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by _moof 9mo ago
I don't disagree with the overall point. I do want to say one thing though. > As a professional programmer, I no longer consider Windows a viable option for serious work. Please get over yourself. There's plenty of actually s
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by _moof 9mo ago
Are you talking about English Wikipedia, or all of the Wikipedia sites?
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by _moof 9mo ago
Oh, I would never recommend my setup for assembly of actual products. I've spent enough time in avionics to know where that line is. :) My "lab" is strictly for side projects.
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by _moof 9mo ago
I wondered if that was the case! 28 MHz must've seemed pretty high at the time. :)
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by _moof 9mo ago
It's very silly that "high frequency" is among the lowest frequencies, and that we wound up with Very, Ultra, Super, Extremely, and Tremendously High Frequencies!
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by _moof 9mo ago
HF radio. Highly depdendent on space weather, but generally I can communicate around the world with only 100 watts and a long wire. Be aware though that transmitting on any radio is like turning on a giant, extremely bright light bulb direc
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by _moof 9mo ago
If you're interested in assembling PCBs at home, but you're looking at all this expensive hardware and thinking it's impossible, I've had great success with: 1. Stencil jig: two bare boards taped to stiff cardboard (
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by _moof 9mo ago
George W. got reelected - by a razor-thin margin - for three reasons: lucky timing, an unpopular opposition candidate, and a deliberate campaign to smear Kerry's record in the service. GW's popularity steadily declined from the su
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by _moof 9mo ago
> The truth is Americans do want this, they just don't like that they want this. For myself, I could not disagree more. I don't want this. And if you know of a lever I can pull to make it stop, I'm all ears - as long as
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by _moof 9mo ago
Sorry we (the U.S.) are like this. Many of us have been furious for decades but don't know what to do.
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by _moof 9mo ago
Enough addresses for what? Nobody needs or even wants all of their devices to have globally routable addresses.
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by _moof 9mo ago
I was out struggling to rig up a new antenna I'd made - nothing was going right and I was getting frustrated - when it occurred to me that if someone were to ask what I was doing, they would've seen a rambling lunatic trying to sc
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by _moof 10mo ago
I didn't even know 60 Minutes is still on the air, but you better believe I watched the shit out of this segment.
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by _moof 10mo ago
So are foreign-made drones when operated in the US. Don't kid yourself. American companies are as anti-consumer as they come.
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by _moof 11mo ago
A local maxim um. "Maxima" is plural for "maximum".
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by _moof 11mo ago
"Lazy" is standard language for this kind of behavior.
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by _moof 1y ago
He's been this way for a long time, unfortunately. I remember reading a blog post of his in the '00s that was openly racist. Come to think of it, that may have been the last thing of his I read.
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by _moof 1y ago
And even before the antivax nutters here went from fringe to a significant social force, HPV vaccines were already being decried for "promoting casual sex." Our culture is so broken in so many ways.
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by _moof 1y ago
I don't understand how anyone ever didn't know what this meant. You have a class. It has a static method. The runtime starts your program by calling the method, passing it an array of command-line arguments. What's mysterio
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by _moof 1y ago
> America is...objectively the best place to live in the world rn I'm American and a frequent international traveler, and I could not disagree more. Almost every other country I've been to has been superior in every way that
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by _moof 1y ago
> Type checking, in other words, is not a solution to complexity—it’s a confession that we’ve created unnecessary complexity in the first place. I'm sorry, but this is ridiculous. Yes, type checking is a tool for managing complexi
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by _moof 1y ago
In my less charitable moments, I've wondered if the real reason Python has async/await is because people coming to it from JavaScript couldn't be arsed to learn a more appropriate paradigm.
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by _moof 1y ago
As a wise man once said, "Why should I change? He's the one who sucks."
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by _moof 1y ago
I'm speaking from experience as someone who has worked as a professional pilot.
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by _moof 1y ago
The amount of undiagnosed ADHD (and secretly treated anxiety and depression, for that matter) in the aviation industry is off the charts. I have a lot of respect for most of the FAA, which is professional, reasonable, and evidence-based. Bu
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by _moof 1y ago
Only if you aren't a crawler.
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by _moof 1y ago
I work in aerospace and I don't find this development strategy unusual prima facie . I don't know if Boom is explicitly doing rapid spiral development, but this is what it would look like from the outside - a development vehicle
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by _moof 1y ago
You guys are reading the links?
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by _moof 1y ago
Ambulance vans are parked all over the city, at fire stations.
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by _moof 1y ago
Curious if there's research - I'm sure there's tons, I just don't know that literature - but personally, in my experience as a professional aviator and as a spacecraft operator, the fatiguing alarms are the ones that are

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