The geranium diode is doing most of the heavy lifting. Good luck building that from scratch.
https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/razor_blade...
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fmj commented on Entangled Photons Maintained Under New York Streets physics.aps.org/articles/... · Posted by u/lc0_stein
If further expansion is seen as unlikely to recoup costs then what's to say an entire neighborhood has service when fiber has only been run to a single apartment?
I've seen complaints amounting to this exact scenario for years.
My friend has the opposite problem. The ISP's map claims to offer fiber service on his whole block, and if you type in your address they'll even offer service at that specific address. The problem is his block is at least 80% multi-tenant dwellings, and they'll only do new installs if everyone in the building subscribes. They don't just want permission from the landlord to wire the whole building at once to save time if future tenants subscribe, they're just not gonna do it unless everyone pays. In my friend's case, they didn't even tell him this ahead of time, despite explicitly saying he was in an apartment on the form he filled out when he attempted to sign up. They just "helpfully" change it to a request for DSL service. This was explained to my friend by the technician that showed up with DSL hardware only capable of a faction of the speed he was currently getting on coax. Obviously, he refused service. Then he got to fight AT&T for a few months over bills for DSL services he never requested, and rental for hardware he never accepted.
fmj commented on SponsorBlock – skip sponsor segments on YouTube sponsor.ajay.app/... · Posted by u/anotherhue
I've mentioned this in the past but I mind sponsorship a lot less when it's highly relevant for the channel. For example a lot of engineering channels are sponsored by JLPCB who provided machining services or PCBs for the project video - that makes sense.
Coffee influencers selling me NordVPN on a video about grinder particle size distribution does not.
I've actually bought/planned to buy a few things that I was introduced to via YouTube sponsorships, but it's never been any of the generic YouTube sponsor merchandise. It's always something highly relevant to the topic of the channel, or even the specific video. Usually some sort of specialty tool.
Another observation: with this setup, you essentially randomly jump into the middle of videos, skipping what is usually the most grating part of the show: the intro.
In the intro to most shows/videos, there's annoying jingles, silly animations, a redundant summary of what's about to happen in an already short segment, or just useless chatter "hey guys! it's your boy, _. welcome to my channel, remember to smash that like button, we have a great show today".
Because of all this intro bloat, I tend to jump a few minutes into most YouTube videos by default.
It's no longer functional, but in the past if you appended the parameter t=wadsworth to a YouTube URL it would skip the first 30% of a video.
> I also found a ton of old Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and Adult Swim bumps
Where were you able to find these? Recreating one of these channels has been a side project I’ve wanted to do for ages.
There's a torrent going around the usual places that has every [as] bump from the launch of the network to whenever they last updated the archive (a few months ago in my case.)
fmj commented on Apple's requirements are about to hit creators and fans on Patreon news.patreon.com/articles... · Posted by u/miiiiiike
Is this really true? Maybe it just makes sense to put high demand refrigerated products in the refrigerated room near the loading dock where the refrigerated trailer is unloaded?
Yeah, I hear people repeat that a lot, but it doesn't entirely align with my experience. A lot of the grocery stores I shop at (mostly Kroger and other national chains,) have a cooler right up front with the most popular dairy/refrigerated items for the people that are just there to pick those up.
As someone who is not that much into music or Drake: What am I looking at here?
A bunch of stuff you will absolutely not care about. Unreleased music, rough cuts, behind the scenes footage, promo materials, etc. . .
Nothing about the content itself that would be interesting to the average HN reader, but I think this is the first time a celebrity has officially released a massive data dump like this.
IIRC, Emby requires a login to function even with just local content. And data is sent to them on what you do on your local system. No thanks.
And I meant Plex, not Kodi. Kodi doesn't (AFAIK) spy on their users, but Plex does. My apologies.
IIRC, Emby has also had some GPL compliance issues. Jellyfin is a fork with of Emby with all the crap removed.
fmj commented on Investigating corrupt Winamp skins jordaneldredge.com/notes/... · Posted by u/treve
Why does Google do this. There isn't any need for so much data just to link a resource
They're storing information about the app's current state, as well as tracking/analytic info. If you don't care about linking to an identical view and just want to link to a specific location, you can trim the URL down to just the coordinates like this: https://www.google.com/maps/place/@55.9285659,-4.7106362,17z...
Cool I guess.
Now when can I get a 1080p@60 window overlay so I can watch youtube while doing my laundry?
At this rate we'll have humanoid robots to do my laundry before we have AR glasses suitable for the task.
Rokid and Xreal have products that are more up your alley.