Posting because someone has to say that "Witch From Mercury" was literally Shakespeare's Tempest (which I thought was amazing). I mean the Gundam's name is Ariel.
At this juncture I must heartily recommend the very silly and good natured anime/manga Thermae Romae [1][2]. It's about a Roman bath architect who secretly discovers a way to time travel to modern Japanese baths to steal ideas (though he is slow to understand them). The original run is a little more pure than the Netflix reboot, where the humor / seriousness balance is off (it's never too long of a slog).
This is common in the US too, usually they need to file with their state. Going private will often remove the need to file publicly with the SEC though (though even then, that depends on things like how many shareholders there are, not the trading status as such).
Are there any comparable tools or filters you find useful now? I have an old epileptic cat on my couch, and I’m always worried subjecting her to my horrible old anime. I was just yesterday thinking a filter like this was probably out there, and if not, might be easy to make. Looking for VLC plugins, though, I don’t see anything
Doh! there's a better filter for this: photosensitivity. It detects local brightness changes that sum to 0, unlike deflicker and apparently the Apple algorithm.
drawgraph can be bodged to convert metadata to frames, and signalstats the opposite. This enables silly things like a self-contained filtergraph mimicking Apple's demo with plots and usable in mpv.
There’s this chrome plugin for YouTube videos. It stops the video before trigger scenes so you might find it a bit interruptive depending on your (or your cat’s) sensitivity.
To the best of my knowledge, there's nothing else that's realtime like this for end users?
There are other offline tests like the Harding test that are run by the content creators (and why you see the epilepsy warnings at the start of shows)
FWIW, I'm not sure if this actually would benefit cats. I'm not up to speed on feline perception, but I know dogs see at a different frame rate than humans so things that won't trigger us might trigger them differently
Does the author ever explain or mention again the sudden red sky they saw in paragraph 3? Puzzling, doesn't sound like aurora; if the date was known it might be easily confirmed or corroborated. Not sure why it was even mentioned...
> Finally, they decided it had to be the northern lights, visible from unusually far south.
This is from that same paragraph. Personally, I'm not convinced of that. Lightning behind a cloud could have done it, and would be more plausible from my perspective.
Otherwise, if it was just after sunset, perhaps it was a false sunset(say behind a massive dark cloud) and then when the sun fell below the cloud, you get the amazing red sunset(s) that are common in the desert.
Starlings are highly invasive in the USA and these formations can be enjoyed there too -- I've read of Central Park NYC and Seattle both seeing them.
Cool story, until just recently, it was commonly believed that starlings were first brought to the USA in 1890 as part of a Shakespeare fan's project to introduce all of the birds mentioned in his works. But I just looked it up, and now it looks like scholars are finding little evidence for that story!
Came here to mention this, seeing those high precision decimals -- if you ever need to use their dimensions in any DOM arethmetic, be sure your process converts those to integers and back first (or use a lib like BigNumber, or the new JS BigInt). Many experienced front end devs ignore floating point issues unless they're doing financial math, then wonder why their JavaScript CSS calculations won't work out precicely.
In the case of the SVG editor I'd really like something that round-trips to and from SVG that looks nice in a text editor.
In a case like that it should "snap-to-grid" on the last decimal place of the number that's being edited, maybe the grid should even be displayed on the screen. That grid might be rotated or skewed because of coordinate transforms, and there ought to be some way to add another digit worth of fineness if not a factor of 2 or 5.
Thought of exactly the same exhibit -- love that thing! Worth a stop into NYHS to play with it. I immediately wanted to make one and I'm psyched to see on HN. Evidently it originally had buttons to control the charge, then curators upgraded it with the more tactile wheel controllers.
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