Hacker News: tambeb

New comment by tambeb in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

tambeb — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:24:21 +0000

I'm not worried about missing food notifications because they send me an email and a text (... and a fax and a hardcopy confirmation letter in the mail.)

New comment by tambeb in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

tambeb — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:53:24 +0000

Another sneaky behavior in Android is that categories that have yet to send a notification, which of course includes newly added auto-enabled channels, are collapsed under the 'show unused categories' button.

New comment by tambeb in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

tambeb — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:07:14 +0000

Notification categories are like mailing lists now. You may have unsubscribed from the daily deals email but you're still going to be auto subscribed to every new slightly modified category in perpetuity. Unless you fully disable notifications for an app (in Android at least, in my experience), new enabled by default notification categories are added all the time.

New comment by tambeb in "Astronomers discover 3I/ATLAS – Third interstellar object to visit Solar System"

tambeb — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:02:44 +0000

I also like this solar system model from NASA, https://science.nasa.gov/learning-resources/how-big-is-the-s....

They compare it to a US football field.

"On this scale, the Sun, by far the largest thing in our solar system, is only a ball about two-thirds of an inch (17 millimeters) in diameter sitting on the goal line — that's about the width of a U.S. dime coin. ...

The inner planets — Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars — are about the size of grains of sand on a football field scale. They would be dwarfed by a typical flea, which is about 3 millimeters long.

Closest to the goal line is Mercury, just under a yard from the end zone (.8 yards to be specific). ... At this scale, Mercury's diameter would be scarcely as large as the point of a needle.

Venus is next. It is 1.4 yards from the end zone. ...

On to Earth, sitting pretty on the 2-yard line. ...

Mars is on the three-yard line of our imaginary football field. ...

Jupiter remains pretty close to our end zone on the 10.5-yard line. ...

Saturn is on the field at 19 yards from the goal line. ...

Uranus ... is about 38 yards from our end zone.

Neptune is where things start to get way out. It is 60 yards from our solar goal line on the imaginary football field. ...

Tiny Pluto is much closer to the opposing team's end zone. It's about 79 yards out from the Sun ...

On this scale, our little friend Voyager 1 has left the game and is well out in the stadium parking lot or beyond."

New comment by tambeb in "3D printable 6" f/5 compact travel telescope model"

tambeb — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 14:24:23 +0000

Also for focusing a digital camera for astrophotography.

New comment by tambeb in "The Rise of the Japanese Toilet"

tambeb — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:03:22 +0000

Very common in the Middle East too.

New comment by tambeb in "New emojis in 2023-2024"

tambeb — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 22:58:34 +0000

So far I've found 88 combos involving the poop emoji.

Photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wCNxKjzi61rCJUsU8

New comment by tambeb in "Iceberg lovers go wild over photos of the 'dickie berg' off Newfoundland's coast"

tambeb — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 01:07:33 +0000

For any Arrested Development fans out there, a friend sent me this link related to the iceberg today.

https://www.reddit.com/r/arresteddevelopment/comments/13309l...

New comment by tambeb in "Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?"

tambeb — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 00:38:56 +0000

I've been using VirtualHere since 2015, with multiple paid licenses.

It's a great tool with infinite use cases. I'm glad that it's a successful business for you!

New comment by tambeb in "Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers"

tambeb — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:59:49 +0000

I haven't been with Wells Fargo for a few years now, but I did get a check for about $200 in the mail the other day due to some fees that had been processed in an "unintended manner" apparently.

New comment by tambeb in "Adobe now requires you to purchase a subscription to rotate PDF pages"

tambeb — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 04:49:16 +0000

Microsoft's Edge on Windows lets you annotate and rotate PDFs.

New comment by tambeb in "Undetectable very-low frequency sound increases dancing at a live concert"

tambeb — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:03:36 +0000

My Raspberry "Shake & Boom" has an infrasound sensor.

https://shop.raspberryshake.org/product/turnkey-iot-atmosphe...

New comment by tambeb in "Google Surveys Sunset"

tambeb — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 23:23:58 +0000

At least the Opinion Rewards app isn't going away.

I've made $177 over the years. Not a fortune but it paid for a bunch of app buys and movie rentals.

New comment by tambeb in "Ask HN: What are some of your favorite YouTube channels?"

tambeb — Mon, 08 Aug 2022 03:51:32 +0000

Sean Carroll I listen to as a podcast, and Quanta I read. :)

New comment by tambeb in "Ask HN: What are some of your favorite YouTube channels?"

tambeb — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 22:42:39 +0000

In no particular order:

The Royal Institution (https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution)

Team Coco (https://youtube.com/c/TeamCoco)

World Science Festival (https://youtube.com/c/WorldScienceFestival)

Sabine Hossenfelder (https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder)

3Blue1Brown (https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown)

PBS Space Time (https://youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime)

Tuesdays with Stories! (https://youtube.com/c/TuesdayswithStories)

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (https://youtube.com/user/PIOutreach)

Science & Cocktails (https://youtube.com/c/ScienceCocktails)

New comment by tambeb in "Gambling and Adult content DNS blocking using Mullvad VPN"

tambeb — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 11:53:18 +0000

Android, since Pie, supports DNS over TLS, and I personally use it for ad blocking.

New comment by tambeb in "Identify Birds by Their Chirp"

tambeb — Sat, 18 Jun 2022 02:46:06 +0000

Haven't played with this one yet, but I have messed around with the BirdNET app from Cornell. It's very accurate as long as the neighbors don't have their landscapers mowing the lawn and using leaf blowers right next door.

https://birdnet.cornell.edu/

New comment by tambeb in "PBS SpaceTime"

tambeb — Sun, 22 May 2022 21:39:26 +0000

I was a Patreon supporter for about 2 years, at the 2nd biggest pledge level of $250/month. I only stopped because of my own, um, cash flow issues... :)

I'm saying this not to show off or signal my virtue. I'm saying it to let everyone know it's a fantastic channel that is well worth your time and/or support. They have never ventured into click-bait land, nor do I think they ever will.

If you like science, and physics specifically, give 'em a look.

New comment by tambeb in "Plex launches feature to discover content across streaming services"

tambeb — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 19:35:20 +0000

Bought this little guy[1] back in 2015 to get around DRM and rip, with the exact same philosophy as you. I'm happy to buy, but if I buy it I'm gonna own it forever, regardless of account changes or ["AI" based auto-]shutdowns.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0089DSLMY/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_B3R9...

New comment by tambeb in "A project with a single 11,000-line code file"

tambeb — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 23:20:24 +0000

One can develop* what serves as the edifice[1] of a $1B hedge fund that handles signals, orders, trades, positions, and p&l, among other things, using a system not unlike this one.[2]

[1] Merriam Webster definition of edifice: a large abstract structure

[2] Source: Me

* Or inherit and maintain