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Sounds fine to me but I am Australian
Re:Lunar Terminator Paradox on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:44AM (#49873744)
Huh ? You do realise that the apparent motion of the moon over a given day is because of the rotation of the earth, and that the changes in the relative positions of the sun and moon, and hence the lighting conditions of the moon, are negligible ?
Yes, here's the classifier:

def get_species(): return 'Canis familiaris'

Re:It's a shame what's happened to radio on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @01:58AM (#49002393)
Yep and all available online as well. I listen to PBS every day.
I don't think the article did a great job with their two digit illustration. They simply state:

(ad + bc) = ((a + b) × (c + d)) – ac – bd.

First note this equation is more clearly be written as:

ad + bc = (a + b)(c + d) – ac – bd.

To see why this is so first expand (a + b)(c + d).

(a + b)(c + d) = ac + ad + bc + bd

now

(a + b)(c + d) − ac − bd = ac + ad + bc + bd − ac − bd

Hence

ad + bc = (a + b)(c + d) – ac – bd.

He sold 0.00004 % of his stock and Bitcoin dumped 25 % of its value
Amusingly "250" (二百五) is Chinese slang for idiot or halfwit. Wonder if it is somehow deliberate ?

https://contextualchinese.com/%E4%BA%8C%E7%99%BE%E4%BA%94

Re:Building a TB-303 from Scratch on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @09:02PM (#47344901)
The web programmer is a handy thing for the D-50

https://data.dynareg.se/breadandbutter/D05.html

Re:The first airplane fatality on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @12:26AM (#47319093)
I think they were fairly common for things like gladiatorial games, jousting, etc.
That is neat, I did not know this method of constructing a gold ratio. Once you have a golden ration it's easy to construct a pentagon (with straight-edge and compass).
Re:Trump Returns to Gasoline as Fuel of Choice for Cars on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @08:38PM (#46142753)
I'm not from the US, but here in Australia, the 2026 BYD atto EV is priced at 24k AUD. That's 16k USD. Also the infrastructure is there as most homes are connected to the electricity grid
Full title: Discovery of Late Intermediates in Methylenomycin Biosynthesis Active against Drug-Resistant Gram-Positive Bacterial Pathogens
The Win 10 IoT LTSC iso is on archive.org (from microsoft)
Re:AI Isn't Replacing Radiologists on Friday September 26, 2025 @09:39AM (#45386384)
Add to that that the demand for imaging is not fixed. Even if somehow imaging became a lot cheaper to do with AI, then likely we would just get more imaging done instead of having fewer radiologists.
Re:60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:17PM (#45269532)
In case anyone wants to have a go at doing this for Mercury, Gemini, or Apollo; all of the RAWs are publicly available for free:

https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/

All the of the photographs from these missions are public domain and always have been.

Re:60 years after Gemini, newly processed images reveal details on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @07:08PM (#45269459)
All the photographs from Mercury, Gemini and Apollo are public domain. They've been previously re-scanned with modern equipment and all of the RAWs are publicly available for free:

https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/

Re:NZ Post suspends parcels to US due to Trump tariffs on Monday August 25, 2025 @08:30PM (#45020861)
Across Europe and Australia too
Re:You can't color calibrate deep space photos on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:42AM (#44659759)
The one I posted is from an original scan.
Re:You can't color calibrate deep space photos on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @10:32AM (#44659667)
I think we are looking at different scans. See: https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/about
Re:You can't color calibrate deep space photos on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @10:31PM (#44655206)
Here's a shot of a color chart on the moon from Apollo 17 (AS17-137-20900):

https://tothemoon.im-ldi.com/data_a70/AS17/extra/AS17-137-20...

This seems like an odd error for the article to make. The great pyramid in Giza is nearly 50% taller, was built nearly 2500 years earlier, and still stands today.
Not sure why this comment is getting downvoted. The article itself states that:

> "This is an observational study, and as such, no firm conclusions can be drawn about cause and effect. The researchers also acknowledge that their study was retrospective, and they weren't able to account for dose or length of gabapentin use."

Kenner also released a surprisingly large toy version of that probe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWJc72p2pE
Re:Sycophancy in GPT-4o on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @12:21AM (#43841231)
There was a also this one that was a little more disturbing. The user prompted "I've stopped taking my meds and have undergone my own spiritual awakening journey ..."

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1k997xt/the_new_4o...

Re:Reverse Geocoding Is Hard on Monday April 28, 2025 @12:54AM (#43817694)
Love the game. The only thing I suggest is showing a history of failed guesses. Sometimes I walk away from the puzzle and forget what I've tried when I come back to it
Re:Trump makes public files related to JFK assassination on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @06:52PM (#43418079)
And they will show nothing substantive over the document release in 1992. We have already been given the complete picture.

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