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That is very cool.

Anyone knows how can I compile the latex sources into an epub?

An excellent, apolitical(*) video from Kurzgesagt about the current situation in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-gYFcVx-8Y

It explains how we got there, the problems we are facing, the problems inherent to the proposed/possible solutions, etc.

(*) as in, they really try hard to stay neutral on the topic until the end, in the clearly marked conclusions and opinion section.

Sorry I really have no idea :(

But I just tried again and now it saved it correctly.

On my first try it only showed a line of two of the main content, truncated by an ellipsis.

Quite ironically, readeck is not able to parse this article

EDIT: used the firefox extension to save it, pasting the link directly into readeck works :)

It would be really interesting to join what you and the OG article talks about:

1. Self host readdeck, add articles to it

2. Have an ebook generated automatically each article saved/day/week/etc

3. Have the ebook be automatically pushed to your jailbroken kindle with KOReader

New side project unlocked, thanks!

I may be in the same boat.

Is Fastmail an US company though?

Oh, I never gave Google Translate a chance since chatGPT came out.

Are you saying it's not anymore as bad as is was a few years ago, and it's preferrable to use that? Does it also work for English to German?

Absolutely beautiful story thank you so much for sharing.

I don't mind AI translation at all. The style comes off as a bit weird indeed, but I just took it off as a style I'm not used to because it comes from a different culture than mine. I wouldn't mind much the naysayers, I'd like to see them posting something in chinese and see how they'd like it ;)

I really enjoyed the writing style actually, all these different anectodes condensed in shorter sentences, without fluff or trying to connect them in a single narrative. Maybe this is not the correct way to put it, but I'm also not a native English speaker nor I have any classical training in writing.

Yours is the first substack I ever subscribed to and can't wait to read part two. It actually pushed me to start writing some of my childhood experiences.

Thank you again. Absolutely fascinating.

React Router 7, formerly known as Remix.

I'm not sure if you are implying that you aren't using remix anymore after the rebranding, or that it's not a framework anymore?

Because React Router 7 definitely works as a framework [1] and it works like a charm.

Source: Backend developer with 15 years experience, lately switched to full stack, using RR7 after advice from a very good friend, still getting amazed every day.

[1] https://reactrouter.com/start/framework/installation

Can you expand why the trigger is necessary?

This is amazing. I started playing it with my morning coffee and somehow it became 1pm...

Despite what other people commented, I really liked not really knowing what happens with some (most?) of the updated and having to try them to understand what they do and how to combine them. The last part is especially true: it was just SO SATISFYING when I realized that a perk I hated became my favourite once I was able to pair it properly and catch waterfall of coins :)

One thing I still don't get at all are the white and red ball "paths" that briefly appear from time to time. I don't get what they represent nor how are they triggered, especially as it doesn't look like the ball will actually do that exact path after it hits the puck (if I don't move it). It's a little annoying for the red one, that resets your coin counter, because I can't understand if I can avoid it somehow or do I have to take it as a "random debuff".

One of my hangups to start strength training at the ripe age of 41, is that I'm terrified of hurting myself.

Apparently to do "proper" strength training you need to focus on the free weights, or compound lifts, rather than gym machines that guide your movements. I.E. squats, deadlifts, bench presses, etc.

The problem is that these are EXACTLY the type of exercises that an untrained, anterior pelvic tilted computer long-time dweller will do wrongly as they don't have the right flexibility or skills or knowledge about how to do them right.

I remember how close I was to messing up my back permanently with deadlifts, and that was in my 20s. Thinking about going to the gym and starting doing them again unsupervised at my age is, to me, madness.

I really wish if someone could give me some advice in this matter...

My understanding was that's meant to be a way "ordinary people" () can contribute to the project by seeding one or more torrents with a part of their archive contents, to try and achieve a sort of "distributed backup", and it's not meant as a way for final users to get that one book they need.

() that is, people that can't run a IPFS node or other advanced options due to their limited space/network/skills/money.

Great project, thank you!

BTW Your "Advanced ESP32 development with ESP-IDF" guide [1] is the best "getting started" guide I've seen so far. Up to now no guide has been so clear and complete, and I've spent one week being very frustrated by how confusing the official ones are.

So thank you again. You made me rekindle the spark of creativeness that got buried by age and daily grind.

[1] https://bitclock.io/blog/esp-idf-vscode

THAT'S IT!!!

