the Gundam's name is Ariel.
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Musk fired the board in Oct 2022. I can’t find anything about them reforming it.
Are there any comparable tools or filters you find useful now? I have an old epileptic cat on my couch, and I’m always worried subjecting her to my horrible old anime. I was just yesterday thinking a filter like this was probably out there, and if not, might be easy to make. Looking for VLC plugins, though, I don’t see anything
Does the author ever explain or mention again the sudden red sky they saw in paragraph 3? Puzzling, doesn't sound like aurora; if the date was known it might be easily confirmed or corroborated. Not sure why it was even mentioned...
Starlings are highly invasive in the USA and these formations can be enjoyed there too -- I've read of Central Park NYC and Seattle both seeing them.
Cool story, until just recently, it was commonly believed that starlings were first brought to the USA in 1890 as part of a Shakespeare fan's project to introduce all of the birds mentioned in his works. But I just looked it up, and now it looks like scholars are finding little evidence for that story!
https://sites.allegheny.edu/news/2021/02/16/how-shakespeare-...
Came here to mention this, seeing those high precision decimals -- if you ever need to use their dimensions in any DOM arethmetic, be sure your process converts those to integers and back first (or use a lib like BigNumber, or the new JS BigInt). Many experienced front end devs ignore floating point issues unless they're doing financial math, then wonder why their JavaScript CSS calculations won't work out precicely.
In case younger readers are unaware, this really may have been a motive in itself — GWB was famously quoted saying “he tried to kill my Dad”.
Thought of exactly the same exhibit -- love that thing! Worth a stop into NYHS to play with it. I immediately wanted to make one and I'm psyched to see on HN. Evidently it originally had buttons to control the charge, then curators upgraded it with the more tactile wheel controllers.
https://www.sciartmagazine.com/spotlight-michael-flynn-and-f...
Waldo Jeffers had reached his limit.
Check out Google Tone:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-tone/nnckeh..."Broadcast any URL to computers within earshot.
Google Tone turns on your computer's microphone (while the extension is on) and uses your computer's speakers to exchange URLs with nearby computers connected to the Internet. You can use Google Tone to send the URL for any web page, including news stories, pictures, documents, blog posts, products, YouTube videos, recipes—even search results. Any computer within earshot (including over a phone or Hangout) that also has the Google Tone extension installed and turned ON can receive a Google Tone notification."
For the record and for those still skimming: the author, Jonah Lehrer, was fired from Wired, resigned from the New Yorker, and lost his book deals after a massive 2012 plagiarism scandal (hence the note prefacing the article), and apparently remains fairly unrepentant:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2013/06/07/jonah_lehrer_...