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by edrxty 5y ago
I've had a number of "cordial debates" with crusty old hams on this subject. The old guard is still very much hung up on the Old Way. Change scares a lot of the people who learned on expensive vaccum tube systems before the
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by edrxty 5y ago
It Could Happen Here was pretty haunting. Some of it was hand wavy but a lot felt borderline prophetic. I should caution people here though. Going down this rabbit hole is not at all good for your mental health and in parallel, much like
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by edrxty 5y ago
IIRC that lines up with the increase in capacity of the new cell packs so maybe they're just transitioning to the 4680s?
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by edrxty 5y ago
Ok, maybe I'm just out of the loop but this read like a long list of completely unsupported assumptions that I absolutely cannot justify with any version of present reality. Also the comparison with Britain, by his own admission, make
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by edrxty 5y ago
Nope, newer guided bombs are almost all of the glide variety, see the SDB/Stormbearker and JSOW. They can achieve high glide ratios similar to aircraft, can follow pre programmed waypoints, have variable terminal profiles including th
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by edrxty 5y ago
Sure, but I already have an android. The concern I have is that the regulatory landscape will change if Apple opens Pandora's box. Google could just as easily do the same thing, hampered only by their complete inability to keep andro
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by edrxty 5y ago
I find myself already contemplating the websites I visit, the videos I watch and the things I post, even anonymously, because my interests include military electronics among other things. Even when I'm not worried about attracting unw
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by edrxty 5y ago
Sure, now find me a new car that doesn't have the ability to do OTA updates
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by edrxty 5y ago
That's becoming less of an option by the day and will only accelerate if Apple gets their way.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Arguments about CSAM aside, I think this is the final nail in the coffin of walled gardens and closed devices. If a company can unilaterally swoop in and throw the EULA out the window on a device you bought years with absolutely no recours
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by edrxty 5y ago
Do you mind expanding on what you mean?
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by edrxty 5y ago
I was curious so here's some napkin math Assumptions: - moderately busy airport, three Cessna 172s concurrently in the pattern during the day @7gph - no significant wind - 7gph 3cessnas 2glead/gallon=42grams of lead/hr - The
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by edrxty 5y ago
Software updates actually occur for old hardware. Android almost never gets updates for anything older than a couple years. I hate iOS for it's walled garden bullshit but android seems to have found the one way to be worse.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Yeah it gets cited a ton because the colors look intuitive but really the map isn't particularly useful. Would honestly be better if the hadn't used "hot/cold" colors because as it stands it's basically the me
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's not even a norms delta, it's a probability of any deviation from norms. The creators ( https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/ ) even put out a survey a couple years ago trying to figure out if anyone actually unde
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by edrxty 5y ago
Not to get political but have you seen the makeup of the US Congress? The world is ruled by octogenarians that never seem to die.
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by edrxty 5y ago
This was true decades ago but for the vast majority of modern applications users would be just fine sharing spectrum and dynamically negotiating/avoiding each other. If you go look at an SDR waterfall you'll find that vanishingly
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by edrxty 5y ago
This feels like affirmation of the Chinese Communist Party method of censorship unfortunately. I wouldn't be surprised to see more countries take this anecdata and run with it.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Looks like the only way to never sell out to anyone is to go live in a cave.
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's more that it's an unspoken thing. Those of us who understand these issues aren't going out of our way to provide an excuse for dissonance to the masses or worse, easily misrepresented ammunition for the talking heads.
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by edrxty 5y ago
I'm well aware of this argument but in practice it doesn't work like that. Other countries don't have encryption bans and are fine as you're always required to ID. The nice business band radios you see in the US are of
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by edrxty 5y ago
As I mentioned elsewhere one of the big parts of this is a ban on encryption and heavy regulations on spread spectrum. Obviously a sufficiently capable person could implement these trivially but it hampers mass adoption. If nobody has enc
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by edrxty 5y ago
It's less stupid than it sounds. The biggest part of it is a ban on encryption for hams and language making true spread spectrum difficult. These are the two biggest components to making radio resistant to interference by the state (e
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by edrxty 5y ago
This happens more than you'd imagine. DCS World gets in hot water for this periodically. It doesn't help that these developers are all from Russia
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by edrxty 5y ago
The issue is the tower is intended to be as high as 480ft. This is significant as that means it will end up being listed on charts and factored into any nearby instrument approach procedures. All that said, this is a case where the FAA pro
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by edrxty 5y ago
I've actually dealt with the FAA on a rocket launch. They're an INCREDIBLY bureaucratic agency. We were inside a continually restricted airspace volume (R-xxxx) as well as a TFR that was miles wide, but at the last minute we w
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by edrxty 5y ago
There's a huge market here for something that professional photographers could use. I know several and they all tell each other to keep buying more external 1tb hard drives then back everything up to random cloud image hosts. Most of
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by edrxty 5y ago
Are there any primary sources for this? I'm having trouble finding anything talking about any final legislative action involving chat control/ePrivacy etc. that isn't this random pirate party blog.
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by edrxty 5y ago
Quarterly password resets, five different "single sign on" services, no admin for devs. Sometimes I feel like the idea is just to kill productivity.
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by edrxty 5y ago
This seems like a good way to annoy people more than anything. With electric cars and solar energy it won't really matter how fast anyone goes in a decade.

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