Thank you so much! I've been looking for this for at least fifteen years!

And there are even links to previous HTML versions (this one is PDF)... amazing!

Their primer article [1] is also really nice.

Today, I’d like to close this gap with a couple of crisp definitions that stay clear of flawed hydraulic analogies, but also don’t get bogged down by differential equations or complex number algebra.

Related: many, many years ago, when Facebook didn't exist yet, Google still passed as a "good" company, and hobbyist electronic geeks had almost only PICs to choose from, I found online a very long and complete electronic course that went from 0 to basic R/C concepts, to transistors, up to pretty advanced topics like magnets/transformers and IIRC radio too.

It was made of pretty raw HTML pages and images, and what was most peculiar about it was that it managed to explain a lot of concepts up to an applicable level (as in, actually designing analog circuits) without (any?) calculus at all.

Some of those may be false memories, but if I remember correctly:

* Its HTML style had a yellowy background * It was taken from an old-ish (US?) navy electric engineer-focused applied electronics course for training naval engineers. * It was more focused on analog circuits

I remember I downloaded it all but after all those years who knows where it could be. Maybe in some 1GB disk of my first Pentium PC, so it's basically lost.

Does anyone in HN knows what I'm talking about? I was never able to find it again.

[1] https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/primer-core-concepts-in-elect...

I have this using Firefox on a 2019 Macbook Pro with 16GB RAM.

If the laptop has not been restarted for a while, Firefox tabs will eat up more and more memory over time until it makes the mac kind-of unresponsive (*) and will need to get hard power cycled.

The only signs that this is about to happen are two:

1. Any audio-emitting webapp will start to get very choppy, whether is youtube on FF, Google meet on chrome, or a slack call/huddle. Which is the problem I think you are referring to.

2. Switching workspaces animation will get very very choppy. Usually when this happens it's already almost too late.

(*) this means that while the pointer is still moving smoothily, even from a BT mouse, there is no reaction to any click or keyboard typing.

I didn't know this existed and as someone who is in the process of buying a new ride this is great! I can now have a pretty good idea how my position will be on any bike.

However, I have no idea of what I should strive for when looking at the angles? Are there some well-known ideal values I should look into?

So the new M2 runs much cooler?

Agreed.

For these kinds of versioned tools (mostly language compilers/interpreters) I've switched to asdf[1][2] and never looked back.

$brew install asdf

[1] https://asdf-vm.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33323261

Have you read Children of Time, by Adrian Tchaikovsky?

The idea of ants using a crystal for radio wave detection is in that book as well :)

As a child in the 80s I was living in a house with a large garden area (fasce) in Genova, just a bit removed from the bulk of the city.

Every summer evening the house and surrounding garden were filled with fireflies, it was mesmerizing.

Thanks for making me remember this :)

That routes all the audio from the mac though, not only Spotify. And with a noticeable delay.

This makes watching a "GIF" with audio (say browsing Reddit), opening a video, answering a slack call, etc. a very bad experience.

Spotify by itself supports its own protocol, whatever that may be, and chromecast. The iOS app should also support Airplay through the OS.

Personally I have a Spotify enabled receiver plugged to my audio system, it works really well.

According to my phone is 139.8 MB

I've been using QC35s with a Macbook for a long while and thanks to your comment I finally understand why sometime the headphones would switch to a different "mode" where there is a lot of hissing in the background and the button (which I have configured to switch NR levels) wouldn't do anything.

Super interesting, thank you!

So apparently this "mode" comes from the headphones switching to HFP. Interesting that in this mode the left button presses are ignored...

I'll try to notice when it's doing this. I have the feeling it's when I am on a call but not all programs do that. I use Slack, Facetime, and sometimes Google Meet via Chrome. I'm pretty confident only some of these trigger the switch, and whenever the call ends the phones go back to A2DP.

A nice coincidence, this was on my homepage of Reddit this morning: Smart flip clock with weather tutorial [1], [2]

It looks like in this other project they just 3D print everything?

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/functionalprint/comments/mtq0k8/sma... [2] https://github.com/barlowtj48/flipclock

I think closed captions include description of noises, music cues, etc.

CC subtitle tracks often show up with the name "English (SDH)" (Subtitles for the Deaf and Hard of hearing).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_captioning

So THAT's why plugging any USB3 external HD to my "factotum" home server breaks immediately all my home automation working on Zigbee.

And I thought the motherboard was defective...

Do you keep a journal though?