TheRealEdAbbey

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by TheRealEdAbbey 8y ago
In America, "large metropolitan area with passenger train service" is the exception, not the norm.
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by TheRealEdAbbey 9y ago
The problem is there isn't really much of a market for something like that. Sure, you can have detailed documentation on such a product that explains how it's functioning, why it might drop out when your ip changes, etc., but who
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by TheRealEdAbbey 9y ago
Essentially, yes. My guess is that it's due to the fact that amateur radio for a long time has been CW and SSB, where there isn't much bandwidth issue. Digital modes are the new kid on the block (especially considering the average
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by TheRealEdAbbey 9y ago
Yep, PSK31 has a baud rate of 31.25 - that's literally 31 bits per second. There's no practical use for that in modern commercial or consumer applications. In amateur bands, symbol rate below 28 MHz is limited to 300 baud.
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by TheRealEdAbbey 10y ago
A GRB hitting earth wouldn't actually cause an immediate extinction event. From Wikipedia: > Earth's atmosphere is very effective at absorbing high energy electromagnetic radiation such as x-rays and gamma rays, so these types
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by TheRealEdAbbey 10y ago
They honestly read like clickbait: "10 myths programmers always assume - #6 will SHOCK you!"
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by TheRealEdAbbey 10y ago
Perhaps, then, twitter is not a malady but a symptom. The idea that we can whittle all of our ideas down to 140 characters has been building for decades, as you say, and only now manifests itself explicitly. I don't think it's too