Focal length wouldn't even be an issue if the photographer was taking the photos from the same position. The fish-eye effect is literally because the photographer is closer. Cropping a photo with a different focal length will give the same composition and difference will be the distortion introduced by the camera and the image processing.

100% -- "zoom with your feet"

To your point, back up to where you'd shoot the long lens, then crop back. Thanks to the 48mp, there's room to crop, it'll be fine.

FWIW, this crop is what every* camera with a sensor smaller than full frame is already doing to get "reach" from smaller glass, whether we realize it or not.

* By and large.

Neat. I usually just use 7zip to open .exe and .msi files.

I don't think 7zip really can see into a lot of janky MSI files to get the actual installed content, can it?...it can technically break open NSIS files and get the source but that is disabled in code after 15.05 (GitHub has a mod to renable source extraction fyi) and yes self extracting exe files.

My experience with 7zip has been that it can read the tables and cab files from MSI files, but when you go to extract the contents you just get the raw files without the directory restructure associated with the MSI file (and the names of the extracted files can also have issues).

Let's not forget Universal Extractor: https://github.com/Bioruebe/UniExtract2

I had forgotten. For years and years it was part of my install everywhere kit. This is a good reacquaintance.

A game such as Turing Complete will give the same sort of understanding of the fundamentals of computing, although not a physical learning experience.

Assuming that they're capable of changing the wing angle of attack, they seem to be doing the same motions that dragonfly wings make during flight, including take-off. Here is a slow motion video of one taking off (note the vertical motion of the wings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOc8WTzMljw

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repo has Protonmail. Proton has a mail bridge application which let's you use desktop mail clients.

You'd be better off with an engine specifically designed to be efficient. Turbines are great at many things, but they are complex and don't scale down very well. They were primarily used where high torque and power is required, and they just aren't practical outside of that.

A better option would be a constant speed ICE engine running at it's peak efficiency (like a diesel-electric train).

Seems pretty self-explanatory:

> site:youtube.com "00:00 / 16:18"

Or you know you could just try to work it out for yourself.

I tried literally this and I just get videos of random length with various matches in the comments and descriptions. It completely ignores the double quotes here. I've even tried setting my user agent to Chrome on Windows without any change.

It sounds like the problem I was having on FF. Switch to Chrome and see if this problem persists

Tried Chrome on multiple OS, still not working

Whole thing screams scam or April Fools joke. There's one commit to the source code repository.

Anyone want to try it on a VM and report back?

Playbook files are password protected archives. Anyone cares to reverse engineer the password from the executable?

The password seems to be "malte". The executable is completely unobfuscated .NET, and all you need for "reverse engineering" is ILSpy or DotPeek.

    public static void ExtractFile(string apbx, string file, string targetDir, bool recursive = false)
    {
      if (recursive)
        APBX.RunCommand("x \"" + file + "\" -o\"" + targetDir + "\" -p\"malte\" -y -r");
      else
        APBX.RunCommand("x \"" + apbx + "\" -o\"" + targetDir + "\" -p\"malte\" \"" + file + "\" -y -r-");
    }

    public static void ExtractArchive(string apbx, string targetDir, string exclude = null)
    {
      if (exclude != null)
        APBX.RunCommand("x \"" + apbx + "\" -o\"" + targetDir + "\" -p\"malte\" -x!\"" + exclude + "\" -y");
      else
        APBX.RunCommand("x \"" + apbx + "\" -o\"" + targetDir + "\" -p\"malte\" -y");
    }

Interesting; Malte is a common Danish, Swedish and Germanic male name.

Yikes, this alone is grounds to never ever ever use this tool, intentionally obfuscating what commands are being run is malware-level behavior

> Set the Archive format to 7z, and set malte as the password

https://docs.ameliorated.io/developers/playbooks/creation.ht...

password is "malte"

https://ibb.co/BNtHF1X

Huh, IDA can do .NET IL? Interesting.

The only thing that I could find was from 2017, where phonearena were apparently re-injecting ads using WebRTC to bypass adblocking. So perhaps you are using an old blocklist such as this: https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt.

Thanks for the info. I found the raw blocklists on the router and the domain is in the 'disconnect' list, which I believe from a bit of reading is a tracker blocker list:

  Z:\adblock-temp\extracted\adb_list.disconnect (1 hit)
 Line 1367: com.phonearena

I did check the .json source files at the disconnect github page (about a month old) and the site is not listed. Beyond that I have better things to do with my Sunday!!

This article makes one assumption without justification and then follows it to a wrong conclusion.

When bees sting other insects they can sting them multiple times, like a wasp. If you give them time a bee will usually be able to work it's stinger out of you and go on it's merry way. Their stingers just happen to get stuck in skin.

Here's a basic video discussing the topic: https://youtu.be/nTVsqc2CCGo

Why would honey bees evolve to leave behind an autonomous pump with their stinger? I don’t think the article suggests that all stings result in suicide, it merely answers the question of why it happens at all, and why it is peculiar to only a select subgroup of species in the entire animal kingdom

> Why would honey bees evolve to leave behind an autonomous pump with their stinger?

Evolution is not an intentional God. It does not have plans and it does not think. It is a randomized process in which not being disadvantage too much can make the trait survive.

So that advantage should be observable and the question answerable, hence the article.

No, there does not have to be advantage nor clear answer to question. A trait that produces no advantage can remain. A trait that produces disadvantages can remain too - just less often.

Improbable things happen in practice. Just less often.

> No, there does not have to be advantage nor clear answer to question. A trait that produces no advantage can remain.

What you're talking about is a spandrel, and eusociality is not that. I'd recommend reading the article more closely. Much of it covers the evolution argument with depth and nuance – or at least more depth than I've seen in the HN comments section.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spandrel_(biology)

I am not talking about either.

To paraphrase my understanding of your position: a suicidal trait picked up by an entire species is a totally neutral trait that somehow neither provides advantage nor disadvantage and still hasn’t been lost and the reason that it provides neither positive nor negative benefit to that species is unknowable.

It is suicidal only in very limited rare circumstances. It also kills a single otherwise short living individual unable to reproduce. The individual belongs to an otherwise large colony.

So yes, the trait has negligible impact on survival of the species and it is entirely plausible for them to survive despite the trait being super slight disadvantage.

Also, they did not "picked it". They are insects, they made no decision.

It is only suicidal in specific contexts and even then it is technically not suicide because it is the attacker that kills the bee most of the time.

>Why would honey bees evolve to leave behind an autonomous pump with their stinger?

Or for that matter why would they evolve the barbed "fish hook" causing the stinger to stick in?

It could be an adaptation for stinging mammals, where the venom pump would matter more than when stinging other insects.

Though wasps don't need it and they are very effective at causing pain in mammals. The article mentions different evolutionary paths.

And here's the video they're talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-C77ujnLZo

I cringed thinking about this. Does anyone wait and let the bee leave?

I've seen it done by someone practicing bee sting therapy.

Yeah, other insects because the time needed to pull the stinger out is much shorter.