airbreather

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by airbreather 8mo ago
I am in Australia and got a US General class license because for some time the Australian licensing was in total chaos while changing over to new arrangements. I did it online thru the New York Radio Club (?). I did Novice then General in a
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by airbreather 8mo ago
I have already achieved the same thing getting my openclaw to instruct and manage claude code. It also seems to provide a substantially better experience of claude code, picking up when it is looping and breaking it and restarting, plus han
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by airbreather 8mo ago
Because the development process requires Functional Safety and most regular programmers will struggle with the glacial progress that occurs under such regimes. While IEC 61508 is the parent of all Functional Safety, medical devices are a li
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by airbreather 9mo ago
Isn't H2 better because better lift and being a molecule of two hydrogen atoms it is not quite as slippery as helium and quite easy to make? From wikipedia "lifting gas" "Helium is the second lightest gas (0.1786 g/
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by airbreather 9mo ago
The true art is in the architecture, which is the bit humans still generally control, not the tiny details. Unless you would rather be a calligrapher than a novelist.
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by airbreather 9mo ago
The key first step here is "Problem Identification" - the number of times I have seen where it is part way through a development, and only then it starts to become obvious that even if the specifications were good, they were not s
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by airbreather 9mo ago
Most people do not believe it is possible to fully specify software before writing it, until they are forced to. Having part of my background in Functional Safety, I have seen it done many times, and it can most definitely be done. It is ju
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by airbreather 9mo ago
Nothing has changed, it is just now, more than ever, specification is everything. It is just that for some decades now it was possible to get away with poor or lacking specification, by continually incrementing by sprints, or pivoting, or w
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by airbreather 9mo ago
check out this guy, doing something similar sending Lora packets without a radio - https://youtu.be/eIdHBDSQHyw?si=MGteEp72Mz52qNqu "This video explores LoRaWAN communication using a microcontroller without a dedicated
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by airbreather 10mo ago
we still do for light aviation
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by airbreather 1y ago
yes, perlite is the insulation of choice, as long as you keep it dry, very few things surpass it.
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by airbreather 1y ago
before silicon, rectification was often achieved with copper oxide
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by airbreather 1y ago
Have you tried just savimg the zero crossing times? From distant memory you got quite a bit more compaction.
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by airbreather 1y ago
I saw someone interviewed who had set the criteria of being able to enjoy some ice cream with his children and grandchildren at the regular family dinner on Sunday late afternoons. He said that alone made life worth living, for him and them
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by airbreather 1y ago
If this eventuates, then maybe bitcoin is more useful, the scarcity and distributed nature of findable gold are a key aspect of it's utility/value.
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Gemini in Gmail Is Pretty Well Useless
3 points by airbreather 1y ago|0 comments
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by airbreather 1y ago
I prefer the state table, with columns for states, this forces you to consider every possible transition of every state and this means the definition is unambiguous and exhaustive. Additionally, you can easily define what output conditions
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by airbreather 1y ago
you will have abstractions - black boxing, interface overviews etc, humans can only hold so much detail in current context memory, some say 7 items on average.
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by airbreather 1y ago
For the who knows how many times, this is worth a repeat - the 3M electrostatic force field http://amasci.com/weird/unusual/e-wall.html
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by airbreather 1y ago
what about things like the browser object in Qt/PyQt?
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by airbreather 1y ago
The skill of breaking down the system to smaller constituant parts was formerly the domain of the Systems Analyst - an occupation now almost extinct by formal title, as the coders reached up into this role. Presumably this occured because t
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by airbreather 1y ago
The concept works better for somewhat regulated environments, I have used it for functional safety. For industrial controller software, esp distributed systems, there is a precedent of the standard IEC 61499. One of the key components is th
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by airbreather 1y ago
yeah, see my level 1 comment
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by airbreather 1y ago
Chellated magnesium made a big difference, plus tryptophan and l-tyrosine, vit c and SAME. SAME is interesting, when US was handing out prozac the EU was doing SAME, for similar efficacy and way less side effects. Most countries it is OTC.
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by airbreather 1y ago
Unfortunate, the whole landscape on this is littered with mines and finding truly knowledgeable help is difficult, most seem to just push their favourite flavour, regardless of the patient.
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by airbreather 1y ago
Yeah I said it was dhit when my ex-wife said she was going to do it, but it definitely did something. And I am well aware of the placebo effect. But just because something is not provable or falsifiable under current scientific knowledge, i
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by airbreather 1y ago
Following on from my earlier post in this topic about LSD, we also had more than a couple of years where it was pills, pills and more pills, every weekend. By this time most people I knew were working, serious work (with serious pay), so it
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by airbreather 1y ago
In Australia during university around the second the summer of love period we ended up doing acid at least once a week (mostly weekends) for near two years. Probably about half time in the city at clubs and parties, and half time out in the
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by airbreather 1y ago
Great, until built in ads become part of the tech...
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by airbreather 2y ago
I went down to the local hardware store and bought a laminted bamboo broomstick. Less than an hour shaping with a plane and a knife used as a scraper I had a pretty good longbow. Seemed that laminated bamboo is fairly forgiving, and capable

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