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New comment by bcraven in "Sony Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB'"

bcraven — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:25:42 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "Steam Deck OLED is back in stock, with a price increase for both models"

bcraven — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:43:34 +0000

That sounds infinitely less portable

New comment by bcraven in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

bcraven — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:32:51 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

bcraven — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:48:41 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time"

bcraven — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:04:31 +0000

"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

New comment by bcraven in "ICE to Develop Own Smart Glasses to 'Supplement' Its Facial Recognition App"

bcraven — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:56:30 +0000

You could pay. 404 does stirling work.

New comment by bcraven in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

bcraven — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:45:14 +0000

A community version survives to this day:

https://getwacup.com/

New comment by bcraven in "Show HN: Free tool to mark points and polygon regions"

bcraven — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:45:37 +0000

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

Or just bought the longer version.

New comment by bcraven in "Discovering hard disk physical geometry through microbenchmarking (2019)"

bcraven — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:19:09 +0000

"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.

New comment by bcraven in "Six years perfecting maps on watchOS"

bcraven — Sun, 03 May 2026 03:54:01 +0000

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.

New comment by bcraven in "Why Not Venus?"

bcraven — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:31:18 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "The Neon King of New Orleans"

bcraven — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:24:24 +0000

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

They even run courses in creating your own pieces.

New comment by bcraven in "The Harvard Library Passport"

bcraven — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:04:56 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "Scientists Figured Out How Eels Reproduce (2022)"

bcraven — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:13:24 +0000

This is a good video on that medieval belief:

Medieval Science was Baffled by Birds - CuriousCabinet123

https://youtu.be/vgFj-MMTqIc

New comment by bcraven in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

bcraven — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:41:01 +0000

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

New comment by bcraven in "The Joy of Numbered Streets"

bcraven — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:34:47 +0000

Imagine finding this in the US...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

New comment by bcraven in "Butterfly-collecting: The history of an insult (2017)"

bcraven — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:37:48 +0000

In my field we often refer to palaeontology as "just stamp collecting".

New comment by bcraven in "Zelensky says allies asked him to scale back attacks on Russian energy"

bcraven — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:11:00 +0000

I do not trust that graph in your example

New comment by bcraven in "Chicago artist creates tourism posters for city's neighborhoods"

bcraven — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:14:04 +0000

Looks like this is the reference, for anyone else wondering.

https://viewing.nyc/new-yorker-cover-from-1976-accurately-po...

New comment by bcraven in "Scientists Just Broke the Solar Power Limit Everyone Thought Was Absolute"

bcraven — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:42:31 +0000

I often think this at first when I see such numbers, but then remember that condensing boilers have efficiencies over 100% so then I'm not sure.