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by RachelF 2y ago
> what the tolerance on something like this is? They are pretty wide. You can find the answer by looking at some online antenna calculators. Bear in mind that it also depends on the orientation of the rod relative to the incoming wave, a
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High court grants Russian Church permission to seize Google South Africas assets(dailymaverick.co.za)
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Why Nearly Half of US Online Job Postings Are Fake(theepochtimes.com)
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by RachelF 2y ago
There's another symptom of this. Those in power are exempt. When an MP, called Julie Bishop, had her bags searched, she used her power to get those involved sacked.
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by RachelF 2y ago
What is equally impressive is the number of photons received from radar imaging of asteroids. They are closer, but the radar equation received power is inversely proportional to range to the fourth power, not range squared as with Voyager.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Two main reasons for recognizing the photons: They have a specific frequency, 8.3GHz in this example. It's like tuning an FM radio to a station. The photons are coming from a specific direction. As to how they are decoded, you'll
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by RachelF 2y ago
A great article. Good to see they give Heavyside the credit he deserves for what everyone now calls "Maxwell's equations".
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by RachelF 2y ago
Large parts of Android (Google Play Services) are not open source.
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by RachelF 2y ago
The main problem now with many custom ROMs is VoLTE support. Many countries are shutting down 3G networks, and many VoLTE solutions (for 4G and 5G voice) are not available in the open source ROMs.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I don't know - the machine I played with it on was a 16MHz 386, and the IFS software was not optimized. But it was way slower than DCT-based JPEGs to compress. The odd thing about it though, was that it could upscale smoothly. A 320x20
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by RachelF 2y ago
For a while in the 1990's IFS (fractal) image compression was a serious competitor to JPEG. Microsoft Encarta used it on the encyclopedia CD-ROM. I don't know what happened to it. It was pretty slow to compress.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, this article is marketing. They've just made a prototype smaller filter. YIG filters have been around for decades. They are electrically tunable. However, they are slow to change frequency and can have an odd phase response.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I'd add to 4, having seen a bit of the Kernel code. There's a lot of duplication of code, when new developers or teams come on board, they often just re-invent the wheel, rather than using existing Kernel funtions. I would guess
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, take MS Teams for example. Takes around 1000MB or RAM. Older chat apps used way less. IRC used less than 1MB, sure it didn't do voice or video, but it could do things Teams still cannot do.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Windows 11 won't run most DOS or Windows 3.1 or Win16 Windows 95/98/ME programs. XP does.
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by RachelF 2y ago
There's a economic reason mobile phone manufacturers don't want you to repair the phone - they prefer you to buy a new one.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thanks for that.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yes, it can't write to parts of a file. It also can't read (seek) into the file (or couldn't when I last looked at it). It is not a file system, but is often mistaken for one.
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by RachelF 2y ago
ICC signatory countries are meant to arrest anyone on the ICC warrant. South Africa did not with a Sudanese war criminal: "As a signatory to the Rome Statute that governs the jurisdiction and functioning of the Court, South Africa was
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by RachelF 2y ago
Yep, I have to do it occasionally. The same with Visual Studio. It is referred to by a year, eg Visual Studio 2019, but then you need to look in the make files for the actual version number of the project, and then look on Wikipedia for a t
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by RachelF 2y ago
The commercial PC/DOS compiler was a terrible buggy mess. I had the misfortune to use TopSpeed Modula-2 and it involved going into the compiled code with a Hex Editor and re-assembling it.
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by RachelF 2y ago
As a kid in the 1980s, I "debugged" the original F-15 Strike Eagle One - it was written in AppleSoft basic.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Swiss laws protect Swiss banks and their clients. No big money, no privacy laws.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Why are ProtonMail keeping this IP and email information in their logs?
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by RachelF 2y ago
StyleTap https://styletap.com/ runs PalmOS apps on Android.
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by RachelF 2y ago
Thanks for the correction in the name. The book accompanying the TV series is also brilliant: https://archive.org/details/secretwar0000john It goes into more detail about many things that didn't make it into the T
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by RachelF 2y ago
Probably the best summary of the breaking of Enigma and Lorentz is the 1977 BBC series "Most Secret War". Watch the "Still secret" episode, it is on Youtube. I've seen and read a lot of stories about it, this is by
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by RachelF 2y ago
It appears that criticizing Boeing is even more dangerous than flying in one.
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by RachelF 2y ago
I wonder if Microsoft actually does any testing of their Windows builds? Do they still have a Windows QA department?
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by RachelF 2y ago
I miss their about page http://n-gate.com/about/

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