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bcravenon Renting a sewing machine from the library

Would you prefer it on a Finnish webpage?

https://oodihelsinki.fi/mita-oodilaiset-lukevat-syyskuussa/a...

bcravenon Meet Nikolai Evreinov, the 19th century Nathan Fielder

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10802170/

bcravenon DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'

That have been there since Sep 2024

https://naturalgasintel.com/news/data-centers-going-off-grid...

bcravenon I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID

Gemini loves talking about "The Nuclear Option" too

bcravenon A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown

"The second I pull this lever, the entire world as you know it will end in 56 years!"

https://youtu.be/I9M3go2bAIE

bcravenon Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

I hear this argument, but can't believe the content filters are so crap they can't detect simple letter replacements like that.

bcravenon Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'

And then my wife can't tell the difference between 576p and 2160p, so I guess everyone is different.

bcravenon Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, with a price increase for both models

That sounds infinitely less portable

bcravenon Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union

Search Engine covered it too: https://www.searchengine.show/the-trial-of-the-driverless-ca...

bcravenon Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools

Take it off them when they're not in school.

bcravenon London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time

"Dozens of officers injured as up to 150,000 join Tommy Robinson rally"

Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist said officers had "policed without fear or favour", knowing it would be challenging.

"There is no doubt that many came to exercise their lawful right to protest, but there were many who came intent on violence."

Assistant Commissioner Twist said officers had suffered broken teeth, concussion, a prolapsed disc, a head injury and a possible broken nose.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwydezxl0xlo

bcravenon ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App

You could pay. 404 does stirling work.

bcravenon Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)

A community version survives to this day:

https://getwacup.com/

bcravenon Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions

Back in my day we used a tape measure and some maths.

Or just bought the longer version.

bcravenon Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)

"on HN" was what I mentally added to that comment.

I'd rather see articles like this know when the latest OpenAI release was and well it can draw a pelican.

bcravenon Six years perfecting maps on watchOS

I appreciate this comes from an outside perspective as I've not heard of this before, but "Pedometer++ 8" sounds like "Dissertation_final_final_v8.docx" to me.

bcravenon Why Not Venus?

This site suggests it's just a remap:

The Venera panoramas are spherical projections. They can be remapped to perspective projections and overlayed (using Adobe Photoshop CS2) to produce views that give a better subjective impression of the Venusian surface

http://mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm

bcravenon The Neon King of New Orleans

And https://www.neonworkshops.com/ of you're further north (Wakefield).

They even run courses in creating your own pieces.

bcravenon The Harvard Library Passport

The trope of HN comments determining whether an article was written by AI is becoming extremely tiresome.

bcravenon Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)

This is a good video on that medieval belief:

Medieval Science was Baffled by Birds - CuriousCabinet123

https://youtu.be/vgFj-MMTqIc

bcravenon Delve removed from Y Combinator

I think that's the point - they have been removed.