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paulcapewell | 8 months ago | on: Why English doesn't use accents

And as a British speaker of English it amuses me that we say "fillit" steak when Americans (afaik) correctly say "fillay". There are others, but I guess there are more 'correct' British English pronunciations of words with origins like this than there are American English.

paulcapewell | 9 months ago | on: Merlin Bird ID

This is exactly the metaphor I use for this app! It's great.

I've used Merlin for years and it works great most of the time. Agree with others that it's a great example of something we should all have on the tiny computers in our pockets.

Until this thread I didn't realise it did photo ID! I took a photo of a black redstart last year and at the time was able to identify it via photos uploaded to social media. But I just tried the app and it got it straight away. It also added it as a new 'lifer' because I hadn't previously logged it via audio ID. Cool!

paulcapewell | 1 year ago | on: Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater

Yeah I own this watch and it is infuriatingly almost accurate for my location, but drifts over the course of the moon cycle. I now just use it as indicative but check other sources if I want the exact high and low tide times. It definitely helps solve the main thing I wanted it for though: glanceable sunrise/set, moon cycle and tide strength (as well as approximate highs and low tide).

The app is kind of clunky and I have had issues with the live GPS tracking of activities but as they're not the main reasons I got it, I don't mind too much.

paulcapewell | 1 year ago | on: My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

Android's Digital Wellbeing also has an option for Bedtime Mode to enable greyscale mode (along with do not disturb etc.). I find that really useful and it also has a sort of snooze option in the notifications if you quickly need to disable it for a short period.

paulcapewell | 1 year ago | on: Mixxx: GPL DJ Software

Genuinely curious: when people submit URLs like this to HN - rather than say a specific link to an article or blog post - without comment or actually submitting responses to the conversation, are they just posting it to say 'hey, take a look at this if you haven't heard of it'? Or am I missing something? (Possibly their descriptive text to go with the URL isn't obvious/visible to me somehow?)

paulcapewell | 1 year ago | on: I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back

On Firefox v134 with British English dictionary, I pasted your wordlist into a text box and I get only the following marked as misspelled:

hominem, implementor, plough, passthrough, seatbelt, underspecified, untraceably, untyped

The rest are all fine. (Plough is especially weird!)

paulcapewell | 1 year ago | on: OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

Played TTD for hundreds of hours as a kid. The soundtrack and ambient sound effects are still so clear in my head - distant sounds of industry and vans and busses and trains just doing their thing. And then occasional updates popping up. It had a really nice flow to it. Very addictive. I'm fairly sure I spent at least one 'sick day' off school playing TTD instead.

I've tried OpenTTD and the touch versions but they didn't grab me the same way. Maybe just a different stage in life? I just try OpenTTD again though... Just to scratch that itch.

paulcapewell | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Aldi Price Map

When accessing from UK: "This content is not available in your country/region."

Holy moly. How is this even still a thing?

paulcapewell | 2 years ago | on: Teletext on a BBC Computer in 2024

Yeah - it kind of blew my mind when I picked up a cheap DVBS satellite receiver box recently, tuned my dish to a satellite that carried German services, and found plain old Teletext running beautifully well on HD TV channels, rendered pixel perfect on my TV via HDMI. Mind boggling!
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