Nobody Cares! (Science & Tech Edition)

[Katheryne Helendale]

zpojqwfejwfhiunz: "facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sne…" - hackers.town

Yet another reason I don't spend much time on Facebook.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

zpojqwfejwfhiunz: "facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sne…" - hackers.town

LOL straight up shameless malware tactics

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

zpojqwfejwfhiunz: "facebook splitting up the word “sponsored” to sne…" - hackers.town

LOL straight up shameless malware tactics

 

[Free]

Certainly fucked up your posting...

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Artemisia Absinthium: "A possibly related phenomenon is called crown shy…" - Sunbeam City

(Well worth following @InvaderXan@sunbeam.city, if you're on Masto - really nice sort, and occasionally offers up fascinating botanical facts)

 

[Porsupah Ree]

Looks like Opportunity's done - but, as they note downthread, not bad going for a planned 90 day life.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

Airbus has officially announced the end of the A380 jumbo jet, which was first produced only 12 years ago. The decision was made after the largest buyer, Emirates, recently cut its order from 162 to 123. The last few will be built and delivered by 2021.

It is questionable whether any customers who've taken deliveries and been operating the A380 have seen a return on their investment yet given the jet's $400million-plus per-hull list price (although most customers paid less than that due to deals and subsidies); but sadder is that price doesn't even cover the actual production cost of the airplane, so Airbus itself has never made any money whatsoever on the A380. An internal review by Airbus determined that there wasn't enough demand for the A380 to justify continuing producing them at a loss, with most airlines opting for much more economical two-engine widebody jets for their oceanic routes.

It would seem that the age of the "jumbo jet" is over anyway, passenger-wise; Boeing stopped building passenger 747's in 2016. The difference is that Boeing is still making 747 freighters and still has orders for them through the next few years; while Airbus canceled development of the cargo variant of the A380 early on before any were produced, so it has no freighters to sell. Oops.

 

[Tigar]

Looks like Opportunity's done - but, as they note downthread, not bad going for a planned 90 day life.

 

[Porsupah Ree]

How to preserve the sound of exceptional instruments:

Text-Only NPR.org : An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

The Violin Museum, which was already concerned about preserving these sounds for future generations, agreed. It enlisted Lorenzi and four other world-class musicians from Italy and the Netherlands to play four prized instruments for posterity — the 1700 Antonio Stradivari "Stauffer" cello, the 1727 Antonio Stradivari "Vesuvius" violin, a 1615 "Stauffer" viola by Girolamo Amati, and the 1734 "Prince Doria" violin by Guarneri del Gesù.
But their task wouldn't be to record complete compositions. Rather, they would have to painstakingly record every possible note that can be played on each instrument. "Every possible note, and even more difficult, every note transition," explains Tedeschi. "From one note to all the other ones in the same string. It's a very complicated process, so there will be several hundred thousand files to be edited."

In the concert hall, Lorenzi, who is with the Italian Symphony Orchestra and has performed in the world's top concert halls, plucks the notes C, D, E, F, G, A, B and C — "do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti, do" — on the Stradivarius violin. Then down the scale, until the engineers say they've got it. "There's something very meditative about it," he says. "It takes a lot of mental and physical concentration. It's one of the most demanding things I've ever done."

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

How to preserve the sound of exceptional instruments:

Text-Only NPR.org : An Italian Town Fell Silent So The Sounds Of A Stradivarius Could Be Preserved

I assume they're digitizing the sounds. I wonder what digital format they're recording to, what bitrate, bit-depth, sampling frequency, and so on, they're using?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Bricked shoes is my new fave term.

 

[danielravennest]

Bricked shoes is my new fave term.

To me, that means putting a brick in a sneaker, so you can knock someone out without drawing blood. Can also be used to take out your frustration on a bricked Nike.

 

[Free]

"Whenever I try connecting to my shoes..."

Why is the future so goofy sounding?

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Gives new meaning to the term "rebooting". Or "dual-booting".

 

[Ashiri]

"Whenever I try connecting to my shoes..."

Why is the future so goofy sounding?

I want to know why the future is so goofy.

Smart pants, any ideas when those will come about, and what functions they will have? (Hint: Diety recommendations based on flatulence monitoring)
Can anyone come up with something even goofier?

 

[Khamon]

My phone pulled me up by my bootstraps.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[danielravennest]

Sounds like a reason to carry a small strip of electrical tape with you, to cover suspicious camera lenses.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

B.C. Parents furious after discovering son's hidden vaccine stash - The Beaverton

Henry had apparently managed to secure vaccines for mumps, measles and pneumococcal pneumonia before being found out, although he swears he was just holding on to them for a friend.

 

[Free]

I want to know why the future is so goofy.

Smart pants, any ideas when those will come about, and what functions they will have? (Hint: Diety recommendations based on flatulence monitoring)

Why pants? https://www.weltcorp.com/