fanick

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by fanick 3y ago
Any recommendation on how I could improve my submission? Sorry for giving the impression that this was a spam but without any possibility to contact the user @ryes, I figured this was the only way to get any answers. swurl was awesome btw.
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Swurl.com by Ryes – Stopped Working?(picclick.com)
1 points by fanick 3y ago|4 comments
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by fanick 3y ago
Hi, don't know where to cry about this but I was using this swurl.com (its author should be https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ryes ) as my daily search engine replacement. And just today I've found out it stoppe
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by fanick 3y ago
Similar project with single photo diode enclosed in sort of a pinhole camera: https://hackaday.com/2016/05/18/using-missile-tech-to-see-li...
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by fanick 3y ago
maybe they were waiting for some patents to expire?
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by fanick 3y ago
nitter link https://nitter.net/iris_IGB/status/1685268812663271424#m
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by fanick 3y ago
My related story: we have door phone system in our apartment house and I wanted to get a notification whenever our flat got buzzed. I hacked the phone in our flat - attached a circuit directly to the wires leading to the coil of the buzzer
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by fanick 4y ago
I got hospitalized once with the suspicion of having TIA but it turned out to be migraine with aura. I had those since I was a kid but never so intense (part of vision going poof!). I identified that the trigger is intensive smells (like v
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by fanick 4y ago
Damn, I think I might have similar issues. Also diagnosed with Leiden. Should I be worried?
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by fanick 4y ago
With obvious limitations you could use backblaze. Back of the napkin calculation this will cost you only $150 per month in storage fees.
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by fanick 4y ago
Tangent to this: there was an airline accident when the service crew used transparent tape instead of the reflective silver tape somewhere on the belly of the plane (or wings, I don't remember). Then when the pilot was doing preflight
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by fanick 4y ago
I would like to know the answer to this question from dale_glass too.
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by fanick 4y ago
Can you elaborate how there is no need for hardware changes? Are you connecting through the earpiece somehow? Some time ago I hacked our flat intercom. I needed to have a text message delivered when the intercom rang (we use it to open door
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by fanick 4y ago
This interesting for me from the standpoint of shared controllers. What is the general idea behind this? Did you write a driver that would fake these controllers on the 'server'? What platforms have you covered? I'm into mass
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by fanick 4y ago
I suspect friction in the bearings is the culprit and allows for this "defiance of laws of physics".
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by fanick 4y ago
The trick is to always send previously unconfirmed inputs. That way if a packet is dropped the missing input is delivered in the next packet.
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by fanick 4y ago
Angry upvote.
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Ask HN: What if Russia cuts undersea optic cables?
13 points by fanick 5y ago|4 comments
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ZX Spectrum Next (2nd batch) delayed due to FPGA shortages(kickstarter.com)
6 points by fanick 5y ago|1 comments
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by fanick 5y ago
Unavalability of $10 Spartan-6 FPGA forces the team to go with more expensive Artix-7.
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Libm.so – is it a joke or does the webpage segfault?(libm.so)
2 points by fanick 5y ago|2 comments
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by fanick 5y ago
I tried to google for libm.so (standard C library of basic mathematical functions). I typed it straight into the address bar expecting my browser to search for this term using google so I didn't expect it to be valid URL. Lucky me.
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by fanick 5y ago
If we omit the batteries, there have been electric buses since forever - trolley buses. They come also in hybrid variants too to serve more distant bus stops.
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by fanick 5y ago
LED diodes would like to have a word with you.
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Cold Blast with Snow Is Forecast for the Start of Fall Season in NW US(severe-weather.eu)
2 points by fanick 5y ago|0 comments
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by fanick 5y ago
I remember reading about this solar power beam concept when I was a kid in one children magazine. The article mentioned Peter Glaser as the author of the idea and it had these gorgeous illustrations. After some digging I managed to find it
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by fanick 5y ago
I think the audience here would appreciate some stories on the darknetdiaries.com. There are even several interviews with people describing how they got interested in the IT security field in their teens in highschool. Can't really rec
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by fanick 5y ago
Can confirm. Have been using wireless Logitech MX master 3. There is like 1 in 10 chance that my Linux machine hangs when putting it into sleep and I touch the mouse. Also it is almost guaranteed the machine freezes when i turn the mouse of
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by fanick 5y ago
Arachne
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by fanick 6y ago
At my previous job I worked at a whole UI framework (server side) based on XSLT transformations. We built kind of abstraction layer on top of ExtJS,HighCharts and some 3D rendering lib at that time. It was hell to debug anything in there be

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