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New comment by royskee in "An open-source 240-antenna array to bounce signals off the Moon"

royskee — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:15:22 +0000

Every time I hear about Earth-Moon-Earth moonbounce comms, I think of this classic reddit comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/8lpk45/commen...

New comment by royskee in "Navy ditches touchscreens for knob and dial controls after fatal crash (2019)"

royskee — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:35:16 +0000

I wish automobile manufacturers would take this to heart.

New comment by royskee in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

royskee — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:03:15 +0000

"Are your legs so long you have to sit with your knees pressed against the back of the seat in front of you or something? If so I suppose that's understandable."

Yes and also for people with long legs, seated in a typical airline seat, their knees will be significantly higher than the top of the seat cushion. So, they get caught up in the sweep of a reclining seatback ahead.

New comment by royskee in "Postal Arbitrage"

royskee — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:56:35 +0000

That's pretty neat. It's a little oblique to your project, but you might be interested in the QSL bureau system https://www.iaru.org/on-the-air/qsl-bureau/

New comment by royskee in "Radios, how do they work? (2024)"

royskee — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:45:20 +0000

Huh, I never heard that one. Extra gets you more frequency privileges (nice not having to worry so much about band edges) but IMO the real benefit is being able to enjoy reciprocal operating under CEPT when traveling abroad.

New comment by royskee in "Show HN: Silly Morse code chat app using WebSockets"

royskee — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:43:49 +0000

I called CQ for a bit but nobody on at the time seemed to know Morse. Neat idea though, and with the different tones for different users it would be possible to overcome the background noise of people playing around.

New comment by royskee in "Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin"

royskee — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:18:25 +0000

Yes! I enjoyed that book

New comment by royskee in "Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin"

royskee — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 11:30:11 +0000

A book on the subject came out earlier this year that I've been wanting to read, "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" by Nicola Twilley

New comment by royskee in "Playball – Watch MLB games from a terminal"

royskee — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:54:06 +0000

Unicode FTW: "𝼃"

New comment by royskee in "GNU Midnight Commander"

royskee — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:59:04 +0000

I guess you're not familiar with the iconography, but the little lightning bolt symbol in the battery icon means it is plugged in! (edit: I tried to reproduce your "ASCII art" with unicode lightning bolt but the formatting didn't survive)

New comment by royskee in "XeroxNostalgia.com"

royskee — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:58:02 +0000

I couldn't find anything regarding their Alto system, widely regarding as the first computer graphical operating system when it was developed in the late 1970s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto , from their Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Aaand I think I just figured out why the modern Xerox multi-function Xerox copier/scanner/printers we have at work are called AltaLink

New comment by royskee in "Strange CW Keys"

royskee — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 14:26:14 +0000

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New comment by royskee in "The Rise and Fall of Music Ringtones: A Statistical Analysis"

royskee — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 18:42:18 +0000

It's been a while since I've done it, but I think it's still possible, though a pain in the ass, to put custom ringtones on an iPhone. It involved renaming a .m4a audio file with to have a .m4r extension and then somehow getting it on the phone. Worth it to have the opening to "Eye of the Tiger" as a ringtone.

New comment by royskee in "Starbucks in Korea asks customers to stop bringing in printers/desktop computers"

royskee — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 17:58:59 +0000

OMG someone brought in a cubicle

New comment by royskee in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

royskee — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:12:33 +0000

Apple barely does it and only for their products.

With the recent notable exception of the F1 movie advertisement that arrived as a notification from the Wallet app. https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-erod...

I disabled Wallet notifications immediately :-(

New comment by royskee in "Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine (2020)"

royskee — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:23:31 +0000

BBC made a fascinating documentary called Perisher on the qualifying process for sub captains in the Royal Navy - it's available on YouTube (in the US at least) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LF2I3fTbY

New comment by royskee in "Freight rail fueled a new luxury overnight train startup"

royskee — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 12:41:42 +0000

In the Washington, DC area, the Dover Harbor is a private rail car available for charter or one can join on select public trips. I believe it attaches to Amtrak trains. https://doverharbor.com/

New comment by royskee in "Canon Law Ninja"

royskee — Tue, 27 May 2025 13:37:12 +0000

I found one hit for "exorcism" https://canonlaw.ninja/?nums=1172

New comment by royskee in "Inside One of America's Last Pencil Factories (2018)"

royskee — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:53:39 +0000

He had a coffee table book of photos come out not too long ago called "Made in America" that is really nice.

New comment by royskee in "56k modems relied on digital trunk lines"

royskee — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:27:28 +0000

Oh man I forgot about Ricochet. I remember they had service in NYC too, and it turns out also in a few other big markets. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/ricochet-netwo...