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dhc02··on Show HN: HN to E-Book – Read HN on your E-Reader
This is going to sound crazy to a lot of kindle lovers, but after much trepidation I could not be happier with my Onyx Boox Nova 3 (other than the name), which is a kindle-size e-ink tablet that runs android apps.

Reading hacker news and rss feeds on an eye-pleasing display is something that used to be a pain and require workarounds like this script, but now is just as easy as doing it on my phone.

I worried that having apps on my e-reader would lead to too much distraction, but I've found that I naturally use it for reading-heavy things, but am not tempted by the real productivity sinks such as YouTube and games, neither of which are very fun on an e-ink display.

As a bonus, it's also replaced my moleskine for note taking.

dhc02··on One gemini battery nearly doubles Tesla Model S range
How about a trailer that contains a battery pack big enough to last your whole trip? Going 600 miles? 100kWh trailer. 1000 miles? 250kWh trailer.

Drop it off at uHaul when you get there, and pick up another one for the return trip.

Of course, a 250kWh battery pack would be a lot more expensive than a diesel generator, but it would involve much less maintenance and wouldn't risk disastrous user error.

dhc02··on Wg-access-server: WireGuard VPN server and web UI for device management
Tailscale does a version of this.
dhc02··on Ask HN: Gmail account security
I use 1password as an Authenticator replacement, which saves time when logging in.
dhc02··on Show HN: Crosswordle: Sudoku Meets Wordle
Really clever "response" to Wordle. Genuinely fun.
dhc02··on Show HN: Bang Bookmarks – replicate DuckDuckGo bangs in Firefox using Keymarks
Anyone remember yubnub?
dhc02··on Why Pipedream?
Yahoo Pipes is back!
dhc02··on More Americans are saying they’re ‘vaxxed and done’
There is an important difference.

In the first year of the pandemic, the people you're talking about were okay with the personal risk, which is fine, but also ignoring, downplaying, or refusing to care about the risk to others who couldn't protect themselves. Which is less okay in my opinion.

But now, the vast majority of people still at risk have chosen not to protect themselves. So vaccinated individuals choosing to live life normally are increasing the chances the virus spreads, but not increasing the risk of serious injury or death to the defenseless and vulnerable.

dhc02··on Balcony solar panels – one-year results
The idea is to use the reflectors during winter or on cloudy days, etc. Too much labor for me, but still interesting.
dhc02··on Self-Hosting Dozens of Web Applications and Services on a Single Server
> Wouldn't docker-compose be the "already doing it" answer to the first question? It's pretty much your library of 'exact docker run commands', plus sugar to manage the running ones collectively.

I'm also confused why he's not using compose. Perhaps he is unaware that when you have multiple services in a compose file, re-running `docker compose up` only restarts containers whose parameters have changed in the compose file.

He mentions further down that he's using compose for one service, so obviously he is aware of it.

But I can't blame him. When getting up to speed on docker, I found that figuring out compose and how to use it effectively was frustratingly under-documented.

dhc02··on Imagor: A fast, Docker-ready image processing server written in Go
Agreed.
dhc02··on Covid may be far more widespread than we thought
Yep. In fact, false negatives of current test are a function of time since the onset of symptoms:

Day 1? ~7% false negative Day 10? 40% false negative Day 20? 90% false negative

That's really high, and it seems anecdotally likely that a majority of tests have been administered to people who are 7-10 days or more post-symptom-onset.

Here's the tweet discussing this: https://twitter.com/c0nc0rdance/status/1248094573928251398/

And here's the paper: https://t.co/aSdFeLzopH?amp=1

dhc02··on Nordic Valley’s brilliant, zero-budget solution to trail/lift status
That's pretty cool. How long does it take to load a page with that setup?
dhc02··on Root – Programmable bank account for software developers
Check out privacy.com
dhc02··on Naked mole rats can survive 18 minutes without oxygen
Can't some whales go hours? I mean these guys are still strange, but this headline is terrible.
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