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Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.

Hi, don't know where to cry about this but I was using this swurl.com (its author should be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryes) as my daily search engine replacement. And just today I've found out it stopped working. Was it abandoned or was it sold or what has happened? It was so cool. Now I have to go back to google.

Similar project with single photo diode enclosed in sort of a pinhole camera: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/18/using-missile-tech-to-see-li...

maybe they were waiting for some patents to expire?

nitter link https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685268812663271424#m

My related story: we have door phone system in our apartment house and I wanted to get a notification whenever our flat got buzzed. I hacked the phone in our flat - attached a circuit directly to the wires leading to the coil of the buzzer and through arduino to the pc. Then I stitched together some code utilizing firebase to send notifications. Worked like a charm until google began to require credit cards for the free stuff.

I got hospitalized once with the suspicion of having TIA but it turned out to be migraine with aura. I had those since I was a kid but never so intense (part of vision going poof!). I identified that the trigger is intensive smells (like vinegar for example).

Damn, I think I might have similar issues. Also diagnosed with Leiden. Should I be worried?

With obvious limitations you could use backblaze. Back of the napkin calculation this will cost you only $150 per month in storage fees.

Tangent to this: there was an airline accident when the service crew used transparent tape instead of the reflective silver tape somewhere on the belly of the plane (or wings, I don't remember). Then when the pilot was doing preflight inspection at night with a torchlight, the spot with the transparent tape was not visible to him. This was an error on the ground crew side.

It would need some googling to find the details.

I would like to know the answer to this question from dale_glass too.

Can you elaborate how there is no need for hardware changes? Are you connecting through the earpiece somehow?

Some time ago I hacked our flat intercom. I needed to have a text message delivered when the intercom rang (we use it to open door to the building), I had to tap to it with an arduino.

This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you write a driver that would fake these controllers on the 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into massively local multiplayer game and was always toying with ideas on how to reliably connect as much controllers as possible into a game.

I suspect friction in the bearings is the culprit and allows for this "defiance of laws of physics".

The trick is to always send previously unconfirmed inputs. That way if a packet is dropped the missing input is delivered in the next packet.

Angry upvote.

Unavalability of $10 Spartan-6 FPGA forces the team to go with more expensive Artix-7.

I tried to google for libm.so (standard C library of basic mathematical functions). I typed it straight into the address bar expecting my browser to search for this term using google so I didn't expect it to be valid URL. Lucky me.

If we omit the batteries, there have been electric buses since forever - trolley buses. They come also in hybrid variants too to serve more distant bus stops.

LED diodes would like to have a word with you.

I remember reading about this solar power beam concept when I was a kid in one children magazine. The article mentioned Peter Glaser as the author of the idea and it had these gorgeous illustrations. After some digging I managed to find it in the depths of the internet https://imgur.com/a/1MPWd62 https://imgur.com/a/sF3MzSj

I think the audience here would appreciate some stories on the darknetdiaries.com. There are even several interviews with people describing how they got interested in the IT security field in their teens in highschool. Can't really recommend any specific from the top of my head.

Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse off with the switch on its belly while putting the computer to sleep. It taught me to always save my work at least:)

Arachne

At my previous job I worked at a whole UI framework (server side) based on XSLT transformations. We built kind of abstraction layer on top of ExtJS,HighCharts and some 3D rendering lib at that time. It was hell to debug anything in there because the output was HTML sprinkled with JavaScript and it was not always easy to identify what part of XML and XSLT was responsible for given part of output. It was quite successfully used in one internal ERP mashup app that sucked data out of some SAP system. Learning XSLT actually helped me understand C++ templates (big aha moment). So we had this XSLT monster crunching on XML files but what we really needed was JSX which probably wasn't a thing until few years into the project.