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jordan314on Hubble telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

I can't believe the shuttle chased down a satellite to fix it in five spacewalks. How many satellites have had service missions like this?

jordan314on Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files

I use this to search for transactions in my bank transaction history for taxes. Very useful!

jordan314on Why are there two ways to write the lowercase letter ‘a’? (2015)

I do. But I did it on purpose, also switched my 'a's to look typewritten, I did it when I was handwriting my college essays.

jordan314on Hatetris – Tetris which always gives you the worst piece

Tangentially, I recently played the tetris theme on a stepper motor. https://twitter.com/alana31415/status/1389886733769007108

jordan314on Just Be Rich

Second link: https://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-stupidest-habits-you-deve...

jordan314on Use console.log() like a pro (2020)

Yeah, also it's console.memory not console.memory()

jordan314on Email a Dumpster Fire

I appreciated whomever burned a dependabot alert.

jordan314on My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes

This was a great read. Maybe slightly overengineered but I really liked the writing style, I read both parts.

jordan314on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature

I happen to be taking magnesium for headaches and vitamin D because I'm deficient. Thanks for the info!

jordan314on Lunar – macOS utility to set brightness and volume on external monitors

Thanks for making f.lux and picasa!

jordan314on Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

FWIW I tried using the command line utility isightcapture on my 2019 macbook, and the LED turned on for 4-5 seconds and I got a dialog asking if I wanted to allow access to the camera. So this seems to be true. I still have a camera cover though

jordan314on AudioMass – free, open source, web-based Audio and Waveform editor

I wonder if iOS is ever going to catch up, I'm still waiting for them to implement getFloatTimeDomainData(). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AnalyserNod...

jordan314on Caffeine boosts problem-solving ability but not creativity, study indicates

Didn't Benjamin Franklin sleep at his desk with a stick propped under his elbow, so when the stick fell out he would invent stuff? I remember hearing that somewhere but now I can't find it

jordan314on College Degrees Used to Make Families Wealthier. That’s No Longer True

I'm in this age group and have lots of debt. I'm also an entrepreneur that can't attend accelerators or forgo a salary for a couple years because of said debt. It feels like startups are for rich people.

jordan314on I quit contracting 6 months ago

Same. Just followed Michael on youtube.

jordan314on Brow.sh: Modem Text Browser That Supports CSS, JavaScript and Even WebGL

This is pretty amazing. Did not expect video and mouse control to work. For brew and iTerm2 I did have to use CTRL instead of command though.

jordan314on Music Generates Feelings That Are Only Weakly Bound to the Music

This is why film music is a thing!

jordan314on Deep packet inspection is dead, and here's why (2017)

This sent me on a spiral of checking for MITM connections on my machine. You can compare the fingerprints of known sites with this list on this site: https://www.grc.com/fingerprints.htm Though I think the facebook one is wrong (the one I see starts with BD 25 8C for SHA-1)

jordan314on The high-risk, high-reward world of selling random stuff on Amazon

I'm an amazon merch seller. Less risk but still crazy rules. I had a successful shirt, then copycats sold my shirt for less. I made a complaint to take down their shirt, and amazon took down my shirt instead. No matter how many times I email them they won't undo that.

jordan314on Show HN: One Click Pose Estimation

Dang it even works on mobile safari (but 2 FPS)

jordan314on Chess boxing

I thought I might be good at chessboxing until I saw the champion. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/84863-World-Chess-...

jordan314on Running FFmpeg on AWS Lambda for 1.9% the Cost of AWS Elastic Transcoder

Cool but only for up to 8 minute videos. Unless you found a way to parallelize the lambda tasks.

jordan314on WebGPU demos

This works great in safari, which makes me wonder why they're doing this at all

jordan314on Exploiting the Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

That article says exactly what coleca was saying?

jordan314on App will self destruct in 5 months:How Counterpath have screwed over Mac users

Yeah parallels does this too. I feel mixed about it. Native Instruments and MOTU tend to make their software compatible for many years after you purchase them, which I appreciate. But it does take development time to make them compatible with new OS versions. Paying for a $40 upgrade every year seems excessive, but I'd prefer it to a monthly subscription model like Adobe and Microsoft have done.

jordan314on Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool

Can't law enforcement follow the transactions of the public address of the ransom bitcoin wallet until the bitcoin is sold?