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ce4··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
It might be worth it to check out what the market offers. Here in Germany lots of well known brands have started to cater to the non-alc consumers for the last few years. I like eg. Andechser Hell alkoholfrei. The increased competition resulted in some good nonalc beers from reputable wellknown brands
ce4··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
https://pbfcomics.com/comics/youll-be-ok/ :-)
ce4··on I also filed the corners off my MacBook
It resembles part of an electric motor, namely the windings (double t armature)
ce4··on Gone but Not Forgotten: Recovering the Dead Web
Maybe your own site from when the link was present has been archived by the Internet Archive. I'd give it a try, maybe you can recover that link at least
ce4··on Google's New reCAPTCHA Wants Your Camera Access and 21 Points of Your Hand
https://m.xkcd.com/1897/
ce4··on Recovering files from beyond the grave using PhotoRec
You can try "foremost", it isnt as easy to use but a bit more configurable - at least from memory (I have used it many years ago)
ce4··on Termux
I use it for lots of stuff, remote scanning from an old Canon flatbed scanner attached to my NAS (powered by a really ugly phone-local bash script, nothing else), rsync, renames (or the like using one liners), ssh tunnels to different destinations (to circumvent IP blockages) and of course YT downloads (using the source git folder and running it using "python -m yt_dlp $OPTIONS $URL" - when it breaks, a git pull is all it needs most of the time, I also have local patches that are not upstreamed)
ce4··on A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure
Relevant xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/806/

ce4··on Show HN: Learn German with Games
It does make sense though (once you know where it comes from):

Before the ubiquity of watches, time was announced using church clocks and bell strikes. There's a big bell for hours (low pitch) and a smaller one for announcing quarters (higher pitch).

Signalling zero is not possible using "zero bell strikes", so 00:00 is signalled by 4 strikes of the quarters bell and 12 strikes of the hour bell.

Thus, the sequences go like:

11:15 1x quarter bell

11:30 2x quarter bell

11:45 3x quarter bell

12:00 4x quarter bell + 1x hour bell

Basically it makes sense then as all the quarters belong to the same hour.

ce4··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
That and the professional gear is optimized for operational speed (e.g. a glassware dishwasher that has a 10min cycle for a bar. Guess how much water/electricity it needs).
ce4··on Wikipedia: Database Download
Aard2 for Android exists since at least 2015:

https://f-droid.org/packages/itkach.aard2

I have many current and old dumps and can switch between a few years. Very nice in case of deleted articles or to check old time stamped versions. It also supports more than just Wikipedia like wikiquote or wikivoyage or cooking wiki. You can compile own mediawikis too

ce4··on Samsung Q990D unresponsive after 1020 firmware update
Why wait for the next TV when you can just disconnect the darn existing box now?
ce4··on Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?
That's not how bamboo works though. It is hollow and needs to be processed into larger blocks
ce4··on Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?
Src please
ce4··on Hard disk fraud: long runtimes on new Seagate hard disks
Is there more information on this?
ce4··on Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer
I dont think one could reason that. Maybe some insight: The author is an engineer and had worked at Google and published the Goomics strip internally. It is also available at https://goomics.net/62

PS: Later he worked at Twitter and commented that also: https://twittoons.com/

ce4··on Reclaim Your Data: Freeing a Wi-Fi Sensor from the Cloud
There's another thing not mentioned. From the payload it looks like one may be able to spoof other customers' sensors by altering the serial (maybe it's a contiguous number) and replay the request. Heck, it is just one "curl -X PUT -d ..." command away, the info is all in the article
ce4··on Librebooting the ThinkPad T480
That doesnt solve stuff. I had to desolder the SOIC8 chip in an X220 because my programmer didnt like the power draw of the remaining attached circuitry that consumed additional power. I also upgraded OpenWrt Routers by soldering bigger RAM and bigger flash chips in the past
ce4··on OnlyFans models are using AI impersonators to keep up with their DMs
Discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42304333

ce4··on Reverse engineering the Ravensburger TipToi pen
The pen's main function is to point at things in the TipToi books and its integrated speaker explains the thing being pointed at, or plays a song or whatever the book is about. There is a huge catalogue of books for e.g. learning names of things in the kitchen, at a farm, fairy tales and even languages etc. It's great stuff and works well

There are different models and the newest one has a record feature as well as wifi (for asset downloads, versions before need a download companion app on the PC/mac).

