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New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

_whiteCaps_ — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:40:44 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGWmONHipVo

MythBusters have a good BLEVE episode. Apparently Adam Savage's favourite explosion.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Kv4p HT – A homebrew 1W radio (VHF or UHF) that plugs into an Android phone"

_whiteCaps_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:09:47 +0000

There's the trusdx or the QMX.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

_whiteCaps_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:36:49 +0000

Other countries are in a Catch-22 situation regarding Cuba - for example in Canada, Canadian law penalizes companies that refuse to trade with Cuba in order to comply with U.S. sanctions, and U.S. law can penalize them if they do trade.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

_whiteCaps_ — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:30:59 +0000

All thanks to a Shakespeare fan, Eugene Schieffelin.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/article...

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

_whiteCaps_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:58:07 +0000

The Warsaw Uprising Museum is an excellent place to visit if you're into WWII history.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

_whiteCaps_ — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:55:48 +0000

My Polish coworkers say that's due to the senior citizens stuck in a Soviet occupation mindset, and they're doing things like burning plastic trash to heat their homes.

I really enjoyed Warsaw in December, the air seemed fine to me.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars [video]"

_whiteCaps_ — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:06:19 +0000

TIL how the Toyota hybrid system works. That's really cool!

Now I kind of want to use one in a sailboat - hook up MG2 to the propeller and a little diesel to the engine input.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

_whiteCaps_ — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:47:43 +0000

https://www.bobsredmill.com/employee-owned

I like the approach Bob's Red Mill took.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Artemis II fault tolerance"

_whiteCaps_ — Sat, 02 May 2026 17:06:29 +0000

I'm not that much of a masochist :-P

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Artemis II fault tolerance"

_whiteCaps_ — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:20:36 +0000

I'm a big fan of Dissimilar Redundancies (but didn't know that was the term until today) for building system software.

Build for various Linux distros, and some of the BSDs. You'll encounter weird compile errors or edge cases that will pop up. Often times I've found that these will expose undefined behaviour or incorrect assumptions that you wouldn't notice if you were building for a single platform.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

_whiteCaps_ — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Tool, Weezer, Sublime, RATM, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Blink-182 all put out amazing albums from 96-99.

Rose coloured glasses though - I was a teenager at the time.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

_whiteCaps_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:42:08 +0000

I just put the latest Jamiroquai album on a minidisc through WebUSB!

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Canada's first sovereign wealth fund"

_whiteCaps_ — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:26:07 +0000

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

Hopefully turns out better than BCRIC.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

_whiteCaps_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:30:50 +0000

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/11/11/ingress-nginx-retireme...

NGINX Ingress is deprecated, not the Ingress resource itself.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

_whiteCaps_ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:07:40 +0000

The pattern I often see is a Patreon release a week before the public release.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "I'm never buying another Kindle, and neither should you"

_whiteCaps_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:40:37 +0000

I've had three different Kobos (two with touchscreen) and never ran into this issue.

But the Overdrive issues are infuriating, especially when you miss out on a hold from the library and have to get in the queue again. On popular books it can take months. :(

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "OpenClaw isn't fooling me. I remember MS-DOS"

_whiteCaps_ — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:01:44 +0000

Seems like the approach should be to have an LLM set up HA.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

_whiteCaps_ — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:53:26 +0000

https://investor.helenoftroy.com/press-releases/press-releas...

I wonder if that coincides with their purchase by Helen Of Troy.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "NYC to open municipal grocery store in 2027"

_whiteCaps_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:34:07 +0000

It literally happened here in Canada:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/loblaw-bread-price-settleme...

> The class-action case was brought against a group of companies that includes Loblaw and the Weston companies, Metro, Walmart Canada, Giant Tiger, and Sobeys and its owner, Empire Co. Ltd.

> The plaintiffs allege those companies participated in a 14-year industry-wide price-fixing conspiracy between 2001 and 2015, leading to an artificial increase in packaged bread prices.

New comment by _whiteCaps_ in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

_whiteCaps_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:21:49 +0000

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2024/08/...

> On Friday, a social media user tweeted an image from the Nirvana exhibit at the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle. A placard dedicated to the “27 Club” read, “Kurt Cobain un-alived himself at 27.”