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"In general, we want to and have been helping Intel," the official said, adding the effort was not because of the equity stake in Intel, but because the company is a major U.S. semiconductor producer. "We have been trying to drum up business for Intel."

-dystopian

This brought to mind the checkerboarding in Oregon.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.221692,-122.7898361,242948m/...

Out of the context of racing perhaps, but the 'in' should have made it clear. Maybe if you don't know what Laugna Seca is one might get confused. But then this press release probably isn't aimed at you.

I kinda get it now, it's more of a way of studying induced deafness at certain frequencies that might be similar to the effect of tinnitus.

If your tinnitus is at say 13khz, and someone turns on a sound at that frequency, you don't react to it because your mind is effectively masking it.

I once played my tinnitus tone from this site https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/ for my partner, when i turned it off i had the odd sensation that i couldn't tell if the sound actually stopped or not.

I used to get some temporary relief from dialing in the tone on that site and listening it to a few minutes.

Ranged Touch's Shelved By Genre podcast is doing an entire year on The Hobbit + Lord of the Rings. https://rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/the-hobbit-part-1/

there are FOIA lawsuits seeking the redaction training videos, one by https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.com so maybe one day we will know more.

"About Cole Rise

Cole Rise is a photographer, entrepreneur, pilot, and space camera maker. He’s the designer of the original Instagram icon and filters and has shot for brands and tourism boards around the world. Obsessed with space and the cameras we sent to the moon, Cole has spent the last six years building a custom workshop for rebuilding the cameras that traveled with us on our greatest journeys, from Mercury to the Shuttle, using many of the same tools and materials available in those time periods."

Read a good book from a hippy about her experiences on a commune in Oregon. http://margaretgrundstein.com/index.php/naked-in-the-woods/

That's really cool. Do you think this will be visible for those near the entry path?

This is something that started as far back as march 2023.

https://investinopen.org/blog/ioi-partners-with-arxiv-to-dev...

https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/06/12/arxiv-is-hiring-software/

No, they announced that they are starting this project back in June 2023 [0], though it is good to see Cornell suing the administration for the second time, first was back in February. And as an alum, who also had relatives up at syracuse, i appreciate the snark from syracuse.com [1] calling Cornell a 'central NY college' heh

0. https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/06/ 1. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04/central-ny-college-sue...

The author, Joe antognini, also has an excellent podcast on the history of astronomy called: The Song of Urania

The masse cheering this on have been told for decades that this is what they want. This is a response to Reagan's welfare queens, The $600 dollar hammer, and "activist judges". They think this is freedom. That this is good governance.

Trump has attempted to rewrite the constitution with an executive order. He tried to explain that for over a century since the 14th amendment was passed that every single lawyer, judge, politician and citizen was unable to read the clear language of the law, and that only trump himself can truly divine the meaning of the words. That is what is vastly different. Here is a judge overseeing one of 14th amendment cases.

"It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals. The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain. Nevertheless, in this courtroom and under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon which I intend to follow. I said this two weeks ago, and I’ll say it again today. There are moments in the world’s history when people look back and ask, where were the lawyers? Where were the judges? In these moments, the rule of law becomes especially vulnerable. I refuse to let that beacon go dark today. As a judge, my job is not only to uphold the law, but to protect the rule of law itself. Birthright citizenship is a fundamental constitutional right. The 14th Amendment secures the blessings of liberty to our posterity by bestowing on all those born in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction the rights of citizenship. We are all citizens, subject to the rule of law. No amount of policy, policy debate can change that. And the fact that the government has cloaked what is effectively a constitutional amendment under the guise of an executive order is equally unconstitutional. The Constitution is not something with which the government may play policy games. If the government wants to change the exceptional American grant of birthright citizenship, it needs to amend the Constitution. Its that’s how our Constitution works, and that’s how the rule of law works. Because the president’s order attempts to circumscribe this process, it is clearly unconstitutional. The preliminary injunction is granted on a nationwide basis." - Judge Coughenour, Thursday announcing his decision to enjoin the Birthright Citizenship Executive Order.

The judge could not be more clear about how what is happening now is vastly different from previous presidents. This is not just a 'policy difference'. this is a callous disregard for the rule of law.

Here is the judge's bio if you are inclined to think he is politically biased, https://www.wawd.uscourts.gov/judges/coughenour-bio

Two fun flag facts. The red dot on the flag of Japan was off center by 1/100 towards the pole before 1999. The naval flag of France is not of equal proportions. the proportion are; blue 30, white 33, and red 37

Reminds me of this quote: "The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." -They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45[0] [0] https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

There is a really excellent podcast on the history of astronomy called The Song of Urania[0] that goes into a ton of depth about eclipses and how different cultures viewed and recorded the events of the sky. [0]https://songofurania.com/

This reminds me of the early days of Facebook. All silly click games.

Ah yes, the company that famously designed their headquarters with zero regard to the environment. The company that included a leaflet titled 'Why the brown box?' back in the 90's when they switched to unbleached cardboard shipping boxes for their computers. Nope they have never given a though about the environment. It's just not in their corporate dna.

I remember, long time ago in 1990, when apple switched to brown boxes for environmental reasons.

We used to get these big books delivered to our doorsteps that had your name, your address and your personal phone number. You could pay to opt out.

Read a very interesting book on the space race from the soviet side. One of the things that stood out was the lack of solid state transistor technology meant that they were using tube transistors in their space craft. This was one of the reasons they had problems doing spacewalks. They couldn't expose the interior of their capsules to space or the electronics would go pop. The Wrong Stuff How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John strausbaugh https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/john-strausbaugh/th...

You are correct. The mandatory military service is for males 18-45.

That's like someone asking if it's safe to travel to Los Angeles, and answering that there have been reports of pick pockets on the New York subway.

I would not worry at all about not speaking Greek. Most Greeks speak English at a very high proficiency. It's a tourist nation, English is the language of tourists. Also, media here is consumed in the native language with subtitles.

"Education First’s 2023 English Proficiency Index (EPI) ranks 113 countries by their English skills. Greece, with an impressive score of 602, ranks 12th globally and 10th in Europe, highlighting its robust “English as a Second Language’ proficiency and comprehensive approach to language education." [0]

[0] https://www.tovima.com/society/greeces-impressive-english-pr...

Depends on the reason why you are doing this transform. If it's just a visual correction filter, then that will work well enough. If you are trying to track camera movement on a series of images and match a 3D model to the footage, then it's not. You want to analyze the actual images the lens is producing and generate the distortion from that. Every lens is different. Different setups with the same lens may produce different distortions. A warm lens behaves different than a cool lens. Change the focus, and the distortion may change (lens breathing). Some lenses exhibit different distortions at different zoom levels.

But presumption of immunity is different from presumption of innocence. You can't face a trial if you are immune. That's the entire reason this is before the court now, before the trial has even started. They are very different things. The presumption of immunity here is way stronger than you realize.

There are efforts to attack the car tyre noise problem by grinding groves into the surface of the road. it's called "Next Generation Concrete Surface" I remember hearing about it on the "Twenty Thousand Hertz" podcast [0] [0] https://www.20k.org/episodes/sonicutopia

Whenever I'm thinking about sorting and filesystems, I think of this post from Stephen Wolfram [0] and it's HN discussion [1]. The bit on filesystems is titled 'My Filesystem'. The basic premise is broad categories are better than narrow. It has constrained my urge to waste time hyper-categorizing things.

[0] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26045380

It still boggles my mind that it's not obvious how much of my tax bill go to the EU. This aids in the feeling of detachment.