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by apcragg 8y ago
A radio amature most likely can't construct a bandpass filter with a high enough Q to filter out all of the spurs while still getting a usable signal. Releasing a tool like this and handwaving away interfearence concerns with an abstra
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by apcragg 8y ago
That's a neat party trick and all but abusing spurious emissions/harmonics to broadcast in licensed spectrum without proper filtering is just plain irresponsible. At low power, with an unmatched antenna those signals / probab
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by apcragg 9y ago
Side note: Balint Seeber, the lead on this paper, has given a number of excellent talks on wireless communications and signal processing. I'd recommend his series of "Hacking the wireless world" talks (available on youtube) g
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by apcragg 9y ago
It's as if the Indian subcontinent doesn't exist or that its people don't hold 'normal' values/habits.
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by apcragg 9y ago
But why? I understand that the content creators whose videos I enjoy need to earn a living. I understand that in video advertisements offer more stable income. I'm not expecting a free lunch when it comes to these videos that require l
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by apcragg 9y ago
I replied to the original email you sent me with some thoughts. I want to note here that I like the idea of Pathrise but was just a bit put off by the initial email.
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by apcragg 9y ago
I'd recommend saying so in your emails. I think your service does have value but I was turned off by the cold email. Our .edu emails get tons of messages from companies saying they are impressed by our skills when in reality they sent
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by apcragg 9y ago
I would advise them to not cold-email students about 'Engineering fellowships' which upon further inspection are just resumed workshops and interview prep. If you want students to take your company and service seriously, don'
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by apcragg 9y ago
Yes. I got an email from them a few weeks ago. They were calling it an 'Engineering fellowship' which felt dishonest. They also said the email was based on 'an impressive background at [University]' which led me to ignor
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by apcragg 9y ago
> (when in doubt about any particular UI solution, check how it has been done in a certain proprietary app that is very popular among OSHW folks and do exactly opposite). This is currently listed on the CERN roadmap for KiCad. Given all
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by apcragg 9y ago
If it was going to take them 10 hours to manually route that small board, I think the real problem is just that they are really bad at pcb design.
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by apcragg 9y ago
Optimal route or optimized route? I was under the impression that calculating an optimal route was NP-Hard and not feasible to do at scale.
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by apcragg 9y ago
That seems... Really bad for the environment? Nobody said launching rockets was environmentally friendly but that sounds particularly egregious.
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by apcragg 9y ago
Then don't go places you can't afford to pay the externality for. It doesn't screw the poor, its allocating finite resources in a market-based economy. If we want to socialize the cost of infrastructure (which I agree with) t
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by apcragg 9y ago
The silver line will to IAD will be open by the time HQ2 is being built. That puts it ~35mins by Metro when leaving the city. IAD is a huge international airport as well and has much smoother infrastructure than National Airport.
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by apcragg 9y ago
An Amazon HQ2 in Northern Virginia would cripple the already strained road infrastructure, especially given Metro's existing difficulties. Dulles seems like an obvious choice given the tech corridor and proximity to IA but 28 and the t
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by apcragg 9y ago
The counter point to that is that the Foxconn being there costs the state money in infrastructure and other non-fixed costs compared to not being there at all.
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by apcragg 9y ago
I can't believe this person is honestly advocating for eugenics. That should have died in 1945.
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by apcragg 9y ago
If it is so well known why has it taken 20 years to be discovered?
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by apcragg 9y ago
Is that a bad thing though? Are they just pricing in the externalities of gas powered cars?
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by apcragg 9y ago
The dollar is essentially backed by oil and the fact that it's needed to trade with the largest economy in the world, not to mention the country with the largest military.
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by apcragg 9y ago
Why would the ACLU care? It's a private entity doing a private thing. It's not like it's the TSA, a government agency, gate keeping a public form of travel.
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by apcragg 9y ago
> You buried the lede -- your whole post is really dressing up why we shouldn't resist a societal decision you personally heavily agree with, while not giving real credence to people who disagree with you. That is a fair criticism.
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by apcragg 9y ago
It isn't the government that is doing that. It is society as a group that has decided that "no slurs" is the norm. If you want to use slurs, use them in a subgroup that for whatever reasons deem them acceptable. Don't us
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by apcragg 9y ago
It isn't a binary decision and it is incredibly dishonest for you to frame it like it is. Freedom of expression is not foundational. Certainly inciting violence, advocating genocide, or engaging in targeted and repeated harassment does