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sean1524on Swiping left on magnetic stripes

I think the magstripe is disabled in my region, I've never managed to use it on any of my cards. I tried testing it out to see if it even was functional. Surely they must work as I've heard quite a few stories of card skimmers...

sean1524on China lands rover on Mars

I'm curious, their landing vehicle seems to have less moving parts than the respective US rovers that use a complex sky-crane. Is there a particular benefit to using the sky-crane?

sean1524on Show HN: Bestsnip – Draw animations online with automatic inbetweening

No Safari support either

sean1524on Hire people who give a shit

Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8C5sjjhsso

sean1524on Poor Man’s Bose – Open Office and on the Go Noise Control

Active noise cancelling does mean that the headphones create a sound wave which has the same frequency but is out of phase by a single wave length. This causes destructive interference which causes the total energy of the waves to equal zero. You are partially correct but active noise cancelling has the same effect as putting earplugs in due to wave mechanics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_interference