Not just radials. The Napier Sabre H24 engine in Typhoons used cartridges as well.

This reminds me of the Inuit oral history of the ___location of the HMS Erebus and Terror.

https://parks.canada.ca/lhn-nhs/nu/epaveswrecks/culture/inui...

Halting production of the penny.

I think that's the only thing I agree with.

(not a US citizen)

If there's more than one sailboat, it's a race :)

Interesting. That's what's happened in the last two companies I've worked for when they did layoffs. I'm typing this message from my ex-corporate laptop right now...

The process was that IT locked the laptop until the severance package was signed, then you got a code that let you reboot and reinstall MacOS.

The rich are making a killing with hedge funds and puts.

no they’re not. go look at the volume

I had to click Reader Mode to see it

HN's own Paul Lutus has a great sailing book: https://www.amazon.ca/Confessions-Long-Distance-Sailor-Paul-...

If you're interested in doing something like this, you could join the Vic Maui race: https://www.vicmaui.org/

It's on his site as well in HTML and eBook form:

https://arachnoid.com/sailbook/index.html

I read it years ago and still think of it from time to time. It's a great read.

HN submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=901072

His site never gets much love from HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=arachnoid.com

I'm building an amateur radio logging tool. Yes, there's a million out there, but I wanted one specifically for hunting Parks on the Air and Summits on the Air activators:

https://gitlab.com/harford/xflog

I've also built a tool in Rust for munging ADI (amateur radio contact logging) files:

https://gitlab.com/harford/adifsurgeon

After being laid off, it's given me lots of time to play on the radio :-/

For reception, a tower with a 3 element Yagi antenna with a rotator so you can point it in exactly the right direction.

Although I think you can do it cheaper - people have had a lot of success with a Beverage antenna. It takes up a lot of space though!