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e2e8··on Genuinely, my all-time favourite image: Mamenchisaurus hochuanensis
This video [0] tries to answer the question of how we know what we know for a different species but I imagine the methods are similar.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vea06e6x_E

e2e8··on Show HN: TikZ Editor – WYSIWYG editor for figures in LaTeX
That sounds like the array modifier in Blender
e2e8··on The greenest car in America isn't an EV
As the parent says, the goal is to have NET 0 emissions. Certainly some emissions will still occur but they need to be small enough to be offset by CO2 removal. Because it is almost always much easier to prevent emissions rather than remove CO2, preventing 100% emission from cars and their production is likely to be best path to NET 0.
e2e8··on Water Cooled Rooftop Solar Panels
According to the EPA: "Hot water dissolves lead more quickly than cold water and is therefore more likely to contain greater amounts of lead. Never use water from the hot water tap for drinking, cooking, or making baby formula."

The applicability of this advice is probably quite variable.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/lead/why-cant-i-use-hot-water-tap-drinki...

e2e8··on TSMC approaching 1 nm with 2D materials breakthrough
Several kinds of semiconductor materials are used for high power or high frequency applications but only at much larger process nodes. For example Gallium Nitride, InP, SiGe.
e2e8··on Samsung Electronics cultural issues causing disasters in foundry, LSI, DRAM
Several (most?) brands do this. Do you know of a brand that definitely does not?
e2e8··on In praise of mass-market American tacos
Apparently they still make 3 unfrosted flavors: https://www.poptarts.com/en_US/products/all-flavors.html
e2e8··on Why I Wrote PGP (1999)
This article present some alternatives to PGP. https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html
e2e8··on Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005
Abstract

Earth's Energy Imbalance (EEI) is a relatively small (presently ∼0.3%) difference between global mean solar radiation absorbed and thermal infrared radiation emitted to space. EEI is set by natural and anthropogenic climate forcings and the climate system's response to those forcings. It is also influenced by internal variations within the climate system. Most of EEI warms the ocean; the remainder heats the land, melts ice, and warms the atmosphere. We show that independent satellite and in situ observations each yield statistically indistinguishable decadal increases in EEI from mid-2005 to mid-2019 of 0.50±0.47 W m-2 decade-1 (5%-95% confidence interval). This trend is primarily due to an increase in absorbed solar radiation associated with decreased reflection by clouds and sea-ice and a decrease in outgoing longwave radiation (OLR) due to increases in trace gases and water vapor. These changes combined exceed a positive trend in OLR due to increasing global mean temperatures.

[0] https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021GL09...

e2e8··on Oakland bans the use of combustion engine-powered leaf blowers and trimmers
From the above cited paper:

In 2011, approximately 26.7 million tons of pollutants were emitted by GLGE (VOC=461,800; CO=5,793,200; NOx=68,500, PM10=20,700; CO2=20,382,400), accounting for 24%−45% of all nonroad gasoline emissions. Gasoline-powered landscape maintenance equipment (GLME; leaf blowers/vacuums, and trimmers, edgers, brush cutters) accounted for 43% of VOCs and around 50% of fine PM. Two-stroke engines were responsible for the vast majority of fine PM from GLME.

e2e8··on CIA Releases UFO Documents
There are at this point billions of cameras running continuously or within arms reach. Instead of speculating about silly eye witness reports, lets wait for the physical evidence to materialize. Look how many videos there are of the Chelyabinsk meteor.
e2e8··on ImHex – A Hex Editor
This is precisely why I use f.lux[0] on every computer. As the blue light is reduced toward evening, the screen becomes much less bright. Works great for eye comfort and is maybe even beneficial for sleep.

