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From the FAQ: Does Tracking Card Air support Precision Finding? You can track your items from anywhere in the world using the Apple Find My app, but sound alerts only work when you’re within about 150 feet. Since Apple doesn’t yet support Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology for third-party trackers, Tracking Card Air doesn’t include Precision Finding at this time.
airtag compatible, shows up in Find My: https://nomadgoods.com/products/tracking-card
Re:Snow - Classic Macintosh emulator on Thursday June 26, 2025 @10:48AM (#44388002)
Re:An Open Source Mouse and Trackpad Utility for Mac on Friday June 23, 2023 @04:45PM (#36451975)
Never heard of Shortcat before, it reminds me of that vim shortcut that used to be popular for firefox back in the day. I can see how that would be really powerful.
Re:Jails on FreeBSD on Friday May 26, 2023 @11:20AM (#36085330)
Since this is gaining some traction. I'm curious if you are using jails and a jail manager, what are you're using now? I'm still using IOCAGE (Version 1.2) on freeBSD 13, but it seems like its not the best way to do it anymore? Documentation is all over the place on what is the best way to manage jails now.
Re:Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor on Saturday February 18, 2023 @10:45AM (#34847715)
My guess is he was using a filter on a portion of the screen to reduce glare or something like that in post production.
Re:Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:25PM (#32379049)
You are correct. I meant Columns. If you clear a column it the whole puzzle should shift left.
Re:Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game on Sunday August 07, 2022 @09:56AM (#32376498)
I like it but wish the puzzle had gravity at the x,y intersection and not just the x axis. For example if you clear out a row it would shift the other rows over to the left.
Re:Proxmox VE 6.1 – Open-Source virtualization platform on Thursday December 05, 2019 @03:10PM (#21715973)
do you know if you can pass through raw disks as well? I.e. i see that it supports ZFS could i attach that pool within a vm and not directly to proxmox?
Re:New iPad Air and iPad Mini on Monday March 18, 2019 @10:14AM (#19421130)
A lot of the mini’s are used at kiosks etc with attachments and stands. I wonder if Apple sees that as the primary buyer?
Matt, What is your favorite investigative piece you've written?
Re:Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey? on Monday June 12, 2017 @11:59AM (#14538297)
What are you hoping to do with yubikey / what was your question?
Re:VimWiki – A personal wiki for Vim on Monday December 12, 2016 @02:01PM (#13160769)
how good is the handwriting recognition for searches etc?
This doesn't surprise me at all, I've completely stopped shopping at Amazon since it is impossible to determine the quality of a lot of the goods on their site. It seems to take longer to research what is worth buying versus going to the store and finding something that looks like it is good quality.
We did one of his puzzles while we were in Denver too and had a blast. He even took some time after to discuss some of the tech.
Re:Apple September 2015 Keynote on Wednesday September 09, 2015 @01:01PM (#10192594)
/r/sysadmin is a pretty active community in general. You could always just try to post to their subreddit.
Re:Pebble releases SDK 2.0 with accelerometer and JavaScript APIs on Wednesday November 06, 2013 @04:52PM (#6685766)
I was having similar problems as well. I sent them some emails about it, but they kept asking for more pictures and I just got frustrated with the process. It doesn't happen all of the time and I'm not really doing anything crazy with the watch, so I've just been kind of dealing with it.
Re:Rap Stats: Breaking Down The Words in Rap Lyrics Over Time on Thursday October 03, 2013 @03:49PM (#6491502)
Are you guys using Splunk for the data crunching and graph builds?
Re:Crosswords don’t make you clever on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @11:27AM (#6244266)
It's too bad on a site that exists for upstarts and tech minded folk looking for a way to monetize their projects people complain that good interesting content costs money. /rant
Re:Taken on Monday August 05, 2013 @03:57PM (#6162521)
When the New Yorker publishes an article it always uses the date for the print magazine.
I updated the post to strip some of the unnecessary links, thanks for the heads up.
Here is an interesting anecdote. From the author of the article's wikipedia page.

His best-appreciated hack was a takeover of all of the telephone lines for Los Angeles radio station KIIS-FM, guaranteeing that he would be the 102nd caller and win the prize of a Porsche 944 S2.

When the Federal Bureau of Investigation started pursuing Poulsen, he went underground as a fugitive. When he was featured on NBC's Unsolved Mysteries, the show's 1-800 telephone lines mysteriously crashed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Poulsen

Re:Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @02:08PM (#5451019)
Yes, but if you're going to make a twitter app that just points to twitter's web app and then it doesn't behave in a sane way, you can't expect twitter to write code fixing those issues.
Re:Hands-on with Mozilla’s Web-based “Firefox OS” on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @12:30PM (#5450375)
it seems like their biggest problem is that when they run into problems with the way that something functions their fix is "we're working with company X to change code so that it works better with our OS"

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