paulcapewell

oh my god.

And as a British speaker of English it amuses me that we say "fillit" steak when Americans (afaik) correctly say "fillay". There are others, but I guess there are more 'correct' British English pronunciations of words with origins like this than there are American English.

This is exactly the metaphor I use for this app! It's great.

I've used Merlin for years and it works great most of the time. Agree with others that it's a great example of something we should all have on the tiny computers in our pockets.

Until this thread I didn't realise it did photo ID! I took a photo of a black redstart last year and at the time was able to identify it via photos uploaded to social media. But I just tried the app and it got it straight away. It also added it as a new 'lifer' because I hadn't previously logged it via audio ID. Cool!

came here to say this. It's a wonderful book!

Yeah I own this watch and it is infuriatingly almost accurate for my location, but drifts over the course of the moon cycle. I now just use it as indicative but check other sources if I want the exact high and low tide times. It definitely helps solve the main thing I wanted it for though: glanceable sunrise/set, moon cycle and tide strength (as well as approximate highs and low tide).

The app is kind of clunky and I have had issues with the live GPS tracking of activities but as they're not the main reasons I got it, I don't mind too much.

Possibly Jellyfin?

Just echoing other comments as the first post I saw was from someone who wanted a knife so they could "stab girls" while whispering in their ear that they are "getting their hormones". Wow.

Android's Digital Wellbeing also has an option for Bedtime Mode to enable greyscale mode (along with do not disturb etc.). I find that really useful and it also has a sort of snooze option in the notifications if you quickly need to disable it for a short period.

Genuinely curious: when people submit URLs like this to HN - rather than say a specific link to an article or blog post - without comment or actually submitting responses to the conversation, are they just posting it to say 'hey, take a look at this if you haven't heard of it'? Or am I missing something? (Possibly their descriptive text to go with the URL isn't obvious/visible to me somehow?)

On Firefox v134 with British English dictionary, I pasted your wordlist into a text box and I get only the following marked as misspelled:

hominem, implementor, plough, passthrough, seatbelt, underspecified, untraceably, untyped

The rest are all fine. (Plough is especially weird!)

Played TTD for hundreds of hours as a kid. The soundtrack and ambient sound effects are still so clear in my head - distant sounds of industry and vans and busses and trains just doing their thing. And then occasional updates popping up. It had a really nice flow to it. Very addictive. I'm fairly sure I spent at least one 'sick day' off school playing TTD instead.

I've tried OpenTTD and the touch versions but they didn't grab me the same way. Maybe just a different stage in life? I just try OpenTTD again though... Just to scratch that itch.

Thanks for this. Generic links posted without context to HN with no other explanations (especially those which are likely to be quite well known to this audience) are often quite confusing.

That's referenced and linked to in the article.

Ah - kind of like scrumping in British English.

Yeah - I can't be the only one left wondering why this URL was submitted to HN as news???

See also: 'look for (nearly) empty directories and delete them' - https://alexwlchan.net/2024/emptydir/

fence

Had never come across this term before. Huh.

I feel like this post gets posted to HN every few months.

Not as frequently as that, but a bit:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

When accessing from UK: "This content is not available in your country/region."

Holy moly. How is this even still a thing?

Yeah - it kind of blew my mind when I picked up a cheap DVBS satellite receiver box recently, tuned my dish to a satellite that carried German services, and found plain old Teletext running beautifully well on HD TV channels, rendered pixel perfect on my TV via HDMI. Mind boggling!

Ah thanks for this clarification - I was wondering what the need was for the RF modulation and if it was necessary for just plain old TV use. Great project and thanks for bringing the possibility to my attention!

Had to look up Insomnia - hadn't heard of it before in the UK. Seems to be only in Ireland and across the English midlands. https://www.insomnia.ie/nearest-coffee-shop

I've never seen it in the UK, but having seen it in Cyprus, I will have to check out Greek Cypriot stores in London now...

Took me way too long to realise this was about VSCode, not the image editor VSCO. I need a coffee.

The redirect has always been a bit annoying and I found on mobile if you click a link, see it load the t.co URL, then quickly go back and click again, it instead loads the actual linked URL. So I just instinctively do this now.

Today I learned what a green username means

British guy here: sorry if this is a silly question but are you talking about an actual radio station which is just people talking about repairing cars? That’s so interesting! Nothing like that here. Maybe the odd specialist show once a week like Gardener’s Question Time or whatever.

I can’t readily find when these became a thing but search for ‘pantry transmitter’ - I’m fairly sure that, whether for kids to muck around with, or to play the sound of your own vinyl records on another radio in your own home, these kinds of micro transmitters have been in use for decades.

No, I know - thank you - but I mean there is no Explorer at that path in regedit for me.

I don't see an Explorer folder under that path on my installation.