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Re:Leave Me Behind
on Monday May 25, 2026 @01:03PM (#48269079)
For the longest time the Android community was super close-knit where people talked about this stuff online and in person constantly, and OP was a pretty active contributor.
Unfortunately Twitter pre-acquisition was probably the focal point and since then, I don't think the community has been the same.
Re:The Ribbon Microphone
on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:07AM (#42793590)
An interesting feature of ribbon mics - because the ribbon is open at the front and the back, they reject sound from the side (and top/bottom) almost perfectly. You can arrange these cleverly in live or studio settings to amplify one thing while rejecting another completely.
A typical usecase for this is a singer with an acoustic guitar - one mic can pick up the guitar and almost fully reject the vocals, and vice-versa. Pretty cool.
Re:Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin
on Saturday December 21, 2024 @08:52PM (#42483857)
Generally these are only used in test methods, which is fine. I've never seen anyone use them outside that.
Re:"Frost Crack" Sounds May Come from Sky, Not Trees
on Saturday August 17, 2024 @07:03AM (#41273540)
One thing that I found super interesting when I studied audio engineering is that our ears are very good at determining direction left/right, but absolutely hopeless at working out if a sound is up or down.
This makes their hypothesis a lot more believable to me; I can understand others incredulity.
Re:Loss of oxygen in lakes and oceans
on Friday July 19, 2024 @12:06PM (#41007881)
Someone failed highschool chemistry. More gas can dissolve in cold water vs hot. The opposite of solids.
Re:Japan's airport control towers stop using 'No.1' instruction for pl...
on Thursday January 11, 2024 @07:57AM (#38951610)
Yeah this is standard practise in the UK armed forces/EOD teams. Source: spent time with No. 5131 Squadron in Akrotiri.
Re:Poor people ‘surviving not living’ as UK social contract collapses,...
on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:48PM (#37398882)
> I can’t think of any other place where people’s sense of net worth is as tied up with their house price as it is in the UK, while at the same time the increase in house price that people have been conditioned to believe is the norm over the last decade is wholly unsustainable given the stagnant wages.
Canada.
Re:Micro- & Nanoplastics Breach Blood–Brain Barrier in Mice 2 Hours Af...
on Sunday April 23, 2023 @10:56AM (#35676759)
Regularly donating blood or plasma can reduce PFAS concentrations in the body, I believe the effect is the same on microplastics https://theconversation.com/new-evidence-shows-blood-or-plas...
Re:Tell: Google search is getting worse
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:01AM (#35410061)
You can set a custom filter in uBlock Origin to do this for you - here's an example filtering out Pinterest garbage:
google.##.g:has(a[href=".pinterest."]) google.##a[href=".pinterest."]:nth-ancestor(1)
Re:Turkey EARTHQUAKE – please keep 28.540 clear for communications
on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:04PM (#34687600)
During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)
on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:10PM (#34617801)
Location: Ontario, Canada
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Android, Kotlin
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: https://github.com/ditn/
Looking for new challenges and a chance to grow - I'm at my best when under some pressure and surrounded by smart people.
Re:Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, ...
on Saturday October 29, 2022 @08:02PM (#33389240)
Then why were they reviewing unrelated codebases? iOS, Android? This doesn't hold up
Re:Twitter engineers told to print out their code
on Friday October 28, 2022 @09:32PM (#33380076)
They use git.
Re:Crypto lending company Babel Finance halts redemptions and withdrawals
on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:34AM (#31777163)
"No true blockchain"
Re:Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain
on Sunday June 12, 2022 @02:24AM (#31712027)
60% _marginal_ tax, not everall.
Re:Carbon dioxide now more than 50% higher than pre-industrial levels
on Monday June 06, 2022 @10:25AM (#31640912)
For those reading this with incredulity I believe the above commenter made a typo - the average depth is 3688m, or 12,100ft.
Re:Ask HN: Share your personal site
on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:16AM (#30942315)
https://adambennett.dev/
Mostly Android + Kotlin with a recent foray into interviewing, and I'd like to write about leadership/culture a bit more. I've gotten out of the habit of writing recently due to burnout but I'm starting to feel that motivation again.
It's a Hugo static site ontop of Firebase Hosting, and I just commit to GitHub and Actions builds and deploys the site for me. I recently started using http://forestry.io/ which is a nice GUI over the top for content management.
Re:Ask HN: What is a modern Java environment?
on Tuesday March 29, 2022 @11:45AM (#30844087)
It's not, it's a runtime service locator. In my experience it doesn't scale terribly well.
Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:59PM (#29489664)
That's an event I'd like to see!
Re:The $11B Webb telescope aims to probe the early universe
on Wednesday December 08, 2021 @02:48PM (#29489514)
It's a hard limit due needing fuel to maintain its orbit. It's in a lagrange point (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point) which requires occasional orbital corrections.
Re:Launch HN: Runway (YC W21) – Easier iOS and Android app releases fo...
on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @08:22AM (#27447067)
That sounds brilliant. I've signed up for access and will wait patiently.
Re:Launch HN: Runway (YC W21) – Easier iOS and Android app releases fo...
on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @07:23AM (#27446641)
This is very very cool and I'm excited to eventually get access to it. I'd love to see a Crashlytics integration so that we can also use Runway to monitor post-release health in one place - looks like maybe you thought about this as I can see Firebase support is coming.
Anyway good luck with this and I look forward to giving it a spin.
How Not to QR (NHS Covid-19 App)
Re:NHS Covid-19 app update blocked for breaking Apple and Google's rules
on Monday April 12, 2021 @06:29AM (#26777861)
You might like this then - turns out the QR codes are a cluster https://www.revk.uk/2020/09/how-not-to-qr-nhs-c19-app.html
Re:U-2: The veteran spyplane too valuable to replace
on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:00AM (#25417561)
When I was a teenager I was in the Air Training Corps, and I was lucky enough to be selected for a "camp" at RAF Akrotiri.
Several U2 spyplanes are stationed there (along with the Red Arrows during off-season), and we were treated to watching them come and go to operations presumably in the middle-east. Watching them land was incredible as they appear to move incredibly slowly and touch down very gently. They're also amongst the noisiest aircraft I've ever been around.
One of the commanding officers organised a camp photo infront of one of the U2s - we were shuttled outside a hangar with this enormous plane behind us. We were told we were strictly not allowed on the other side of the aircraft that they had "sanitised" for us as not to reveal any state secrets, somehow.
I still have that photo, it's a great one, but it's also technically OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE and we're not allowed to show it to anyone. Our "official" camp photo was infront of the Red Arrows, which would have been cool enough - but our secret photo was cooler.
Re:Show HN: BeautifulCode, generate beautiful images of your source code
on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:54AM (#25286272)
This seems like a pretty straight clone of https://carbon.now.sh/
Adventures in Compose – The Doom fire effect
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2019)
on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:24PM (#20868178)
Location: London, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Android, Kotlin, RxJava, Gradle, AndroidX, Retrofit, OkHttp, Dagger2, Koin, security/encryption, cryptocurrency
Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-bennett-4784b327/
Website: https://adambennett.dev
Email: [email protected]
Worked in early-stage fintech startups for a number of years now, looking to move to something slightly more established unless it's a great fit or an interesting problem.
Passionate about Android, experienced in launching products from scratch and re-architecting legacy codebases, security, OSS. Capable team lead or individual contributor.
Re:On the Trail of the RoboCall King
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @09:31AM (#19868079)
>Remember this is the same FCC that couldn't detect millions of fake anti-net neutrality comments.
Not couldn't - didn't want to.