pixelface

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by pixelface 4y ago
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 charts and printed material, gives convenient access to aviation
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 the source it reflects off surfaces and some of those re
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by pixelface 6y ago
very cool, just grabbed a copy.
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 to do 802.1x and nothing else. the setup was a little c
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 directly to request a copy is a known legitimate wo
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 obvious but has gone unexplored or uncommercialized. I get
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 will do so, but the discussion is really more comparable to s
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by pixelface 6y ago
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.
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 then and it still holds up now. i want to imagine
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 sense that i would explain something as "ho
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by pixelface 6y ago
this sounds like a really cool way to operate and it would be really interesting if you could expand on your experiences.
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 the wages of a bartender or minimum wage film set productio
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 issues) and it is definitely a cool thing to not
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by pixelface 6y ago
CA DMV will issue you an 'identification card' in addition to a drivers' license which very handy to have as a backup.
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 are not great yet, if enough of us support that niche it wil
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by pixelface 6y ago
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, et al) can be justified beyond small novelties
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 project.
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by pixelface 6y ago
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.
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by pixelface 6y ago
by this logic would you say that normal people using tor are providing cover for bad actors?
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 for his ham radio license (not linking that) [1] https:&
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 unable to work the job that funds my existence. starlink (or ot
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 in both tech and entertainment. To this day Grant and his co
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 vintage computers. the main issue i run into with repairs ten
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by pixelface 6y ago
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 flipping through everything and be pleasantly surprised. my
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by pixelface 6y ago
the officer grabbing the pink umbrella struggles to grasp it because his right hand grips a club. a truly poetic metaphor.
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by pixelface 6y ago
you've touched on the problem and the solution - number of people using it. for people who were children in the early 2000s it's a distant memory now but adults used to be generally bad with computers and windows was just as much
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by pixelface 6y ago
this already exists in some forms [1] on top of the fact that amateur radio in general is quite capable of moving data whether by packet radio [2] (including packet radio BBS [3], things like hinternet [4], bbs over amateur radio, or plain
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by pixelface 6y ago
feeling pretty good about the fact that some friends and i decided to get our licenses early into quarantine via remote online testing. highly recommend it if you're interested, some people are not aware of the fact that morse code re
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by pixelface 6y ago
this sounds really interesting and i'd imagine a bunch of us are very curious for a quick rundown on it despite not having an immediate need for it ourselves. care to elaborate?
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by pixelface 6y ago
you'll be pleased to find out that we are already able to do your first item - https://fo.am/activities/midimutant/

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