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by avidiax 2y ago
To be fair, it does sound like Harris was selling this system. It would explain why he did so much legwork around cataloging ships damaged by lightning and persevered for so long. It's not clear to me why his system would cost 20x a si
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by avidiax 2y ago
I have been wondering if/when we could get a direct synthesis SDR transmitter. Obviously the amplifier and filter stages will have to be discrete & analog, but to me it seems more elegant that you can software define any radio sign
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by avidiax 2y ago
> You might be able to identify your direct reports based on communication style alone, but I don't really find it believable that this is a property that naturally transfers to your leadership, and from them up the chain to executi
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by avidiax 2y ago
The trouble with shorting is that unlike a long position, where you can just buy and hold until your thesis is proven, you have to time your short position perfectly.
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by avidiax 2y ago
New ones no longer have the flow restrictor piece. I couldn't find instructions online to reduce the flow restriction, but I assume it involves drilling out a restrictor plate.
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by avidiax 2y ago
It was always possible to configure a victim device to be a Bluetooth beacon if you had root on the victim device. You just clone an AirTag to the victim by changing the victim's Bluetooth address (using root access) and start broadcas
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by avidiax 2y ago
This is still far less bitrate than the equivalent BluRay. Netflix dropped their 4k bitrate during COVID and never looked back.
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by avidiax 2y ago
No. Expensive computed public key first 46 bits == Victim's BLE address The Apple FindMy system doesn't (or didn't) validate that the public key being broadcast had ever been manufactured or registered. So anyone with an iClo
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by avidiax 2y ago
> Hold up, how are they generating a private key from a public key? They are not. They are generating a private/public key pair where the first 46 bits of the public key happen to match the victim's BLE address. The find-my net
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by avidiax 2y ago
900MHz would need to strongly encourage directional radiation (high EIRP, low TRP) for this to not end up as a congested wasteland like 2.4Ghz.
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by avidiax 2y ago
Maximum possible throughput for LORA is 27kbps though. That's not a WiFi competitor unless you just want to link some sensors.
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by avidiax 2y ago
I joke that I prefer Ethernet because I know how WiFi works. Generally, WiFi is fine if you have line of sight or close to it. And you don't have strong demands on total bandwidth (not doing large local file transfers).
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by avidiax 2y ago
I heard that it's somewhat normal for the probably to rise before dropping to zero. This makes mathematical sense, since decreasing the size of the probable zone makes the earth a larger part of that zone until the zone fully excludes
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by avidiax 2y ago
Lots of delivery jobs are effectively paid by the piece or paid by the route. The driver is not paid hourly. This is one reason that package delivery drivers often will say that they've attempted delivery when they at best drove past t
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by avidiax 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Wanniski#The_Two_Santa_Cl... They've known for a long time that they can't cut spending. It will be terribly unpopular. So they cut taxes (especially on the rich) which keep
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by avidiax 2y ago
Being decentralized helps, but there's still only a few voting machine vendors, still nationalized media, and nobody is checking state ID of the protestors at state elections. And US elections have been very tight, and the electoral co
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by avidiax 2y ago
I am pretty sure the US will have elections in 2028. But Trump was almost successful in overturning the 2020 election. Now, with additional concentration of power, that increases the possibility of a successful overturning (in favor of a ne
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by avidiax 2y ago
> it will be confirmed that the executive branch has unilateral power to fire people working in the executive branch I could see it playing out like this, except that you can't fire so many that the departmental mission enacted by
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by avidiax 2y ago
What are the logistical reasons that Guantánamo Bay is preferable to any other existing detention center? I really can't think of one. You can't use commercial aviation to get there. The detainees have to be flown by a government
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by avidiax 2y ago
The German automakers avoid competing with each other in multiple areas, including colluding to limit the size and dispense rate of DEF tanks and collectively claiming to lawmakers that certain emissions regulations would be impractical. I
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by avidiax 2y ago
If a door opens to a narrow hallway, it may be possible to put the couch upright (making an L shaped footprint viewed from above) and then work it through the doorway into the hall. If it's a really narrow hallway, you may have to cont
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by avidiax 2y ago
I read the "Embracing Defeat" by John Dower. It's about Japan instead, but what struck me is that the wealthy and powerful in general paid little price and perhaps even enriched themselves from the war. All the government war
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by avidiax 2y ago
If we accept 5 as the number of fatalities, there needs to be 588,000 Cybertrucks in circulation to have an equivalent fatality rate as the Pinto. If we give some freebies (discount the suicide, magically remove the passengers from a giant
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by avidiax 2y ago
Posidriv, Torx or Square. Phillips has the annoying property that it is designed to cam out. That's OK for hand tools but generally ruins the bit when used in a power tool.
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by avidiax 2y ago
To clarify, Apple TV was available on Google TV since 2021.[1] This is adding Apple TV to the Google Play Store on Android, which allows it to be used on Android Phones. Both the phones and TVs run Android, but they have largely separate ap
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by avidiax 2y ago
For those who don't get the reference: Ass Pennies - Upright Citizens Brigade[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9aM_dT5VMI
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by avidiax 2y ago
What This Country Needs is an 18¢ Piece[1] [1] https://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/algo09/coins1.pdf
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by avidiax 2y ago
Common sense can be wrong. I doubt that most people pick their college major based on what will be the easiest, and those that are inclined to pick the easy route probably aren't going to pick computer science, which is extremely compe
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by avidiax 2y ago
These don't sound like the UNIX philosophy. My impression is that UNIX is more like what's outlined here: https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs240/cs240.1236/o...
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by avidiax 2y ago
Yeah, but then we've moved to fast fashion, and we assuage our guilt by "donating" or "recycling" clothing. Of course, nobody that "donates" or "recycles" clothes has ever worn any such clothing

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