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by birktj 5y ago
This is probably true, meaning you can't really have a FCC certified tx-capable SDR. However in order to legally use the tx-capabilities of an SDR you probably have to be a ham anyway. And hams don't need their equipment to be FCC
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by birktj 5y ago
I would say that it doesn't mean that someone is inherently bad, just that there are factors out of their control leading to them doing something that is unwanted by society as a whole. From this it follows that it would be unethical t
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by birktj 5y ago
Note that the Red Cross organization doesn't have unique rights to the red cross symbol under the Geneva convention, it is slightly more complicated than such. From Wikipedia [1]: "As a protection symbol, they are used in armed co
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by birktj 5y ago
This. SMS is a great second factor and is perfectly suitable to prevent the main attack that you want second factors to prevent: that is if your password appears in a password list for any reason it should stopp anyone from just running awa
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by birktj 5y ago
Note that as I quite recently learned DDG has support for a bunch of bang-commands listed at [1]. There are a bunch of them for documentation sites for all kinds of programming languages, including a couple for lisp it seems like. [1]: htt
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by birktj 5y ago
Are they competitive with cars/trains though. In the article linked by the sibling it says the Airlander can reach speeds of 50 knots. That is probably fine for a cruise-ship type experience, but for actually going anywhere a well desi
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by birktj 5y ago
In Norway you get to choose your high school after middle school, all the pupils in a region is ranked solely based on their grades from middle school and for the ones who are sick of books they can go to a more trade-oriented high school (
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by birktj 5y ago
There must be something more that they want as well? Seems very strange that Microsoft and Yahoo would be interested in paying big bucks to lure people to their search engines through some dodgy extensions?
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by birktj 5y ago
I have been looking for a cheap fpga devboard for this sort of thing, but results have been somewhat disappointing. The tinyfpgas look great but have been sold out for a long time. I have seen some interesting ones on tindie but the selecti
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by birktj 5y ago
I really like the Dymaxion projection as well, especially the fact that one can easily see that all major land masses are separated by only small distances of water. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_map
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by birktj 5y ago
That is absolutely horrible. I am only waiting for the day when people start making desktop apps using electron + Flutter on the web.
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by birktj 5y ago
Is syngas/synfuel [1] a viable route? Obviously it would be less efficient to produce than pure hydrogen (anyone know how much energy would be lost in the hydrogen conversion step?) and probably cannot compete with natural hydrocarbons
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by birktj 5y ago
> Deprecation > OpenCL rendering kernels. The combination of the limited Cycles split kernel implementation, driver bugs, and stalled OpenCL standard has made maintenance too difficult. I am not really up to date on the GPGPU world, b
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by birktj 5y ago
The North Sea ones are oil platforms, yes. I believe the light intensity is largely because of gas flares [1], but I might be wrong. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_flare
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by birktj 5y ago
I don't get it. I might be misunderstanding things, but my understanding is that here in Norway the owner of a vessel has the ultimate responsibility in cases like these. Why is the Egyptian law this way? It doesn't seem very prac
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by birktj 5y ago
Note that the subgraph isomorphism problem [1] is NP-complete (also for planar graphs). There are very efficient data structures like k-d trees [2] that can be used to efficiently search for points in euclidean spaces, doing something simil
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by birktj 5y ago
Could I ask why const generics would be a blocker? I see how it would help facilitate more elegant APIs as well as better stack allocated structures. However is it not possible to live without this, possibly with a slightly more clumsy desi
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by birktj 5y ago
Is it easy to do a tight Ian's Secure Knot? The only place I would need a more secure knot is when skiing and then I also need to tie the laces very tight. Keeping the laces tight while creating the loops seems slightly difficult.
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by birktj 5y ago
As a Norwegian I would love some pointers to the Norwegian hacker spaces. I am vaguely familiar with some, but it would be nice with some more info.
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by birktj 5y ago
Question: does the chip shortage only apply to the smallest process sizes? That is what I would assume, but with the talk about problems for car manufactures having supply issues it would seem the shortage extends to larger process sizes as
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by birktj 6y ago
Ground effect? But I would assume with such low atmospheric density the effect is probably not so strong.
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Serial robot vs. Parallel robot (This is not CGI) [video](youtube.com)
14 points by birktj 6y ago|2 comments
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by birktj 6y ago
That is exactly the feeling I get the couple of times when I am out hiking hiking and see the most spectacular winter night sky. The feeling of being in the middle of nowhere and seeing the dark sky with an uncountable number of stars is in
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by birktj 6y ago
Is this kind of artificial delay even legal under the GDRP? Does anyone know if there has been any lawsuits against trust arc and co over this stuff? After waiting forever I was greeted with: "Some opt-outs failed. Opt-out requests res
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by birktj 6y ago
My xiaomi notebook looks a bit like a mac clone and as 2x USB-C ports and 2x USB-A ports. It is not without its problems, but if you want a reasonably priced laptop that looks like a mac I would say it is a pretty good choice.
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by birktj 6y ago
As is the case in this article it often happens that having the length of a string is required for certain operations, which leads to a lot of calls to strlen. This doesn't really seem like such a big problem to begin with as one assum
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by birktj 6y ago
What I imagine for long lived and high-cost missions is using some sort of co-processor setup with a radiation hardened processor and a faster and more modern processor. These rovers run a lot of computer vision algorithms and I believe mor
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by birktj 6y ago
One of the things I find really cool about Ingenuity is how it is in large based on consumer hardware. The main processor is a Snapdragon 801 running Linux which communicates with Perseverance using the Zigbee protocol [1]. Perseverance on
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by birktj 6y ago
Isn't there also a fundamental equivalence between information and energy in physics? And so is there not a lower limit to the amount of energy required to compute a SHA256 hash of a certain number of bytes, and by extension mine a bit
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by birktj 6y ago
The page linked says "space-separated list of default DNS servers". From this I would assume that this is just an option one could simply overwrite by using a non-default configuration. That doesn't seem so bad, however I cou

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