Hacker News: jordan314

New comment by jordan314 in "Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch"

jordan314 — Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:27:00 +0000

I can't believe the shuttle chased down a satellite to fix it in five spacewalks. How many satellites have had service missions like this?

New comment by jordan314 in "Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files"

jordan314 — Mon, 07 Jun 2021 17:46:25 +0000

I use this to search for transactions in my bank transaction history for taxes. Very useful!

New comment by jordan314 in "Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015)"

jordan314 — Tue, 18 May 2021 05:56:16 +0000

I do. But I did it on purpose, also switched my 'a's to look typewritten, I did it when I was handwriting my college essays.

New comment by jordan314 in "Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece"

jordan314 — Thu, 06 May 2021 18:51:23 +0000

Tangentially, I recently played the tetris theme on a stepper motor. https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1389886733769007108

New comment by jordan314 in "Just Be Rich"

jordan314 — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 12:03:43 +0000

Second link: https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...

New comment by jordan314 in "Use console.log() like a pro (2020)"

jordan314 — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 16:35:59 +0000

Yeah, also it's console.memory not console.memory()

New comment by jordan314 in "Email a Dumpster Fire"

jordan314 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 00:14:05 +0000

I appreciated whomever burned a dependabot alert.

New comment by jordan314 in "My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes"

jordan314 — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 04:26:43 +0000

This was a great read. Maybe slightly overengineered but I really liked the writing style, I read both parts.

New comment by jordan314 in "How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature"

jordan314 — Sat, 10 Oct 2020 01:28:32 +0000

I happen to be taking magnesium for headaches and vitamin D because I'm deficient. Thanks for the info!

New comment by jordan314 in "Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors"

jordan314 — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 23:38:05 +0000

Thanks for making f.lux and picasa!

New comment by jordan314 in "Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera"

jordan314 — Sun, 12 Jul 2020 13:17:04 +0000

FWIW I tried using the command line utility isightcapture on my 2019 macbook, and the LED turned on for 4-5 seconds and I got a dialog asking if I wanted to allow access to the camera. So this seems to be true. I still have a camera cover though

New comment by jordan314 in "AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor"

jordan314 — Thu, 28 May 2020 18:14:25 +0000

I wonder if iOS is ever going to catch up, I'm still waiting for them to implement getFloatTimeDomainData(). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AnalyserNod...

New comment by jordan314 in "Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates"

jordan314 — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 18:20:45 +0000

Didn't Benjamin Franklin sleep at his desk with a stick propped under his elbow, so when the stick fell out he would invent stuff? I remember hearing that somewhere but now I can't find it

New comment by jordan314 in "College Degrees Used to Make Families Wealthier. That’s No Longer True"

jordan314 — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 02:05:11 +0000

I'm in this age group and have lots of debt. I'm also an entrepreneur that can't attend accelerators or forgo a salary for a couple years because of said debt. It feels like startups are for rich people.

New comment by jordan314 in "I quit contracting 6 months ago"

jordan314 — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:12:04 +0000

Same. Just followed Michael on youtube.

New comment by jordan314 in "Brow.sh: Modem Text Browser That Supports CSS, JavaScript and Even WebGL"

jordan314 — Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:40:36 +0000

This is pretty amazing. Did not expect video and mouse control to work. For brew and iTerm2 I did have to use CTRL instead of command though.

New comment by jordan314 in "Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound to the Music"

jordan314 — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:56:52 +0000

This is why film music is a thing!

New comment by jordan314 in "Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)"

jordan314 — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:23:29 +0000

This sent me on a spiral of checking for MITM connections on my machine. You can compare the fingerprints of known sites with this list on this site: https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm Though I think the facebook one is wrong (the one I see starts with BD 25 8C for SHA-1)

New comment by jordan314 in "The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon"

jordan314 — Tue, 16 Oct 2018 21:08:16 +0000

I'm an amazon merch seller. Less risk but still crazy rules. I had a successful shirt, then copycats sold my shirt for less. I made a complaint to take down their shirt, and amazon took down my shirt instead. No matter how many times I email them they won't undo that.

New comment by jordan314 in "Show HN: One Click Pose Estimation"

jordan314 — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 16:54:43 +0000

Dang it even works on mobile safari (but 2 FPS)