MikeCoats
Re:1,180 root system drawings
on Saturday October 18, 2025 @04:46PM (#45630234)
Centimetres.
Their 13 cm high plant specimen had a 456 cm deep root.
Re:Steve Meretzky – Working with Douglas Adams on the Hitchhiker's Guide
on Friday February 07, 2025 @04:13AM (#42970789)
I think this was released in 2014, not 2024. The original was released in 1984 and those are the notes for the 30th Anniversary Edition. I now feel old.
Twitter was still 140 characters when they wrote those notes.
Re:Show HN: Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas AP...
on Friday September 04, 2020 @03:16AM (#24372526)
It looks like it's MIT licensed, according to their `package.json`.
https://github.com/samizdatco/skia-canvas/blob/master/packag...
In our in-house apps we went for the progressive-enhancement, almost-2 option.
When we're presenting data, one of our columns is nearly always a 'primary identifier' of some kind - a name, an id, etc. We make this column a hyper-link and then we also add a click handler to the row. This means it's still fully accessible to screen readers and tab navigators, but users who expect a more 'app'y experience are happy too.
The click handler has to be a little smart to ensure it's not receiving the mouse-up of a selection event, but it's not bad.
Re:How to Read a Schematic
on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:15AM (#19755620)
If you're interested in analogue electronics then you might like the analyses done on the ElectroSmash website. [1]
They reverse engineer schematics from guitar effects pedal PCBs like this Fuzz Face [2], then go through the process of breaking the circuit into blocks of operation. They also simulate the circuits such as with this Tube Screamer [3] and see what effect manipulating component values has on the signal.
[1] https://www.electrosmash.com/ [2] https://www.electrosmash.com/fuzz-face [3] https://www.electrosmash.com/tube-screamer-analysis
Re:Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cyberse...
on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:23AM (#19622316)
Yeah, but not quite. When you sent the message it used your network I’d as for the ‘from’ field. I was even that dorky that the message I used to prove it worked was “Hello, World!”. Try explaining geek memes to high school teachers in the late 90’s.
Re:Berkeley HS student tried to rig his own election, exposing cyberse...
on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @04:26PM (#19618611)
Yup, I did the same. A contractor replaced all our Classic Macs with Windows 9x boxes and never taught any of the staff how to secure them.
We were using winpopup to send messages to each other, when I worked out how to send them to the entire subnet (or domain - I forget). Three months later I was hauled in front of the Deputy Rector to explain how I managed to 'write my name' on the admin office server. It turned out that they never turned on the monitor connected to the print server until the printer stopped working and they jumped to blaming me.
It took some really fast thinking to wriggle out of that one - I was warned 'he'd be watching me' from then on though.