ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
They have some interesting "pop up" stalls in downtown Atlanta. I have heard that the 'container village' in Las Vegas was kind of thinking of that too, based on a standard container, you just dropped it down and then mo
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That is a counter intuitive take, care to expand? Clearly it absolutely will "increase" the number of retail jobs in the neighborhood where the storefront is by virtue of a vacant space has zero jobs available and a leased space h
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
That was touched on in the article and in the report linked in another comment. Basically the bet is as follows: 1) I lower the rent $X and lease to someone now. This has a life time value of lease months * X 2) I leave it vacant, and lease
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
TL;DR -- The banks demand a certain level of rent and the landlord has no leverage over the bank. It would be interesting if this sort of covenant was made illegal/unenforceable. The downside to such a move is that it would make banks
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Hey dang can you replace the link with this? https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasa-tech-breathes-li...
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Non-blog-spam link: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasa-tech-breathes-li... Do you have a reference for this? In other channels there have been discussions about this and how it might work. A lot of questi
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Nice, one of the things I'm doing in my "spare" time is building a framebuffer that is driven by quad-spi on a ULX3S board. The plan is to have it act as a terminal with both a character mode, a vector mode (ala Tek4016), and
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Many people don't realize just how powerful it is. I built an analog synth emulator (although this post gave some ideas about doing a web UI for it) for fun.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
A constant problem on the Lenovo machines was that there was no byte order preserving when it came to data and as a result stored "state" would often blow up apps as it came back in the wrong byte order.
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I am hoping that "Android for RISC-V" is more successful than "Android for x86" which was a completely unmitigated disaster (yes I still have a Lenovo x86 Android tablet :-)) Reading this though doesn't really give
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I'm wondering now if Apple tracks this sort of stuff in their released machines. I know my iPad always asks me if I want to send stats to Apple (and I always say no). So let's say that enough people do, then do they have a good id
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Yeah unless the market is doing well and your balance is growing. I get that it isn't a "problem" per se. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I suspect all of the exempt employees of Meta, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Intel, and pretty much the ones in any of the other fortune 100 companies. There is a funny thing though, you can have "too much" in your 401k/IRA :-).
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
To be fair, Individual Retirement Accounts (aka IRAs) are available outside of your employer's purview, the thing that 401Ks have over IRAs occur when the employer matches some part of your contribution. I continued to roll over my 401
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Completely concur with the notion that if something is "perfectly legal" then there is no basis for judging the bad actor poorly. There absolutely is of course as judgement in this context is a moral choice, not a legal one. The o
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
To be fair, I would love a curated version of Wikipedia periodically exported as a self contained reference application. I thought this would be a good use of the Internet Archive capabilities too. At Blekko we, of course, crawled all of Wi
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I think you meant "big" rather than "hot"? It's decay rate is low enough that it doesn't even melt itself when not cooled (and it melts at room temperature). Adding precision here, a 'thin layer' woul
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is challenging because you probably don't want a phone that is hot all the time. There is however a very interesting technology which uses beta radiation and what are essentially "solar cells" to generate electricity d
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
There is a tradeoff here which might mislead. That is that when you're wirelessly recharging a battery "good" is defined by "charges in a short time" which means a lot of current and thus a lot of heat. When operati
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The short version is: "Wouldn't it be disruptive if Apple went back to replaceable batteries?" but the author stopped short of where that leads. One of the things that doable "now" that wasn't doable "then
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Heh, the answer is sort of. Your receiver likely already has a filter network to "ground out" any coupled electro magnetic interference (EMI) coming from those wires. All conductors "receive" to a greater or lesser degre
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
The surprising part for me is that there does not seem anyway to know ahead of time how someone is going to go. Something that I've wondered about but have no way to pursue is whether or not military training for combat can train the c
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Fair enough, I've got an Agilent 8753A (3GHz version) that I can do an S11 sweep on. It that counts as a "proper" VNA :-) Drop me an email (contact is in my profile) if you would like me to send you a copy of it. (note it won
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
Be careful not to confuse antenna design with "needing to point". :-) There are antennas with pretty circular gain in azimuth but asymmetrical gain in altitude. I have a 08-ANT-0861 from MP Antenna that pretty much looks every whi
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
There are lots of ways, one possible way being an indication in the beacon package via APRS or WSPR that a new image is available. "SSTV" is a protocol for sending "Slow Scan TeleVision" images over the air on 10 meters
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
to be fair a lot of high frequency stuff has pointing :-) But certainly HF stuff, especially below 30MHz, is like any old wire will do. (or loop)
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. My experience, which is by no means exhaustive, is that "symbol rate" vs "baud rate" vs "bit rate" and "protocol encoding" vs "data bits" are topics that go deep
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
This is a really good thing, but for non-radio people it can be confusing. In the 80's, the FCC put limits on digital signals below 30MHz based on "baud rate". A baud is a raw bit in a digital data stream, it can either be da
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I think there is an important point here that might be missed, that is that self awareness is an important piece of leadership. Especially the point that "even now he tricks himself into not thinking about the hardest things." Bec
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by ChuckMcM 3y ago
I agree. The university will argue that if they didn’t exist there would not be a place to do research.

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