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Rossimac

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Rossimac··on Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero
I took mine apart mid-show to figure out how it's doing it's thing. Brilliantly applied tech, but I couldn't help but think of the e-waste from those fans who don't cherish something like this enough to keep as a memento.

Edit: seeing others commenting on sustainability and pointing towards their website. Fair enough. Good experience had and it's not the worst.

https://pixmob.com/sustainability

Rossimac··on MiniDisc Hacking
Decided to not read the website because of that.
Rossimac··on Show HN: Invoice Dragon – An open source app to create PDF invoices
Checked. Only rendered when a Preview is requested.
Rossimac··on Ask HN: Anyone working 4 day week here, as an employee?
Member of my team moved recently to 4x9.375 instead of 5x7.5. My company wouldn't allow an hours reduction at the same or similar salary, so he took the offered option above. He takes Wednesday off and seems to enjoy it. I'm considering the same now, too.
Rossimac··on Test Your Sense of Pitch
26/26. Didn't recognise a few tunes, but easy enough to spot when something's wrong.

Oh and from Northern Ireland, so UK.

Rossimac··on Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child
When I was younger (say, 7 or 8 years old), I considered myself a good swimmer and as part of my swimming lessons we were told to do length-ways with the aid of a swimming board [0] at arms' length.

Approaching the 3/4 mark of the length, I felt it slipping out of my hands and in my panic, I went down. I woke up after being resuscitated after a lifeguard noticed I was in trouble under the water. He had jumped from the top step of his high chair straight in apparently and literally threw me out of the water to a waiting colleague.

Not sure if I'd trust my own children with that type of flotation aid again, but as you said, it encouraged me to swim outside of my comfort zone and I panicked so perhaps more control is needed of when and where it is used.

[0] http://runforthethrills.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/kick-...

Rossimac··on Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown
I'm still rocking my MacBook Unibody (Late 2008). Coming up to 7 years old and the only issue is the battery is down to an hour and half, which sucks.

Other than that, 8GB RAM and a 120GB SSD gave it the much needed boost (5 years ago...).

Rossimac··on The Monster Truck Madness 2 site is unchanged from 1998
Listed as "Abandonware" in one of their linked Fan sites and readily downloadable if you can't get the trial to work.

http://vales.com/mtm2/

Rossimac··on Abandoning PHP for Python
Definitely a bit more computationally intensive than I would have imagined it to be. That's a bit of a challenge even for some with a CS degree!

Cheers for pointing this course out, though. It's right up my street.

Rossimac··on Abandoning PHP for Python
On the introduction page of this course it states, "This course is intended for folks who have a strong programming background, but who are new to finance and investing."

Hardly well-hidden.

Rossimac··on Stripe in Ireland
Anyone travelling from Belfast? Would love to join!