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hugecannon··on A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
> charger that comes in its own packaging. Net new waste.

I think the point is that the charger itself is the waste being avoided. Not the charger packaging.

Surely Apple have done some analysis into what portion of their customers will not require an additional charger with each phone purchase.

hugecannon··on Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
Look at the barges I mentioned (https://imgur.com/a/ZNaLCuO). Clearly this specific case isn't an automatic stitching of photos. We must agree that there is only one barge and, though not copied, one instance of the boat has been moved out of line from the other. It would look ugly otherwise.

> Why wouldn't they erase a duplicate?

This I don't have a good reason for, which is why i thought this was curious

hugecannon··on Shanghai City in panoramic view in 195 gigapixels
It's interesting seeing how they dealt with moving objects like the boats.

If you scan anti-clockwise until the river is hidden behind the buildings you should see two tour boats with "China Bohai Bank" on the side. One appears to be pulling in and one pull out. If you look at the passengers - it's actually the same boat. If you follow the river clockwise, you'll see two barges carrying dark material. Again, these are the same boat.

I could be mistaken, but it seems in both cases that some 'manual effort' would have been involved to make the picture look natural by placing the duplicates slightly out of position as if they were two individual boats.

hugecannon··on Show HN: News geolocation website
> England

Union Jack Flag

hugecannon··on Continuous low-power music recognition
I wasn't aware, interesting!
hugecannon··on Continuous low-power music recognition
> author = {Beat Gfeller and ...

A case of nominative determinism?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism

hugecannon··on AutoRest: OpenAPI Specification code generator
Slightly off-topic:

Are there any tools which can validate an OpenAPI Specification against a running instance of the API it describes?

I've played around with apiaryio/dredd, but was hoping to find something more targeted towards OpenAPI/Swagger.

hugecannon··on How to create a game bot and publish your HTML5 games on Telegram
Text-only cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:F0AfAyP...

hugecannon··on BBC Reporter Breaks “World's Safest Drone” [video]
Exactly, perhaps it sacrifices itself in order to not hurt/damage other things (hence being 'safe').
hugecannon··on FREE PDF: Swift 2 Cheat Sheet and Quick Reference
Signed up with temporary email - 404'd on downloading the pdf. Anyone else?
hugecannon··on Superfast rock-paper-scissors robot wins every time
They'd go into a nice super-fast loop if you put two facing each other
hugecannon··on Android Fragmentation Visualized
The graph below shows that Samsung's share of the devices is made up largely by the S3. The percentage is of all Android devices based on those 11,868 models, not a percentage of the distinct models themselves.