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by ynac 9mo ago
There are a bunch of these on our island. The fireplaces are in the middle of the house, small doors, and once they get that brick warm the houses are 80 all winter long. They were built by Russian families in the 1940s, maybe a couple do
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by ynac 9mo ago
I like the idea of an outside vent, and unfortunately, I think an insert of some kind. I can't help but first think of the goofy look of a wood fired stove sitting half in and half out of the fireplace. Surrounded by a few tons of ri
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by ynac 9mo ago
When we lost power for 10 days a few winters back we attempted to use the fire place for heat. It was a fail. Post and beam house (large wide open floor plan) with a large transfer from 1st to 2nd floor, and apprently my lack of skill for
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by ynac 9mo ago
Neuromodulation tools and systems that allow for a user to reverse normal reaction to stimuli is going to be a huge market soon. When I erg and just stare at the stats on the computer or phone, I struggle. In a good and not so good way.
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by ynac 9mo ago
I've been restoring my old daily driver, a 1985 Mercedes 300TD (the model has appeared in over 1000 films) for the past year. It's a funny questions to ask what is fully restored, is it all original, or OEM. One day I'm fle
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by ynac 9mo ago
Since it's a societal problem, but solved on the microlevel of one person at a time, it seems the way to have a broader effect is to show the value of having connection with other people over the value of not. Overcome any addictions (
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by ynac 9mo ago
I have to replicate the little shoes on the cassette mechanics of a Becker Grand Prix car stereo from 1985. The plastic shoes are brittle from age, heat, and wear. I've spent the last couple weeks finding about two dozen ways that al
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by ynac 9mo ago
http://ynac.freeshell.org
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by ynac 9mo ago
That was me - until today. Now I've got a newish Dyson that was annoying to use on floors stashed under the water heater with a sneaky hose extension that flips up to deal with lint without even removing the filter all the way. It ha
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by ynac 9mo ago
I'm down to just a few sweat shirts and over shirts from the 80s, but they are hanging in there. Both the colors and the fabric. When the subject comes up with friends who ask about a particular shirt I joke, "The cotton was tou
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by ynac 9mo ago
Just throwing a HELL YES <with a kung fu punch> out there for this. Nice work. I've been trying to integrate a live ascii video feature for a while now and the subtle detail on this is really inspiring.
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by ynac 9mo ago
I've just started a Salvage Pile in my workshop. Laser printer with fax modem was the first for excision and harvest. I could feel the addiction take hold before the last of the plastic shell was tossed into the refuse bin. The step
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by ynac 9mo ago
Very Monodraw-like, but web-based. Same UI makes it an easy road replacement. I'll put it on my start page for when I'm not on my own machine.
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by ynac 9mo ago
Having to navigate to and from online plain text files (usually .txt) I like a browser to recognize addresses with or without HTTP and see them as links. It's a surprisingly tricky feature to find in browsers (right click, grab and as
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by ynac 9mo ago
Still working my way through the post, and the RFC, but I just had to say now how great it is to see conversation and references to RFCs! IETF, the formatting, the clarity and effort to think things through...it really does take my coffee
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by ynac 9mo ago
Monodraw is a champ as well. Stand alone and outputs to graphic or text file. Easy to feed to other people or artificial people.
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by ynac 9mo ago
I posted the NPR page today on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46515239 It's a fun exercise in comparing the aesthetic choices, technical tools for the pages, and the content choices (media and pre
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Ask HN: Favorite Print Magazines?
2 points by ynac 9mo ago|2 comments
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by ynac 9mo ago
Not on the NYT level of sophistication of long-flow web presentation, but kudos to them for work. I'm a big fan of multi-media databases - especially one that could grow over time. Also happy to see radio raising their bar for print
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A visual archive of Jan. 6, 2021(apps.npr.org)
4 points by ynac 9mo ago|1 comments
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by ynac 9mo ago
The NYT api is really flexible. I made my own NYT ascii frontpage site. It works off the headlines - which is enough for much of my browsing. Then I can jump to the full article, or a scrape.
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by ynac 9mo ago
"Terence Eden's blog - add .txt to any URl." For my textsites, I use the whole address, e.g., http://ynac.freeshell.org/Yuengling.txt and will often repeat the instruction to right-click on any link to follow
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by ynac 9mo ago
I struggle with the purity of meaning for text-only as well. Before this thread, I didn't understand the mime settings; I've been living a lie with a browser friendly landing page that uses: <!DOCTYPE HTML><plaintext>
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by ynac 10mo ago
I've been on projectors for 10 years. Never even had to own a smart TV.
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by ynac 1y ago
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/spacecraft/ It seems they use several tools - inferring from the descriptions, they can measure and compare the data when it gets back here to determine simple things
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by ynac 1y ago
I got "forth" in five guesses, first game. Which makes me feel like I'm psychic! Which would be really cool, but is it just matching the first two letters of the word or something? I'm usually terrible at these until
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Ask HN: Seveneves < Asteroid 2024 YR4
1 points by ynac 2y ago|1 comments
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by ynac 2y ago
Well done, dfsnow! * some islands seem hamstrung by the approach - see Vashon Island for example. * curious what other dataset you might incorporate for managing next level of magnitude smaller trips - e.g. getting a quarter mile to the sto
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DocWriter: Typewriter that sends real-time keystrokes to Google Doc(jsomers.net)
3 points by ynac 2y ago|0 comments
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by ynac 2y ago
NPR had a story about a NEW pipe organ album: https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5232116/james-mcvinnie-... I enjoy modular synths and always felt they were essentially pipe organs - with some zzt zzt.

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