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by chipsa 1y ago
If there was a zip code that was just virtual PO Boxes, it could use the existing change of address machinery to slap the actual delivery address on when addressed with a virtual box. Assuming they used an entire sectional center facility f
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by chipsa 1y ago
You can buy digital stamps for the USPS as well. You need to accurately put a barcode on the envelope though.
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by chipsa 1y ago
The default +2 plus code is ~14m resolution. But you can add more characters to the end to get higher res. 5 more gets you down to sub centimeters.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Theoretically, you can just print a DPBC and a name on a USPS delivered mail, and it’ll get delivered. The DPBC has the ZIP+4, and delivery point encoded. The delivery point is the actual mailbox used (some addresses have multiple delivery
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by chipsa 1y ago
Size: base 64 is 2/3 the number of bytes as hex.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Welcome to the jeune ecole. The problem of $1000 drones is range and speed. A carrier is moving at 20kt, regularly. More if conducting flight operations. $1k drones are group 1 drones in DoD classification. There are limited in speed and ra
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by chipsa 1y ago
A remarkably large number of the weapons on a USN warship can be used offensively. Most of the anti aircraft missiles can be used in surface to surface mode. Given their high speed, they can do a large amount of damage, despite the small wa
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by chipsa 1y ago
Define drones. Define missiles. How big are these drones? Are they group 1? Group 3[0]? Can this ship with missiles use its group 4 drones to find and fix these patrol boats so it can toss missiles at the opposing patrol boats? Can the patr
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by chipsa 1y ago
Relatedly: if you park an AEGIS BMD ship off the coast of San Francisco, how far inland can they defend with SM-3 against an ICBM? Approximately eastern Kansas. Same question, but Hampton Roads: approximately western Kansas. The footprint d
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by chipsa 1y ago
Holes full of air tend not to do a good job of sinking ships. Holes full of water are good at sinking ships. Small warheads aren’t going to be effective at making holes full of water. They may be good at blowing up stuff on top, that make t
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by chipsa 1y ago
There are PIV creds for more than just DoD.
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by chipsa 1y ago
Cheap oscillator because they expect it to be network connected and be corrected by NTP. Why put in a good clock when a cheap one will do?
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by chipsa 1y ago
Knowing how China designates cities[0], citation needed on the number of cities. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing > The municipality covers a large geographical area roughly the size of Austria,[14] which
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by chipsa 1y ago
The armor and projectile are solid the entire time. It’s just the pressures involved are enough to make the material flow despite that. Actual experiment: cut the rod into quarters long ways, glue it back together, then shoot it. Out the ot
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by chipsa 1y ago
On mobile at least, the friends tab no longer just gives you suggestions, but actually gives you a friends feed. Doesn’t help if what you actually want are the groups you’re part of, but it’s something.
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by chipsa 1y ago
The fact you don’t agree is immaterial to the fact that your “fixed point” code doesn’t implement fixed point arithmetic. Fixed point arithmetic has a fixed scale factor for the type, not a value dependent scale factor.
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by chipsa 1y ago
If you don’t create any GC-able objects in the loop, why would you need to call the GC? And if you are, that should involve a function call. And if you do need to call the GC, you could manually insert function calls every x loop iterations
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by chipsa 1y ago
So if you can get more than 3 different TV stations you should be good. Most stations don’t share transmission towers, AFAIK. There are places, especially in the mountains where you don’t get the requisite number of towers, but large portio
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by chipsa 1y ago
Except the live wire is the one that’s switched. So if you plug it in backwards, the neutral is the one that’s switched. And if they aren’t careful with how the wiring is done, you potentially have live voltage on the outside of your metal
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by chipsa 1y ago
Not all unclassified can be FOIA’d. There are exemptions to FOIA, that aren’t “it’s classified “. And there are things that aren’t “records” according to DoD records management regulations, and so would not be FOIAble, because they wouldn’
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by chipsa 1y ago
They mean vector tiles. It’s tiles of vectorized images, usually of a map (or other geographic data). They’re so named because they are a vectorized replacement for raster tiles, which were PNGs. If the server chucks back a picture, it’s no
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by chipsa 2y ago
You are in MGRS zone 17S. MGRS also has grid square designations after the zone, and before the easting/northing numbers. A full UTM coordinate string will only have N/S at position 2/3, while a full MGRS coordinate string wi
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by chipsa 2y ago
They didn’t name it that, IEEE did.
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by chipsa 2y ago
I think it mostly goes “I’m going to sell, it goes up to market on day <X>, unless you meet my ask.”
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by chipsa 2y ago
In service, it was pressured with nitrogen, just like it was while not in service. RP-1 is not an especially volatile fuel.
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by chipsa 2y ago
The analog lines before digitalization were limited to 8kHz bandwidth. This is because to deliver a circuit between two points, the system generally figured out which bit of bandwidth wasn’t in use and frequency shifted the entire connectio
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by chipsa 2y ago
“Dual channel” is not a thing with CAMM. CAMM is 128 bits wide. To feed a 256bit wide memory controller, you need 2 CAMM modules. LPCAMM2 uses 4 memory packages. The observed number of packages next to the APU on this is 8. So you need 2 mo
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by chipsa 2y ago
The Missouri basin is largely west of the dry line, and so gets substantially less rainfall.
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by chipsa 2y ago
A single LPCAMM2 module is supposed to be all the RAM for a laptop, so it’s 128 bit wide. You’d need two LPCAMM for this, not four. And they are currently available in 32G and 64G varieties ($180/$330). So they aren’t absurdly priced,
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by chipsa 2y ago
Sprint was in service for one day before Congress voted to decommission the site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_R._Mickelsen_Safeguard...

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