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rolivercoffeeon KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer

Red Means Recording made a nice video with it: https://youtu.be/mpMxHfxuNco

rolivercoffeeon New BYD Hybrid Can Drive Non-Stop for More Than 2k Kilometers

I'm not sure my bladder could handle driving 2,000km without a stop!

rolivercoffeeon Cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using acoustic cavitation

Don't worry he's way ahead of us: https://youtu.be/2meeYcxXoVs

rolivercoffeeon Vegetable stock: my secret lover (2011)

James Hoffmann had an interesting take on making vegetable stock. TL;DW: He used a juicer

https://youtu.be/VV68NiRulEk

rolivercoffeeon Analyzing Spotify Stream History

This made me remember how much I used to love exploring my last.fm data with stream graphs from https://lastgraph.aeracode.org/ (before it died)

I'll have to have a go at making something similar with my Spotify data. Thanks for the inspiration.

rolivercoffeeon Tesla FSD Timeline

Simone Giertz beat them to it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O4bXocMj0A

rolivercoffeeon Ford 021C Concept Car (1999)

I remember really wanting this at the time. Amazing how jarring the design of the radio is in comparison to the rest of the interior. Also, interesting how they didn't think to design their own entertainment system because... cars had third party entertainment systems that's just the way it was!

rolivercoffeeon Windows 11 adding native support for winRAR, 7zip, tar, and gzip

I really hope this includes being able to use AES encryption.

rolivercoffeeon Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used

I spent the best part of a sunny Saturday trying to work out why an elderly relative’s HP printer wasn’t working.

The error messages were incredibly unhelpful (I like to believe they were too ashamed to tell you what was actually wrong).

Turns out their credit card was due to expire soon. Was shocked when I found that was the issue & had a hard time explaining what had gone wrong. I’ll definitely advise against HP printers going forward.

rolivercoffeeon How the McMurtry Electric Fan Car Clocked a 7.9-Second Quarter-Mile

There was a driverless series in development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roborace

Unfortunatly it looks like it might have floundered

rolivercoffeeon An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

As of Dec 2020 only 2.3% of active accounts had any form of 2FA enabled [1]

[1] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/twitter-revea...

rolivercoffeeon First 100k KG Removed from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

That’s their plan.

https://theoceancleanup.com/waste-management-and-recycling/

rolivercoffeeon Read Easy – Dyslexia, ADHD, and SSS Helper

Nice idea. On a releated note I've found Firefox's reader view absolutely excellent for this too.

rolivercoffeeon High-Security Mechanical Locks (2020)

Little click out of two...

rolivercoffeeon Lego Ideas Boeing 747 Cockpit Achieves 10k Supporters

https://web.archive.org/web/20220207213153/https://www.thebr...

rolivercoffeeon How to develop black and white film at home with coffee (2019)

There's quite a nice James Hoffmann video covering this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhOtTUtPhg

rolivercoffeeon Why time “speeds up” as we get older (2019)

I remember watching a episode of Numberphile about Webber's law: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHG8io5qIU8

TL;DW: We percieve things logarithmically. Thought it was an interesting idea.

rolivercoffeeon World's biggest wind turbine shows the disproportionate power of scale

There's a nice video compairing vertical and horisontal axis wind turbines here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM-gCvhQhPU

rolivercoffeeon Ask HN: What under-the-radar technology are you excited about?

Any grid energy storage technology. Whether it's small home units (smart batteries, vehicle to grid, hydrogen packs...) or huge grid scale (liquid air, gravity, liquid metal batteries...)

rolivercoffeeon Equivalent of 97% of Scotland’s 2020 electricity consumption was from renewables

This is starting to happen: https://octopus.energy/agile/ I imaging more suppliers will start offering this soon.

(I'm not in anyway associated with Octopus btw, just interested in this sort of thing)

rolivercoffeeon BBC Micro at 40: How it inspired a generation of coders [video]

There was a show called The Net: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series)

rolivercoffeeon MF DOOM Has Died

Really sad news.

For me Four Tet's remixs of Great day and Money folder were as close to perfect as I've heard.

https://youtu.be/xD4g2Mg4AJc https://youtu.be/dFis_o-QpD8

rolivercoffeeon Ask HN: Anyone seriously working on starting a new country?

There's a short (mostly unsuccessful) history of Micronations [1] The most recent I remember being Liberland [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberland

rolivercoffeeon Vaccine hopes rise as Oxford jab prompts immune response among old and young

I was under the impression there was an exclusive agreement in place with AstraZeneca but the general terms for access to Oxford's IP was:

https://innovation.ox.ac.uk/technologies-available/technolog...

rolivercoffeeon Porsche found a way to 3D-print lightweight pistons that add more horsepower

Someone already did: https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ferrari-eyes-innovative-p...

rolivercoffeeon Ask HN: Which magazines/publications do you follow?

I’m really enjoying the slow news movement: Delayed gratification [1] Tortoise [2]

1. https://www.slow-journalism.com/ 2. https://www.tortoisemedia.com/

rolivercoffeeon Tracking Coronavirus by Smell Test

Researchers crunching data from a COVID-19 symptom tacking app in the UK have come to similar conclusions [1]

[1] https://covid.joinzoe.com/post/research-update-april-1-2020

rolivercoffeeon Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account briefly taken over by hackers

There are solutions out there that can detect SIM swap (