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cph123

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About cph123

Former senior software developer, now head of product development

I like Linux, beer, cheese, reading, painting, electronics, and some other things too.

Crafting good solutions that solve real business problems in Python is the name of my game.

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    Comment #48859786

    Am I right in thinking from the comparisons this only works at 4.9 to 6.0 GHz?

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    Comment #45606178

    Just for a bit of comparison... I'm in the UK and don't drive. It is a 10-min walk to a big Tesco superstore, which is really convenient. It is on my commute too (which I also walk…

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    Comment #45569596

    It looks like the number of IPv4 /24s their ASN was announcing has dropped significantly: https://radar.cloudflare.com/routing/as5378#announced-ip-add...

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    Comment #45347961

    "Let us enjoy the full majesty of your uninformed ad-hoc reckon, by going to bbc.co.uk… clicking on ‘what I reckon’ and then simply beating on the keyboard with your fists or head.…

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    Comment #45054933

    Let's not forget https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core

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    Comment #44722282

    An alternative might be to ask lots of mundane refrigeration questions, replying to each one with "that's cool"

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    Comment #44366685

    In the UK we had something similar called Flux. I don't think it got widely adopted. Discussed previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33179645

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    Comment #44288025

    He also has a fascinating YouTube channel, I'm a big fan. Lots of old musical equipment and experiments in addition to telephony.

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    Comment #44236177

    Is this different to http://insecam.org ?

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    Comment #44167565

    I have been using a vertical mouse for a long time now, and it is very comfortable for me. But it does take some getting used to, when I watch others trying to use my computer they…

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    Comment #43970672

    This is the case for me too for every Substack page in the past few days. I'm on desktop using Vivaldi as a browser.

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    Comment #43925523

    Could SR-IOV VFs be a solution to that?

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    Comment #43268054

    I'm at exactly the same point with mine, it still feels like new even though it is nearly 5 years old. I have yet to update beyond Monterey though (even though I really should) in …

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    Comment #42587297

    When I was a teenager and while studying at university I used to spend a lot of my spare time coding. Then after I got a job as a developer this dropped off quite quickly, opting i…

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    Comment #42266427

    This means I will need to update the app when the certificate changes on the server, i.e. it has expired and needs to be renewed.

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    Comment #41903947

    Yes I remember doing the same. I'd probably be about 12 years old, and my dad asked "What is this Ubuntu thing you got in the mail?", even now he asks me about Ubuntu.

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    Comment #41877559

    Maybe an extension of monkey news, it could be cat news

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    Comment #41657399

    I googled "battery cascade events", and this comment was the top result.

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    Comment #41067566

    Could the video feed be recorded from the 911 side and be admissible in court?

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    Comment #40736543

    > Every team has a mountain of bugs screaming for their attention and a director losing their mind over AI. I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

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    Comment #40736244

    This is something I have been thinking about a lot since moving from programming into management. Some sort of device to measure the data on this would be really interesting, if on…

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    Comment #40727081

    I have solved bugs by thinking in the shower - completely removed from technology for a short period of time can be helpful.

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    Comment #37818769

    I have been using Temu recently for electronic components. There are some reasonable value kits of resistors, LEDs, breadboards, etc that I use in my workshop.

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    Comment #37735772

    How many of us are currently distracted checking HN rather than concentrating on our work?

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    Comment #37691960

    I did something similar on an easyJet flight, I wrote a little Python script to save the altitude and speed data from the free WiFi. They have a cool 3D WebGL rendering of the plan…