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Re:USPS shuts down site that sold 5M counterfeit postage labels for $2... on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @09:36AM (#49908758)

But one can get non-denominated extra-ounce stamps (for two ounce, three ounce, or "extra ounce" to use with another stamp) for letters over an ounce https://store.usps.com/store/stamps/additional-ounces/_/N-d7...

Re:Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields on Monday June 22, 2026 @01:15PM (#48632951)

I rented a hangar there

Re:Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:33AM (#48570347)

I'm glad this site is still up as I haven't looked at it in many years. I used to be based out of W32, Hyde Field and got out during the sale/bankruptcy a few years ago. The recent photos of the place there do a good job capturing the scene of decay. It had essentially no online presence, but there was an active and very good aircraft maintenance shop there until the end. https://airfields-freeman.com/MD/Airfields_MD_PG_S.htm

Re:FDA Expands Sunscreen Options for the First Time in 20 Years to Add... on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:14PM (#48466152)

Finally! The stuff has been used in Europe for years now. Here's an article about from 2024 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/05/18/1251919...

Re:EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @01:17PM (#48038804)

That's pretty clever. I've never used the G90, but apparently newer firmware improves the CW performance. The CW mode seems like almost an afterthought with that company.

Re:An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon on Monday April 06, 2026 @12:15PM (#47662852)

Every time I hear about Earth-Moon-Earth moonbounce comms, I think of this classic reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8lpk45/commen...

Re:Navy ditches touchscreens for knob and dial controls after fatal cr... on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @01:35PM (#46709591)

I wish automobile manufacturers would take this to heart.

Re:The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video] on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @12:03PM (#46603857)

"Are your legs so long you have to sit with your knees pressed against the back of the seat in front of you or something? If so I suppose that's understandable."

Yes and also for people with long legs, seated in a typical airline seat, their knees will be significantly higher than the top of the seat cushion. So, they get caught up in the sweep of a reclining seatback ahead.

Re:Postal Arbitrage on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @11:56AM (#46603707)

That's pretty neat. It's a little oblique to your project, but you might be interested in the QSL bureau system https://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/qsl-bureau/

Re:Radios, how do they work? (2024) on Thursday October 23, 2025 @02:45PM (#45685310)

Huh, I never heard that one. Extra gets you more frequency privileges (nice not having to worry so much about band edges) but IMO the real benefit is being able to enjoy reciprocal operating under CEPT when traveling abroad.

Re:Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets on Thursday October 23, 2025 @09:43AM (#45681736)

I called CQ for a bit but nobody on at the time seemed to know Morse. Neat idea though, and with the different tones for different users it would be possible to overcome the background noise of people playing around.

Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $... on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:18AM (#45604988)

Yes! I enjoyed that book

Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $... on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:30AM (#45604095)

A book on the subject came out earlier this year that I've been wanting to read, "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" by Nicola Twilley

Re:Watch MLB games from the comfort of your own terminal on Thursday October 02, 2025 @04:54PM (#45455426)

Unicode FTW: "𝼃"

Re:GNU Midnight Commander on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @02:59PM (#45279944)

I guess you're not familiar with the iconography, but the little lightning bolt symbol in the battery icon means it is plugged in! (edit: I tried to reproduce your "ASCII art" with unicode lightning bolt but the formatting didn't survive)

Re:XeroxNostalgia.com on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @09:58AM (#45275930)

I couldn't find anything regarding their Alto system, widely regarding as the first computer graphical operating system when it was developed in the late 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto , from their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Aaand I think I just figured out why the modern Xerox multi-function Xerox copier/scanner/printers we have at work are called AltaLink

Re:Strange CW Keys on Friday August 29, 2025 @10:26AM (#45064571)

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Re:The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis on Wednesday August 20, 2025 @02:42PM (#44964868)

It's been a while since I've done it, but I think it's still possible, though a pain in the ass, to put custom ringtones on an iPhone. It involved renaming a .m4a audio file with to have a .m4r extension and then somehow getting it on the phone. Worth it to have the opening to "Eye of the Tiger" as a ringtone.

Re:Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desk... on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @01:58PM (#44879749)

OMG someone brought in a cubicle

Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation on Monday August 11, 2025 @07:12PM (#44870511)

Apple barely does it and only for their products.

With the recent notable exception of the F1 movie advertisement that arrived as a notification from the Wallet app. https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-erod...

I disabled Wallet notifications immediately :-(

Re:Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Subma... on Monday August 11, 2025 @09:23AM (#44863796)

BBC made a fascinating documentary called Perisher on the qualifying process for sub captains in the Royal Navy - it's available on YouTube (in the US at least) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LF2I3fTbY

Re:Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup on Friday June 06, 2025 @08:41AM (#44200275)

In the Washington, DC area, the Dover Harbor is a private rail car available for charter or one can join on select public trips. I believe it attaches to Amtrak trains. https://doverharbor.com/

Re:Canon Law Ninja on Tuesday May 27, 2025 @09:37AM (#44106871)

I found one hit for "exorcism" https://canonlaw.ninja/?nums=1172

Re:Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018) on Monday April 07, 2025 @02:53PM (#43614660)

He had a coffee table book of photos come out not too long ago called "Made in America" that is really nice.

Re:Why 56k Modems Relied on Digital Phone Lines You Didn't Know We Had on Thursday March 06, 2025 @03:27PM (#43284767)

Oh man I forgot about Ricochet. I remember they had service in NYC too, and it turns out also in a few other big markets. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/ricochet-netwo...

Re:Old Penn Station photos: the history of New York's glorious train hall on Monday December 23, 2024 @01:17PM (#42496404)

Architectural historian Vincent Scully on the replacement of the early 20th-centery Penn Station: “One entered the city like a god; one scuttles in now like a rat.”