Edit: fix typos

ce4··on Reverse engineering the Ravensburger TipToi pen
I got ours all used in bundles. The box itself is rather repairable (broken silicone ears, dead sd card, dead battery) and there are sometimes very good deals on Kleinanzeigen classified ads.

Also what helps: resale value is great, so after the Tonies have had their time and your kids become older... just sell them off.

ce4··on How a Gas Compressor Station Works
The compressor stations are alongside the gas pipeline network. These put in the energy needed to keep the gas flowing over long distances through the network.

Without those it would be just like a very very long garden watering hose that has a trickle of flow compared to a short one.

ce4··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
Get a used Rancilio Silvia + do a fully fledged Gaggiuino build.

Check this Video comparison (Not a modded Silvia though, but a Gaggia classic which I would not recommended due to its aluminum boiler and the new China manufactured models have a (probably Teflon) coated boiler that likes to shed the coating... just search on reddit). The emphasis in this comparison is on the Gaggiuino mod, which does all the magic (profile based brewing). The underlying base machine is not that important. I would stay away from Sage/Breville, too much non standard parts and lots of plastic for my taste.

Decent Espresso vs DIY Gaggiuino build: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4kAgPm1Xfw

Edit: many typos and some rewording

ce4··on DiyPresso: DIY Espresso Machine
You're probably not out-of-luck. Just buy a heat element designed for your grid's voltage. The electronics' internal PSU might already be capable having a wide range input.

Besides that, I would absolutely not recommend you buy this.

Reason: the parent commenter already hinted in the right direction. The E61 brew group is ancient (invented in 1961 by Faema in Italy, hence the name), it sports 4kg of brass and many moving parts (3 valves, camshaft + lever) and features an analog pre brew chamber.

I do restore italian espresso machines for a hobby and have come to the same conclusion as the parent. Even if they're not maintained properly those things are meant to last and can in most cases be resurrected. Most spare parts are readily available and defacto industry standard (eg. The Brasilia ring brew head) and you can retrofit nice electronics easily (eg. clever coffee or the gaggiuino foss controller project featuring pressure transducers, pid controller(s) and a controllable Flow/Pressure rate, profiles, apps and so on).

This diy project is imho bland and uses the most ancient brew head available, with unnecessary heat dissipation, long warmup times and probably leaded brass...

ce4··on Why is a Guillotine blade diagonal?
But thats because the cutting angle changes when depressing the lever. The curvature is meant to counter that to some extent.
ce4··on Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse
Yep, had that before. So i decided to cut away the Teflon around the 5 screw holes using a fresh (=really sharp) carpet knife. Nothing bent, no protruding corners, same gliding performance with just a different look from the now exposed holes at the underside...
ce4··on Wireless Amiga Tank Mouse
You probably can remove the adhesive Teflon-gliding-strip to reveal screw holes. Then replace the lipo pack.

I recently replaced a broken left click Omron D2F-01F micro switch in my Logitech MX vertical (open mouse, desolder 3 Pins, resolder new part, put all together again). The lipo pack is tiny and quite accessible inside.

It is doable but a bit of a nuisance. Took me about one hour (opening, ordering, change part, put all together again). Working again, even better than before due to the upgraded premium switch

ce4··on HP discontinues online-only LaserJet printers in response to backlash
I disagree, there are lots of other countries that have this. Japan recently got rid of floppies, for example[0]. Most of all, germany is full of doomsday thinking and complaints like this one, which i see often here when HN covers esp. german topics

Edit: here's some proper example why paper is not all that bad to have, and actually beneficial in some cases (reverse engineering of Ticketmaster online-only tickets, bound to app)[1]

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-vi...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40906148

ce4··on Booting Linux off of Google Drive
That is not booting a linux-kernel at all. it is just using the existing kernel which Android is based on (also Linux).
ce4··on Fuggerei: the world’s first public housing (2022)
It is still in operation and is a nice place (sometimes a bit crowded...).

PS: the old purely mechanical doorbells are also still operational (can be seen in the photograph, the forged metal rod to the left/right of the entrances)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei

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