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Hmm, I can't see any. Just cases. Maybe they don't ship to Australia.

Are there any off the shelf e-readers which support this firmware? This site seems to be for people who want to solder together their own e-reader from components.

Also, it does a bit misleading to say "Charging, battery protection, an optional frontlight and a 24-pin e-paper interface, all on one PCB you can build for around $60." According to their own parts lists, if you are build 5 of these, you're in for $63.74 (plus shipping?) So if you want just one (like a normal person), it's going to cost more. And that's still just the circuit board and components: no mention of the outer plastic casing. (I can't find any info on their site about how to get that - presumably 3D print, but haven't found plans.)

I often have this experience with blog posts on HN. They do all the background, and once they get to the juicy bit, it ends.

That's a super interesting device. Definitely pondering ordering one.

Is GoPro not manufactured in China?

I'm fascinated that I have never heard of this, even though I did use IRC during that early 2000s era.

Wow, those are pretty cursed. Differences between browsers, and between mobile platforms, after all these years.

Yeah I was considering buying tickets for something recently, then discovered the only option is to install an app just to buy the damn ticket.

No. Damn. Way.

Ah, blocking all videos on Facebook is such a good idea. Can you share your script?

It can see WiFi through walls

I don't understand what this is trying to say. Everyone who has ever used wi-fi knows that it works through walls. You try to connect to a wi-fi in an apartment, and there are dozens of other networks showing up.

So this headline just seems...meaningless?

Good map data is kinda useless if it can't be retrieved, and trying to work around it by panning around and manually saving a hundred or so favorites really kinda sucks.

There are different ways of using maps. A lot of the stuff I do with mapping apps I really do just pan and zoom, and that works for me.

True, although I do also have a lot of problems with Google Maps. Particularly, when I search for a small town 100km away, and instead it brings up a medium sized down in the USA. Or even more ridiculous cases, like I slightly got the name of a business wrong, so it went with a different business in the USA.

Yeah, it really loves to suggest US options.

Our business today is not healthy. We are operating at margins that are 3-10x lower than comparable platform and publishing businesses. We

Oof. We're making money, but we want to make more. So we're firing people.

Interesting post. I was a bit confused why they were seeking to build rapport with their users. These people pay a few bucks a month. What's the upside to a close, cosy relationship?

The answer might often be to understand the users' needs better in order to design for it. But OP seems to have a clear idea of how the app should work already. So...unclear.

Oh, good, glad that's solved then.

You literally just explained the value.

It's slightly funny that the post says firmly that they aren't doing any form of real time engagement with the community anymore, then ends by announcing an AMA date and time.

And in all cases, if you produce the fuel using renewables then the CO2 output is trivially brought near zero.

But...they don't.

These are the weirdest criticisms. It seems totally normal to me for engineers to be bad at explaining their project to a lay audience. Whereas that's the kind of thing that LLMs are great at.

How do they know Starlink isn't going to jack the prices up?

Somehow this almost inspired me to write some fiction just for the sole purpose of including some real howlers of this kind, that the average reader wouldn't notice. I wonder how many you could squeeze into one scene.

The modem sang its negotiation out loud, and that shriek was two machines arguing about how to speak to each other, and after enough times you could hear when the argument was going south and the call was about to drop. You set little jumpers on drives with your fingernail. You knew which interrupt your sound card answered to, because if you guessed wrong it answered to nothing. The machine was made of edges and you cut yourself on them, and that is how you found out where they were.

Wow. I had literally all of these experiences. I remember how you used to have to remember the Sound Blaster interrupt settings and pass them to any game that used it. And I'd completely forgotten about IDE jumpers, but yep - how fiddly it was when you wanted to put 4 hard drives in the same computer, figure out which were slaves and masters, etc etc.

Homo sapiens have been around for 200,000 years. Until the industrial revolution, we lived outside. How did we get through the Neolithic Era without sunscreen? Actually, perfectly well. What’s counterintuitive is that dermatologists run around saying, ‘Don’t go outside, you might die.’”

At least in Australia a big difference is that there is a hole in the ozone layer that stone age people did not have. Sun exposure is much more harmful now.

"bonus words" are often obscure or embarrassing in some way, so you're not required to find them to win

Interesting that they don't seem to have had much cultural impact. I've never heard of these, never seen them in war films. You don't hear songs wistfully using a wartime ocarina or referring to them.

That's a big change!

Yeah they've been around for ages and surprisingly effective at what they do. Good on 'em.

Good point. "CLI for Google Workspace" would be less ambiguous.

Google could definitely be harmed by an unofficial product release that gets lots of users but doesn't have any kind of official support behind it, and hence could make those users pissed off in the future.

The text of their "tweet that got me fired" is:

Introducing the Google Workspace CLI: https://github.com/googleworkspac e/cli - built for humans and agents.

Google Drive, Gmail, Calendar, and every Workspace API. 40+ agent skills included.

Yeah, that absolutely looks like an official product announcement from Google. Surely it was obvious they'd get in trouble for that.