budman1

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by budman1 3mo ago
s/most/all/g
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by budman1 3mo ago
it may have not been designed to, but it has been modified to. there may not be any stealth, but there are other countermeasures against missiles, AA, and other fighters.
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by budman1 3mo ago
An aside... The automation machine at one station I worked at had 2047 programmable steps. (well, 2048, 0 was a step) As a 16 year old, I could not fathom why it was not 2400. With 2400 steps, you could program each hour the exact same; not
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by budman1 3mo ago
In 1980 I worked in local radio. The playlist was set by corporate (or by a consultant). You could maybe change the order of the songs, but you were not allowed to add / subtract any songs. By 1980 over 1/2 of the stations were &
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by budman1 3mo ago
AM stations, in particular daytime only licensees, are almost free at this point. Most cases, the land value where the antenna is located is the sales price.
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by budman1 3mo ago
Not that many 50kw stations. Efficiency is up, more in the upper 70%'s now days. (of course broadcasters will use a transmitter until it is unfixable, so there are some 50 year old units still on the air). Each user requires a 9 volt b
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by budman1 3mo ago
we could make a similar observation about determinism. given a set of inputs, the compiler will create the same output each time. not always true. but very close (pathological coding defects and explicit randomization excluded) very differ
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by budman1 3mo ago
If the system was used to control something it was obvious. There would be some kind of main / idle loop. When this was running, you could see the pattern in the data buss and in the address buss. The loop of code would not be many i
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by budman1 3mo ago
The academic job market is flooded. No PhD's could be produced for 10 years and it would still be flooded. Not a Problem.
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by budman1 3mo ago
the cheaper the switch, the longer the bounce.
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by budman1 3mo ago
go to switzerland. gas leaf blowers and jet ski's. not allowed
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by budman1 3mo ago
live by a railroad track. takes about 6 months till you don't notice it. at all.
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by budman1 3mo ago
What are we talking about? 5% more? 200% more?
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by budman1 3mo ago
Get those rich people out of the private jets and into the supersonic ones. Then the rich people currently in first class can move into the private jets. Eventually, that means that there will be some seats in the back of the regular plans
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by budman1 3mo ago
If only the staff at the regulating agencies were there. I think they got a dose of DOGE last year.
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by budman1 4mo ago
If your design work is not based upon science and mathematics, it is not engineering. Not saying engineering is required to build or improve a product; it is not. "try this" is not engineering.
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by budman1 4mo ago
"reasonable" is for a jury to decide. in the context of being charged with a crime, his name should be released. just like everyone elses.
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by budman1 4mo ago
Not solved. Made less effective. So it takes 100 of them to make any military effect. The thousands and thousands of FPV drones being used have not been decisive on the battlefield. The war is a slog, and resembles WWI more than WWII.
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by budman1 4mo ago
Those tiny fpv drones pack a tiny punch. Sure, it will destroy a current generation Chevy Equinox. But two weeks after the war starts, countermeasures will be created. The vehicles will be changed to make them harder to find, and harder t
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by budman1 4mo ago
US doesn't enforce laws concerning financial crimes anymore. Or laws on milk purity, either.
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by budman1 4mo ago
because i am smarter than the next guy and will know when to get out.
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by budman1 4mo ago
so, are these bonds a good buy?
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by budman1 4mo ago
USAF did lose an AWACS plane to a drone attack. Why? It was out in the open. I would think some minimal concealment / camouflage would have made an easy drone target into an impossible one. Same with the early warning radars that w
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by budman1 4mo ago
+1 to pdp11. The workhorse of the 1970's. They were everywhere. City Library. Auto parts stores. And reliable; Maytag ain't got nothing on a pdp 11. Downside, programs are pretty simple that run in 64k. And extended addressing
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by budman1 4mo ago
Strongly agreed. It is a signal. I did an analysis once at the end of the year. Work group of about 45 engineers. The CM system had a lot of steps, and work could get bounced around, but there was a step where some one "resolved&qu
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by budman1 5mo ago
not just the terminals. the bookshelf with the documentation was in the terminal room. (buy a VAX, get a library. oh, and a computer too.) the 6 months after the first screen editor was installed was constant questions and answers bouncing
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by budman1 5mo ago
You are predicting the weather by saying tomorrow will be just like today. Which has a good track record of being right, most of the time. I agree!
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by budman1 5mo ago
I am ashamed to say that my mind could not understand these 'mac behaviors'. in my mind, closing the shell does not mean 'shut down the machine (or make it standby). maybe i have a job running. maybe i am ssh'ed into i
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by budman1 5mo ago
The E and S rack was an 'image generator'. That one was called an SP1. I fondly remember the SP3T as being the pinnacle of that series; the T meant "texture processing". image a computer display made up of 1000 line se
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by budman1 5mo ago
what you have there is a coding sheet for a GP4. a stored program computer, with drum memory. eventually, the company would call that a 'system design and mechanization report', which would document the math and equations needed

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