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hooli_ganon Soldering the Tek way

Do you know how dangerous new vs old flux is? I'm using some old Канифоль from the USSR and get headaches while soldering. Fume extraction would probably be a good idea, but I solder no more than 4h a year

hooli_ganon Can we communally deprecate git checkout?

Not really on mobile. The margins are too large. Screenshot from mobile Chrome: https://imgur.com/a/q4oa7aO

hooli_ganon Writing a simple pool allocator in C

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_zone_(computing)

hooli_ganon First live birth using Fertilo procedure that matures eggs outside the body

I don't believe healthy, social children can be born in this way within our lifetime. Babies start learning their mother tongue in the stomach while being out and about with their mother. There may also be hundreds of other things happening in the stomach that we don't know about, which are needed for healthy children

hooli_ganon The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

The main problem I see with frying in animal fat is, the already small selection of vegetarian food at most restaurants could be 0, after you also remove fries as an option.

hooli_ganon The Rise of the French Fry Cartel

How much did you lose in which timeframe, if you don't mind me asking?

hooli_ganon My little sister's use of ChatGPT for homework is heartbreaking

Yeah this did not work for me in college and it certainly would not have worked in school for me

hooli_ganon ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)

https://archive.is/6RHVb

hooli_ganon Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated

Can you suggest some resources to learn more about Websocket scaling? Seems like an interesting topic

hooli_ganon 38th Chaos Communication Congress

Yeah, but they do it to attract foreign students. Otherwise everything would be in German with english technical terms, where appropriate.

hooli_ganon McKinsey and Company to pay $650M for role in opioid crisis

Why doesnt money work for Kim Dotcom?

hooli_ganon El Salvador to scale back Bitcoin dreams to seal $1.3B IMF deal

https://archive.is/4MU39

hooli_ganon Intel announces Arc B-series "Battlemage" discrete graphics with Linux support

Why do you need two DP cables? Is there not enough bandwidth in a single one? I use a 4k@60 display, which is the maximum my cheap Anker USB-C Hub can manage.

hooli_ganon Pokemon TCG Pocket Hub – Open-Source Multilingual Card Game Resource Platform

The lucky card animation is broken on Android 15 Vanadium (GrapheneOS Chromium). While the previous card flips to the backside the next card is shown too early. You can See it before it should be revealed.

Otherwise cool project

hooli_ganon Glass Antenna Turns windows into 5G Base Stations

The company Alcan Sytems also produces 5G glass antennas. But they use LCD (Display Technology) to create a phased array to dynamically direct the signal. https://www.alcansystems.com/

hooli_ganon Jennifer in paradise: the story of the first Photoshopped image (2014)

This is an outrage /s

hooli_ganon Solar will get too cheap to connect to the power grid

Excess energy is burned, providing some value instead of none

hooli_ganon A script tag that syntax highlights itself

The MDN web docs for those who want to know more: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CSS_Custom_...

hooli_ganon FFmpeg 7.0

ffmpeg commander is great. A simple static site which you can host yourself. I can't recommend it enough.

hooli_ganon Cloning a Laptop over NVMe TCP

Zstd is also great for io bottlenecked transfers with its adapt flag. I don't know if you can use it with rsync though.

> --adapt[=min=#,max=#]: zstd will dynamically adapt compression level to perceived I/O conditions.

hooli_ganon Mastercard Should Stop Selling Our Data

Have you tried cash?

hooli_ganon iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus

You could also buy an original Display from ifixit and just repair it. https://www.ifixit.com/products/google-pixel-5-screen-genuin...

hooli_ganon Yenish people

Thanks for the great song suggestion

hooli_ganon Happy Birthday OpenStreetMap

The app is super responsive and the routing almost instant. Great work, I just knew about the website before I read this comment.

hooli_ganon The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

This is false. In Germany there are Universitäten and Hochschulen. Hochschulen are more practical, at one of these you have programming assignments or projects in nearly every subject. Universitäten are more about the theory but they still have some programming assignments, maybe one subject every semester. At some Unis CS is just a part of the Mathematics department so that is also a factor which makes them even more theoretical.

hooli_ganon SF's Anchor Brewing Company shutting down after 127 years

Pils, Weizen, Helles would else could one need?

hooli_ganon Official Mastodon server of the Dutch government

W3 and IETF are working on standards for this, SD-JWT[1] with oidc4vc[2] looks like the most promising Verifiable Credential[3] technology to me.

[1] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-selective-d... [2] https://openid.net/specs/openid-4-verifiable-credential-issu... [3] https://www.w3.org/TR/vc-data-model-2.0/#what-is-a-verifiabl...

hooli_ganon Ask HN: What's on your home server?

How about adding another audio stream to your Video files with ffmpeg? You could even automate it with a script on a cronjob or make a Jellyfin Add-on. You would first have to detect if there is already a mono or stereo stream. Then invoke something like ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:a aac -rematrix_maxval 1.0 -ac 2 output.mp4 (haven't tested this and it would drop subtitles)