[0] https://justgetflux.com/

e2e8··on Warp Drive News
My own view on this is that the only thing that is worth discussing here is the actual physical evidence that we have. Specifically, the 3 IR videos. Mick and others on youtube that I have seen give a very reasonable account of those videos. That is all the actual data we have. Everything else is just something somebody said and to me that is worth nothing. Trying to evaluate those accounts leads to very unproductive internet arguments. If somebody says there is other actual physical evidence, then lets see it and examine it. Until then the case is closed.
e2e8··on Why does organic milk last so much longer than regular milk? (2008)
Yes, this is the only kind I buy but even better is High Pressure Processing. This pasteurizes the milk with pressure rather than heat preserving all the desirable properties of raw milk without any of the risks. There is a company in Australia (Made By Cow) selling this kind of milk but it does not seem to have spread to other countries yet.
e2e8··on Impact of xenoestrogens on male fertility: a systematic review (2019)
Last sentence is about environmental chemicals. Previous sentence is about analgesics.
e2e8··on Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments
Based on a quick search, that does not seem to be true. The title of the movie comes from the title of the book it is based on. The book's author has given some explanations for the origin of the title that do not involve Glasgow trains. [0] It seems the name for the subway comes from the movie. There also seems to be some dispute about the usage of that name for the Glasgow subway. [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange_(novel)#Tit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Subway#Nicknames

e2e8··on Tihle: A new emulator targeting TI graphing calculators
No, you could simply write a program that you ran ahead of time that would simulate the correct screens in response to their inputs and make it look like the calculator was reset when in fact it was not.
e2e8··on The case for working with your hands (2009)
The documentary is not actually 60000 hours long. There is well under an hour of footage for the carpenter so the whole thing is maybe a few hours and it loops those shots repeatedly. It is presented as if it is that long to emphasize the thesis of the documentary. It is kind of ironic that in a film which makes a big deal of the notion that there are no short cuts to mastery they took such a short cut in producing the supposedly very long documentary. I was disappointed to discover this because I was actually looking forward to at least a few hundred hours of nice footage of the carpenter working. They could easily have done that.
e2e8··on Yes you can use challenging vocabulary in a picture book
Probably cannot go wrong buying directly from the publisher: https://nostarch.com/laurenipsum
e2e8··on Opera Limited files for a $115M US IPO
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Vendor_Pre...
e2e8··on AntiPolygraph.org appears to have been “de-listed” from Google on key searches
The google search "beat a polygraph" gives antipolygraph.org as result number 10.

The google search "pass a polygraph" gives antipolygraph.org as result number 11.

The google search "polygraph" give antipolygraph.org as result number 188.

e2e8··on Filezilla installer is suspicious again
It is still possible to get non bundled versions of filezilla by clicking "Show additional download options" rather than clicking the big download button. Whether or not to continue to use filezilla or to trust that that software is really clean is another matter.
e2e8··on China’s dark matter space probe detects tantalizing signal
From the paper: During these ∼530 days of operation, DAMPE has recorded more than 2.8 billion cosmic ray events, including ∼ 1.5 million CREs above 25 GeV.
e2e8··on In defense of cash: why we should bring back the $500 note and other big bills
It is the article author's own book. Their list of publications: http://u.osu.edu/zagorsky.1/sample-page/
e2e8··on Breakthrough: solid-state alkaline batteries a viable alternative to lithium-ion
Do power tools really use LiFePO? Based on everything I have seen they all use the common Li-ion chemistry cells. For example a common cell in power tools is the Samsung INR18650 25R, which is not LiFePO I think.
e2e8··on Texas Is Too Windy and Sunny for Old Energy Companies to Make Money
According to the Solar Energy Potential site [1], the difference between the best and worst areas in the US is a factor of 2 or 3. I assume they average over the whole year and take cloud cover into account.

[1] https://energy.gov/maps/solar-energy-potential

e2e8··on GlobalFoundries Details 7 nm Plans: Three Generations, 700 mm², HVM in 2018
Here is a video walk-through of the process by Jeri Ellsworth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE
e2e8··on Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
The arstechnica article[1] reports, based on the FBI document, that the NSA determined who leaked the info by finding creases in the documents provided to them for authentication by the Intercept demonstrating that they were leaked by being printed out.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/leaked-nsa-report-s...

e2e8··on Arabic, more accessible than you think
This video is an interesting introduction to Arabic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDg3yPSzsEg

It was posted here by another user who subsequently deleted their comment. I thought it deserved to be mentioned.

e2e8··on Several Baltimore schools have no students proficient in state tests
As far as I can see, Project Baltimore is just this organization's name for its articles on Baltimore issues. There was not any separate study.
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