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acdangeron Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

Amazing work. I'm also interested in digitizing artifacts and historic places, but haven't been able to figure out how to go about getting a project off the ground.

Any chance you'd do a write up explaining how you were able to get this project set up? I'm more interested in the logistics and the red-tape you had to go through in order to get access to do the scans. I see you've got a business setup around it as well, are you hiring? The jobs page leads to the blog right now.

acdangeron Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive

Reminds me of the LAX Air Traffic Control Shutdown of 2004: https://m.slashdot.org/story/49885

acdangeron In South Korea, robots are on the job. How is the service?

Care to share what kind of restaurants are using these? I’m guessing they’re more the cafeteria-style places. My family owns a few fine dining restaurants and are constantly getting sales people trying to sell them robot food runners. It’s always an amusing sales pitch.

acdangeron How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports

It's fantastic. I also really enjoy the blues show the immediately follows it, Preachin' the Blues. Bit of a contrast but the curation on both shows is stellar.

acdangeron How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports

KEXP out of Seattle has a good program on Sunday mornings with music that often falls in this genre. https://www.kexp.org/shows/pacific-notions/

Also, the blog Headphone Commute has some excellent ambient showcases. Suggest finding their year-end lists and listening through: https://headphonecommute.com/ https://headphonecommute.com/best-of-lists/headphone-commute...

acdangeron Do central banks’ mounting losses actually matter?

"No, but there are some interesting issues surrounding their QE P&L"

acdangeron Node.js HTTP client axios pushes broken update breaking production apps

To be fair, the Axios docs also suggest using the hosted package as well which I assume would also lead to the same situation.

https://github.com/axios/axios#installing

acdangeron Why are plants green? To reduce the noise in photosynthesis

I read - I think here[0] - that green light doesn't penetrate water as well as other wavelengths. So there was no advantage to evolving to absorb the full spectrum.

[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/H/bo164656...

acdangeron New insignia for Air Domain Intelligence has a UFO

The artist Trevor Paglen did a project where he collected these. There’s a book: https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2018/may/22/trev...

Edit: fixed typo

acdangeron Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars

Oh man, I had the exact same situation with my parents. Twice. I still squirm thinking about it.

acdangeron A man who sold millions in counterfeit wine to rich collectors

There's an entertaining doc about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sour_Grapes_(2016_film)

Can't say I came away feeling sorry for most of the people who were swindled.

acdangeron GitHub Copilot is generally available

When I try and sign up for it, I am presented with a "Confirm Payment Details" screen with no way to proceed.

acdangeron When will Apple ship other M2 Macs?

OT, also, but has anyone had issues with a "crunchy" sounds from an M1 MBP speakers? Seems to occur on my 2021 M1 during periods of high usage. It's terribly annoying.

I've been following this Reddit thread looking for fixes, but no luck on a permanent fix yet.

https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookp[]ro/comments/qmpg3k/2021_m...

acdangeron San Francisco could vote out progressive DA in heated recall

What? Which areas are “miles of high-crime slums”? SE DC and parts of suburban Maryland. But the vast majority of the city and suburbs are safe and far from being slums. Look at Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda etc.

acdangeron The firefly population could be declining

Just echoing what's already been said: on my parents' small Virginia farm growing up during the 90s, fields of fireflies all summer long. Now, I'm lucky to see one or two when I visit. Same story with frogs, toads, snakes, bats, etc.

acdangeron Without Action on Climate, Mass Extinction Event Will Likely Happen in Oceans

Yes, it definitely is. The land I grew up on in rural Virginia where , 20 years ago, I could find several species of snakes , frogs, toads, birds etc within 20 feet of the front door is now a dead zone - except for the deer and occasional fox.

It’s heartbreaking.

acdangeron Ask HN: Radically different structured eCommerce sites?

https://www.lingscars.com/

acdangeron Collision hotspots for migrating birds revealed in new study

Are you saying publishing a map of power related infrastructure would be illegal in some countries?

acdangeron Nvidia Research Turns 2D Photos into 3D Scenes

Possible the comment was directed towards a Western consumer.

acdangeron Amazon intentionally made it hard to cancel Prime subscription in secret project

I worked for a big bank building out the software the call center agents used to service customers. One of the changes that was requested from on high was to make the UI around free shipping for replacement bank cards intentionally painful for the agent to use. The hope was that the agents wouldn't mention the free shipping option or talk the customer out of it since it added some annoyances for the agent.

acdangeron Understand Entropy in One Chart

I struggle to understand entropy because it’s meaning seems to shift in subtle ways across disciplines (cryptography, thermodynamics, cs, etc) and I’m never quite sure if the which version I’m getting. Is there a basic definition of entropy that’s extended in different contexts?

acdangeron Deep Night, Dark Night

Not quite the same dark without the night sky.

acdangeron Weather satellite detects meteor explosion near Pittsburgh on first day of 2022

Meteor explosions like this are rare, but not completely unheard of.

Can anyone explain what causes a meteor to explode like this versus passing relatively quietly through the atmosphere?

acdangeron Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

Yes

acdangeron One decade later, Minecraft world generation is interesting again

Civilization VI tacked on climate mechanics with one of its addons.

https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Climate_(Civ6)

acdangeron Timeline of the Human Condition

What would you use instead?