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New comment by nacnud in "The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel"

nacnud — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:48:36 +0000

Obligatory reference to "Remain Indoors" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE

New comment by nacnud in "'Extraordinary Discovery' at Orkney's Ness of Brodgar Neolithic Site"

nacnud — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:37:52 +0000

I am hoping for a fossilized X-wing.

New comment by nacnud in "Patagonian Welsh"

nacnud — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:29:44 +0000

"Death Valley" is a recent gentle comedic crime detective series on the BBC (iPlayer), set in Wales and the characters frequently break into Welsh (with English subtitles). It's lovely to hear!

New comment by nacnud in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

nacnud — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:29:03 +0000

According to the ejection seat manufacturer [1] there is no minimum height or speed at which the ejection seat can be used, so as long as the aircraft is roughly level then the ejection should be survivable.

[1] https://martin-baker.com/ejection-seats/us16e/

New comment by nacnud in "Android Earthquake Alerts: A global system for early warning"

nacnud — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:52:13 +0000

Does the phone make a different kind of noise, so you'd potentially associate that with "get off the ladder quick"!?

New comment by nacnud in "LLM Inevitabilism"

nacnud — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:56:50 +0000

True - but if you erode that trust then your users may go elsewhere. If you keep the ads visually separated, there's a respected boundary & users may accept it.

New comment by nacnud in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

nacnud — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:31:40 +0000

Fan noise might be another consideration, given that some projects have to share a home with a family. Anyone know whether the N150 makes much noise?

New comment by nacnud in "Reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal"

nacnud — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:52:22 +0000

The map seems to be based on monitoring stations in the different locations, so yes - it's also possible that a station is offline for other reasons (maintenance, etc).

New comment by nacnud in "There are reports of widespread power cuts in Spain and Portugal"

nacnud — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:47:23 +0000

Reported here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43819791#43820127

New comment by nacnud in "Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal"

nacnud — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:35:39 +0000

There's a map of realtime load flow here: https://gridradar.net/en/wide-area-monitoring-system (currently shows Spain and Portugal as 'offline')

New comment by nacnud in "In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio"

nacnud — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:05:42 +0000

Ah, the retro equivalent of "curl -L | bash" ... :)

New comment by nacnud in "Ask HN: Real-time speech-to-speech translation"

nacnud — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:22:22 +0000

A friend recommends SayHi, which does near-realtime speech-to-speech translation (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sayhi.app&...). Unfortunately it's not offline though.

New comment by nacnud in "Watch live as SpaceX crew carry out first-ever commercial spacewalk"

nacnud — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 12:35:54 +0000

A valid question, perhaps I should have linked to the Polaris Dawn website: https://polarisprogram.com/dawn/ Apologies!

New comment by nacnud in "How the voices for ChatGPT were chosen"

nacnud — Mon, 20 May 2024 07:20:23 +0000

As a British person, I find all the current OpenAI voices have overly strong (American) accents, which are way too perky/enthusiastic for my ears. It would be great if they could offer a more neutral accent, or even one British accent? (Example: Voice 5 from pi.ai is excellent, IMHO)

New comment by nacnud in "The Pop-11 Programming Language"

nacnud — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:54:23 +0000

Sussex? We used it in COGS and I think it was one of very few places teaching with it at the time.

New comment by nacnud in "Show HN: Loodio – A Bathroom Privacy Device"

nacnud — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:32:23 +0000

IIRC, The Angelic (pub in Islington, London) used to play comedy shows from BBC Radio 4 on a loop. Makes customers smile, covers up noises - everybody's happy.

New comment by nacnud in "Music for Programming"

nacnud — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 16:03:07 +0000

You might enjoy DI FM [1] which I've found has an excellent range of faster and slower tempo music for programming.

[1] https://www.di.fm

New comment by nacnud in "Raspberry Pi 4 V3DV graphics driver achieves Vulkan 1.0 conformance"

nacnud — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:13:21 +0000

Good question, does this mean my family's holy grail of performant Minecraft on a Pi is coming closer?

New comment by nacnud in "New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person"

nacnud — Sun, 22 Dec 2019 17:18:53 +0000

Would this work over larger distances - e.g. remote sensing from space?

New comment by nacnud in "Multiple gas explosions and fires in Massachusetts"

nacnud — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 15:55:34 +0000

What are we going to do with all those dormant pipes? Could some clever startup use them to route physical packets of stuff? :)