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I bought a cheap usb-powered hand-held oscilloscope DIY kit off Aliexpress. It was a fun soldering project and now I have a (very minimalistic) oscilloscope for when I need one (wh…

If so, it’d definitely be worth coupling it with lasers to kill mosquitoes!

The CNES (French national center for space studies) had done similar 'vintage' ones a while ago https://reves-d-espace.com/affiches-spatiales-pour-decorer-v... (unfortunately not a…

Still not sure. Indeed I have Funkwhale on the radar, but tbh I don't have a strong use case for streaming at home. Was thinking about putting it on my rPi -- but in the end it's e…

I agree so much! I switched to Apple Music 2 years ago when my hard drive failed. At the beginning it was alright, very convenient to have (almost) everything available on hand, in…

Bonne année HN ! Wishing even more curiosity to you all this year!

That seems too high. I'd rather say in the order of c.$100bn. In France the average cost is €15m/km, and that's for extremely high standards / constraints (350km/h or 220mph nomina…

It's not that fantasy anymore: Emirates' new first-class suites in the 777 [1] have fake windows that display a live feed from the outside. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/1…

I guess beyond UI/UX, a key pain point that webmail solved is synchronisation. Whatever the change you do on whatever device, the state is managed by the server and reflected the s…

> Two points: First, the very act of requesting your data is in a way confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data. Same dilemma as hitting the "unsubscribe" link on spam: whe…

On a similar note, there was this video from the Verge on collecting roof-top micro-meteorites that was quite interesting to follow: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18211112/mete…

The Matt Levine-style "People are worried about custom keyboard market liquidity" made me laugh aloud! https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/money-stuff

Just to put it in perspective, the same model of EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) being build at Flamanville in France is 10 years late (x3 vs 5 years initial estimate) and €8bn …

I know it's not really what you are mentioning, but I remember reading a paper of people being able to playback a vinyl from a high-resolution scan of it. I can't find back the pap…

It’s a breakthrough for the consulting world! Joke appart, it’s been long overdue to have such a lookup functions - even more so with sensible parameters as default!

I would argue that it is the same story for traditional media - albeit to a less extreme extent. In France, even on public channels, reality shows and dubious scandal-sounding prog…

Thanks for the link. What's most crazy is when you compare it to the nearby city of Köln (1+m inhabitants). It's almost the size of the city center!

The worst of it is that there are some very specific (and undocumented) edge cases where the translation won't be done properly. It create very 'fun' to debug issues where a spread…

I understand it as two slightly different meanings for the word 'free'. In French we have separate words for (a) 'free' as something we don't pay for (gratuit) and (b) 'free' as yo…

Seconded. Great video, very informative.

Too bad I cannot manage to find Crash by Dave Matthews Band in Apple Music. All the other are available (at least in France).