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New comment by ekingr in "How I learned electronics [video]"

ekingr — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:15:52 +0000

I bought a cheap usb-powered hand-held oscilloscope DIY kit off Aliexpress. It was a fun soldering project and now I have a (very minimalistic) oscilloscope for when I need one (which is very seldom).

New comment by ekingr in "DIY Acoustic Camera"

ekingr — Thu, 28 Oct 2021 18:08:24 +0000

If so, it’d definitely be worth coupling it with lasers to kill mosquitoes!

New comment by ekingr in "NASA Space Tourism Posters"

ekingr — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 14:07:06 +0000

The CNES (French national center for space studies) had done similar 'vintage' ones a while ago

https://reves-d-espace.com/affiches-spatiales-pour-decorer-v... (unfortunately not available in the original site anymore)

New comment by ekingr in "Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio"

ekingr — Mon, 17 May 2021 17:22:37 +0000

Still not sure.

Indeed I have Funkwhale on the radar, but tbh I don't have a strong use case for streaming at home. Was thinking about putting it on my rPi -- but in the end it's even easier to just stream from my iPhone through Bluetooth (or a good old jack).

My priority is to build a clean library with beets, transcode it in mp3 and feed it to iTunes, to have it on my iPhone & iPod.

New comment by ekingr in "Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio"

ekingr — Mon, 17 May 2021 16:02:05 +0000

I agree so much! I switched to Apple Music 2 years ago when my hard drive failed. At the beginning it was alright, very convenient to have (almost) everything available on hand, in the same app as before. But now I can't stand it anymore. I have so many albums that randomly split all the time, version of tracks that change or become unavailable altogether. I'm moving away from streaming and am working on building back my music library (that I will be owning for good).

How Tech Loses Out over at Companies, Countries and Continents

ekingr — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 14:50:36 +0000

Article URL: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26970022

Points: 1

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New comment by ekingr in "Happy New Year HN"

ekingr — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 23:30:33 +0000

Bonne année HN ! Wishing even more curiosity to you all this year!

See if your password is stored in plaintext

ekingr — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 11:35:44 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/laughing_mantis/status/1308212643723767809

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24553304

Points: 3

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New comment by ekingr in "Boom supersonic jet readies for rollout"

ekingr — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:42:10 +0000

That seems too high. I'd rather say in the order of c.$100bn.

In France the average cost is €15m/km, and that's for extremely high standards / constraints (350km/h or 220mph nominal speed, incl. barriers & bridges for wildlife)

New comment by ekingr in "Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests"

ekingr — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 19:25:23 +0000

It's not that fantasy anymore: Emirates' new first-class suites in the 777 [1] have fake windows that display a live feed from the outside.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/1/16723152/emirates-first-c...

New comment by ekingr in "I miss Inbox, so I hacked Gmail with a little CSS magic (2019)"

ekingr — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:59:24 +0000

I guess beyond UI/UX, a key pain point that webmail solved is synchronisation. Whatever the change you do on whatever device, the state is managed by the server and reflected the same everywhere. Much easier than POP/IMAP/Exchange. The drawback is that you have to be always connected.

Native support for WebAuthn and FIDO is finally here on iPhones and iPads

ekingr — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 13:23:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yubico.com/2019/12/native-support-for-webauthn-and-fido-is-finally-here-on-iphones-and-ipads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21771595

Points: 3

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New comment by ekingr in "I Got Access to My Secret Consumer Score"

ekingr — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:42:05 +0000

> Two points: First, the very act of requesting your data is in a way confirming and verifying the accuracy of the data.

Same dilemma as hitting the "unsubscribe" link on spam: when doing so you confirm them you have a valid email address. It's a pure act of faith, you hope that they will comply and not take advantage of you even more.

New comment by ekingr in "Finding meteorites with 10cm NEXRAD weather radar"

ekingr — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 16:29:21 +0000

On a similar note, there was this video from the Verge on collecting roof-top micro-meteorites that was quite interesting to follow:

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/5/18211112/meteorites-space-...

New comment by ekingr in "Pricing niche products"

ekingr — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 14:23:02 +0000

The Matt Levine-style "People are worried about custom keyboard market liquidity" made me laugh aloud!

https://www.bloomberg.com/topics/money-stuff

New comment by ekingr in "Hinkley Point C nuclear plant to run £2.9bn over budget"

ekingr — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:53:09 +0000

Just to put it in perspective, the same model of EPR (European Pressurized Reactor) being build at Flamanville in France is 10 years late (x3 vs 5 years initial estimate) and €8bn over budget (x3.5 vs €3bn initial budget). The Finnish one is also massively struggling.

Fortunately the Chinese ones in Taishan were delivered quite on time & budget this year.

It's sad to see all these issues with execution, doing a bad press for nuclear - while we really need more of it to decarbonize our electricity (at least in the mid-term).

New comment by ekingr in "Vinyl set to outsell CDs for first time since 1986"

ekingr — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 14:27:08 +0000

I know it's not really what you are mentioning, but I remember reading a paper of people being able to playback a vinyl from a high-resolution scan of it.

I can't find back the paper in question but I've found this which is in the same spirit: https://www.cse.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.htm...

New comment by ekingr in "XLOOKUP for Excel"

ekingr — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 14:34:30 +0000

It’s a breakthrough for the consulting world!

Joke appart, it’s been long overdue to have such a lookup functions - even more so with sensible parameters as default!

New comment by ekingr in "YouTube should stop recommending garbage videos to users"

ekingr — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:15:50 +0000

I would argue that it is the same story for traditional media - albeit to a less extreme extent. In France, even on public channels, reality shows and dubious scandal-sounding programs now represent a high share of the broadcasts.

For sure it is less extreme than the topics mentioned there, but still the programs are optimized to make you addicted and boost stats. Neutral fact-based or educational content is disappearing quickly.

Keyboard Layout Editor

ekingr — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:57:32 +0000

Article URL: http://www.keyboard-layout-editor.com/#/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20421177

Points: 1

# Comments: 0