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Depends on if you reasonably expect to encounter one of those devices again and if the future cabling is backwards compatible.

Using your list I'd likely keep one IDE and comoposite video cable, but toss the RG59 and CAT5 because I could use a current RG6 or CAT6 cable in their place.

> That should clear the next flight to go to orbit and deploy operational satellites!

Mid-stream they said they were deploying 20 real V3 Starlink satellites.

At the end of the stream the said all 20 had checked out as well.

Two Notes:

1) I had to abbreviate the title as the official article title is 4 characters too long for HN.

2) The gift link in use to bypass the Verge paywall was posted by the official Verge account to /r/Android on Reddit[1].

[1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1rktkbp/comment/o8...

I couldn't find something to read about it, but I did find this to watch and learn about it.

I won't spoil it here either :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwV1lEDJH9Y

In the LoRA/radio device sense, Meshtastic[1] is probably the easiest to get started with. It's the biggest player in the space, has devices that come pre-installed and configured, the most likely chance of making contact with someone else, etc. MeshCore[2] is the other major player. It's newer and tends to have been adopted by communities that have run into issues with large Meshtastic networks.

If you meant PC-based mesh networking, I'll leave someone more knowledgeable to speak about that :).

[1] - https://meshtastic.org/

[2] - https://meshcore.co.uk/

And, as of 3 weeks ago, the one man is "stepping back from all public-facing interaction with this project".[1]

Further, "Occasional updates may appear at unpredictable intervals, but there will be no support, no responses to issues, no discussions, and no community management in this or any other public venue."

Nothing salacious here - just another one man open source project with a burnt out maintainer :(.

[1] - https://github.com/markqvist/Reticulum/discussions/1069

> even the secret way to turn on 30-sec skip on the TiVo

Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select ;-)

Also can't forget the ,#401 dialing prefix to enable the device to call home over the Internet using a USB Ethernet adapter instead of the phone in the early days.

TiVo's whole approach to commercials in recordings was largely informed by ReplayTV though. ReplayTV took a lot of heat and lawsuits for their automatic commercial skip functionality, which is why TiVo never implemented it and buried 30 second skip behind the code.

ESPN is already partly doing this with "SC For You" [1]. It gives you a personalized feed of sports clips, generated and narrated by AI that uses the voices of ESPN on-air talent.

[1] - https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/40378137547796-Wh...

For anyone interested, ESPN has a HAM Radio club - WE1SPN[1] - and they are live streaming some of their Field Day operations on YouTube[2]. They're not operating overnight, but should be back in the morning eastern US time. If you'd like to make contact the operators are actively monitoring the chat.

[1] - https://we1spn.org/

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYZxmubVjd0

I'd like to play devil's advocate for a minute and ask a question:

Does anyone know exactly what the Bosch service sends the dishwasher?

While I agree that connecting a dishwasher to the Internet should not be necessary, it does open the door to an interesting scenario if what gets sent to the dishwasher is not a command to run a mode but an actual program to control the dishwasher. In theory that would mean that Bosch could alter the programs that get sent to improve the dishwasher over time.

On a dishwasher with no connectivity the modes simply are what they are from the factory. But on a connected dishwasher if the Bosch engineers figure out that when in ECO mode using every third sprayer saves water while not altering the cleaning performance expected of that mode, they can update the payload and make the dishwasher you already have even more efficient. They could also in theory create a whole library of modes for specific use cases or scenarios (All glass, hard water, etc.)

Of course, this has potential drawbacks as well. They could change a mode and alter behavior you expect, and it could potentially be a hacker's playground, but if done well it could be a net positive.

The system I'd love to have a better understanding of is the one TiVo deployed for the transmission of data to their boxes in the early 2000s.

They would buy a 30 minute paid programming in the early hours on cable TV networks under the name "Teleworld Paid Programming". The box would tune the channel, record the show, and then decode the data from the recording.

I always thought there was something interesting there, as the process would need to survive the MPEG encode/decode process on the TiVo itself in addition to whatever they needed to do the broadcast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUgT2YoPzI

Direct URL is https://bfcm.shopify.com/

I had to run the link through TinyURL because using the original URL pulls up the 2023 HN thread which is entirely different.

Back in 2022 libtorrent implemented memory mapped IO as part of v2 [1]. Unfortunately, it didn't go so well. Memory usage went through the sky, leading to performance degradation and crashing [2]. The issue is still open in the project to this day, and many programs have stuck with the v1.2 library instead.

It looks like they are headed to a multi-threaded pread implementation now [3] and someone has created a patch to tweak the current mmap fallback that uses pread to perform better in the meantime [4].

[1] - https://www.libtorrent.org/upgrade_to_2.0-ref.html

[2] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/issues/6667

[3] - https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/pull/7013

[4] - https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/pull/21300

The more interesting thing to consider is that Trump has said Elon will have an active role in his administration. How is he going to do that on top of everything else? How are Tesla investors going to feel about this?

While it is true that democrats carried urban centers it is worth noting that their support appears to have eroded somewhat in these areas. Republicans picked up a statistically relevant number of votes there.

In interviews with people who are primarily voting on the economy a common response is that they feel things were economically better for them under Trump than they were under Biden. They want to go back to that, and they believe Trump can do it again.

One thing to keep in mind is that CR-39 is not impact resistant. They will shatter and can do horrible things to your eyes when they do. Kids should always be put in impact resistant lenses.

If you’re a desk jockey, or impact resistance is not a concern, CR-39 will give the least aberration with the exception of crown glass.

The hidden hack here if you need/want impact resistance is to ask for Trivex lenses. Same impact resistance as polycarbonate but much better ABBE value. It’s often overlooked because it costs a little more than polycarbonate and most people don’t complain about the distortion.

Also, anecdotally, you get what you pay for with progressive lenses. I have a cheap lens in my sunglasses and a higher end lens in my daily drivers and I can easily tell the difference.

How about Weezer's "Buddy Holly" music video on the Windows 95 CD? Sometimes when I see articles about viral videos and views I wonder where that video would rank if we had the capability to track its plays.

Is it even possible to do this effectively using Mullvad after they removed support for forwarded ports?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215

Math Notes certainly appears to be moving into Soulver/Numi territory. I'm a bit surprised by this one as while I personally love Soulver I didn't know how appealing it would be to Apple's overall user base.

Previous Discussion from 12/05/22 (95 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33856942

Valve - the PC gaming giant and owner of Steam - is very famously a flat organization. Their Handbook for New Employees[1] that goes into detail about how they operate has made its way out into the world a few times as well.

[1] - https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewE...

Traditional colonoscopies are still the gold standard for colon cancer screening. One major benefit of them is that while they are performing the screening if they see something like a polyp it can be removed and tested.

It is kind of funny how printers just hop onto the latest marketing trends. Previously it was the "razor blade" model of making the device "inexpensive" and charging more for the consumables, now its subscriptions.

The thing for me is that neither the razor blade model nor the subscription model fit my actual use of the product. For me a printer is essentially a piece of infrastructure. It's not the kind of thing I upgrade or want to pay any attention to. I buy one, set it up, and basically run it until it dies or falls out of support. I only replace them when I absolutely have to, and I would prefer that to be as infrequent as possible.

I'm willing to pay for something that fits that model. Charge me the real cost for the physical printer - including R&D and ongoing support - and in turn come back down to reality on the consumables.

I'm saddened that no one can make this model work, but I understand why. Very few people are going to want to go from $100 printers to $500 printers. Though, as the world becomes more paperless I can see this occurring in the long tail - "Hey, buy a printer. Never know when you'll need it and it's going to last you."