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by bb88 9mo ago
If you're monitoring 20 channels, which you would need to do anyway, you'll know which channels to transmit on.
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by bb88 9mo ago
> FT-8 doesn't seem usefully relevant here. The fact that the bandwidth is so low that it can be sampled with a sound card isn't at all helpful when Meshtastic doesn't require a PC. This is what I meant about adding noise
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by bb88 9mo ago
Meshtastic can only use one frequency at a time. So, say, a battery status update can stomp on a message trying to get to a meshtastic router. (He's got the link to the hidden node problem with a great wikipedia article about it). Th
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by bb88 9mo ago
So you mean other than these sections right? "Thought experiments about mesh networking" "Hard Lessons Learned -- What not to do" "Meshtastic Is Rediscovering Lessons (Already Learned) of Amateur Radio Data Networki
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by bb88 9mo ago
I'm not OP, but there's a lot of criticism of meshtastic from people knowledgable about mesh networks. I also have been critical of meshtastic on this site. Here's an example of a good criticism: https://www.zero
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by bb88 9mo ago
Are meshtastic nodes still spamming their battery status over the network? Have they figured out that flood routing is a terrible routing mechanism?
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by bb88 9mo ago
Like all "economically sound" ideas, people fuck it up. To the drivers, its one more reminder of a government taxing you on a day to day basis, locking up the roads taxes paid for, for another series of taxes. Chicago is the post
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by bb88 10mo ago
If you look at water usage in Nevada, 75% of it goes to agriculture [1]. Agriculture provides a lot of jobs and food. Unfortunately the resources are no longer there. You can eliminate landscaping (yards, golf courses, las vegas fountain
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by bb88 10mo ago
Rust isn't so much "competing" as it is "complimentary" to python. This is very much how python was billed originally as a scripting language for "C" in it's early days. The slow parts of your python
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by bb88 10mo ago
I find that I'm often making one-offs. I take a part I designed and I need a slight modification for it for some reason. Fusion is great for that as long as there's not too many parts. But sometimes I'll want a new variant
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by bb88 10mo ago
Really cool. I found myself traveling recently and missed my 3d printer. There were a few neat things I could have done if I had a printer in a carry on. It would be kinda awesome to have a self contained 3d printer with a battery to take
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by bb88 10mo ago
That's what I was thinking too. A go native library is 10 times better in the go ecosystem than a c library linked to a go executable. Also in the age of AI it seems possible to have it do the rewrite for you, for which you can iterat
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by bb88 10mo ago
TIL: if you google Times New Roman, you get Google search results in Times New Roman. You also get Calibri if you search for it, but not Zapf Dingbats.
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by bb88 10mo ago
Great nick!
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by bb88 10mo ago
Boise, actually.
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by bb88 10mo ago
We have a relatively dense meshtastic in my city, and yet I can't reliably send a message across to my friend, who would be 4 hops away. It's just not awesome. Especially compared to what you can do with ham radio.
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by bb88 10mo ago
One thing to keep in mind is that it's not even a very good mesh network. There's a Zero Retries article recently with a critical review of meshtastic. Or find my comments on meshtastic here. If anything they showed there's
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by bb88 11mo ago
> Next on the list of worst things to happen to programming is Python's popularity as a CSC101 language My school kept track of computer science graduates, and the numbers dropped sharply after copying MIT's example for their i
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by bb88 11mo ago
Typically it's the land that appreciates, faster if it has a house or other permanent structure, though that does include mobile homes. If the land is rented, the mobile home will often depreciate, much like a used car. Nobody wants t
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by bb88 11mo ago
The technician license is honestly "good enough" for a lot of people. Particularly now that the digital voice modes allow people to chat across countries through the internet. DMR/SystemFusion/MMDVM are things you migh
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by bb88 11mo ago
Meshtastic has been popular, but relies upon a terrible implementation of a mesh -- and it's vastly oversold on its capabilities. I understand some hams run a meshtastic repeater primarily to convince meshtastic users to become hams.
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by bb88 11mo ago
I would recommend inviting the person, his manager, and your manager. To start things off the meeting, I would say something like, "To me this is a surprising PR. I would expect it to be maybe 500(e.g.) lines including unit tests. Wh
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by bb88 11mo ago
I tried with the same laser and settings as well, and couldn't get it to work either. I think the issue is that if there's a tarnish on the copper, it will work okay. The problem is when you polish the copper. It turns reflectiv
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by bb88 1y ago
You can use two arduinos and connect them in such a way they are talking through the GPIO ports to each other. You could do something similar with a couple of Raspberry Pi's or RPI nanos. It doesn't really matter as both can be c
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by bb88 1y ago
Let's criticize their behavior then. Police have a long history of racial profiling. Driving while black. Walking while black. And in this case, carrying a bag of empty Doritos while black. They often are taught to "secure by
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by bb88 1y ago
I was looking for where the gearing was and it doesn't appear to be in the wheels. It looks like it's in the hub. I have a bike with an automatic transmission and it handles steep hills just fine. But generally speaking, I would
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by bb88 1y ago
People typically don't buy big ticket goods from a company named "YACCEEZY" like you might see on Amazon or Aliexpress these days. It's worth noting that Hyundai had a similar issue when it entered the US market. It was
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by bb88 1y ago
I've seen a lot of people use noise cancelling ear buds on roads using pedal bikes, so I don't see how this is any different really.
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by bb88 1y ago
You can usually limit the bike to go less than 20mph in those cases. It would be nice to have the GPS automatically set the pedal assist max speed when riding on shared paths with pedestrians and people. I have also seen road bikers on thos
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by bb88 1y ago
Despite the complaints in this thread there is already a market for $4k ebikes. And people are buying them. The bike competes with a bunch of e-bikes in that price range, Evelo Omega, Bosch, etc. So they're hardly a first mover. Th

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