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Re:Casio Watches of the 1980s on Saturday October 31, 2026 @02:32PM (#50318671)
SDB-300W and its descendants are still unmatched as a runner's wristwatch. Just give me a watch with buttons like that that reliably trigger instantly with a satisfying beep.

Is there anything like that around, suitable for timing to the 0.1s level?

Re:France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:54AM (#47658430)
This seems to be the source article (Reuters, March 24): https://www.reuters.com/business/french-central-bank-books-1...
Re:France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain on Monday April 06, 2026 @04:51AM (#47658413)
First sell the gold, then buy same amount at a slightly lower price a bit later (on average)
Re:The history of Casio watches on Tuesday November 11, 2025 @05:28PM (#45893770)
SDB-300W family is still the best running watch I've ever had. I still have 1.5 copies of the WS-110H around on their last legs.

The key features that I've missed from any watch since is 1. good buttons and 2. "immediate" reaction time.

> But admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to anyone other than white men is an instant rage-boner for the Trump administration.

And for half the hn readership, it appears

Re:Movie Posters from Africa That Are So Bad, They're Good on Sunday October 26, 2025 @02:31PM (#45714130)
Elaborate? I'm not
Re:Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks on Friday September 05, 2025 @11:51AM (#45139957)
Add musicbrainz to the list. It was weirdly comforting to rediscover it 15 years later with nothing really having changed (for better and worse)
Re:Bikes in the Age of Tariffs on Thursday April 03, 2025 @04:21PM (#43574888)
With the huge differences in per-country tariff, there seems to be a large incentive to reroute and relabel imports. E.g., build a bike frame in China, export it to a sister company in Japan, and export it to the US from there, claiming production in Japan. How effective are existing controls against that? (And what are they even, I'm ignorant.)
Re:I've Acquired a New Superpower on Friday January 10, 2025 @10:58AM (#42656767)
that's why they mirror one of the images in "find the differences" in puzzle competitions, e.g. USPC https://wpc.puzzles.com/uspc2024/
I'd prefer to count deaths per hour of travel time.
Re:One Square Minesweeper on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @04:36AM (#41923057)
Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @11:13AM (#41501596)
Thanks, that one seems likely.

Hmm, though this seems to affect the case-hack thingy only, which seems like a macos-specific feature...

Re:Nix 2.24 is vulnerable to (remote) privilege escalation on Tuesday September 10, 2024 @08:52AM (#41500270)
This is fixed in 2.24.6: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/releases/tag/2.24.6

See also https://discourse.nixos.org/t/vulnerability-in-nix-2-24/5190... for updates.

Can someone link to the actual fix? It's a bit hard to navigate the git history for me...

Who's to say this "my bad, we'll do better next time" isn't part of the playbook?
What I'd like to know is how the YouTube ad income compares to medical expenses.
Re:The dire state of NixOS's moderation culture on Friday April 26, 2024 @10:33PM (#40176632)
Last time I tried it was unusably slow
Re:"Dune" and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages on Thursday February 29, 2024 @04:42PM (#39555557)
I mean it's basically just Rambo 3 in space innit?
Re:I (kind of) killed Mercurial at Mozilla on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @04:56PM (#38370875)
I want to say bitbucket started out as this, at least my first repos there were hg.
Re:What If We Replace Guns and Bullets with Bows and Arrows? on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:13AM (#38219828)
Clearly I can't carry a bow as easily as a gun when weaving through traffic on my fixed gear.
Re:Global CO2 Levels on Monday October 30, 2023 @02:08PM (#38073306)
What's the view on the immediate impact on elevated CO2 levels on humans? I know high indoor CO2-levels correlate with poor mental performance, but as far as I know that might just be because it also correlates with reduced O2 levels. But it seems reasonable that a 25% increase of CO2 in ambient air would do something to our health.
I would guess it's rather mathematical. Each coinflip has some number of half-flips. Now analyze the distribution of that number. If this distribution were to start at its maximum with 0 half-flips and decay as it increases, summing over the even values (same side up) clearly gives more than summing over the odd values. Now the distribution isn't going to be like that, but I expect that it's generally "front-loaded" in a way that causes a similar effect.
Re:There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org on Sunday September 24, 2023 @06:33PM (#37637816)
Same here, I get 403s from tile.tracestrack.com

Edit: I think it's due to referrer filtering. I can load the tiles fine if I pass 'Referer: https://www.openstreetmap.org', but Firefox sends 'Referer: tile.tracestrack.com'. Presumably that's a measure to preserve privacy, possibly due to some extension (though I've disabled various adblock, tracking protection things...)

Re:Tesla buys German railway line, now hosting passenger trains on Thursday September 21, 2023 @04:10AM (#37594639)
Map of the area https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/52.4039/13.7938

It's the link from Erkner to the factory.

Re:Show HN: FlakeHub – Discover and publish Nix flakes on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @12:04PM (#37224673)
The reception on the nixos discourse is worth a look: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/introducing-flakehub/32044
Re:Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @07:33PM (#36688577)
Also, how many of those tiny plastic wrappers accidentally fell from someone's backpack side pocket or similar? You have to do a bit of "leave it nicer than I found it in terms of things I'm aware of" just to break even.

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