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purchased an ipad mini for the singular purpose of running foreflight on it - an electronic flight bag application which replaces a whole bunch of frequently updated aviation chart…

I think if you time your destructive interference to the source of the audio perfectly and cancel out the sound, you haven't gotten the whole picture. As sound travels away from th…

very cool, just grabbed a copy.

you can still get around this with some effort [1] and a pfsense box, the pfsense box gets wan from the ont and the original att router is hung off a third nic where it's allowed t…

I'm a non-academic taxpayer trying to read articles and don't have access through my employer or public library. I know other people in the same situation. Emailing the authors dir…

Absolutely and I am aware of its origins, but I've seen the analogy brought out at least a few times here on HN when discussing the merits and potential of an idea that seems obvio…

Something that bugs me about this metaphor is the foregone conclusion that the thing on the ground is identifiably a $100 bill. Clearly anyone seeing a great idea for the taking wi…

not parent commenter but as someone who also has casual user family members on Linux - Ubuntu on a ThinkPad x220 is what I've set them up with.

i think it was a really good choice, i'm certain i'm not the only person who saw that movie as a small child and decided thats what they want to be. it was exciting and cool back t…

i've always seen the flashy computer bits as something that isn't intended to be viewed literally, but rather a way to understand the mental models they had for things. in the same…

this sounds like a really cool way to operate and it would be really interesting if you could expand on your experiences.

hardly limited to the 1960s, you can still do this in 2020 even in an expensive place like los angeles. pandemic aside, people living cheaply with many roommates and getting by on …

formlabs released a repo to use their old model printer (form 1 / 1+) to do stuff along these lines. i've tested it as far as exposing a photoresist (after forking and fixing some …

CA DMV will issue you an 'identification card' in addition to a drivers' license which very handy to have as a backup.

as someone who is waiting on their pinephone order right now, a major factor for me is supporting the existence of not-google not-apple. i want other options and even though they a…

it's hard not to see this as the wasted potential of 10,000 human minds that could otherwise be solving real problems and needs. i'm curious to hear how alexa (and google assistant…

the more amazing thing to me is the idea that you can fit github on less than $500 in external drives. curious now about creating an all-of-github local mirror, could be a fun proj…

yes and funny enough, downdetector is down. started doubting my network until all the same outages confirmed on my mobile link, and mxtoolbox couldn't get a response either.

by this logic would you say that normal people using tor are providing cover for bad actors?

It's not one step away from doxxing at all -- in this case Lucky225 is not an unnamed source, that is actually his real legal name per his twitter [1] and the FCC database entry fo…

having internet closer to normal standards would allow more people to enjoy such a thing. I could afford to buy a sailboat now, but if I were to take it out to sea I would be unabl…

Grant was part of a group of people who showed us how engineering could be more than cubicles and paperwork, and inspired my childhood dreams which turned into fulfilling careers i…

there are a number of pieces of electronics that appear to already meet this - high quality (and older) vacuum cleaners, analog audio gear, laboratory equipment, certain kinds of v…

you may find Bandcamp addresses some of the of issues you outline above. I do what I refer to as bandcamping: sort by new releases, filter for physical media and major genre. start…

the officer grabbing the pink umbrella struggles to grasp it because his right hand grips a club. a truly poetic metaphor.