many book scanners use a wedge shape and two angled cameras to scan the pages when the book is held open at about a 5 degree angle

A birdwatching friend of mine has decided that if he ever discovers a new species, he’s naming it “seagull” regardless of where he finds it or what it looks like just to piss off all the ornithologists.

Very well executed, though not sure how I feel about the glass plate squishing the pages down like that.

I saw this clip on eBaumsworld when I was like 12 and was overjoyed that we had finally done it and all the climate change stuff I learned about wasn’t going to be a problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a74uarqap2E

Migrated a server to a new drive by copying all the files with rsync and chrooting into it. Nothing too impressive from a linux standpoint, but I had no idea that was possible until I tried it.

I used to teach AP physics to kids on the weekends. One asked me why Farads were so big. I had to explain that there’s a fixed ratio between Farads, Volts, and Joules. One of them had to be crazy big or crazy small.

See also Coulombs.

Caps are especially scary because they can develop their own charge through static electricity, so large value caps are often shipped with their terminals tied together.

The issue is not going up, it’s going over. If we only cared about the private sector getting people into space, that happened on a fully reusable vehicle twenty years ago.

The problem is getting things to stay in space. Not trying to Elon-stan here, but getting a rocket into orbit is many fold more difficult than just getting into space.

cosmetically tweaked

It would have to be super tweaked considering the phone you referenced has four cameras, and a notch style front camera.

My bet is that this is a 10 second photoshop job and the actual phone will look nothing like that.

I mean if you do a difference blend of two of the cameras, you get a perfectly black circle (minus some blending at the edges):

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This means that the cameras are exact pixel-perfect copies of each other arranged in that order by photoshop. They don’t exist on any phone.

There were so many issues

• Final boss was lame and level leading to it was slow and tedious completely killing the momentum
• Camera system was wonky
• Rocket nozzle barely got any play
• Jet nozzle was too difficult to control to be useful outside of specific racing segments
• Pachinko machine physics were fucked
• The lily pad level was unfairly difficult
• There was no way to track which blue coins you found. Like even a grey coin marker for already collected coins would have been super helpful.
• The reward for getting blue coins was pathetic
• Yoshi was criminally underutilized. The whole juice mechanic was used like twice.

The whole thing just felt rushed. Like there was another third of the game that they didn’t get to make.

Super Mario Sunshine. I thought it was just hard as a kid. Come to learn it’s fucking broken.

Lucky bastard.

Not so much overheating as dropout. Batteries lose both energy capacity and power capacity over time. If you draw too much current from an older battery, its voltage will drop significantly and possibly prematurely shut down the phone.

Lowering peak current (by slowing down the phone), can prevent your phone from shutting off while it still has like 20% capacity left.

Considering Apple was doing battery replacements for like $60 (before bumping to $100), and this was a setting that could be turned off, I think the only real crime was enabling it by default and not properly informing users.

Dang there goes that one fun fact that I half remember at parties and have to pull out my phone to get it right.

This is the kind of equipment you need to fix your problem.

A lighter does not have the precision to do it unless you are insanely lucky.

Some people don’t have access to decent tasting tap water and bottled water is expensive.

Tip: If your water tastes like chlorine, just fill a pitcher and put it in the fridge. Whatever chemicals they use will off gas overnight and it’ll taste great in the morning.

eventually

It’s been ten fucking years. They are one of the top five companies in the world. What are we waiting for here?

All of the investors that originally paid into the idea have already made their money. There is no reason to continue the project.

Even as pitched, you still have to print out a QR code and staple it to your front lawn for every package. Presumably, they want you to be home for it since it’s dropped out in the open and might bounce into the street.

Amazon announced using drones in 2014. In pop culture, drone delivery is like an assumed common practice. Yet fucking nobody gets their packages delivered by drone. It’s been over a decade.

These robots are vaporware. Amazon will get a stock bump and that’s the whole point.

We should probably still turn off the orphan-crushing machine.

You need a control experiment. Try sleeping with a heatpad without your boyfriend before you assume it’s the heat pad.