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Re:Turning a VLP‑16 into a "Spherical" Scanner – A Cave Mapping Project
on Friday February 06, 2026 @08:47PM (#46920504)
It's wild you can just buy stuff like this off ebay.
Color Negative Film Processing Errors
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Re:GIMP 2.99.18: The last development preview before 3.0
on Thursday February 22, 2024 @07:40AM (#39466227)
Not if you're saving to the GIMP project file format. You'd lose it if you saved to a raster image but you'd also lose layers, vectors, etc. too.
Re:The Oxford Comma and the Internet (2013)
on Monday February 19, 2024 @07:22PM (#39436532)
"I believe it was Orwell who wrote a friend [a letter]:"
It's perfectly correct and common to say "wrote a friend".
Re:WebAssembly Playground
on Monday February 05, 2024 @04:01AM (#39258890)
The official Windows video editor Microsoft Clipchamp[1] also extensively uses WASM for it's video export process.
Nine apologises for using digitally altered image of Animal Justice Party MP
Re:Nine apologises for using digitally altered image of Animal Justice...
on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @12:45AM (#39186774)
> Nine attributed the error to artificial intelligence and said no staff member was involved in altering the image.
Practical Attacks Against Encrypted OSS Databases (2022) [video]
Cyber startup CipherStash which beats hackers to the punch raises $4.8M
Canada Will Legalize Medically Assisted Dying for People Addicted to Drugs
Re:Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
on Thursday October 12, 2023 @06:50AM (#37855541)
It's fun to test what happens when you play the same wave through your headphones but one channel is inverted.
Funny enough lots of stereo widening magic relies on a physical property of sound not existing when it's in your head.
Re:How to Compete with Patreon
on Sunday October 08, 2023 @06:59AM (#37809452)
What did they get away with? Is there some drama around that cover?
Re:Test Data on Booking.com
on Thursday September 28, 2023 @02:54AM (#37686222)
Seems like some test data that has leaked onto the production site.
Test Data on Booking.com
Re:Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't
on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:43AM (#37630963)
That or those who can afford to pay people to stand in line for them: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18223836/p...
Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Industries Blog
on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:39PM (#37156884)
There's somewhat a recent Planet Money episode (Green energy gridlock[1]) that talks a little bit about this. There are massive hurdles in the US to getting new energy projects actually connected to the grid because of supposed fears of overloading the infrastructure. The result is energy prices stay high and the number of green energy projects stays low.
[1]: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/16/1176462647/green-energy-trans...
Cory Doctorow: Platform capitalism and the curse of “enshittification”
You can run Redis on the same machine with a Unix socket to share it between processes without the network latency