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sharksauceon M4.6 Earthquake – 2 km ESE of Berkeley, CA

Indeed -- Mount Desert Island (home of Acadia NP) had a small one just this weekend!

And we had a M4.2 one there about twenty years ago when I was living there.

sharksauceon Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio (2024)

sharksauceon WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator

Anyone see an easy way to add the sound-on setting to the URL options generated by "Copy Permalink"?

sharksauceon Hurricane Watch: The Peter McNeeley Website

I don't understand how anyone thought this was HN-worthy, but the old 25-year-old me living in Cambridge thanks you for your mental hiccup.

sharksauceon Evidence stacks up for poisonous books containing toxic dyes

Any Nethack veteran knows this can happen to you if you try to read a cursed spellbook.

sharksauceon The rich history of ham radio culture

What's your go-to ~$70 radio? I have a couple of Baofengs but you get what you pay for with those.

sharksauceon NYC Rat Sightings (Daily)

All my times visiting NYC I never saw a rat.

All my life living on the river around Boston I saw them all the time. And man they were the big ones.

I have added nothing to the discussion.

sharksauceon The night an audience member filled in for Keith Moon (2016)

I was at this show, and it was just as enjoyable as you'd imagine.

sharksauceon Rock and Roll Drums: All You Need to Know

Turning up the volume a whole lot can help a mediocre guitar player sound somewhat competent.

This does not apply to drums.

(source: crappy drummer me)

sharksauceon Rereading: The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder (2017)

And his next book will be about the FTX madness!

https://nypost.com/2022/11/15/michael-lewis-eyes-ftxs-sam-ba...

sharksauceon People pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

Ligma/Johnson.

And they were taken seriously by the assembled press.

sharksauceon Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it

I love this recipe, I'm so happy you made it available. I have made it multiple times. I might suggest you let potential chefs know of possible increased gastric activity with fermented foods, especially ones that like to give you painful reminders on the way out. But I'm sure as hell not submitting a pull request for that :)

sharksauceon Plane accidentally flew around the world (2018)

The amazing part to me is that Pan Am didn't just have them land in Miami and relieve them with a fresh crew. Story is way better the way it's told, though.

sharksauceon The Beatle Who Got Away

This article is written by Ted Widmer. Ted was a guitarist/vocalist for the Upper Crust, my favorite Boston AC/DC-influenced fops. And a White House speechwriter!

sharksauceon Heroku was Down

% heroku status

› Warning: Our terms of service have changed:

https://dashboard.heroku.com/terms-of-service Apps: Yellow Data: No known issues at this time. Tools: No known issues at this time.

=== Availability of Common Runtime apps 2022-02-24T16:50:47.249Z https://status.heroku.com/incidents/2402 investigating 2022-02-24T16:50:47.249Z (1 minute ago) Engineers are looking into reports of connectivity issues to Common Runtime apps in the US and EU regions.

sharksauceon Rupert Neve, Grammy-Winning Audio Industry Icon, Dies at 94

Anyone with even a passing interest in analog recording should spend a couple hours watching the Sound City documentary.

sharksauceon 8-Year-Old Calls Out NPR for Lack of Dinosaur Stories

Picture, thousand words, etc: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EGVoi4HU0AAqZDp.jpg

sharksauceon Leaving the Grace of This World

A warning to those of you who easily cry: this piece will do it to you.

sharksauceon Global chip shortage threatens production of laptops, smartphones and more

I just built a new office PC for my lady as a holiday gift. Most components were pretty fairly priced but I paid way more than expected for a Ryzen CPU with the integrated Radeon graphics near the price point I wanted to keep the build at. It's still a great build compared to what I'm replacing but that CPU markup was a shock, and I'm happy to not have to add a GPU to the mix.

sharksauceon A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science

"That's a big Twinkie."

-- Winston Zeddemore

sharksauceon Ask HN: Where are you moving to? (US only)

Left New England for Texas. Good luck with your search.

sharksauceon The Lost Art of Growing Blueberries with Fire

> Field across the road used to be a blueberry field, and one of Wyman's huge freezer facilities is a few miles down the road, along a now discontinued rail line.

> Now its a high school. Ahh, goodbye nice friendly traffic pattern, I miss you.

I think I know exactly the town you're talking about.

During my time Downeast I was told I should cut down the wild berry bushes we had growing all around our driveway every autumn. Hell with that, said I. Next year, with no berries, I figured they might have a point.

sharksauceon The utilitarian pleasures of playing board games by yourself

I figured a bunch of only children would reply here.

I spent 4-5 years playing Avalon Hill wargames alone (Panzer Blitz, Squad Leader, 1776, etc.), trying to play each side's strategy as accurately as I could. I don't know if it made me a better tactician but it certainly threw open the gates of historical curiosity to the point that 12-year-old me knew more about WWII than my parents.

sharksauceon Something small, every day (2013)

One of the best phrases I've ever heard: "Shitty First Draft":

https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/1-Shitty%20First%...

sharksauceon The world could soon run out of space to store oil. Prices may plunge below zero

Regular 87-octane gasoline has dropped almost seventy cents per gallon in price in central Texas since this madness started. Oil producers in the state are getting squeezed hard right now.

sharksauceon Why Lie Detector Tests Can’t Be Trusted

I like to call this the "Martha Stewart Rule"

https://corporate.findlaw.com/litigation-disputes/how-to-avo...

sharksauceon Israel’s Beresheet Spacecraft Moon Landing Attempt Appears to End in Crash

The saddest thing is that the moon men are still bereft of queso: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/weird/austin-queso-launche...

sharksauceon No, of that I'm innocent

I have rejected my lawyer’s advice to not make a statement

Oh this always works out well.

sharksauceon The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring

It certainly was broadcast live -- every major TV news organization in the US broadcast the re-entry. Of course Columbia was very high altitude when it broke apart and the cameras (fortunately in my opinion) couldn't get very close-in shots.

There's a point to be made that people were more prepared for a possible disaster given the reports of damage to the shuttle that the crew provided days ahead, compared to the absolute surprise and shock at Challenger, and the horrifyingly clear camera footage provided at a lower altitude.