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Re:Om Malik has died on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:20AM (#48683886)
Thanks. Two more:

Daniel Agee from Glass posted a photo and tribute to Om about his help in the early days of getting Glass started: https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt

And Christopher Michael has posted a wonderful photo of Om: https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt

Re:Om Malik has died on Thursday June 25, 2026 @08:51PM (#48681123)
A tragic loss. Amongst his many other talents, Om was a wonderful photographer; you can see some of his photos at Glass: https://glass.photo/om
Re:New Linux Tablet from Star Labs on Friday August 18, 2023 @12:06AM (#37171295)
From the Specification section of the website:

> 1.00GHz quad-core Intel Alder Lake N200

> Turbo Boost up to 3.70GHz, with 6MB Smart Cache

Re:Ask HN: How did you migrate off Evernote? on Friday July 07, 2023 @05:45AM (#36629386)
I'm in the process of migrating from Evernote to Joplin, doing a careful migration by individual notebooks (with a total of 19,959 notes in Evernote). So far it has been reasonably painless; for example, I have a few Evernote features to work out how to manage, such as text searches on scanned images. I had tried a number of other tools (Obsidian, Loqseq, Notion, Bear, Apple Notes) and Joplin seems to fit my use cases the best.
The Dell Inspiron 1100 comes very close.
You can upload the activity via PC: the FIT files are directly accessible via USB mass storage in the "Activity" directory. This allows you to upload FIT files to cloud-based services such as Strava to see your running stats, or into a PC-based application to do the same locally.
To be fair on Strava, they have made some effort to addressing this over the last few months:

https://www.strava.com/subscription/whats-new

Re:Fastmail – 20 Years Old on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:41PM (#21598575)
This will show you when you were first invoiced:

Settings -> Billing & Plan -> View payment history and printable invoices

2002 as well and have been extremely happy with the service.

Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff on Saturday June 08, 2019 @01:32AM (#20130811)
The magazine website is still accepting new subscriptions:

https://readerservices.makezine.com/mk/default.aspx?pc=MK&pk...

Re:Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff on Saturday June 08, 2019 @01:31AM (#20130806)
> My subscription lapsed just about every year for some glitch or another

This exactly -- of all the magazines I subscribe to, Make has (had?) the worst subscription department by far. It was surprising given how important a subscriber base is.

Re:Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:41PM (#20101062)
Similar to Soma FM's SF 10-33 station:

https://somafm.com/sf1033/

" Live fire/police scanner audio from San Francisco processed and mixed with ambient and experimental music. A surreal audio zeitgeist of the city."

Re:Ask HN: Good Alternatives to One Note on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:16AM (#19896940)
Notion has tables; is there specific table functionality you need that they don’t offer?

https://www.keepproductive.com/blog/notion-tables

Scott mentions the Dexcom G5 in some older blog postings:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePromisingStateOfDiabetesTe...

There are some, e.g. the Medtronic Smartpill for motility testing:

http://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/motility-te...

Re:Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications on Friday August 28, 2015 @07:52AM (#10134880)
FYI, the privacy link (https://www.sonadier.com/privacy) is a 404.
Re:Notes from MPUG: "Python one-liners" talk on Monday June 03, 2013 @06:45PM (#5816574)
cal works on most Unix systems, but is not part of Windows (is there a Powershell equivalent?) If you don't have cygwin (or similar) installed, these types of one-liners have saved me a number of times for quick hacks on Windows systems.
Re:The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012 on Sunday June 17, 2012 @11:36PM (#4124829)
A major reason why the accuracy on blood sugar strips is +/- 20% is because that is all that the standard (ISO 15197:2003) requires:

* Within ±0.83 mmol/L of lab results at concentrations of under 4.2 mmol/L

* Within ±20% of lab results at 4.2 mmol/L or more

Companies are juggling cost, reliability and performance/accuracy, with the first two generally winning in the marketplace as key selling points.

Some devices offer significantly better accuracy than 20%, depending on the market that you are in (not all are for sale in USA, IIRC).