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Re:Show HN: My 13-year-old built an ant colony tracker on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @06:53PM (#48740303)
Would be good if you can set a hemisphere (I assume nuptial flights are different in northern vs southern hemisphere. Adding more ant species would be helpful too. Camponotus consobrinus, iridomyrmex purpureus and aphaenogaster longiceps are pretty common in Australia.
Re:Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @04:57PM (#46062829)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Border Is a pretty famous cricketer.
Re:X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @07:00PM (#45894592)
This has a pretty good view of the aurora now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfF9bhaBuvw
Maybe we should move to something like termcap for browsers? /s
Re:Dawarich: Self-hosted alternative to Google Location History on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:42AM (#41431972)
Something similar, but entirely on (iOS) device, and focused on tracking activities based on location (hours at work, shopping, travelling, etc): https://apps.apple.com/au/app/life-cycle-track-your-time/id1... (No affiliation, just a user)
Re:Architectural Cross-Section of Kowloon Walled City on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @11:03PM (#40872012)
Thank you for glider!
Re:Features lost across versions of macOS on Wednesday March 13, 2024 @01:40AM (#39688417)
It seems to still be there?

System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Text

Text Size and Menu Bar Size may allow you to do this adjustment?

Re:Wavelength on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:22PM (#35335481)
Worked. Thanks!
Re:Wavelength on Monday March 27, 2023 @11:08PM (#35335397)
Me too for no code in Australia
Re:Apple announces upgrade to App Store pricing on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @03:33PM (#33886610)
If the in-app purchase to remove ads is shareable across the family, then that’s fine. If not, I’d prefer to just buy the app and have it share across my kids iPads instead.
Re:FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:33AM (#33863753)
FreeBSD update does work fine. This started with aarch64 being promoted to a Tier 1 architecture in FreeBSD-13.
You may also find agents don't trust the supplied information, even if they have access to it.
Seems they just recreated the git repo to clear out ~1gb of history. https://github.com/trealla-prolog/trealla/issues/1
Re:Asus Zenbook 17 Fold OLED on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:47AM (#32354235)
I expect days/weeks is probably enough to see the wear you’re looking for.
Re:Why Darwin failed (2006) on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:49PM (#31588584)
iChat supported jabber
Re:Post-incident review on the Atlassian April 2022 outage on Saturday April 30, 2022 @08:35PM (#31220927)
From the article:

"To manage the restoration progress we created a new Jira project, SITE, and a workflow to track restorations on a site-by-site basis across multiple teams (engineering, program management, support, etc). This approach empowered all teams to easily identify and track issues related to any individual site restoration."

TransferFi [1] has commercial wireless power transfer products. Comparing the two, this commercial option gives 42% efficiency [2] at up to 25m.

[1] https://www.transferfi.com

[2] https://www.transferfi.com/s/TFI_Sense_WPN_Spec.pdf

With the Apple iCloud Keychain supporting one-time (the google Authenticator style) passwords from the next major Apple OS release, I have no reason to continue to use 1Password.
Re:Driving 1725km in an electric car in 2 days on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:02PM (#28095006)
I’ve done 1300km in two days in an EV comfortably along the east coast of Australia. ~4h driving, 1hr charge and lunch, ~4h driving, charge overnight at the hotel, ~4h driving, 1hr charge and lunch, ~4h driving and arrive at destination. Same in reverse. Cost was only charging at home to 100% before departing (under $10) at both ends. The supercharging was free. The autopilot makes a huge difference to driver fatigue, and keeps paying attention when you’re distracted by kids in the back (saving me from at least one accident). It really has made it more of a difficult choice between flying and driving across the major cities on the east coast of Australia. Going further west is possible, but will just take a bit more planning.

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