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Re:Ask HN: What're You Reading?
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:35PM (#49900055)
On Audible, revisiting a childhood favorite: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
On my Kindle I have two ham radio books I'm reading, one is about grounding antennas, the other a General test prep.
- Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur - Ham Radio General Class License Study Guide
Re:Never Buy A .online Domain
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @02:17PM (#47156377)
Well, dang. I've used a .tech as my personal domain and email for some years now, and didn't know this was owned by an obnoxious registry.
Re:Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE...
on Monday July 15, 2024 @03:55PM (#40970954)
I have an NX Mini (which isn't exactly the same as the regular NX line) which has a "1 inch" sensor and a 3-lens interchangeable system. With the 9mm fixed lens it's as pocketable as a phone, but with a flip-out screen, a real flash and otherwise much better quality. With the 9-27mm zoom lens it's even a reasonable portrait camera. I haven't found one of the 17mm f/1.8 lenses, they're pretty rare.
Anyway, I really like that little thing. With a C-mount lens adapter I can use surveillance camera lenses which is pretty fun.
Re:.well-known/avatar
on Monday March 18, 2024 @01:11PM (#39747069)
Yeah I'm not sure that the content negotiation would work very well if you're using a plain webserver or storage service to serve static content.
Re:We Don't Need a DAC – ESP32 PDM Audio
on Friday January 05, 2024 @01:42PM (#38882833)
Isn't Delta-Sigma and PDM exactly how DSD works? In fact, I think Sony originally came up with DSD as an intermediate representation of PCM in one of their DACs and then Sony & Phillips got the harebrained idea to use it in SACD. That is to say, a simple DAC for DSD is just a capacitor functioning as a low-pass filter, without any other components.
Re:USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reve...
on Monday October 09, 2023 @04:22PM (#37825016)
I believe those are MCX. My Shure SE215 IEMs (earphones) use the same connector.
Re:Ardour 8.0 released
on Monday October 09, 2023 @01:01PM (#37822540)
There's also a distinct commercial DAW based on Ardour called Harrison Mixbus.
Re:Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
on Tuesday August 08, 2023 @11:33AM (#37050576)
There's a big old rules list[0], which I can never tell is satirical or not, that those road bike racers adhere to.
Re:Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS availab...
on Friday May 26, 2023 @04:00PM (#36088862)
Cornell CS 3110 - OCaml, lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLre5AT9Jn...
Re:Grasshopper – An Open Source Python Library for Load Testing
on Monday May 01, 2023 @10:10PM (#35782390)
Well, it is based on Locust so there's at least some rhyme or reason to the name.
Re:Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @03:20PM (#35632173)
There's a long-standing convention of "golden age" meaning the first age, when an art came into its own. A "silver age" follows if there's a revolution in the art, often with some sort of decline between.
Re:Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network
on Thursday April 13, 2023 @10:26PM (#35564811)
Another old UNIX prior art is finger.
Re:Google Groups has been left to die
on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @11:29AM (#35071042)
Google Groups performed the classic embrace-extend-extinguish maneuver against USENET, by way of their acquisition of DejaNews and then implementing their own forum/mailing list interface on top if it.
But, I wonder how many communities that are using Google Groups would be suitably served by falling back to USENET. I suppose it would require some updates to both NNTP server software to be easier to administer (if you want to go that route), and especially NNTP client readers to be more modern and user-friendly.
Re:Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks
on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:24PM (#34859648)
If you have Spotify premium give https://getconcertmaster.com/ a try. It's a frontend for Spotify with additional cataloging features for classical recordings.
Re:Portugal Says No More Golden Visas and No More Airbnbs
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @08:37PM (#34853172)
Portugal started to collapse, slowly, after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and it's just been one setback after another since.
Re:American drivers have a blinding headlight problem. It could last f...
on Thursday February 16, 2023 @01:00PM (#34822591)
The federal EPA requires states to run emissions inspections in urban counties but leaves it up to the state for rural counties.
There's no federal requirement for safety inspections so that varies state to state.
Re:Firefox Multi-Account Containers
on Sunday February 12, 2023 @11:59PM (#34770307)
I love containers but I've started to phase out using this extension and preferring Temporary Containers for most of my use cases.
Re:I Almost Bought a Scanner
on Thursday January 26, 2023 @12:08PM (#34534642)
Color film and photo paper is made with dyes that fade and shift over time. An inkjet print with pigments will last longer. Only monochrome silver metal film or paper will last indefinitely, and it's the gelatin layer that will last, some substrates including consumer-grade acetate film and most papers will degrade. The best archival format is silver on polyester film. Color can still be achieved by way of three exposures in RGB, similar to Technicolor.
Re:The FBI Identified a Tor User
on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @11:25AM (#34414491)
Wait, there's bills for search warrants, like in Brazil (the movie)?
Re:The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them
on Monday January 16, 2023 @01:08PM (#34403572)
You can also create free aliases on a completely different domain, and I think they have a plugin with 1Password to do this for each login you create.
Re:The year of the RSS reader (really)
on Friday December 23, 2022 @11:28AM (#34107554)
Gnus having NNTP and it's "nnrss" module means its my default newsreader.
Re:How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile
on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:05PM (#34068759)
The Gordon Murray T.50 hypercar also has a downforce fan. https://gordonmurrayautomotive.com/cars/t50s
Re:YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)
on Thursday September 01, 2022 @11:50AM (#32678186)
Split rings (key rings) work well in my experience.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @04:08PM (#32336163)
I'll check that out. I'm near to Corinne but Roy isn't far.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
on Monday August 01, 2022 @02:18PM (#32310094)
I'm local to the Northrup Grumman location in Brigham City Utah and just came onto the market. I'm a 9-year veteran software developer largely experienced in Python web systems and cloud. I'd like to see what's available.
Re:How I clean my glasses
on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @11:44AM (#32084285)
Isopropyl wipes are my go to. I buy them in big boxes and carry them regularly.
Re:Tron changed cinema, predicted the future of tech
on Monday July 11, 2022 @12:57PM (#32058662)
Probably the hellhounds Zuul and Vinz Clortho.
Re:figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:03PM (#31508212)
libcaca [0] command img2txt can output html
Re:Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]
on Friday April 15, 2022 @07:41PM (#31047320)
Haven't watched the video yet, but I did just the last couple of weeks buy 2 Uni Kuru Toga pencils from JetPens and am enjoying them immensely.