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Same in Iowa. I grew up talking about going to Penny's (as in JC Penny) or Sernett's or Gibson's (local department stores).
Re:Fiber Optic Drone Control Beats Any RF Jammer on Monday August 05, 2024 @04:33PM (#41165309)
Using GPS doesn't mean you can't be jammed. GPS is quite low power and easy to jam, and feasible to spoof[1].

[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2415318-ukraine-will-sp...

Re:Show HN: Click counter using iPhone volume buttons on Friday July 12, 2024 @06:42PM (#40950120)
I'd be interested in a frequency counter view, with a running average per minute or per second. So I can record that I see 10 Teslas per minute driving to work in the morning, but only 3 Teslas per minute on the way home at night (for example).
Re:Show HN: Click counter using iPhone volume buttons on Friday July 12, 2024 @04:48PM (#40949288)
doesn't seem to work well for me. volume up and down sometimes register 1 count, sometimes 2, sometimes none. Deleted shortly after install, worried about what it's actually doing rather than counting.
Re:What We're Working on in Firefox on Thursday May 30, 2024 @04:02PM (#40527981)
Is anybody currently using Sidebery who could comment on how the Firefox "Tab grouping, Vertical tabs, and sidebar" compare?
Re:The Quest for a Simple Smartwatch on Thursday June 29, 2023 @12:39PM (#36522882)
I have a ZeTime that I used on and off for a couple of years. Now it's just sitting on a shelf. It was fine for my purposes at the time, but ended up inheriting an Apple Watch that's a lot more polished. I don't see ever going back to the ZeTime.

If you are interested, I'll let you have it for the cost of postage.

Oh, got it. I thought the tool wanted to go back and walk through a progression of previous backups. I can certainly do a new backup
Slightly off-topic, but how do I download an iCloud backup so I can scan it with this tool? The googles imply that I can only recover my device from the cloud, not retrieve old backups for other purposes.
Looks like some new formatting removed the "itemList" class. I'm no javascript/DOM hacker. Can somebody make this 2 column user script work with the new format?
Is there where somebody has to add "in lab mice" to the title?
Re:90s Cursor Effects on Monday August 29, 2022 @01:56PM (#32641298)
The clock one is really cool, and I don't recall ever seeing it implemented on a website. Who used this?
Re:What did Earth look like X million years ago? on Thursday May 26, 2022 @03:12PM (#31522262)
You mean besides Planet of the Apes?
Re:When Greenswashing Backfires – Thank You North Face on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:15PM (#31344457)
Pretty sure the comment was about the video narrator pronouncing it "ek setera", not "et setera" or even "et ketera" (I counted 3 instances). And I agree, just like people who say "supposably[1]", it exposes somebody who isn't well read.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qsJzB74N7o

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022) on Tuesday March 01, 2022 @07:10PM (#30521844)
Aerospace Corporation| El Segundo CA, Chantilly VA, Cape Canaveral FL, Colorado Springs CO, various others| Full Time | Remote optional depending on the position | US Citizens

Aerospace is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center supporting the US Space Force and other customers for acquisition and operation of National Security Space assets. We are a non-profit corporation working in the national interest. Many openings available across all technical fields.

https://aerospace.org/careers or contact me directly

Re:Xsnow on Friday December 10, 2021 @09:16AM (#29510077)
Xantfarm was a particular favorite of mine. Made coming into work on a Monday morning kind of fun, to see what the ants had been up to

https://acme.com/software/xantfarm/

Re:Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters on Sunday November 21, 2021 @10:24AM (#29296795)
The last time I took my car in for a (California) smog check, they definitely stuck a sensor up the tailpipe. Also run the engine for fixed duration at several set speeds to get a variety of readings, on a dynomometer (a treadmill, basically) to simulate actual driving speeds.
That's the popular consensus here in LA, it's cheaper to discard the containers than to ship them back empty (and nobody at the receiving end wants enough of what we have to make it worth sending them back full). However I drive through the port area frequently and always see containers stacked well above the 2-high limit. I suppose that means they are not empty containers? There definitely has to be some alternate use for these empty containers. People have tried to build houses with them, but I think one issue preventing widescale implementation of that use is that quite a few of them were originally holding some kind of material that would be hostile to human inhabitants. And living in a metal box in the Southern California summer would not be feasible without expensive air conditioning retrofits.
Can you provide some breadcrumbs to find opt-in ?
I'm getting exactly those kind. Russian (I assume) name for the sender, gmail.com email address (From: "Арслан Минаев" <[email protected]>), .htm attachment with spammy filename (Your Business 01836.htm). Random numbers for the content. Headers indicate DKIM and SPF passed, and it looks for all intents and purposes like a legit gmail email. But it's spam.
Re:LimeSDR on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:40PM (#28329929)
To answer my own question, in case others are interested: https://discussions.flightaware.com/t/how-do-you-create-a-co...
Re:LimeSDR on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:05PM (#28321574)
How do you get that footprint plot? I'm using dump1090-fa and don't see it
That must be the case. My Alexa app (iPhone) is version 2.2.416595.0, updated on May 20.
Check the Alexa app, not the Amazon app. Shows up in mine
> has since taken the Californian market by storm, with approximately 400-500 units running in the sunshine state right now.

Um, "taken by storm" is a bit of an overstatement. 500 out of 14 million? https://www.statista.com/statistics/196010/total-number-of-r...

This is a pointer to a review from 2015 for a product that's no longer commercially available. Seems like perhaps the technology wasn't as mature or capable as the review seems to indicate, if it didn't make it.
Re:Escaping strings in Bash using !:q on Friday October 02, 2020 @03:01PM (#24665907)
This is very useful for saving off a one-liner .sh file once you've finally gotten the one that you want to work. I will have to remember this!

echo !:q > doagain.sh

Re:Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator on Wednesday September 30, 2020 @05:37PM (#24644234)
I suppose there are only a few words that end in tty, but I was a little surprised this wasn't a GPU enhancement to the already nice Kitty [http://www.9bis.net/kitty] which is based on Putty [https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/], both Windows programs.
Re:Designing an Overkill workbench for home office on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:09PM (#24483687)
I've got that setup right now, but I find that the door on top of two-drawer HON file cabinets is just a bit (about 1.5 inches) too high for a normal office chair, and isn't doing my wrists any favors either. What I really need is a very thin desktop that's just as solid.
Re:Bare metal Smalltalk-80 port to the Raspberry Pi on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:48PM (#23876270)
I love the idea of bare-metal ports to the Pi. I saw snakeware posted here not too long ago. Are there other examples? ColorForth would be interesting as well

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