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TheSpiceIsLife··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
You still can if you’re a subscriber, there’s a section in the settings that lets you download a .pls
TheSpiceIsLife··on All Kindles can now be jailbroken
Yes, every device should fail immediately upon warranty expiration.

You should build a company founded on that principle.

Call it GTL Pty Ltd

Formerly known as Guaranteed To Last, but they dropped that naming and are now know simple as GTL after a social media smear campaign where people were saying ‘guaranteed to be the last thing you ever buy from that company’.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
This should be the comment.

Or, like, go buy a couple thousand chill tracks, an VHF radio, and actually build your own project.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
I’ve always thought that Enterprise D idling for sleeping too, and the alarm clock is the ship going to warp VERY LOUDLY.
TheSpiceIsLife··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
Also check out http://di.fm - Goa out the up the wazoo. Other electronic music too.

Also their sister sites of Jazz or Rock are your thing, link on their home page somewhere.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
Don’t forget Mission Control also from SomaFM, ambient chill with space mission audio comms

https://somafm.com/player24/station/missioncontrol

TheSpiceIsLife··on Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predicted
It’s no coincidence there’s a raging bull sculpture on Wall Street.
TheSpiceIsLife··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
I tend to agree.
TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
> take advantage of what I see as an almost inevitable economic boom as soon as russia collapses

I read that as something you’re looking forward to.

Happy to be corrected.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
Russia collapses and then what? A hot war between The Axis of China and NATO Co. & Sons? Trump & Xi Jinping divi up the lands and build The Great Wall of Russia.

Fun to watch from afar, maybe.

War is good for profit.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
State collapse followed by improvement in quality of life? I can think of maybe three examples in living memory versus, what, three hundred that didn’t work out so well.
TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
Yes, like art, culture, events, getting-around-ability, fewer gangland hits maybe, plenty of tobacco-land arsonings.

Avoid Tasmania, we’re full.

TheSpiceIsLife··on TL;DW: Too Long; Didn't Watch Distill YouTube Videos to the Relevant Information
It’s the seventh commandment, don’t you know?

7. Thou shalt not use more than two browser plugins.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
I dunno man, Australia is equal parts desert, heatwaves, floods, and whatever the hell this is https://youtu.be/H7MU39th9Ng?si=pNkLogRdwdBY3lll

Accurate though.

Caution, coarse language.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Ask HN: What country would you like to relocate to and why?
Oh yes? What glee you appear to exhibit at the thought of 150 odd million people being thrown in to turmoil.

As if that’s going to be a good thing for Europe. Or anyone for that matter. Russia accounts for something like one third of global fertiliser production.

And, I mean, I can think of nothing better than a massive power vacuum in a state that has the most nuclear weapons in the world. Wile party, if you can get an invite. I suppose.

Imagine if, like, your opinion was wrong, or, let’s say, there turns out to be unintended consequences to the outcome you desire. Because there always is. The road to hell and all of that.

Then what?

TheSpiceIsLife··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
We can measure the angular velocity of mental objects, and it appears to increase linearly with the degree of rotation relative to a reference.

See Shepard, R. N., & Metzler, J. (1971). Mental rotation of three-dimensional objects. Science, 171(3972), 701–703.

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1971-28060-001

TheSpiceIsLife··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Which you necessarily only realise after you’ve struggled, and succeeded, to get it in to the new place.

I’ll remember that next time.

No you won’t.

TheSpiceIsLife··on The largest sofa you can move around a corner
Slight correction: Around windows its architraves and reveals.

But I’m in Tasmania, some geographic variation in dialect can be expected.

Except, I’m from South Australia, so some people around here think I talk posh.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Fewer students are enrolling in doctoral degrees
Education? The PhD path commits you to learn more and more about less and less.

The opportunity cost isn’t just in life-time earnings, it’s also the time you sunk hyper focused on one very specific topic.

TheSpiceIsLife··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
So they have a dataset, and they’ve cherry picket a time period to time period, and not done any location based sorting etc, to suit a narrative.

Whatever pays the bill I suppose.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
I meant more: two of the same category of thing, where a submission will spur interest in closely related submissions, or something tangential related.

Like, say, a submission on Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s art follow by a submission on the 27 Club.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
Globally, how many people are there presently salivating at the thought of US$10,000 for a bug bounty?

How many young computer enthusiasts / aspiring security researchers are motivated to learn more because they see, what to them are, massive payouts.

You or I might not get out of bed for the hourly rate that translates to, fine by me - I have a job that pays the figure I negotiated.

Bug bounty programs pay the market clearing rate, always. One bug, two market participants, one price.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10k
Big-endian

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness

TheSpiceIsLife··on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop
“There’s only one Jeep”, because the rest of them fell apart.
TheSpiceIsLife··on The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit
Indeed.

And a not insignificant fraction of it comes from one region, Hamilton in Victoria:

“ Sheep grazing and agriculture are the primary industries in the surrounding shire, the area producing as much as 15% of Australia's total wool clip.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Victoria

Where you’ll find very well cared for sheep wearing protective coats over their fleece.

TheSpiceIsLife··on Jacksonpollock.org (2003)
On the other hand, when brick and mortar stores of the same kind are located near each other they all sell more.

And we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN front page.

TheSpiceIsLife··on The origins of 60-Hz as a power frequency
Distribution lines are aluminium.
TheSpiceIsLife··on Fair Pricing
I mean: koalas
TheSpiceIsLife··on How does life happen when there's barely any light?
Hadn’t heard of that one before.

Sure it was cold blooded? Wikipedia claims it was a mammal.

TheSpiceIsLife··on How does life happen when there's barely any light?
Yeah, PpFF (Photons per Football Field) are much easier to understand, especially if you have to divided them equally between a family of Base4.

For the Metric Heads, we here in Australia use the SI unit Photons per Olympic Swimming Pool, which unit of measure is the Centiquantalap, naturally.

Edit to add: Under the modern US customary measurement system, 1 drop is 1/72th of a US customary fluid dram, and 793 and 1000 conveniently have no common factors, so it should be self evident that 3 litres is 793/1000th of a US fluid gallon. Converting that to lux or lumens is left as an exercise for the reader.

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