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by Sanzig 7y ago
...which all the digital assistants like Google Home or Alexa use, so this breaks voice commands for those. For most people, that's the main reason to have smart lights.
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Well - they've done a pretty good job of ensuring that if I get smart lights again, I'm definitely not buying Philips. This change breaks all the digital assistant integrations ("Hey Google, turn on the lights"), which i
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Shared e-scooters such as Lime and Bird to be banned in Montreal(cbc.ca)
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Yep, I was referring to highly eccentric orbits like Molniyas... apologies, I should have been more clear!
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by Sanzig 7y ago
The issue isn't that there isn't a lot of space up there (as the name would imply, there's a lot of room). The issue is that nothing up there stays still: everything is orbiting the earth, moving at velocities in excess of 7
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by Sanzig 7y ago
It's also extremely annoying when driving in the states as a Canadian, since our postal codes don't follow the same format. Canadian postal codes are six character alphanumeric strings with alternating letters and numbers, so you
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by Sanzig 7y ago
This is essentially how it works here in Canada. In Canada, the vast majority of student loans are taken out directly from the government. You can't declare bankruptcy on a government-issued student loan until seven years after the las
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Birds are not a major concern for wind turbines, despite popular misconceptions [1]. Avian impacts depend a lot on siting, so some wind farms see no bird deaths while others see a few. Generally, it's worse along migratory routes, but
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Exactly - a scary letter should be enough to get the CEO to call the offending employees into his office and tell them to knock it off, as they may be opening the company up to liability. Any sane CEO will see that there's zero upside
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by Sanzig 7y ago
If it's just a bare LED on a board (ie: not in a case going through a light pipe or diffuser), 1 mA is actually pretty bright with modern LEDs. They're a lot more efficient than they used to be. For use as indicators for firmware
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by Sanzig 7y ago
I'm an EE. My first job out of university had a pretty good whiteboard interview (I know - we're not supposed to say good things about whiteboard interviews on HN). I thought the process was pretty straightforward. The first excha
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Working for a consulting firm with a lot of startup clients can also be a great experience if you plan to go that way yourself down the road, at least in what YC would call "hard tech." You get to see the inner workings of a bunch
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by Sanzig 7y ago
I mean... you could go buy or build an antenna appropriate for the signal you want to monitor? If you've got the space for it, a wideband discone like this one [1] out on the balcony and up on your roof paired with a wideband LNA from
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Exactly, it's an early stage proof-of-concept prototype (TRL 3, if you prefer that scale). While I have my reservations about how difficult it will be to actually get this into something you can safely and reliably use on a consumer wi
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Which, depending on case law in a particular jurisdiction, may or may not actually be enforceable. This is exactly why you would want to talk to a lawyer: they can tell you if you have a leg to stand on. The employer might be under the impr
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by Sanzig 7y ago
The territories each get their own riding for a few legitimate reasons: one, it would be messy to have a rising cross territorial/provincial borders. Two, the north already gets ignored by southern politicians all the time: they have b
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by Sanzig 7y ago
This is a poor choice for a unicorn. There are incumbents making dilution refrigerators already, and it's unclear as to how your products are any better. Yes, the lead times are long right now - but why? My assumption is that there is
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Unlicensed point-to-point links are permitted in the US provided that the Part 15 EIRP limits are respected. You are allowed to push up to 53 dBm of EIRP on the 5.8 GHz ISM band (30 dBm power + 23 dBm antenna gain), which gives a lot of lin
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Nothing is entirely safe. The fact is, even accounting for Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear energy is one of the safest ways to generate power we know of on a deaths-per-TWh metric: https://ourworldindata.org/what-is-the-saf
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by Sanzig 7y ago
There's a lot of mixed-signal specialty ASICs at the 350 nm and 180 nm nodes. As long as you don't need the density, it's a great option. Masks are relatively cheap and the processes are dialed in extremely well at this point
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by Sanzig 7y ago
There already is a pretty good one available as a mod: https://github.com/mockingbirdnest/Principia
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by Sanzig 7y ago
It's still a bit weird to have a separate interconnection. Even if Texas was an independent nation, it wouldn't necessarily harm anything to be synchronized with another interconnection. The western and eastern interconnections al
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Would you happen to have a source for that story? My workplace has really swallowed the AI Kool-Aid lately, so I would like to have some cautionary counterexamples to demonstrate potential pitfalls of the technology. It's got a lot of
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by Sanzig 7y ago
There's two main reasons to prefer 2.4 GHz to 900 MHz. First, there's more spectrum available (100 MHz vs 26 MHz). More importantly, though, the 2.4 GHz license-free ISM band allocation is worldwide, whereas the 900 MHz allocation
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by Sanzig 7y ago
We're veering off-topic, but I was very pleased to see that the CRTC effectively told the incumbents to shove it with last month's telecom order setting wholesale access rates: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive&#
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by Sanzig 7y ago
It's not as rare as you might think. All sun-synchronous orbits are slightly retrograde (inclination = 98 degrees or so at 600 km) in order to take advantage of the precession caused by the earth's equatorial bulge and maintain th
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by Sanzig 7y ago
How exactly does blockchain solve this problem, other than being the buzzword of the day? The vast majority of this data comes from the United States Strategic Command's Space Surveillance Network, which provides orbit information in S
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Actually, the newly-proposed FCC rules would require fail-safe deorbit systems when operating above 550 km and below 2000 km. Above 550 km, most stuff takes more than 25 years to deorbit, and the NGSO volume below 2000 km is considered the
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by Sanzig 7y ago
The satellites themselves are most likely running some sort of proprietary or semi-proprietary RTOS for their C&DH computer (eg: VxWorks, QNX, Integrity, RTEMS...). However, it's more than likely that there's a bunch of Window
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by Sanzig 7y ago
Well, for one thing, conventional analog broadcasts have not ceased. For example, every FM radio station in North America still broadcasts using the old fashioned FM carrier approach with stereo multiplexed on an AM subcarrier. So-called &q

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