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by baz00 3y ago
I'm not sure why you'd go for a Mac for the software? The cloud experience sucks and is really really expensive, most of the provided desktop apps are buggity or so disparate to the rest of the universe that they are a disability
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by baz00 3y ago
It will be funny watching the entire planet continue to ignore this. Edit: to clarify, a specification based on asking for something is a recipe for everyone to ignore you. It's a design flaw. And if they fix that with a legal patch th
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by baz00 3y ago
I have used it for the last 15 years and it hasn't got worse and hasn't got better. It has barely changed. It is done . However there are load of little annoying bugs (Reminders makes me want to kill people) and the developer sto
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by baz00 3y ago
I've got an M1 Pro MBP, studio display, ipad pro, apple watch, iphone. Meh. IT cost a lot and makes you feel special. That is all. It's not objectively better at achieving your goals. At this point I don't agree that windows
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by baz00 3y ago
No thanks. I had a Ryzen T495s. Nothing but aggro that thing. I religiously avoid AMD because in the last decade I've had nothing but trouble from all of their hardware. Intel and NVidia only these days. I've got an i5-1235U T14 g
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by baz00 3y ago
But as I found, it has too many drawbacks. Firstly, you can't add any more RAM to it. This turned out to be a BIG problem for me as I handle a lot of fairly huge RAW files in Adobe Lightroom. Then there's the fact that it actually
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by baz00 3y ago
Agree on all counts. I'm mostly just happy since I switched back to windows 11 that I've got an OS I can actually drive from a keyboard that doesn't leave my hands brutally mangled from meta key combinations.
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by baz00 3y ago
Perhaps the most interesting thing is the UK pricing. I paid £1899 for my M1 Pro. The M2 Pro was £2149. The M3 Pro is £1899 again for same spec. The insults however come now. There is now a £1699 8Gb option. Seriously in 2023? 8Gb?!?! And y
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by baz00 3y ago
Yeah have a 64Gb dell here (precision 7670)
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by baz00 3y ago
What is this deliver thing? I haven't done anything productive for years.
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by baz00 3y ago
Tried it. Nope. You can get people to acknowledge it but because it's not a fun project or doesn't involve an upsell you can bill the clients for, it'll go in a product backlog for a decade or two. I don't care any more
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by baz00 3y ago
Everything I look at these days looks like this. And most of the time it doesn't even solve the initial problem statement but everyone is too naive to even realise that. The worst thing I've seen is a stack that parses out a file
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by baz00 3y ago
UK. I haven't used or carried cash here for about 3 years. Other than a really inconvenient time someone gave me some for one of my kids and I had to pay it in.
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by baz00 3y ago
Well it piqued my interest in non RISC V things.
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by baz00 3y ago
That's what pen and paper are for. Calculator is for getting answers to shit.
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by baz00 3y ago
If you've ever used one it's a massive upgrade on display quality over everything including the TI89.
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by baz00 3y ago
They are mostly still around because you can't take Excel or smartphones into exams. But quite frankly they are handy to have around if you want to do a trivial analysis or find some roots. And the recentish ones have input methodologi
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by baz00 3y ago
The calculator in the article, the fx-cg50 is just what he needs. It's like the FX-991ex mentioned elsewhere but it remembers more things and has history and a display that is decent. I own one and have been using it for a couple of ye
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by baz00 3y ago
It's fairly easy to make time for dating I find. I mean it requires the odd evening out and the odd day sacrificed which is manageable. The problem is that when you are successful you have no free time for your projects and stuff sudde
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by baz00 3y ago
That is about as proper as VNAs get :). Would be interested in that but will not share my email here as this is my trash account. If you can attach the sweep on imgur I can look at it there.
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by baz00 3y ago
They certainly don't require it but it tends to be used in other transactions where SEC is going to hang you for example.
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by baz00 3y ago
Quick look of the datasheet suggests that's specified for three bands around UHF, VHF base stations. I mean I'm sure it'll sort of work outside those bands on receive to some varying degrees of success but on transmit, it&#x2
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by baz00 3y ago
Um, no. They do full ID verification as well. If you pay for it.
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by baz00 3y ago
Sure you can do things with a close to isotropic antenna, but there's a lot of gain to be had if you make things worth pointing at things. You can do more with 5 watts and a decent directional antenna than 100 watts with a turd on a st
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by baz00 3y ago
You still have to point it at things. I had the worst possible plot for my HF antenna which meant the lobes were in the wrong place for about 5 years :(
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by baz00 3y ago
That's a really bad way of looking at it. From a theoretical perspective yes but it's more useful if you think of it is a language. If you do it for a bit you'll get it and you tend to pick it up like another conversation met
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by baz00 3y ago
Amateur radio is mostly lots of pointing stuff at things and waiting.
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by baz00 3y ago
And within those communities there will be assholes who are better than you too who are gatekeeping the sublevels. I have long since traded my license for a better life of being a decadent man of international mystery, but I do remember as
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by baz00 3y ago
That's actually pretty funny. I imagine you were very pissed off when you first discovered that one. I had a similarly flawed one. I had an alarm clock which had a MSF radio sync thing built in. But every time it resync'ed with th
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by baz00 3y ago
Not really. They actually ran mock trials with legal professionals as test cases. That was an instant win for anyone wanting assurance of admissibility. No open source startup is going to win there because it's about entities and pro

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