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by VLM 6y ago
How many unclassified RFI sources around 982 MHZ is the only question we can answer. Its in the L-band for satellites up and down by numerous countries and on the ground there's interesting TACAN and military digital links. Its entirel
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by VLM 6y ago
plantUML meets doxygen would be interesting. I was involved in a very large system a decade ago that used robodoc. Robodoc has less features than doxygen but worked across more languages. Swagger.io is a nice system although limited exclus
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by VLM 6y ago
Sleep deprivation to provide "realistic combat stress" is a goal in military training. Also giving the trainees 30 hours of work to do per day is a realistic although brutal way to teach prioritization. Certainly, after graduati
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by VLM 6y ago
reddit is a karma farm, so find the bandwagon and push it as extreme as possible to get those meaningless internet points. Note this applies to anything controversial on reddit especially politics. Only one extreme position will be allowed
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by VLM 6y ago
> This sort-of feels like cheating on the side of the professors. There are some general issues with leadership training in the military. You're randomly and arbitrarily in charge until you're not. You're randomly and arb
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by VLM 6y ago
> if a junior enlisted solider did something like this Exactly like this, I donno. But in spirit isn't the academy kind of officers basic training? And anyone who went thru basic knows that the recruits do the dumbest imaginable th
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by VLM 6y ago
> I find it ironic that being caught lying once is considered something that proves you're not officer material. There seems no controversy that the middle management era of staff duty seems designed to filter out good officers and
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by VLM 6y ago
You probably want to talk to the ham radio AMSAT organization who've been doing stuff like that since the 60s. I've been a ham a long time and its interesting to see the progress. Back when I was a gen-x kid amsat was about 20 ye
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by VLM 6y ago
Its the strange intersection of conspicuous consumption and virtue signaling. Only we are good enough people and wealthy enough to pay a bizarre tax.
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by VLM 6y ago
From the western culture point of view I'm sure it seems very weird to not have oil/metal, but you're describing numerous historical non-western cultures. Easter Island, Japan, etc.
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by VLM 6y ago
Bikes "have to be light weight" even if the riders are fat. Cars can just burn more gas. For example the "transmission" on my bicycle is this crazy open air greasy oil contraption that instantly gets covered in rust if n
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by VLM 6y ago
The problem with "any" is its usually wrong. Here's an "old" paper from July: Toyoshima, Y., Nemoto, K., Matsumoto, S. et al. SARS-CoV-2 genomic variations associated with mortality rate of COVID-19. J Hum Genet 65
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by VLM 6y ago
"Rail Mania" era in the UK preceded the bicycle development article. Before that, the canals and shipping networks were pretty elaborate. I think it likely that the majority of 1870s factory made penny-farthing's were shippe
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by VLM 6y ago
North of the Mason Dixon line roads require resurfacing every ten to twenty years due to winter freeze-thaw cycles which requires vast resources. South of the Mason Dixon line roads require annual landscaping to prevent overgrowth. Much lik
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by VLM 6y ago
Can't have bicycles without either a railroad or truck nationwide logistics system. They simply require too many specialized and exotic parts. VERY high maintenance demands per mile compared to shoes or automobiles, or even old autom
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by VLM 6y ago
How can we fight a widespread infection using emotional anecdotes instead of statistics?
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by VLM 6y ago
It went thru the journalist filter a million times until unrecognizable. The first answer is ICBMs are, now a days, mostly an IR optical thing. The flightpath of most Russia to US ICBMs would never have passed over the observatory, obviousl
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by VLM 6y ago
Essentially every device that does not use a x86 cpu did that. There's no point in waiting an entire development cycle to get a new smaller x86-alike when you could solder an ARM chip or similar to the board today. The vast majority o
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by VLM 6y ago
The ARM microcontroller people do care, and their sales volume is often much higher than luxury laptop sales volume.
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by VLM 6y ago
Like Reddit and China but on a much larger scale.
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by VLM 6y ago
Its kinda fun to alternate between google earth / google maps satellite view and wikipedia as you scroll along Alexander the Great's path or visually examine the pyramid complexes in Egypt or search for ghost towns in the USA west
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by VLM 6y ago
Can anyone provide the modern 2020 blog youtube pinterest or whatever platform equivalent of the 70s/80s "Computer Recreations" or "Amateur Scientist" columns from Scientific American magazine from that era? I mean
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by VLM 6y ago
To quote: "Adjustment for parental mental illness also likely represented an under-adjustment as most parental psychiatric disorders that were treated in outpatient clinics (without inpatient admission) were not recorded, and all of th
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by VLM 6y ago
Oddly enough the preferred method to learn morse code would be to learn one bit at a time very well. So get really good at hearing the letter e, then and only then worry about getting good at learning the letter a, etc. Might have to list
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by VLM 6y ago
In the old days, a supercomputer was a machine that made the bottleneck of a problem the IO system instead of the ALU. Or at least tried to. In a similar line of thought, if your overall system wide bottleneck is your CPU MHz clock is too
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by VLM 6y ago
> Wait so you have a separate HA for every room in your house? What benefit do you actually get from that? I could. Its just a docker image and a $15 usb stick, so... The benefit is as per the linked article the hardware (and software?)
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by VLM 6y ago
dumb occupancy sensors are incredibly unreliable. Smart code based on MAC addresses seen on my wifi, timer based, power drawn by the wireless phone charger next to my bed, door positions and other things added together is not difficult to c
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by VLM 6y ago
I have an interesting setup with home assistant similar to your needs Power the bed reading light lamp with a zen15 zooz inline switch which is never shut off but can monitor current and power continuously. So now homeassistant knows when
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by VLM 6y ago
I have 30+ zwave devices on my homeassistant and some years experience going back to the X10 and insteon days and here's my comments on the article and other folks comments: 1) TLDR does not like the effort required for hard wiring. S
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by VLM 6y ago
A proxy server, essentially.

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