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I did that a few years ago when my wife lost her fitbit in the woods. She knew the approximate area, +/- 50ft. Thick brush. Using a BT meter on the phone led me right to it like a …

I use AI all the time, but I avoid the sparkle icons like the plague. Nothing good comes from accidentally hitting one of those.

Cool! I was at least hoping for an op amp or two for the circuit however ;)

Glad to see the special mention of the Mat Su Valley in Alaska. Lived there for 10 years, originally from Wisconsin. And yes, the two are VERY similar. Not the exactly the same, I …

Massimo Pigliucci's favorite phrase. Used to drive me insane listening to Rationally Speaking

Glad for the Disney reference. Before it became a marketing arm for Pixar movies it was an awesome venue for an optimistic future in Tomorrowland and then Epcot. It's a shadow of t…

Awesome. I think I'll put in an open records request for the cameras down the street in my little Wisconsin town. See what happens

Too late

They know Sam has few scruples and will go for the money if the DoW says jump. These clauses mean zilch if Sam is involved

Depends on the project. For web based functionality it seems great, because of all the prior work that is out there. For more obscure things like Obsidian Note extentions or Home A…

Years and years away unfortunately. Many trials and chances for failure on the human side. It's discouraging to see these on HN and then realize that most never go anywhere, or are…

Useful tho

I'm always suspicious of articles like this. Having been part of a company that was the target of a few NYT articles, there is always more to the story. And parts that are just fla…

Thanks for this. Brings back so many memories of the long hours spent in computer rooms with HP 9000s and RS/6000s back in the 90s. Seeing that SAM interface made me shiver :) It's…

LAN Manager legacy still hanging around after 40+(?) years

I would extend Yankeedom to the Mat-Su Valley of Alaska. Wisconsin, Minnesota colonists in the 1930s and more recent western Michigan transplants.

So cool that the are people attempting to preserve this amazing, sometimes lost, history. I hope they are considering how to preserve their own work as they do this.

Here I thought ST Discovery had jumped the shark with its whole mycelium navigation plot device.

The article mentions alcohol consumption by kids, but I think it doesn't emphasize enough the effect of efforts like Mothers Against Drunk Driving and strict DUI laws. Back in the …

Can we just keep taking courses of scorched earth antibiotics until we come up with a microbiome combo that feels good?

Some legislators probably have constituents that just won't shut up about it, so they figure let's pass this since it doesn't actually ban anything that actually exists and get the…

I'm thinking "effectuate" could be interpreted as requiring force if necessary. Since this is another country, that would be outside the purview of a court to mandate a military ac…

Screen time.

I also thought it was interesting when basketball essentially added 1 second to each game by including tenths on the game clock

This doesn't address the screenshot of Elon's X admin page in the background of one of Adrian's posts