Hacker News: ssorc

New comment by ssorc in "Om Malik has died"

ssorc — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:20:03 +0000

Thanks. Two more:

Daniel Agee from Glass posted a photo and tribute to Om about his help in the early days of getting Glass started: https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt

And Christopher Michael has posted a wonderful photo of Om: https://glass.photo/cm/LCGjX2IqUWtK288zq5dSt

New comment by ssorc in "Om Malik has died"

ssorc — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:51:57 +0000

A tragic loss. Amongst his many other talents, Om was a wonderful photographer; you can see some of his photos at Glass: https://glass.photo/om

New comment by ssorc in "StarLite 12.5-inch Linux tablet"

ssorc — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 04:06:13 +0000

From the Specification section of the website:

> 1.00GHz quad-core Intel Alder Lake N200

> Turbo Boost up to 3.70GHz, with 6MB Smart Cache

New comment by ssorc in "Ask HN: How did you migrate off Evernote?"

ssorc — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 09:45:21 +0000

I'm in the process of migrating from Evernote to Joplin, doing a careful migration by individual notebooks (with a total of 19,959 notes in Evernote). So far it has been reasonably painless; for example, I have a few Evernote features to work out how to manage, such as text searches on scanned images. I had tried a number of other tools (Obsidian, Loqseq, Notion, Bear, Apple Notes) and Joplin seems to fit my use cases the best.

New comment by ssorc in "Asus put out like 40 models of a laptop called the “Eee PC” (2021)"

ssorc — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 02:30:15 +0000

The Dell Inspiron 1100 comes very close.

New comment by ssorc in "Garmin services and production go down after ransomware attack"

ssorc — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:06:42 +0000

You can upload the activity via PC: the FIT files are directly accessible via USB mass storage in the "Activity" directory. This allows you to upload FIT files to cloud-based services such as Strava to see your running stats, or into a PC-based application to do the same locally.

New comment by ssorc in "Strava cuts off leaderboard for free users, reduces third party apps"

ssorc — Mon, 18 May 2020 23:20:53 +0000

To be fair on Strava, they have made some effort to addressing this over the last few months:

https://www.strava.com/subscription/whats-new

New comment by ssorc in "Fastmail – 20 Years Old"

ssorc — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:41:01 +0000

This will show you when you were first invoiced:

Settings -> Billing & Plan -> View payment history and printable invoices

2002 as well and have been extremely happy with the service.

New comment by ssorc in "Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff"

ssorc — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 05:32:32 +0000

The magazine website is still accepting new subscriptions:

https://readerservices.makezine.com/mk/default.aspx?pc=MK&pk...

New comment by ssorc in "Maker Faire halts operations and lays off all staff"

ssorc — Sat, 08 Jun 2019 05:31:02 +0000

> My subscription lapsed just about every year for some glitch or another

This exactly -- of all the magazines I subscribe to, Make has (had?) the worst subscription department by far. It was surprising given how important a subscriber base is.

New comment by ssorc in "Lo-fi hiphop beats mixed with live police scanners"

ssorc — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 02:41:28 +0000

Similar to Soma FM's SF 10-33 station:

https://somafm.com/sf1033/

" Live fire/police scanner audio from San Francisco processed and mixed with ambient and experimental music. A surreal audio zeitgeist of the city."

New comment by ssorc in "Ask HN: Good Alternatives to One Note"

ssorc — Mon, 13 May 2019 07:16:46 +0000

Notion has tables; is there specific table functionality you need that they don’t offer?

https://www.keepproductive.com/blog/notion-tables

Julian Assange: Wikileaks co-founder jailed over bail breach

ssorc — Wed, 01 May 2019 13:05:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48118908

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19796646

Points: 180

# Comments: 166

New comment by ssorc in "Lighting up my DasKeyboard with Blood Sugar changes using my body's REST API"

ssorc — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 22:38:23 +0000

Scott mentions the Dexcom G5 in some older blog postings:

https://www.hanselman.com/blog/ThePromisingStateOfDiabetesTe...

New comment by ssorc in "A capsule of glowing E. coli will probe your gut for signs of trouble"

ssorc — Mon, 28 May 2018 07:49:27 +0000

There are some, e.g. the Medtronic Smartpill for motility testing:

http://www.medtronic.com/covidien/en-us/products/motility-te...

TunnelBear Joins McAfee

ssorc — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 12:22:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tunnelbear.com/blog/tunnelbear_joins_mcafee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16551225

Points: 143

# Comments: 106

New comment by ssorc in "Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising"

ssorc — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 07:14:12 +0000

https://gist.github.com/alirobe/7f3b34ad89a159e6daa1

New comment by ssorc in "Show HN: Forms – Easy custom database applications"

ssorc — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 11:52:15 +0000

FYI, the privacy link (https://www.sonadier.com/privacy) is a 404.

New comment by ssorc in "Notes from MPUG: "Python one-liners" talk"

ssorc — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:45:27 +0000

cal works on most Unix systems, but is not part of Windows (is there a Powershell equivalent?) If you don't have cygwin (or similar) installed, these types of one-liners have saved me a number of times for quick hacks on Windows systems.

New comment by ssorc in "The Sad State of Diabetes Technology in 2012"

ssorc — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:36:42 +0000

A major reason why the accuracy on blood sugar strips is +/- 20% is because that is all that the standard (ISO 15197:2003) requires:

* Within ±0.83 mmol/L of lab results at concentrations of under 4.2 mmol/L

* Within ±20% of lab results at 4.2 mmol/L or more

Companies are juggling cost, reliability and performance/accuracy, with the first two generally winning in the marketplace as key selling points.

Some devices offer significantly better accuracy than 20%, depending on the market that you are in (not all are for sale in USA, IIRC).