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Re:Historical Telecommunications
on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:55PM (#50254546)
Connections Museum in Seattle is where they should look. As deep as it gets! They maintain working switches dating back to over 100ya, massive documentation libraries, and artifacts and parts out the wazoo from telephones to teletypes to outside facilities and equipment to momentos and books and on and on.
If Connections has a weak zone in its collections, it's in the post-ATT/1984 era of cell technology and computer networking. Open Sundays 10-3.
Re:Google has officially turned these Nest thermostats back into dumb ...
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:14PM (#50226847)
If someone says Google can't be trusted for purchases of long-term, capital-style goods like a thermostat (or smoke detectors), I'd have to agree.
The Nest I bought way back when may still be installed in the home I sold 10+ years ago.
But I didn't buy it from Google, I bought it from Nest (pre-Google) - a company that designed and sold high-tech gear that was designed to be permanently installed and (presumably) last a good long time. The acquisition was not a good match, but it is what it is - lesson learned and reputations lost.
(and the design, honestly, was more down Apple's lane than Google's - I thought the former would be more likely to buy them out, not that it guranteed any different results).
Re:The No Kings Takedown Is Why You Shouldn't Rent Your Megaphone from...
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:40PM (#50184741)
Well, a president should certainly be held accountable for any executive order that is overturned on constitutional grounds. Not only should the president have (and use) plenty of legal counsel to avoid this, but a president stepping beyond constitutional bounds is acting illegally which (a) none of us should and (b) ought not go unpunished.
Re:'Der Viener Schlinger': The meat cannon that launched 20k hot dogs
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:53PM (#50174311)
It's not that strange to me. Wiener Schnitzel, a lovely breaded and fried veal dish of Viennese origin, is a commonly used "funny German word" in English.
Der Viener Schlinger is apparently just about as funny, and easily enough "translated" into English.
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export
on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:23PM (#50135732)
Do they count as export if the owner doesn't change?
I don't know. Does it count as export if it's not moved an inch?
Re:IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]
on Saturday September 12, 2026 @01:11PM (#49674570)
There's lots and lots of them. Have you ridden an escalator® lately?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericize...
Re:Employees Like Their A.I. Boss. Its Shop Is Kind of a Disaster
on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:44PM (#49263436)
"Misprint Moon Mug $35"
They'll sell plenty of those now.
Re:Atomic Clocks
on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:18PM (#49215076)
To fully understand time even as simply as a sequence of events is excruciatingly difficult, and we are still working out the details of our understanding.
I think Einstein was on the right track with his quote, and trying to get beyond that would have simply been an obstacle in his path of knowledge.
Re:Atomic Clocks
on Friday August 07, 2026 @03:03PM (#49214909)
If I had an atomic clock, it'd probably be blinking 12:00.
Re:Why some people mow a lawn better than others
on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @04:26PM (#49174569)
You mean a flymo. It's more hovercraft than drone, and much older technology. Works reasonably well on non-lumpy lawns - my neighbor had one in the 1980s.
www.flymo.com
Re:DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:33PM (#49161734)
It stored energy. It's not stored electricity.
Re:200 Milliseconds
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:12PM (#49161498)
I'm finding more and more web sites that won't load at all until I request them a second time.
Re:DDoS against Norwegian government IT infrastructure – status
on Monday August 03, 2026 @05:08PM (#49161451)
"vast stores of electricity"?
Clue: Corner of the cloth says
"HONDA [something] DOMINATOR" and refers to the NX650 Dominator dual-sport motorcycle manufactured from 1988 to 2003. Single cylinder 640cc engine.
Re:Should you wash your solar panels?
on Monday July 27, 2026 @02:29PM (#49073730)
And hopefully these independent contractors are insured. It may well be insurance requirements that limit the use of ladders.
Re:GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more
on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:28PM (#49054407)
Any different from Linux?
Re:Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat...
on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:54PM (#49044073)
I figured with an app name like "bitch at", the government was simply getting tired of hearing peoples' gripes. I was saddened to see I was way off.
Re:Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @10:50PM (#49016274)
Blockchain is no good?
Re:Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @03:40PM (#49012306)
Install it in your bathroom, use it like a restroom hand dryer.
Re:Show HN: I replaced a $120k bowling center system with $1,600 in ES...
on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:38AM (#48974724)
In capitalism, any intentional non-maximization of profits is philanthropy. Nothing wrong with that.
Re:Aluminum foil (2021)
on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:56PM (#48810403)
I will not give up my Jiffy Pop when camping!
Re:Aluminum foil (2021)
on Monday July 06, 2026 @04:50PM (#48810343)
Is the very thin paper used in constructing corrugated cardboard that strong compared to aluminum foil?
I don't have the answer to that, but it does tell us that very thin, relatively weak materials can be used to construct much stronger things, and we shouldn't casually compare the underlying materials with the finished product.
Re:An Embedded Linux on a Single Floppy
on Sunday June 21, 2026 @04:03PM (#48622121)
I always had a muLinux disk handy in my computer toolbox. Most of its shell commands came from a simple script ingeniously written by the distro's author. It's been around since the mid-90s, I'd guess.
https://micheleandreoli.org/public/Software/mulinux/mu/html/...
Re:The Magic Roundabout of Seattle Area
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:21PM (#48579348)
Tumwater. What you get when you put the wrong tablet in your denture bath.
Re:Astronauts on ISS told to shelter as repairs under way to fix air l...
on Friday June 05, 2026 @08:27PM (#48420113)
...or the scutters on Red Dwarf.
Re:The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once
on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:41AM (#48409737)
No Apple services listed?
Where's iCloud?
Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production
on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @02:22PM (#48387726)
Just so you know, the original Ford Maverick started out at just under $2,000 in 1970.
Re:I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
on Saturday May 30, 2026 @10:54PM (#48342616)
I would wager that the land was lower than the sea back then.
Re:Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @04:17AM (#48190630)
The article is chiefly about a radio circuit you can "build", plus some controller software that happens to run on an Android phone. Meanwhile
the headline is 100% focused on describing something that your phone can be made to do (which you have admitted that it can't).
The two don't add up, and your apologetic analysis doesn't convince me otherwise. It's still clickbait. An Android cell phone has radio guts, and that headline is just gutless.
Re:Turn your Android phone into a ham radio transceiver
on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @02:27AM (#48189925)
This doesn't turn your phone into a ham transceiver at all.
It turns your phone into a transceiver controller.
Given that a cell phone is a transceiver, this headline is rather disappointing clickbait.