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fergbrain··on Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery
This looks amazing! How long did it take to get to this state?
fergbrain··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Blessed Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
fergbrain··on They Travel the World–and Cheat Death–For License Plates
https://archive.ph/kuVCe
fergbrain··on US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]
> “their other services widely available for free”

None of their services are free. You just pay for them in other ways, even if you don’t realize it.

fergbrain··on U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat
The issue is that there’s nothing that requires prosecution, just allows it.

This is the doubled edged nature of prosecutorial discretion.

fergbrain··on All CDC data is no longer visible to comply with executive orders
Is this malicious compliance or is the data all really in violation of the EO?
fergbrain··on Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records
Thanks for your efforts in liberating this data so that Ancestry.com isn’t the only ones with it!

Reminds me a bit muckrock.com as well.

fergbrain··on Lyft launches a rider verification pilot program
Traditional taxi services haven’t needed this feature, why does Lyft?

Is there a way I can opt out, short of deleting my account?

fergbrain··on Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules
I wonder if this ruling could also force the courts to start addressing unconstitutional civil forfeiture
fergbrain··on Vulnerable transistors threaten to upend Europa Clipper mission
Did Infineon not issue a GIDEP Notice for these parts?

If not, does that mean that maybe NASA is using them outside of their designed spec?

(See also: https://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PR...)

fergbrain··on Building a DIY CT/CAT scanner for $200 [video]
Ben from Applied Science did this 11 years ago too: https://youtu.be/hF3V-GHiJ78?si=I6xH7WrrqVaDK-Hv
fergbrain··on How big is YouTube?
Isn’t this just a variation of the Monte Carlo method?
fergbrain··on Synology MFA Fails if Internet is down
Barclays calls it a PINsentry card reader
fergbrain··on Be My Eyes’ AI assistant starts rolling out
This! 100%

The people who sign up to help (such as myself) want to help. Honestly, my frustration is that I don’t get asked enough.

fergbrain··on Apple’s failure to build a key part for its new iPhones
NB: News+ only comes with the Premier level of Apple One, not with the Individual or Family tiers.
fergbrain··on How do you manage your Apple accounts at work and at home?
I have separate accounts for work and home.

I have my work account as a member of the family group, and that seems to work well.

fergbrain··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
https://AndrewFerguson.net - used to be more of a diary way back when, but now more of a place to share non-work related technical stuff I’ve been doing
fergbrain··on Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
The door can still be designed to open outward and also able to be unlatched from the inside: those aren’t mutually exclusive properties.
fergbrain··on Track HN: Survival Rate of Show HN Stories
What about low ranking Show HN that did survive?
fergbrain··on Andrew Huberman Has Supplements on the Brain
Seattle Public Library gives you free access if you’re a member. I suspect other libraries do as well!

https://www.spl.org/online-resources/consumer-and-diy

fergbrain··on Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin
My understanding is that when an aircraft is < 1000 AGL the TCAS would be at Sensitivity Level 2 (SL2) and they would still get Traffic Advisories (but not a Resolution Advisory); and only once landed and the pilot turns off TCAS would they no longer get messages?
fergbrain··on Near-miss between FedEx and Southwest flights in Austin
Yes: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_...

FR24 is a combination of ground-based radar (both primary and secondary surveillance) and ADS-B data.

TCAS (as I understand it) uses the transponder part of secondary surveillance radar, but with out the bearing/ranging info, as well as ADS-B (if equipped).

fergbrain··on Copyleft-licensed chess engine wins legal case against proprietary counterpart
> “Additionally, in case of future violations ChessBase is required to pay a contractual penalty to the FSFE for each breach of Stockfish’s initial request for ChessBase to cease its violations of the GPL-3.0. Under the terms of the settlement, this amount will be determined at Stockfish’s discretion.”

I’m incredibly surprised that anyone would allow an unlimited/open-ended financial risk like that.

fergbrain··on Audiobooks on Spotify
I dropped Spotify and went to Apple Music because of this.
fergbrain··on Ask HN: What is the most complex topic you understand?
FAA Certification
fergbrain··on Show HN: We optimize your finances, for free - Uprise.us
Definitely would be interested in a single income (wife is SAHM) with kids base case.
fergbrain··on A Simple Ratio Came to Influence Military Strategy
https://archive.ph/D398B
fergbrain··on Nelson testifies cost-plus contracts have been a “plague” on NASA
They eat the cost: https://simpleflying.com/boeing-ceo-air-force-1-deal-mistake...
fergbrain··on Startup plans to put the first data center on the Moon
What would prevent someone else from coming along and simply stealing (or otherwise tampering with) these things?
fergbrain··on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
And there’s a good chance that 404mm’s cat5 would pass as cat5e.
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