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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
An easier to find link that shows how to make the home-brewed antenna for those interested in trying it out for themselves https://flylib.com/books/en/2.434.1/hack_83_make_a_deep_dish...
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43 km line of sight with USB WiFi stick (2005)(qsl.net)
341 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|168 comments
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
"The company claims the purity and strength of this material (i.e. the case! ) gives you ‘bass notes [that] are clear and powerful’ and an ‘atmosphere [that] is more expansive.’" I think I've just spotted a press release wri
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
According to [0], Taiwan’s Minister of Economics Affairs offered to resign over the incident, which was accepted by Premier Lin Chuan Wow. That's some major level of accepting full responsibility given that "The power outage was c
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Apologies for the rather poor quality of source; the only other links I could find were either Twitter links or .ru domains. Perhaps someone else has a better link (if true)?
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Anonymous servers down as Russian Killnet hackers strike back(metro.co.uk)
9 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|2 comments
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Calif. Bar Leak Reveals Wider Exposure of Court Records(law360.com)
2 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|0 comments
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
The series of movies that are the Matrix Trilogy are chuckling at this news release
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
I don't understand why anyone would want to do this? Unless Putin himself visited my site, then yeah middle-finger time but to paint the entire Russian population as hostile when the have about as much (or even less) say in what their
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Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known(ucsdnews.ucsd.edu)
59 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|37 comments
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Errr, think there is a link error (www.ww.) - submitted link works but shows a bad cert error
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
I'll save others the click - Pricing is 2 €/month(!) with a 7 day trial. All for the low, low price of your WhatsApp phone number.
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UCF Team Develops AI That Can Detect Sarcasm in Social Media(ucf.edu)
2 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|2 comments
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Proctorio subpoenas digital rights group in legal spat with critical student(theverge.com)
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Speed reading and paragraph parsing
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
I've kept an aquarium or two in my time so I'm always happy to see articles that show the proper way to do things. If any beginners take away one single point from the Aquarium Basics guide then this is it - Feed lightly onc
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
And, as per usual, the river flows on past, slowly eroding the rights of the 99% as the news channels and social media focus on the click ratio.
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
From the release notes - New - Dark mode Support for dark mode added to the Settings pane, under the (new) Appearance section: Thanks Raymond!
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
A quote from the 1972 research paper * The team discovered that a so-called “business-as-usual” approach to economic growth would drain the planet’s resources and lead to collapse within the 21st century. While human civilization would not
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Please note that I was originally going to post a ranty shout about the Mods altering submitted article titles and then, upon reflection, I thought it best to ping Dan G an email (hn@ycombinator.com) directly (since that is absolutely usual
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Thanks but I get a 504 Bad Gateway error (I'm assuming the submitted link is paywalled, geo-fenced or similar?) so heres a Wayback link https://web.archive.org/web/20220208121636/https://www.techn...
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Tell HN: I'm Loving the 'Context' Button
5 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|1 comments
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Free flow thoughts and questions jotted down as they occur to me. I jot them down and then forget about them so I can concentrate and what is being said. If the query/question/thought is dealt with later on I draw a line through i
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Typically I browse the HN front page down to the third or fourth page a few times/day (not logged in) and then browse the 'New' section (logged in) and browse down to the 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th page page to upvote things that s
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The metaverse is a new word for an old idea(technologyreview.com)
3 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|2 comments
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Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known(news.umich.edu)
93 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|17 comments
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
First paragraph of the Samba Wiki ( https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Main_Page ) "Samba is an Open Source / Free Software suite that has, since 1992, provided file and print services to all manner of SMB/C
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by NotAWorkNick 5y ago
Two thoughts spring to mind here - Thought #1 - Who wants to seed-fund an EU based FB / IG clone in the hopes that this isn't a massive game of bluff on Meta's side? Thought #2 - What are the odds re Meta actually taking it
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Astronomers stand up to satellite mega-constellations(bbc.com)
2 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|0 comments
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Next-gen USPS mail trucks are only capable of 8.6 mpg, EPA says(arstechnica.com)
5 points by NotAWorkNick 5y ago|2 comments

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