MrRadar

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by MrRadar 6y ago
As a guy in his 30s who got his ham license last year, there are two major things I think the ham radio community needs to change if they want to increase membership. Firstly, they need to target the right demographic for recruitment. Right
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by MrRadar 6y ago
They both came on the scene at the same time, aiming for similar (though not exactly the same) markets, with Go aiming for something between a "better C" and "statically-compiled Python" and Rust a straight-up "bett
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by MrRadar 6y ago
The crazy thing is that people are still doing that with Tethers (USDT). They've admitted in legal filings that they only have 74% backing for them[1] and yet they continue to trade within 1 cent of par with the US dollar. Sometimes
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by MrRadar 6y ago
This is far from new. I still avoid Paypal as much as possible from how they screwed over the Something Awful Hurricane Katrina fundraiser back in 2005.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Not too surprising. Keep in mind that at the time electricity was a luxury and there were very few home appliances that made use of it. The radio, the first piece of electronics more complex than a simple motor or heater that you might find
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by MrRadar 6y ago
I wonder if AMD could, under the terms of their patent cross-licensing agreement with Intel, deliver Apple an "x86 processor" in the form of a mask ROM containing an x86 emulator for ARM. I'm sure AMD would be happy to do so
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by MrRadar 6y ago
I've been using Android since 2012 and I only have one phone that doesn't run Android 5 or later, which is the Galaxy Nexus from 2011. That phone famously (and controversially[1]) stopped getting updates after less than 2 years. M
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> When I tap on a link on Tom's JS-free website, the browser first waits to confirm that it was a tap and not a brush/swipe, then makes a request, and then we have to wait for the response. With a framework-authored site with c
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Fran has a lot of great content. Be sure to check out her videos on other rare displays like the IEE BINA-VIEW[1] or ONE-PLANE[2]. While looking for those videos I also found this one[3] where she browses through a catalog of display compon
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by MrRadar 7y ago
John Legere didn't take over as CEO until 2012 and one of John Legere's biggest early moves (in 2013) was eliminating contracts, so I think your anger over that issue is a bit misplaced.
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by MrRadar 7y ago
According to this 2018 article from The Verge[1], the new T-Mobile will have 90 million customers putting it just behind AT&T (at 93 million) and slightly farther behind Verizon (116 million). The New T-Mobile's customer base will
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Sprint still requires CDMA for voice service in some areas. They've been by far the slowest to adopt VoLTE of the big 4 carriers in the US, the others all fully support VoLTE in all areas.
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by MrRadar 7y ago
T-Mobile's coverage area almost completely encompasses the coverage provided by Sprint and also covers a lot of areas Sprint does not. This merger also makes T-Mobile by far the largest owner of sub-6 GHz cellular spectrum in the US. A
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Dish owns a lot of terrestrial-use spectrum, but it's mostly oddball frequencies nobody else in the world is using for cellular service today. IIRC the most "standard" band they own is band 71 (600 MHz, also used by T-Mobile)
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by MrRadar 7y ago
T-Mobile will be shutting down the Sprint CDMA, LTE, and 5G NR networks, and the T-Mobile UMTS network will probably also be shut down around the same time leaving just the T-Mobile LTE and 5G NR networks. While the Sprint network is still
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Most businesses don't have the cash reserves to handle effectively shuttering for 1-3 months, which is probably what will be required to get a handle on the Coronavirus outbreak without overwhelming our medical systems. This means thos
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I think the most interesting bit of this article is this: > So will expanding the use of the Radeon Open Compute (ROCm) development environment, which is the analog to Nvidia’s CUDA environment. But across the $1.2 billion allocated for
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by MrRadar 7y ago
They are a much simpler use-case. They just need to present video. Web browsers need to composite the video within arbitrary documents which may e.g. have elements that overlap the video (opaque or transparent) or may arbitrarily transform
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I really hate that new "feature" too. I don't get why anyone would want it. Edit: I think I figured it out. I think it's supposed to make it easier to see replies to the linked/original tweet which you would otherwi
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Why couldn't you use a cashier's check?
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by MrRadar 7y ago
How does this compare to AVISynth? http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page
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by MrRadar 7y ago
There's a meta-bug on Bugzilla for adding a mobile-style frontend to desktop Firefox for the Librem 5 and Pinephone: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579348 Not a lot of work has been done since hardware h
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Any "Reddit alternative" will have a hard time gathering users as long as Reddit exists (and doesn't alienate a critical mass of their users ala Digg). Dan Olson of the YouTube channel Folding Ideas made a very insightful v
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Regarding the energy use, give 71 a try. It includes compositor enhancements (actually included in the last release) that should significantly reduce energy use on modern macOS: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2019/10&
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Mozilla are working on a "Wayland DMABuf" feature which will allow for separate processes to share GPU buffers on Linux[1]. For a long time that has been a blocker for hardware-accelerated video decoding as otherwise the data woul
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by MrRadar 7y ago
I don't have a particular suggestion. I used the Developer Tools to disable the CSS font directives, so maybe just have an option to switch to a stylesheet that doesn't specify specific fonts? Also, thanks for your articles. I fin
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Is that your site? If so, please consider changing the "B612"/"B612 Mono" font to something else. The parenthesis in it look far too much like square brackets (at least as rendered by Firefox on Windows 10 with subp
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by MrRadar 7y ago
FYI this is run by the incorrigible Jason Scott of textfiles.com/BBS Documentary/Archive Team fame: https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1196447880728453120
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by MrRadar 7y ago
Here's another map from the same project that shows multiple different wolves and how they stay within their territories: https://i.redd.it/6ddoli58r1v21.gif
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by MrRadar 7y ago
They used to make their own motherboards and sell them to consumers. They were known for being very high quality and very reliable. Now you can only get boards for their chips from third party OEMs who tend to have much more variable qualit

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