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[They did say it’s hard to see, not hard to hear.] HOW WOULD ANYONE EVER BE ABLE TO TELL THAT THIS DRONE IS THERE?1 Footnotes: Be sure to have your speakers on when watching the linked video. That video is also archived here. ↩︎ Link:...
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In the summer of 1961, a 19 year old model climbed out of a swimming pool at a Buckinghamshire country estate, and a British government started dying without anyone in the room realising it yet. By the time the fallout finished two years...
A couple of years ago, Sony re-released a movie that had flopped only a few months earlier. Morbius had died at the box office in April 2022, opening to $39.1m and then dropping 74% in its second weekend. But over the following weeks, a...
In 2023 I published a blog post The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard that included links to the release notes of some Mac OS X updates. Well, let's look at the release notes for the 10.6.1 update: […] It looks like the so-called...
If you are Canadian, chances are you have the day off today. Maybe you have no great plans other than to hang out in a hammock or beach yourself somewhere. And that’s fine. But if you are someone like me who likes to be productive even...
The Lords Appellant must have felt they had done good service to the kingdom of England after the Merciless Parliament of 1388 eliminated everyone who was considered a corrupting influence on King Richard II. In fact, they rewarded...
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Robbie Hearst is a musician and writer based in Chicago.Do Not Research is a reader-supported arts organization. Since 2021, we highlight the work of a new writer, artist, filmmaker, poster or creative every week.In his influential book,...
Hello everyone 👋 This one started in the dumbest possible way: I wanted to check on my 3D printer from outside my house. I have a Bambu printer running in LAN-only mode, and I use OctoApp to control it from my phone. Works great at home....
Good morning! This week I spent a good deal of time listening to the earlier part of Heart’s catalog. As I noted last week, my better half came home from a garage sale with quite a haul, and, well, those records weren’t going to play...
Some 90 years ago, from a collection of 70 submarine periscope photographs shot around Pearl Harbor between August and November 1941 to test camera work via such devices, we find a great shot of the battlewagon USS Pennsylvania (BB-38)...
Lewis and Clark at the mouth of the Columbia River, 1805. LC-USZ62-50631 While everyone knows the legend of the Girandoni .46 cal. 20-shot repeating air rifle carried by the Lewis & Clark Expedition on their 28-month exploration of the...
So we have often touched on the whole “41 for Freedom” Polaris FBM SSBNs that were cranked out during the Duck and Cover era to help win the Cold War in an amazing nine years and four months from the first keel ordered on Dec. 31, 1957,...
A while ago, MongoDB purchased VoyageAI for 220 million dollars. Since then, they have released a couple of dedicated embedding models. For example, you can read their blog post on voyage-context-4.The key premise in those sorts of...