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by Fwirt 6y ago
I don't cycle, but my preferred mapping app is Locus Map. https://www.locusmap.eu/ It's packed with features, the track recording is solid, you can use a couple different online track providers or install brouter
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by Fwirt 6y ago
If you don't mind seeing the desktop interface, prepend "old" to the domain on any reddit page (i.e. change the domain to old.reddit.com) to bring up the legacy interface. Loads quick and works fine on mobile if you don'
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by Fwirt 6y ago
A lot of people criticize the Planck for this, but I think the right way to type on a Planck is to treat it like its own beast. Rather than twisting your wrists to face the keyboard straight on, let them angle inward naturally. The grid lay
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by Fwirt 6y ago
"Polyethylene" might be a good compromise, I believe it's in more common usage outside of the US and would still be fairly understandable (and searchable) to those within it.
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by Fwirt 6y ago
I really like the fact that this technique is very fast and doesn't use any external technology (dice) or information. However, I also have to plug this Android app our gaming group has been using for the last few years. It has one sim
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by Fwirt 7y ago
For simple tasks yes, but just because it can be done in a browser doesn't mean it should . Native applications can provide performance optimizations that you wouldn't get in a web app. Would you rather play a realistic flight
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by Fwirt 7y ago
It's based on Linjat, which is a web app. https://linjat.snellman.net/#fp
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by Fwirt 7y ago
For those who enjoy online multiplayer FOSS games in this vein, see also Teeworlds. https://teeworlds.com/
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by Fwirt 7y ago
AnySoftKeyboard is completely open-source and is distributed through both the Play Store and F-Droid. It comes with many different layouts and there are a few language packs available. They recently added experimental support for swipe typi
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by Fwirt 7y ago
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
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by Fwirt 7y ago
I think some of this falls into the category of obvious risk versus hidden risk. When I was a kid, I was playing in the park with some other kids who were dropping through the bars of a dome-shaped jungle gym. I tried to follow, dropped thr
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by Fwirt 8y ago
Unless there's low volume that day so they don't open the pre-check line. Or the airport is too "small" to have a pre-check line. When it works, it's great, but it seems to be luck of the draw whether they'll a
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by Fwirt 8y ago
True. Mostly has to do with focal ratio. Big f-ratio scopes are better for planetary observations, where small f-ratio scopes are better for wide-angle views. Generally, Cassegrains fall into the first camp and Newtonians into the second. R
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by Fwirt 8y ago
Astrophotography and visual astronomy don't necessarily go together. A used DSLR with a short focal length lens can take nice wide angle short exposures with just a tripod. That'll run you about $150. You can build a barn door tra
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by Fwirt 8y ago
Probably necessity. It pays the bills relatively easily, and if you live anywhere in an urban area (that doesn't have hackerspaces/shared workspaces readily available) it's going to be hard to find a place to practice a craft
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by Fwirt 8y ago
> Lucca had faded into semi-rural, semi-industrial outskirts that will likely never be on any tour itinerary. It was not particularly impressive or photo-worthy – it was a moment that would be hard to justify to someone else, to explain
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by Fwirt 8y ago
I miss the shape that Logitech incorporated into several models years ago: MX518, G400, and G500. It seems to accomplish much of what this mouse is trying to do, distribute the click along the entire finger and support the thumb. I still us
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by Fwirt 8y ago
Oh hey, good to see someone else from my neck of the woods! The whole thing was overblown IMO, but it would have been nice to know a week ago when the test results came through and we hadn't been drinking the tap water all week. Normal
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by Fwirt 8y ago
The article makes it sound like the engineers didn't know what was going on, so it could be an actual bug, unless support was just trying to placate her.
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by Fwirt 9y ago
Definitely. I photographed the lunar eclipse a couple years ago with my 10-inch dob, an afocal eyepiece adapter and a DSLR. None of my images were any good. Astronomy is as expensive as you want to make it, and the knowledge and enjoyment i
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by Fwirt 9y ago
I didn't run the numbers but I figured as much. I was just trying not to be hyperbolic. :)
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by Fwirt 9y ago
Since this is a better source than the space.com article, I'll repeat this here: For those interested in astrophotography, when asked how to get into the hobby, most astrophotographers will tell you, "don't". The setup t
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by Fwirt 9y ago
For those interested in astrophotography, when asked how to get into the hobby, most astrophotographers will tell you, "don't". The setup that he's got in the picture is very conservatively $10,000 worth of equipment. No
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by Fwirt 9y ago
The firmware for the DM42 is based on GPL'd software available for all major operating systems (including iOS.) http://thomasokken.com/free42/
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by Fwirt 9y ago
Living Computer Museums are fascinating. Anyone who's in Seattle for any length of time owes it to themselves to check out the Living Computer Museum: http://www.livingcomputers.org/Discover/At-The-Museum/Vint
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by Fwirt 9y ago
Salem, Oregon here. Everything is zippy. Seems like it's location dependent? Just checked reddit and facebook.
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by Fwirt 9y ago
At my local food cart station, I've had to sign for transactions on a sticky 4-inch iPhone screen held in the vendor's hand. She told me most people just drawn an X. The usefulness of signatures as a means of verification reminds
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by Fwirt 9y ago
After reading through the product announcement I had to chuckle a bit... If you'll pardon the shameless plug, I just purchased a used Lenovo X230 Tablet (ThinkPad) a couple weeks ago and my bet is that for the average HN reader use cas
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by Fwirt 9y ago
For certain items definitely, and it pays to shop around, but you can get some incredibly steep discounts at Amazon if you're willing to wait and use a price watch tool. I routinely get non-essentials at a 25-50% discount because I&#x2
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by Fwirt 10y ago
I work with a Pick derivative every day. UniData still runs many higher ed ERP systems. (As it does at our institution, which was the first installation of our particular product.) I sometimes joke that we were running a NoSQL DB before SQL

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