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jdfellow

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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/cellofellow; my proof: https://keybase.io/cellofellow/sigs/mg_SbXao2AmkmJUPE6ObhemfprwSTDbn5r1CXgGNiSs ]
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jdfellow··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
On Audible, revisiting a childhood favorite: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs.

On my Kindle I have two ham radio books I'm reading, one is about grounding antennas, the other a General test prep.

- Grounding and Bonding for the Radio Amateur - Ham Radio General Class License Study Guide

jdfellow··on Never buy a .online domain
Well, dang. I've used a .tech as my personal domain and email for some years now, and didn't know this was owned by an obnoxious registry.
jdfellow··on Samsung's abandoned NX cameras can be brought online with a $20 LTE stick
I have an NX Mini (which isn't exactly the same as the regular NX line) which has a "1 inch" sensor and a 3-lens interchangeable system. With the 9mm fixed lens it's as pocketable as a phone, but with a flip-out screen, a real flash and otherwise much better quality. With the 9-27mm zoom lens it's even a reasonable portrait camera. I haven't found one of the 17mm f/1.8 lenses, they're pretty rare.

Anyway, I really like that little thing. With a C-mount lens adapter I can use surveillance camera lenses which is pretty fun.

jdfellow··on .well-known/avatar
Yeah I'm not sure that the content negotiation would work very well if you're using a plain webserver or storage service to serve static content.
jdfellow··on We don't need a DAC on the ESP32-S3
Isn't Delta-Sigma and PDM exactly how DSD works? In fact, I think Sony originally came up with DSD as an intermediate representation of PCM in one of their DACs and then Sony & Phillips got the harebrained idea to use it in SACD. That is to say, a simple DAC for DSD is just a capacitor functioning as a low-pass filter, without any other components.
jdfellow··on USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible (2019)
I believe those are MCX. My Shure SE215 IEMs (earphones) use the same connector.
jdfellow··on Ardour 8.0
There's also a distinct commercial DAW based on Ardour called Harrison Mixbus.

https://harrisonconsoles.com/product/mixbus/

jdfellow··on Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
There's a big old rules list[0], which I can never tell is satirical or not, that those road bike racers adhere to.

0: https://www.velominati.com/

jdfellow··on Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online?
Cornell CS 3110 - OCaml, lectures on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&list=PLre5AT9Jn...
jdfellow··on Grasshopper – An open-source Python library for load testing
Well, it is based on Locust so there's at least some rhyme or reason to the name.
jdfellow··on Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost
There's a long-standing convention of "golden age" meaning the first age, when an art came into its own. A "silver age" follows if there's a revolution in the art, often with some sort of decline between.
jdfellow··on Don’t record your social life on an append-only social network (2022)
Another old UNIX prior art is finger.
jdfellow··on Google Groups has been left to die
Google Groups performed the classic embrace-extend-extinguish maneuver against USENET, by way of their acquisition of DejaNews and then implementing their own forum/mailing list interface on top if it.

But, I wonder how many communities that are using Google Groups would be suitably served by falling back to USENET. I suppose it would require some updates to both NNTP server software to be easier to administer (if you want to go that route), and especially NNTP client readers to be more modern and user-friendly.

jdfellow··on Poor schemas, poor cataloguing: why music tagging sucks
If you have Spotify premium give https://getconcertmaster.com/ a try. It's a frontend for Spotify with additional cataloging features for classical recordings.
jdfellow··on Portugal proposes to end Golden Visas, curtail Airbnb rentals
Portugal started to collapse, slowly, after the 1755 Lisbon earthquake and it's just been one setback after another since.
jdfellow··on American drivers have a blinding headlight problem
The federal EPA requires states to run emissions inspections in urban counties but leaves it up to the state for rural counties.

There's no federal requirement for safety inspections so that varies state to state.

jdfellow··on Multi-Account Containers
I love containers but I've started to phase out using this extension and preferring Temporary Containers for most of my use cases.
jdfellow··on I almost bought a scanner
Color film and photo paper is made with dyes that fade and shift over time. An inkjet print with pigments will last longer. Only monochrome silver metal film or paper will last indefinitely, and it's the gelatin layer that will last, some substrates including consumer-grade acetate film and most papers will degrade. The best archival format is silver on polyester film. Color can still be achieved by way of three exposures in RGB, similar to Technicolor.
jdfellow··on The FBI Identified a Tor User
Wait, there's bills for search warrants, like in Brazil (the movie)?
jdfellow··on The IAB loves tracking users but hates users tracking them
You can also create free aliases on a completely different domain, and I think they have a plugin with 1Password to do this for each login you create.
jdfellow··on This is the year of the RSS reader?
Gnus having NNTP and it's "nnrss" module means its my default newsreader.
jdfellow··on How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile
The Gordon Murray T.50 hypercar also has a downforce fan. https://gordonmurrayautomotive.com/cars/t50s
jdfellow··on YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them (2012)
Split rings (key rings) work well in my experience.
jdfellow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
I'll check that out. I'm near to Corinne but Roy isn't far.
jdfellow··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)
I'm local to the Northrup Grumman location in Brigham City Utah and just came onto the market. I'm a 9-year veteran software developer largely experienced in Python web systems and cloud. I'd like to see what's available.
jdfellow··on How I clean my glasses
Isopropyl wipes are my go to. I buy them in big boxes and carry them regularly.
jdfellow··on Tron changed cinema, predicted the future of tech
Probably the hellhounds Zuul and Vinz Clortho.
jdfellow··on figlet – a program for making large letters out of ordinary text
libcaca [0] command img2txt can output html

[0] http://caca.zoy.org/wiki/libcaca

jdfellow··on Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencils [video]
Haven't watched the video yet, but I did just the last couple of weeks buy 2 Uni Kuru Toga pencils from JetPens and am enjoying them immensely.
jdfellow··on Show HN: HN Avatars in 357 bytes
Wonder what I've got.
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