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Related trick for changing an image's size, aspect ratio, or combining multiple images:

1. Open Preview.app.

2. Select the whole image and copy it [⌘-a ⌘-c].

3. Menu bar > Tools > Adjust Size then click the lock icon. Set to desired dimensions and save.

4. Paste the image over the distorted image. Do what you will with the extra space.

I love that tell-tales are still part of vessels thousands of years later.

> The most apt comparison in this scenario would be how we see chimps

Chimps pose no threat to us; any that do get killed. R.I.P. Harambe.

The more apt comparison would be disconnected cultural contact like Aztec/Spanish or maybe Neanderthal/Homo Sapiens.

Europa beckons, and maybe Titan too.

Good point about the temp swings. I just meant physically moving and installing the equipment plus running cables from the flat landing site up the slope.

Installing mission-critical equipment on a peak of eternal light could be risky.

How can they talk about lunar power without mentioning nuclear? It's dark for 14 days!

I don't think game developers have golden handcuffs. Quite the opposite is what I hear, that they're often laid off after a game is released.

> I know people who would still go after companies purely on principle, but that is a tiresome way to live.

One click to sue would be great. Class-action lawsuits are on the right track but they scale on behalf of courts and companies, not consumers.

Any reason a belt with holes couldn't replace the disk with holes for a more compact and rectangular viewing surface? Should be easy enough to test with a belt sander.

The closest thing from the time was mirror drums but those don't sound too similar, and they had mirrors for some reason.

Any reason a belt with holes couldn't replace the disk with holes for a more compact and rectangular viewing surface? Should be easy enough to test with a belt sander.

The closest thing from the time was mirror drums but those don't sound too similar, and they had mirrors for some reason.

Good point about the niche problem. It reminds me of freemium pricing where for low volume the service is free but above a threshold (when customers can typically afford to pay) it gets expensive.

It'd be nice to some global service to host your game servers controlled by a single slider linking ping to price. With the slider at its cheapest end, there's only one server and it's in the cheapest datacenter. At the most expensive end, there are servers all over the world linking players as locally as possible.

  s/dead letter/stable and working as intended/

Yep, the context is interesting. Hopefully we'll never see quartering again but as the saying goes: history rhymes.

Just because the third amendment doesn't invoked doesn't mean we should lose that protection. It's #3 for a reason.

Wait till some general presents innovative cost-cutting measures called something like "homes for heroes" that no patriotic American could object to.

Or just photons. That's what the genie gives you when you ask for a torch drive—should've been more specific.

Are after-market retrofits replacing touch screens with low-tech controls possible?

Purity: https://xkcd.com/435/

Farmville Devs <- Facebook Devs <- Chrome Devs <- OS Devs <- Chip Devs <- Factory Devs

LRU cache but for laws.

Strike down "ignorance of the law is no excuse" and see what happens.

There is already a safety mechanism for that: jury nullification.

Airtight enforcement of all laws is only a threat to liberty when the laws themselves are a threat to liberty.

> civilization hasn't proceeded to the stage where such cruelty don't exist.

It has in Europe.

Are there actually fizzbuzz-failing candidates with multi-year programming roles on their resumes?

I have a hard time believing they exist, excepting blatant fraud.

Exactly. Transportation is another way to "compress" physical space in the sense that you can reach more of it for the same distance.

In the extreme case where we have ubiquitous teleportation, the only remaining reason to live physically near a desirable location would be bragging rights.

> In times of turmoil however, they are often the first to suffer

In times of turmoil the rich buy first-class tickets out of there and head to one of their secondary mansions. Too late for a ticket? Bribes will still get the job done.

And anyway it's turmoil, so food-/shelter-/safety-insecure people always suffer earliest and most.

I thought the problem with printing houses is that they look bad and that the constructing the frame (walls) isn't that expensive or lengthy compared to all the rest of it: excavating and laying the foundation; installing roofing, windows, and doors; adding electrical and plumbing conduits and appliances; painting/carpeting/tiling.

A house builder machine that could wheel in and do all but the electrical, plumbing, and appliances would be pretty impressive. It'd need a variety of attachments for digging and leveling, pouring concrete, printing walls, filling insulation, and manipulators for placing beams, windows, and doors. That last part probably needs human workers too, so the machine needs to be safe to work around. All that sounds very expensive.

Useful on the Moon and beyond, maybe so useful on Earth. Also worth looking at factory-built houses.

If you interpret the 4th amendment's "papers" to mean only tree-based sheets, not documents which might be electronic, are you really a defender of the 4th amendment?

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…

I hope air-breathing ionic propulsion takes off because even if it turns out to not be great for satellites it'd be wonderful for (small) aircraft. Aircraft are very loud thanks to their engine and propellers/jets. Recent experiments showed its possible to fly with no moving parts using ionic flow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IorDYGI1uqc (9min) I for one would love to fly (on) such a quiet plane, like a glider. Compare muscle car rev to electric car silence.

It also reminds me of the Bussard ramjet, which I thought is considered ineffective due to creating more drag than thrust. Maybe the environment makes a difference?

I wonder if it'd be more effective to use antipodal ground transmitters to beam power up to the satellite, rather than the satellite using solar panels? Less concern about sCaRy high-power microwaves when aiming them from rather than at Earth, though it could still interfere with aircraft and unintended satellites in the cone of effect.

Why don't you have to demonstrate that your device works to be granted patents, that the it actually does what you claim it does? (I know that's not how the patent system works; I'm asking if anyone knows what the reasons are for why it is the way it is.)

Preview can photoshop images too, with a bit of effort. Wish it had a smudge/blur tool though.

• https://imgur.com/D1G9h63 Removed people on either side of the arch.

• https://imgur.com/iZazOgA Removed people above the person's head.

• https://imgur.com/taMCXpC Removed graffiti from below the carving's hand.

P.S. Get with the times HN; even Google Docs supports Markdown now.

Generational wealth transfer and government subsidies are the only way out. At least that's what "The Sims 1 §0 starving artist challenge" shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A9HvZ4vz74 (10min)

That's true. I don't think it would matter much, other than it being easier to make superhuman micro-capable bots in RTS or aim-bots in FPS games. For the former, a limit on actions per minute might work.

On the other hand, once such bots exist it might just mean the game needs to evolve.