edrxty

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by edrxty 5y ago
Very much appreciate that, though I'm a full stack embedded dev (EDA/c/++/rust/py etc).
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by edrxty 5y ago
To clarify, I work embedded systems for aerospace so it's a very different world than most devs exist in. The customer is asking for something defined in a legal contract with the details spelled out for the most part. The issue is t
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by edrxty 5y ago
Am a self starting generalist. Every company I've worked for has desperately tried to beat it out of me. They think they want this but what they actually want is someone who will turn pre-chewed tickets into code on whatever platform
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by edrxty 5y ago
I don't think I want the Fed to have access to every recipient and source of every dollar I ever spend. That database can only be misused.
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by edrxty 5y ago
So we're assuming reflection as well as transmission? If we're just talking transmission they would both be the same, ie transmitting all red photons and 50% of the green and blue ones while the other filter transmits all blue pho
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by edrxty 5y ago
I...think you just described society
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by edrxty 5y ago
Is it actually not commutative? If you consider them to be filters in the same way you can with the article but on each RGB channel doesn't it still work out? Or is this assuming we're also dealing with reflection in addition to
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by edrxty 5y ago
This was my first thought. If I had a dollar for every time I ran across a database that was horrifically out of date I'd be...getting paid less than I already am
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by edrxty 5y ago
It happens all the time when you get into certain verticals, it's just that humans are generally more likely overvalue assets than undervalue them and the broader "stock market" is the grandest of all overvalued assets
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by edrxty 5y ago
Did the same thing in high school hijacking the remote management software to log into machines and mess with people. The password was stored in plaintext in the config file on every machine. They kept changing it but couldn't figure
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by edrxty 5y ago
The problem with all of this is it would help us greatly, but it would be useless to the 99% that the internet is increasingly being designed for. Modern UI trends are becoming obsessed with removing as many options and features as possibl
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by edrxty 5y ago
There's no restriction on type of emission in the 10 and 6m bands, just the bandwidth (which once again, is a dumb carry over from the pre-digital era...fight me OM). The way the bandwidth limitation is worded for non-phone emissions i
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's an old system that iirc they're phasing out. It was probably designed against for older analog systems similar to the the pulsed IR jammer turrets on US helicopters. Focal plane trackers are generally able to defeat these typ
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by edrxty 5y ago
The vast majority is flight training, fulfilling currency requirements and commercial operations (135 charter ops, survey and similar, fire fighting, etc.) Most of the pushback against lead free fuel is actually from the commercial operator
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by edrxty 5y ago
The FAA just approved a blanket lead free replacement. It's still being rolled out but it shouldn't be an issue for much longer.
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by edrxty 5y ago
This will almost certainly be used for weapons in short order. Currently if you want thermal imaging or very low light capability you have to use very expensive substrates. Being able to use CMOS detectors for MWIR/LWIR would instantl
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by edrxty 5y ago
Fair warning, if you want enough tint to make direct line of sight with the sun bearable, you're looking at welding shade 14 or so. Better to just tape up some cardboard
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by edrxty 5y ago
People are checking FM because it's trivial. I have yet to hear of someone getting caught using digital encryption entirely through band monitoring (ie not doing something obviously stupid elsewhere like bragging about it on social me
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by edrxty 5y ago
It also completely prevents any interesting radio experimentation. There isn't anything left on that frontier that couldn't be conflated with encryption.
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by edrxty 5y ago
The unenforceable argument isn't really a thing. If we look at some common encryption standards, the call sign is in the clear as it has to be for routing. In the case where someone is swearing with their friends over an encrypted cha
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's safe only because nobody cares enough about ham radio to bother skimming anything. I've been pushing for encryption for years but just posting this well get a bunch of elmers posting upset replies. It's frustrating const
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by edrxty 5y ago
They usually fly something like a 206 or 182 with a Flir gimbal and two people on board. Those types cost between $120 and $200 an hour to operate plus whatever the costs of the gimbal are (mind that the gimbal may cost as much or more than
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by edrxty 5y ago
Yeah this whole post makes absolutely no sense. None of this information is problematic in any way and none of the explanations as to why the author thinks it could be bad are at all sound.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Depends on the shop. SBIR farms that have never commercialized a single product are terrible. Ones that have a revenue stream are fine.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Honestly the biggest issue with this strategy is US capitalism isn't kind to companies that just stay small. You're not going to find a lot of places that want to remain tiny, just a lot that, as mentioned above, remain so throug
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by edrxty 5y ago
Startups obviously. Less obviously look for "SBIR" shops if you're ok with a little bit of weird gov contracting overhead.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Yeah, watch out for small companies that are desperately trying to get big but have been small or oscillated between 10-40 people seemingly from the beginning of time. There's a particular type of person who runs these businesses and t
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by edrxty 5y ago
I've had good luck with this too. More diverse work, more free rein to experiment with stuff, less oppressive IT department...you can generally get away with telling 'Joe' to eat your ass if he wants to try to pull you into
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by edrxty 5y ago
Yes but it's a little more complicated than just rates. It's a multitude of factors including perceived worth, available cash, financing rules, supply, new construction costs, etc. People need to be willing to sign their lives aw
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by edrxty 5y ago
Similarly housing starts are increasing drastically now that lumber has stabilized https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/HOUST

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