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Re:I Fixed a Parasitic Drain on My Car in 408 Days
on Monday April 10, 2023 @01:32PM (#35514892)
There is a YouTube channel that has a lot of excellent content on finding and fixing parasitic electrical draws. Pine Hollow Auto Diagnostics.
nb: I am not affiliated with this chan, just a fan.
Re:Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study
on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @04:07PM (#22753026)
Why are we not comparing infection and death rates from people who take hydroxychloroquine long-term (e.g. lupus patients) against non-takers of this drug with the same overall demographics to determine efficacy?
Re:Ask HN: How did you learn a foreign language?
on Thursday March 05, 2020 @07:30PM (#22499971)
This. I took all the Spanish available to me in middle school through undergrad. Moved to Honduras, and I could barely understand anything. Watching Honduran TV with Spanish subtitles, and spending a lot of time around people who didn't speak English, worked... although it was a good four or five years before I could think and speak in Spanish. Still, worth it!
Re:How to pronounce GIF? Jif peanut butter settles the great debate
on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @10:22AM (#22423705)
By that logic, GIMP, which stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program, should be pronounced "IMP"
Re:Microsoft Teams outage due to expired certificate
on Monday February 03, 2020 @03:35PM (#22228702)
KeyChest.net does this and posts about it regularly to HN:
Re:Ask HN: Startups Offering Personal Loans for 5-8% APR?
on Friday December 27, 2019 @01:44PM (#21893300)
I got USD$30k @ 5.5% with no origination fee from Lightstream.com. I am not affiliated with them. Just a happy customer.
Re:Ask HN: What was your first programming experience?
on Saturday November 30, 2019 @09:32AM (#21670097)
Ten years old, typing BASIC games into a TRS-80 Model I from a book. Then at eleven, got a C-64 for Xmas, and taught myself BASIC and 6502 assembly. I had to learn assembly because BASIC couldn't handle the I/O speed of 2400 baud :-D
Now I write encryption libraries for a Major Cloud Provider
Re:Ask HN: Best Mouse for Avoiding RSI
on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @03:32PM (#20689400)
I personally love this vertical mouse for avoiding RSI: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07FNJB8TT/
Budget option: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00TJ4ZD28/
Re:Ask HN: Whois records for Amazon Route 53?
on Friday March 01, 2019 @02:56PM (#19284660)
Using the "jwhois" tool against a domain at Route53, I see that it queries whois.verisign-grs.com and then gives me the data I expect
Re:Ask HN: What's the oldest software you still use today?
on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:20PM (#19282994)
Oldest as in oldest origin or oldest release?
Irfanview comes to mind as the default image viewer for Windows
Re:Belize’s thriving Afro-Caribbean community
on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:24AM (#18493579)
My youngest son is half-Garifuna. Hard to believe this article goes so in-depth and fails to really touch a critical part of the Garifuna culture: punta dancing
Re:Scientific Study Confirms Freddie Mercury's Voice was One-of-a-Kind
on Friday October 26, 2018 @04:54PM (#18312638)
Re:Possible BGP hijack of 1.1.1.1
on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @09:02PM (#17184118)
And I can confirm that this is done at some Very Large ISPs. Seen it with my own eyes, e.g. 30/8
Re:White House scraps proposal requiring airlines to disclose bag fees
on Friday December 08, 2017 @06:58PM (#15883193)
"Today, Congress passed a bill in both houses requiring airlines to disclose baggage fees. Riders to the bill also funded $100M for pork-related research in Alabama."