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gwill··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
yea, it was just when the stations in that area started broadcasting in spanish. we tested it with another tv where that control was accessible.
gwill··on Can’t send email more than 500 miles (2002)
tangentially related: 15 or maybe 20 years ago i worked at a repair shop and someone brought in a TV that they said switched to spanish every night at 5pm.

they were watching over the air channels and there was only a setting in the tv for menu language. sure enough though, at 5pm that night we watched as the tv started speaking in spanish. we tried a few more channels and found that all but one or two were in spanish.

as it turns out, some stations broadcast audio in multiple languages and some tvs allow you to change the preference. sadly for this person, the used tv they bought came from a spanish speaking country and didn't have anyway to change that preference.

gwill··on Steam turns 20 today: “We had to try a lot of different things over the years”
strange, i was hitting ~20mbps when downloading armored core vi.
gwill··on Newly discovered comet Nishimura could be visible to naked eye this weekend
did you have any luck? i found that it was too faint for my 72mm telescope.
gwill··on Labeling Beef ‘Low Carbon’ Could Open Premium Market for Wyoming Ranchers
humans give off about 1L of flatulence per day, of which 5% is methane[1]. cows produce anywhere from 250 to 500L of methane per day[2]

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1648028/

2. https://academic.oup.com/jas/article-abstract/73/8/2483/4632...

gwill··on France prepares to ban vegetarian products from using meaty language
not OP but: pronounced as as veat, as in vegetable. They were clear to say for English speakers.
gwill··on Doing laundry on campus without a phone
are you pitching for web apps instead or no applications at all? even useful tools or are you mostly thinking of social media?
gwill··on I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]
i can't find a source for it, but i know nasa has done this in the past.
gwill··on I raced a homing pigeon against the Internet [video]
wind would still affect the speed and direction of the drone.
gwill··on Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts
I love AutoHotkey, but it doesn't pass security scans at my place of work. is there an alternative for running macro scripts?
gwill··on Californian Roads Could Soon Have Speed Cameras Issuing Tickets
this should allow for fewer net resources to be used to combat speeding thanks to automation. police can be used elsewhere.
gwill··on Bomb threat causes mass evacuation at DEF CON hacking convention
not aware of them identifying the owner but the "authorities" on site were caesar's security and they did the sweeps w dogs. i don't see caesar's clearing out their own venue during a convention because they "wanted to do a search". it was also during party hours when there are far fewer people and bags.
gwill··on Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours
"Percentage of the article that is generated by AI: 63%"

I appreciate the transparency, but just raises questions for me. What parts were generated by AI? What edits were made to correct the AI? Why did they feel AI was necessary?

gwill··on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments
https://xkcd.com/978/
gwill··on ‘A very disturbing picture’: another retraction for controversial physicist
interesting timing with this hitting the front page yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864624
gwill··on Employees bid on Anchor Brewery
how can there be infinite growth with limited resources?

maybe i'm one of those 8th grade math nerds.

gwill··on Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay and benefits
>The situation has grown so dire that the San Bernardino National Forest in Southern California saw 42 resignations in 48 hours in May, officials said.

per the article

gwill··on Apple plans a slow, appointment-only rollout of Vision Pro
same here. i was able to skip a fitting for an apple watch when i told them i already measured. also with buying iphones outright i've never been hassled or up-sold. i've been going to my apple store in a medium sized american city for the past 10 years.
gwill··on Goodreads has no incentive to be good
i hate how they worked ads into directions. i know some people find it easy to hear "turn left at the mcdonald's" but i've been fine at estimating distance and don't need to hear the name of a chain.
gwill··on The hidden cost of air quality monitoring
I found a 2001 study that says 1 hour of lawn mowing is equivalent to 100 miles. either a mistype, wicked game of telephone or nefarious act has taken place. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/05/010529234907.h...
gwill··on Estimated U.S. deer population, 1450 to 2016
it's being done with mosquitos, why not w ticks?
gwill··on Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US
would taking a tissue sample be considered cruelty if they claim it doesn't harm the animal? the article doesn't mention wild animals as well. or do you mean by "extraction of resources" the energy costs of processing?
gwill··on Lab-Grown Chicken Is Now Legal for Sale in the US
per the article: "making cultured or lab-grown meat starts with extracting cells from an animal’s tissue, be it a pig, cow, chicken, fish, or any other animal that humans deem to be delicious. The cell extraction doesn’t kill or harm the animal."
gwill··on Developer tools to create spatial experiences for Apple Vision Pro
it'd be interesting to shape the experience based off of biometrics from an apple watch as well as pupil dilation/eye movement if possible.
gwill··on Return to Office Enters the Desperation Phase
https://archive.ph/KS2yh
gwill··on Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks
with a massive golden parachute thanks to this being exactly what the board wants.
gwill··on iOS 17 makes iPhone more personal and intuitive
i don't see where it says people outside your contacts will see it.
gwill··on I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food
they also said that their rent is 1100 a month. where could it be going when they only list their phone, internet and transit bills.
gwill··on Congress wants AM radio in all new cars – trade groups say that’s a mistake
to the best of my knowledge, the issue is EVs emitting frequencies that interfere with AM radio, so instead of adding shielding or figuring out how to retain the integrity of the AM signal, they've opted to just remove the antennae all together.
gwill··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
fyi, BotW was actually made for WiiU. They ported it to switch and did a double release.
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