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gsck··on HAM radio operators receive signals from Voyager 1 on Dwingeloo telescope
LUA is the one that annoys me the most, its a word. Its moon in portugese
gsck··on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far
> 10.0.0.200

Redirects to > www.10.0.0.200

Thank you safari!

gsck··on Making memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) well-defined
Yeah its fine updating the url, but adding history checkpoints really does suck
gsck··on Itch.io Taken Down by Funko
The entire site is user generated content
gsck··on Show HN: Automate your studio – mute a mixer channel to turn your PTZ camera
Yeah really is a cool protocol. I use it with my Behringer X Touch Compact to control the grandMA3 onPC software to get physical playbacks.

X Touch MIDI goes into a piece of software called open stage control https://openstagecontrol.ammd.net/ which runs https://github.com/xxpasixx/pam-osc which then translates the MIDI messages to the correct OSC commands to send to grandMA3. Then on the grandMA3 side there is a lua plugin that sends OSC commands back out to open stage control to set fader positions and LED status.

gsck··on Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
No, you cant add any extra pixels
gsck··on Unless my phone can be a PC, I don't want to keep paying for extra performance
No
gsck··on The Nursery of the Mac – Apple Computer factory in Cork, Ireland (1996)
But Belfast isn't in Ireland. Belfast is in Northern Ireland which is part of the UK, and a separate entity to the Republic Of Ireland.

Saying that, the new Apple store in Belfast is nice, much bigger than its previous spot in Victoria Square

gsck··on Spotify has shut down several API endpoints
Even the 75K is super optimistic. If you are touring you want to bring your own equipment, much easier to run a show that is roughly the same in multiple places then relying on the house rig in multiple venues. Once you factor in bringing your own gear (Almost definitely rented, sound is expensive, lighting even more so), you now need to factor in maintenance of the equipment and rigging.

Also the assumption you can get one guy to do lighting and sound is pretty unrealistic unless your show consists of a static wash throughout the entire show. Theatrical shows you can get away with it, but that's usually because the man hours are heavily front loaded into pre-production, but with live music you will need a dedicated LX Tech and a dedicated Sound Engineer.

I moonlight as a lighting technician during the evenings and weekends, mainly working in handful small local venues, there's me running lighting and the sound engineer doing his thing. The bands playing are easily spending £300 a night just on 2 people (And this is a small venue probably about 200 cap in the main hall), youd be spending much more for a touring crew

gsck··on A washing machine for human beings, from 1970
Must be a sad world living in a state of permanent victim hood
gsck··on Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges
Equipped like an army, unfortunately not trained like one.
gsck··on Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos
Theyre specifically looking to record all incoming MIDI streams, which isn't possible without preventing other applications from using those MIDI devices. Only one program can listen/send to a midi device at a time
gsck··on Ask HN: How would you launch a privacy-first, Instagram-like social network?
I much prefer a chronological feed, but they don't work in reality. All current social media platforms rely on their algorithm for discovery.

Without it you may have a very large social media site on paper, but each user only interacts with a small subset which defeats the point of a social media platform. You've effectively created a group chat service that technically doesn't prevent others from joining in, it just doesn't let others find the conversation they are interested in

gsck··on NASA reconnected with Voyager 1 after a brief pause
I'd imagine trying to build a radio transmitter powerful enough to transmit that deep into space would raise a few eyebrows before you even get the chance to send anything to the satellite.

That and having to guess what commands to send to the probe

gsck··on INNER JOIN ON vs WHERE clause
Run explain and find out for yourself. Its highly dependant on your DB and its execution planner
gsck··on Hoard of coins from Norman Conquest is Britain's most valuable treasure find
1 penny = 1 penny, truly extraordinary
gsck··on Are rotary mixers better?
Gets even better with a touch screen and trying to rotate the virtual knobs. It just doesnt work.

Piece of software I use frequently has most of the important programming and setup done through touch screen and relatively little through its command line which prior version used more off, the touch screen rotary encoders are just confusing and I can never seem to get it to the right value

gsck··on Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools
No it doesn't? This has nothing to do with memory safety. Its a logical error, which Rust physically cannot prevent.
gsck··on A dictionary of single-letter variable names
Or just get a font that draws the i with a line and a dot correctly, and a 1 with the horizontal line at the bottom and the half width line at an angle at the top.

You are using a bad font.

gsck··on Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut
Don't lean on your chair, I had a student who died doing that
gsck··on Why we're helping more wikis move away from Fandom
Dont give them any ideas
gsck··on The Static Site Paradox
I would say a static website is just one that doesn't do any extra work on the client to generate the content. Either SSR or just plain HTML files
gsck··on Why my apps will soon be gone from the Google Play Store
When have you ever been required to sign an NDA to make an Android app?
gsck··on Quandoom: A port of DOOM for a quantum computer
"No Fair! You changed the outcome by measuring it!"
gsck··on Show HN: A journaling service that runs over WhatsApp
Whats the goal will replying with AI slop?
gsck··on A terrible way to jump into colocating your own stuff
Reliability, and depending on your work load the ability to use it commercially. Your house isn't going to have any meaningful reliability for either the network or power.

Your house will have one connection to the outside work, the DC should have multiple for redundancy (In case a digger goes through your network connection), and same for power any good DC will have their own redundant power supplies (Batteries, generators etc).

And if your server is serving a lot of traffic, your consumer home ISP might not be too happy about it. Theres a reason they split plans between home and business.

gsck··on 2nd-gen Starlink satellites emit 30x more RF interference, blinding telescopes
I wonder if it would be possible for SpaceX to set up something for telescope operators to request a "dark spot", turning off the transmitter for x amount of time at a specific position. I imagine the satellites will have to know roughly where they are in space.

Doesn't prevent the issue of optical telescopes being able to see them, but at least for RF telescopes it should solve that problem

gsck··on 26-Year-Old EY Employee Succumbs to 'Work Stress' Four Months After Joining
Because famously no one has ever died from being over worked under communism
gsck··on Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
I read five days a week and thought to myself, christ thats quite a lot. 70% of your week, then I remembered I do that. It is crazy to think you spend that much time in the office.
gsck··on Ask HN: What are some good modern SaaS starter boilerplates?
You demo site should not require a login, I'm not giving oauth access to a product I may or may not be interested in.
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