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by wkjagt 2y ago
I'm trying to teach Morse code to my 10 year old kid and his friend. Even setting up soon to be modified CB radios for them to do it over the air. I'm actually testing out an antenna idea today at his friend's house.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Were they the Jerry Ziliak KB6MT tapes by any chance?
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by wkjagt 2y ago
This is Hacker News. Part of what makes it fun is that we show cool projects we did. Also, from the guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us some
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by wkjagt 2y ago
After reading all the comments, I'm starting to wonder.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
> making life 5% hell Not even sure what this means
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by wkjagt 2y ago
For me it's, in no particular order: - Shower before bed. Going to bed clean feels so much better. - No programming just before sleep - A cold-ish bedroom - Read before sleep (a novel, not HN). - As little light as possible in the bed
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Reading in bed totally does it for me. Most of the time a novel or something. I can do three pages at most before everything becomes blurry and I struggle to stay awake and make it to the end of the page.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
There's a lot of comments on the "10% more vulnerable" part of the post in here that amount to "I just owe the company work hours, and they owe me money", and a strong aversion to showing anything resembling human c
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by wkjagt 2y ago
That's why they said "if you're comfortable". It was totally optional. I don't understand your strong reaction to this.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Post: "If you’re comfortable, I’d like us to try and be 10% more vulnerable" This comment: "I'd rather not have my manager forcing me to do group therapy." How did "if you’re comfortable" become "forc
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I still have my base model M1 MacBook Air, and I never felt the need to upgrade. It never felt slow.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
It's where their target audience is.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Interesting that this is the top comment at the time I'm reading this, while the article isn't at all about hijacking CTRL+F.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
It is. But the article doesn't talk about hijacking its behaviour.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I still have my minidisc player. It can even record. It's an awesome little machine.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I recently bought an Atari Portfolio that was in working order. But it stopped working pretty quickly and now only shows random characters on the screen. Too bad, because I was really looking forward to that easy money.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Cool, I'll check it out!
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I'm a pretty new ham, and only doing CW. To practice my CW I try to hunt at least a couple POTA activators a day. I'm (very) slowly starting to feel ready to start activating. I have my POTA kit ready for when I am. A QMX with an
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I think he's saying he has been moving to the next company within 2 years after starting a job. Not all 3 companies in 2 years.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
A potentiometer is a simple voltage divider, and I think often used as an input to the ADC of an MCU, as a means of turning some some value up or down.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
The awesome Ben Eater gives the clearest explanation I've seen of how the 555 timer works internally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRlSFm519Bo
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I recently used a 555 (and some other simple parts) to fix some timing issue my ham radio's internal CW keyer seemed to be having. Maybe I could have used an ESP32 module that I also had lying around, but I could run the 555 directly o
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Well, to write the code you'd need some knowledge of programming. But some top of my head random example would be, if I miss a call from the tax agency, add an item to my todo list to call the tax agency back. Or if a number that I don
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Morsle – A daily Morse code challenge(morsle.fun)
145 points by wkjagt 2y ago|38 comments
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by wkjagt 2y ago
It's a phone, just not a cell phone. But I must admit, that I also was a little disappointed to see that it wasn't a cell phone. I've been wanting a simple, open source phone (a cell phone that is) that allows me to easily ho
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I'M IN!
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Melatonin isn't a sleep drug. It's something your brain makes naturally at the end of the day when it gets dark etc. As I understand it, it's part of your bio clock and is not much more than your brain telling your body it&#x
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Lots of dismissive comments in here, which I don't understand. KV4P did an awesome project that he spent a lot of time and effort on, and then shares it with the community. I think he did a great job, and I am very tempted to build one
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by wkjagt 2y ago
It would also be harder to tune into a station that is SSB because there's no carrier to detect. If you're slightly too high or low, the audio will have a slightly higher or lower pitch. I'm just guessing but with modern radi
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Could you make AM stereo by somehow using the two sidebands (on each side of the carrier) for left and right?

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