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New comment by dmbche in "A Small Telescope That Surprised Me"

dmbche — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:51:39 +0000

Looking directly through? Or taking photos through?

With photos you can have a longer exposure and see things too faint for the naked eye, not just too small. I'd guess that's what's happening here. You could very probably blow this smart cam out of the water with pictures taken through your telescope. Especially if you can have it track whatever you're shooting to allow very long exposures

New comment by dmbche in "France's tax agency got hacked (in French)"

dmbche — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:59:10 +0000

"Ce scénario n'est pas théorique, il a déjà eu lieu. En octobre 2025, la Fédération française de tir se fait voler les données de près d'un million de licenciés et d'anciens licenciés : état civil, adresse postale, téléphone, numéro de licence.

Les mois suivants, des individus se présentent au domicile de licenciés en se faisant passer pour des policiers ou des gendarmes, parfois en tenue, pour se faire remettre des armes. Des vols sont constatés à Nice, à Paris, à Limoges, à Décines."

Sounds like a far fetched movie!

Motif-Index of Folk Litterature

dmbche — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:39:25 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif-Index_of_Folk-Literature

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49423302

Points: 2

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New comment by dmbche in "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck"

dmbche — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:33:25 +0000

No, both are separate universities, although some universities also have satelite campuses (UDeM (montreal) has multiple).

Edit0: Although UQ is a group of 10 universities that are public, they are not a single entity.

New comment by dmbche in "French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation"

dmbche — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:29:17 +0000

No no he was copy pasting! In the Arret sur image article you can read a whole sentences plagiarized where the author just changed "En effet" to "Toutefois" (for example) at the begining of the quote.

New comment by dmbche in "Leak Reveals Microsoft Wants Its AI to Be 'Addictive'"

dmbche — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:31:36 +0000

The console market is shrinking and video games are becoming synonymous with PC gaming ( and handhelds I guess but Xbox isn't doing handhelds I think)

New comment by dmbche in "Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to Its New AI Assistant"

dmbche — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:30:05 +0000

More demonstrating intent

New comment by dmbche in "No Raise, No Promotion: 1 in 4 White-Collar Workers Are Stalling Out"

dmbche — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:26:51 +0000

Don't give two weeks!

New comment by dmbche in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

dmbche — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:50:32 +0000

If I may, people write (with pens) slower than than can speak, and thus to take good notes you need to synthesize the material you are being explained. You need to understand what you're writing.

Many people can type as fast/faster than they talk, and when typing it is possible to try and type verbatim what is being said. In this case, there is no understanding. (If you've ever taken a class not all that is said is pertinent and not all that is pertinent is said)

I personally don't revisit my written notes their purpose is uniquely for me to remember/understand what I've written.

New comment by dmbche in "US's big bet on quantum computing may not be legal"

dmbche — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:33:38 +0000

Something about it being the banks problem if I owe them a billion

New comment by dmbche in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

dmbche — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:38:55 +0000

Nope that aint it - look it up its nicely done

New comment by dmbche in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

dmbche — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:03:53 +0000

If you want many things to land approximately at the same time and place, you need a little bit of play to schedule the arrivals/departures and ensure that you don't have collisions. There is a limit to the amount of aircraft you can safely cram in any amount of space.

Any aircraft you imagine will circle at landing and possibly loiter for minutes while waiting for their turn at using the airspace. (Edit0:See helicopters)

Building an open skyscraper for aircraft to land on will not save you since crafts will lockdown a large part of the building to land/depart safely. And it's not clear to me that it would be profitable.

Then many other problems about energy density and aircraft weight limiting the whole scope of who would possibly use those crafts.

Have a good one!

Edit1: I don't know for you, but my city doesn't have enough parking for cars. I'd be surprised if there were enough parking for EVTOL everywhere - you could very well need to loiter waiting for a spot to open, could need emergency landing if you run out of power, many many un-perfect things that make the card castle fall apart

New comment by dmbche in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

dmbche — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:05:34 +0000

That's fine sir, you don't need to know everything about a subject to spitball. On you go

New comment by dmbche in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:44:52 +0000

Oh it's praise from me, which is why its incredible

New comment by dmbche in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:24:46 +0000

I think it's about when you put your phone in your pocket, you have to have it top-up while most people put it top-down, shortening the lenght of the cable and pushing against the connector. In that optic top jack is worse, I believe

New comment by dmbche in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:26:06 +0000

Gotcha, just spitballing - my mistake taking it seriously

New comment by dmbche in "The current AI pricing was always going to go away"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:58:31 +0000

Good read thanks

New comment by dmbche in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:55:19 +0000

Has anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield)

Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible.

New comment by dmbche in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:20:07 +0000

Do you know how planes land at an airport? They circle waiting for their turn. Why would that problem vanish?

New comment by dmbche in "Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them better"

dmbche — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:33:52 +0000

Where have you heard of electric planes being so much more energy efficient than jets?