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What exactly is the connection between this article and the video?

I recently tried to find something like this for the US but it appears security concerns limit public access to a realtime map like this.

This is really cool. Should this be combined with a DAC to truly benefit form the Audio quality playback available?

Lol. You would only see this comment on Hacker News. Reminds me of an old comic I read on how mathematicians memorize their locker numbers. "1975? Oh that's easy. It's just the square root of 3,900,625!"

Is that Massena NY or Massena Iowa?

It looks like the "random" button on the old version no longer works. Did you remove that feature?

I think this project is dormant right?

The Project Gutenberg license is longer than the actual story.

This is an awesome recommendation. I've tried reading him several times but I can never get into it. Definitely going to try this out.

Would love to play this on an emulator hosted on something like Archive.org.

Now for a phone that has a battery that will last that long. That would really be news. I find that I don't replace a phone because it can't function or is no longer secure. I replace it because it can't hold a charge long enough for regular daily use.

Very cool insight! Do you work with Railroads professionally? I'm surprised there isn't more available about this. It looks like a really fun hobby.

Me too! Looks like a lot of fun. I wonder what a typical cost is. Love the idea of Solar with LiPO batteries!

The first part of the transcript was "Hoooow aaarrrreeee youuu dooooing? IIIIII'mmmm aaaaa sciiiientiiiist." :-p

Interesting to read this as an outsider and to pretty much confirm what you suspected. Very interesting is the take on Vic Gundotra. I knew him briefly on a personal level and he came across as a nice guy but you don't want to cross him. The comment on how he doesn't do well when things go wrong lines up perfectly with what my impressions were of him.

Is there any examples of practical uses of this OS or is this more of a passion project?

Wait a sec... is that from the novel Death's End ? Lol

Would Tailscale be an effective replacement for Tinc? It's built on top of Wireguard and works really well.

FYI you can play with this system by calling 503-468-1337

I'm a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and have been one for over 20 years and the last few years has convinced me that Intuit is determined to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs by:

1) Forcing all their customers to migrate to the online version of their program. Many of the clients I've spoken to were happy with and preferred the Desktop version. The Desktop version is faster and can do more than the online version.

2) Throwing major updates at the online version that hides or moves functionality. I work with multiple clients and based on the client their version of QuickBooks can be very different from another's. Even the same client that has multiple businesses and has to use multiple subscriptions could have a different look. I don't know what drives this at Intuit but it's confusing for me and I'm supposed to be the expert.

3) Relentlessly raise prices. Intuit has been annually raising their prices in what appears to be an attempt to eventually price everyone out of their product. Some clients have to pay 200.00 a month for the advanced version for one feature they need to have for their business! The attitude from Intuit feels like "So where else are you going to go?"

For most of my adult life I've worked as an accountant that works mainly with QuickBooks but I'm worried that I'm going to have to try to find a new way of supporting myself because Intuit appears to be demonstrating by their recent decisions that they don't need to show loyalty to customers or even keep customers. If they can have a few stay on to pay ridiculous subscription fees that's all they need.

Previous post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35954776

Lol. Nice to know I have a follower! :-D I got into fountain pens through hacker news. I learn a lot from the comments on these posts.

This is a great list. Just to piggyback on the Pilot Vanishing Point. I originally wasn't interested in getting one because I was put off with the clip being on the "wrong" end of the pen. I wound up purchasing the Mahjohn A1 which is basically a Chinese replica of the Pilot Vanishing Point. (I guess the patent expired after 50 years) It's my new favorite pen. Even with a steel nib it writes very smoothly. Because it's almost identical you can interchange the cartridges and pin nib inserts.

I'm very tempted to buy the actual Pilot Vanishing Point insert and swap it so I have a 18k nib.

Originally released in 1963 it really is a really cool piece of engineering. Highly recommend the Pilot Vanishing Point or the Chinese replica as a daily writer.

Paul Theroux is also a very good fiction write. I recently read "The Mosquito Coast" and I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

What are some of your favorite goto pens?

Isn't Nova PBS? They are both nonprofit organizations but I think that's a separate organization from NPR correct?

I'm in Riverside California and I think your retail prices are a bit too low. There recently have been quite a few mom and pop coffee shops opening up and the prices are higher than Starbucks but they're also packed because each place has a unique take on coffee shops. Maybe this trend will change in a near future recession but right now it seems people pay more for a unique "authentic" experience.