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_Microft··on Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
_Microft··on You Could Have Come Up with Kimi Delta Attention
Side note, before you ask: yes, bra-ket notation is called like that because of the brackets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bra-ket_notation

_Microft··on Die Zeit Built a Searchable Database of Nazi Party Members
“Die Zeit” (literally The Time) is a German newspaper, in case you were confused by the title.
_Microft··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
“The books will stop working”, discussed 7 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20297331

_Microft··on Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
Because they can.
_Microft··on How an Australian Teen Team Is Making Radio Astronomy Affordable for Schools
Maybe you like this:

https://physicsopenlab.org/2020/10/10/a-simple-11-2-ghz-radi...

The HN discussion (2020) about this can be found there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26078761

_Microft··on The Slowest SR-71 Blackbird Fly-By (2017)
This one could be considered a classic but you might be one of today's lucky 10000 :)
_Microft··on Virtual flying experience changes neural responses to seeing wings
Here are some articles on this:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/virtual-wings-brain-chan...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/people-learned-to-fly-with-v...

_Microft··on Show HN: WhatCable, a tiny menu bar app for inspecting USB-C cables
Is it not rather useful in this particular case? You will see the reported capabilities whenever you plug in a cable. Or do people rather want to diagnose and label their cables just once?
_Microft··on Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
What is your idea of "creative"/"creativity" then?
_Microft··on New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production
DARPA’s “Cornucopia” program has the same goal.

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2023/food-air-water-electricity

_Microft··on Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
Half of the comments are in this subthread which derailed the discussion on this submission before it even started. Here the damage is done but maybe, please, refrain from doing so elsewhere.
_Microft··on Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
I’ve considered that before but never actually got one. For soldering SMD a small hotplate was a difference like day and night already. How cheap could I get away with when buying a hot air station/gun?
_Microft··on Reverse Engineering ME2's USB with a Heat Gun and a Knife
To remove SMD ICs more easily with a soldering iron, you can create a tool to help with it. Cut a lengthy piece with a curved end at the front (looks a bit like a finger) from an aluminum can and sand away the inner coating and print on the outside.

Then work the curved end between IC and PCB and start heating the contacts left and right while continuing to move the tool further in once the solder at a leg melts. The legs with solder on them will not attach to the aluminum and you have the IC off the board in no time.

For soldering the author might consider “drag soldering”, i.e. put a small blob of molten solder on the legs and keep moving the tip of the iron over the legs on one side. Keep doing that until there are no bridges left.

_Microft··on Reading Input from an USB RFID Card Reader
That should be the most common behavior. Barcode readers work the same. In the past, you even plugged barcode scanners between keyboard and PC and they injected the key codes of the detected code into that.
_Microft··on Show HN: I made a calculator that works over disjoint sets of intervals
Very nice, thanks for sharing! Maybe show which upper or lower values are included in the intervals? A notation I am familiar with uses outward facing brackets if the value is not included in the interval. That always applies to infinity.

Applied to the cases here:

]-∞, -1] U [0.5, +∞[

The excluded interval in between becomes ]-1, 0.5[ then.

That’s how min (and analogously max) works, right? min(A, B) = [lo(A,B), lo (hi(A), hi(B))].

Edit: idea: copy a formula from the results section to the input field if the user clicks/taps on it.

_Microft··on The American consumer market is larger than the EU and China's combined
Nominally. Corrected for purchasing power, it’s only approximately 50% higher than either of them.
_Microft··on DIY Soft Drinks
A easy solution might be to mix the concentrate with sparkling/carbonated water?
_Microft··on Phyphox – Physical Experiments Using a Smartphone
The title was slightly editorialized for clarity.
_Microft··on How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel
Taking differences between degrees Celsius values is absolutely fine.

Ratios are undefined because the Celsius scale has no absolute zero while the Kelvin scale has.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level_of_measurement

_Microft··on Europe sleepwalked into yet another energy crisis
We should have kept using nuclear? That nuclear of which refinement capacities are over 40% in Russians hands? For conversion it’s even a combined 63% for Russia+China.

“Russia's Stranglehold On The World's Nuclear Power Cycle”, https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-nuclear-power-industry-graphi...

_Microft··on Full Spectrum and Infrared Photography
By this measure, there is no "full spectrum" photography ever.
_Microft··on TCXO Failure Analysis
That's a website of Andrew Zonenberg if that name rings a bell.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=azonenberg

_Microft··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
Sure, I read that but your comment still sounds like it does. You're doing yourself no service.
_Microft··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
´"That's not my department", says Wernher von Braun.´
_Microft··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
That internet is elsewhere.
_Microft··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
You as reader might also be interested in this: https://hbenbel.github.io/blog/evm/
_Microft··on Show HN: A weird thing that detects your pulse from the browser video
Here‘s also an advice: if you want someone to listen, try not to come across like you just did.
_Microft··on OpenScan
The dinosaur example lists an iPhone as source and none of their scanner models. It is also saying that it was recorded at a dinosaur theme park in Germany. This one might be meters long.
_Microft··on Converting a $3.88 analog clock from Walmart into a ESP8266-based Wi-Fi clock
There is an extension called HN Friends that allows to add information to a tooltip for users and shows a hint that there exists such information.

Use this as you like.

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