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by heywire 1mo ago
This is one reason I don’t mind that I’m behind CGNAT.
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by heywire 5mo ago
This new season of HBO’s Silicon Valley is wild!
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by heywire 8mo ago
IBM PC XT 5150 4.77MHz, 640KB, no, not weird at all :)
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by heywire 8mo ago
Try a distro like Fedora. I mostly use Arch, but I’ve found Fedora to be an excellent out of the box experience.
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by heywire 8mo ago
You can run it on a common board like a Heltec LoRa 32 (can’t remember if it supports v3 or just v2). I played around with it some, but mostly stick with Meshtastic.
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by heywire 8mo ago
Sounds like you’re looking for the RNode firmware
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by heywire 1y ago
I am so tired of Microsoft cramming Copilot into everything. Search at $dayjob is completely borked right now. It shows a page of results, but the immediately pops up some warning dialog you cannot dismiss that Copilot can’t access some fil
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by heywire 1y ago
Reminds me of what I do when trying to look for structure in binary data. Print it to the screen in either bits or bites with word wrap enabled and drag the window around.
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by heywire 1y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for ntfy! I use it daily to notify me on events from my home Meshtastic node.
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by heywire 2y ago
I was at a ticket window buying concert tickets a couple weeks ago and was surprised to see the worker using the Ticketmaster TUI / Mainframe interface. She flew through the screens. The same experience on the Ticketmaster website is a
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by heywire 2y ago
Just paid $3.59/doz at Kroger here in Ohio about an hour ago (plain store brand). They were stocked pretty well.
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by heywire 2y ago
That’s one way to keep you watching, you’ve at least gotta hear the rest of the sentence! /s
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by heywire 2y ago
A quick search on Amazon shows a number of generic trackers compatible with “Find My”. In fact, the one on my dog’s collar is one of these.
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by heywire 2y ago
I’ve even seen some wallets with built in “Find My” support.
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by heywire 2y ago
I love reading debugging stories like these. Thanks for sharing!
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by heywire 2y ago
This looks very nice, I’ll have to give it a try!
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by heywire 2y ago
In many cases the company might have a subsidiary in a lower cost of living location (India, Eastern Europe, etc). The company I work for has slowly been laying off software engineers, project managers, and technical support folks in the US
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by heywire 2y ago
I saw a post on Reddit that said this was a bug and they’re working on it.
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by heywire 2y ago
It has been fun seeing all the different ways companies have come up with to work around the limitations of ISO 8583. One I’ve been seeing a lot lately is making an API call before/after the ISO message (with non-PCI data) to confer ad
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Ask HN: Are Citi notifications slow for you?
1 points by heywire 2y ago|0 comments
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by heywire 2y ago
Right? I can’t believe how many people seemingly use the same machine for both.
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by heywire 2y ago
I would wager that most people don’t want to use public transit regularly. I know I certainly don’t.
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What should the CPU usage be of a fully-loaded CPU that has been throttled?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by heywire 2y ago|1 comments
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by heywire 2y ago
Under $100 - an electric head shaver. I started balding in my mid 20’s, so I shaved my head with a BIC disposable and shaving cream. I kept up this routine for probably 15 years before seeing a curved electric razor made for heads advertise
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by heywire 2y ago
These have been popping up all around my town in southwest Ohio
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by heywire 2y ago
I used to work for the point of sale provider for various golf events in the US. We were having circuit breakers on UPS battery backup units trip, seemingly randomly. We soon realized that we couldn’t key up our walkie talkies when standing
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by heywire 2y ago
Not to mention that probably a majority of the electric gas and water meters in the US operate in the 902-928 range.
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by heywire 2y ago
Casually showing off your B210 lol jk, I’m just jealous. My RSP1A clone only goes about 10MHz wide. Patiently waiting for an affordable 30MHz wide SDR.
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by heywire 2y ago
I would have to imagine the manufacturers of the millions of smart electric, water, and natural gas meters across the US might have some comments.
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by heywire 2y ago
The Heltec Lora32 has integrated LiPo circuitry, but it might be overkill if you don’t need the RF side of things.

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