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parkrrron Own a weather station? We want your data

> Also, the load of the API might be a lot lower if it were possible to retrieve just the current measurement

/stations/{stationId}/observations/latest ?

parkrrron Sludge Videos Are Taking over TikTok–and People's Mind

These videos always seem to be posted by content harvesters and I presumed the side-by-side video was intended to add randomness to avoid content detection.

parkrrron Show HN: TT911 – Text 911 your location and name without unlocking your phone

911 will accept test calls. You can call the office ahead of time and arrange a test call.

Alternatively you can dial 911, inform the operator it is not an emergency but a test call, and have them verify the phone number and location.

parkrrron EcoVent: Make every room in your home the right temperature [video]

It's my understanding that if you have a forced-air system, closing vents is detrimental due to the pressures involved. Closing the vents adds strain to your blower and redirects the, now higher pressure, air to other parts of the house.

I'm no HVAC guru, this is simply what I've been told. Can someone enlighten me, or how does this technology approach this situation?

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These made some rounds on YouTube on competitive eating channels. The bag warns you that you should start small and see how you tolerate them.

parkrrron Jenkin developers accidentally do "git push --force" to over 150 repos on github

Jenkins is build server software. It's existence is related to the story only because it was a Jenkins developer.

'git push --force' pushes your copy of the repository to the remote, regardless of what the remote has. He basically told GitHub, "Hey here's the /real/ copy of the repository, the copy you have is totally wrong" and it overwrote all the history because his copy was a few months out of date.

parkrrron Convert Twitter Boostrap to a "flat" design

The previews were all flat but I seem to recall that it was a temporary thing: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/6342#issuecomment-...

parkrrron Ask HN: How do I get into data mining/analysis?

Is there a particular area I should look at? Not a lot of activity in Indianapolis :\

parkrrron Device turns Android phone into computer. A reason to make HTML 5 apps?

Considering Apple patented the clamshell design from the Macbook Air recently, I expect this design to shift radically.

parkrrron CryEngine 3 soft-body physics simulator

I'm glad you mentioned this. BeamNG was actually founded out of a game called Rigs of Rods, which in turn was influenced by 1NSANE.

What you ask for is possible in Rigs of Rods (although soft-body on soft-body is usually enabled on a per-vehicle basis). There is a plane that ships with RoR (the Antonov) that actually starts to wobble and shake apart at high speeds (I believe above 150 knots).