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Might need to wait a few generations. It costs ~30€ for a single unit (maybe half that at volume?). And not waterproof.
Re:MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project 1974 on Thursday November 28, 2024 @12:13PM (#42266906)
> She did spend another year in France, but not until 1988/1989 with her husband, Sheldon Brown…

It's his wife! Harriet is Sheldon's wife!

Re:Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities on Wednesday November 06, 2024 @05:33AM (#42059558)
Does `open` give focus? It used to, but since a few releases ago the app opens in the background, which is pretty annoying.

My poor workaround is to use osascript: `tell application "System Events" to set frontmost of process "Finder" to true`

The Yubico FAQ explains some of the history fairly well: https://www.yubico.com/blog/a-yubico-faq-about-passkeys/

In particular, they distinguish between "copyable" and "hardware-bound" passkeys. They're both passkeys, and can be used wherever passkeys are supported, but only the "hardware-bound" passkeys support attestation.

Re:Pitcairn Island Immigration on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:51PM (#39924351)
1.

> … Olive Christian, wife of the accused mayor, daughter of Len Brown and mother of Randy Christian, both of whom were also among those accused, called a meeting of thirteen of the island's women, representing three generations at her home, Big Fence…

2.

"Live Like a Local When you Stay at Big Fence with Steve & Olive Christian":

https://www.visitpitcairn.pn/accommodation/big-fence

Re:Flightradar24's new GPS jamming map on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @12:50PM (#39769123)
The FAQ on that site is useful too: https://gpsjam.org/faq/
Re:Airbus: A year with no fatal accidents on Tuesday March 19, 2024 @07:12AM (#39754600)
At least one hull loss will be in the 2024 report (but amazing it didn't lead to (commercial) fatalities):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Haneda_Airport_runway_col...

Re:Monopoly Board Game on Friday November 24, 2023 @09:18AM (#38404173)
"This has led to the canonization of a number of house rules that make the game more palatable to children (and sore losers) …"
Looks like https://sites.research.google/weatherbench/ attempts to "benchmark" different forecast models/systems.

They're very cautious about naming a "best" model though!

> Weather forecasting is a multi-faceted problem with a variety of use cases. No single metric fits all those use cases. Therefore,it is important to look at a number of different metrics and consider how the forecast will be applied.

Re:Apple TV, now with more Tailscale on Monday September 18, 2023 @05:38PM (#37562439)
It … kind of does, but if you filter the reviews by "TV" you'll see there's quite a few issues with it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tailscale..... Not sure why the back button issue hasn't been fixed, that makes it very inconvenient to set up. (Also: are you sure it can be used as an exit node? That wasn't supported a few months ago.)
A lot of these discoveries were also published in the same year (1905):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annus_mirabilis_papers

(General relativity was 1915.)

Re:Gravity Probe B on Sunday August 14, 2022 @04:22PM (#32462588)
Gravity Probe B is my favourite example of scientists spending a lot of money and effort to verify something almost everyone believed to be true, because science.
Re:Switching from pyenv, rbenv, goenv and nvm to asdf on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:45AM (#30918271)
I also prefer `direnv`. I am not entirely sure how `asdf` actually works; `direnv` is pretty straightforward: it hooks into the shell and modifies environment variables. (`PATH`, but also tool-specific variables if required.) So it's pretty easy to debug or replicate by hand if necessary.

It can't actually install different versions though (looks like `asdf` can?), which is somewhat inconvenient.

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