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by ekingr 4y ago
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 (which is very seldom).
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by ekingr 5y ago
If so, it’d definitely be worth coupling it with lasers to kill mosquitoes!
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by ekingr 5y ago
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 available in the original site any
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by ekingr 5y ago
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 even easier to just stream from my iPhone through B
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by ekingr 5y ago
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 the same app as before. But now I can't stand it anymo
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How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents(berthub.eu)
1 points by ekingr 5y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 6y ago
Bonne année HN ! Wishing even more curiosity to you all this year!
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See if your password is stored in plaintext(twitter.com)
3 points by ekingr 6y ago|1 comments
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by ekingr 6y ago
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 nominal speed, incl. barriers & bridg
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by ekingr 7y ago
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/2017/12/1/16723152/emirat
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 same everywhere. Much easier than POP/IMAP/Exc
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Native support for WebAuthn and FIDO is finally here on iPhones and iPads(yubico.com)
3 points by ekingr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 7y ago
> 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: when doing so you confirm them you have a valid em
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by ekingr 7y ago
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/meteorites-space-...
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by ekingr 7y ago
The Matt Levine-style "People are worried about custom keyboard market liquidity" made me laugh aloud! https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/money-stuff
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 over budget (x3.5 vs €3bn initial budget). The Finnish one i
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 paper in question but I've found this which is i
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by ekingr 7y ago
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!
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 programs now represent a high share of the broadcasts. For sur
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Keyboard Layout Editor(keyboard-layout-editor.com)
1 points by ekingr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 7y ago
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!
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 spreadsheet would work in a French Excel and not in
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by ekingr 7y ago
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 your have the freedom to us
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by ekingr 7y ago
Seconded. Great video, very informative.
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by ekingr 7y ago
Too bad I cannot manage to find Crash by Dave Matthews Band in Apple Music. All the other are available (at least in France).
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The Hacker's Hardware Toolkit(github.com)
1 points by ekingr 7y ago|0 comments
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by ekingr 7y ago
Another major 'environmental' impact that may be very nefarious is the health effect of such nano-materials. We don't want to re-create all the mess that we have today form asbestos -- which was also a wonder-material at the
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by ekingr 7y ago
I stumbled upon one of its remaining manhole covers a few weeks ago, which led me to discover about this network. I have been living in Paris for 10 years but never knew this existed before.
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by ekingr 7y ago
He jokingly mentions Qt in the caption of the final picture. I guess since he excludes GTK2 at the beginning for size concerns, wxWidgets and Qt would fall into the same category.
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by ekingr 8y ago
English version: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-fi...

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