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by fapjacks 5y ago
At least some of this is because Andrew Lee is a supporter of Donald Trump and this rubs some people the wrong way.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I heard if you can locate and secure the cooperation of a girl IRL you can make these systems on your own.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
You have just described literally every generation of humans that ever existed. The ancient Romans complained about their lazy, disconnected successor generations.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
It is a classic human political problem, succession of power.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Merely being on free tier is a signal that you do not want a $27,000 bill. There is no excuse for what AWS does here, and it is clear they use this clusterfuck as a revenue stream.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
If you think decay of magnetization is the limiting factor to digital longevity, I'm sorry to report that intentional bitrot will destroy any hope of retrieval long before the spinning platters fail. I'd suggest an experiment: T
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by fapjacks 5y ago
This would be a good rebuttal, to offer up a bunch of counterexamples of transponder data with no corresponding signal in the WSPR "data" using the same method, but also ADS-B transponders are limited in range, so there will be bi
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I'm assuming you meant "extra-class wasn't really just for bragging rights" because I, too, am an amateur extra and self-taught as I am, learned quite a lot of stuff preparing for that exam that I use regularly in and
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by fapjacks 5y ago
My biggest problem with people the world round is invariably rooted in this sense of ownership of what other people find meaningful. This kind of top-down dictation of ultimately subjective meaning is what is uncomfortable (because meaning
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by fapjacks 5y ago
This only goes so far, though, with frameworks. In my experience, the vast majority of people that make claims about a particular framework do not understand the abstractions they are building upon. In fact it is sufficiently reliable that
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by fapjacks 5y ago
Links have implied costs far greater than a few KB.
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by fapjacks 5y ago
I did something similar in Europe about ten years ago but lost access to the domain I used as part of the process. That happened through no fault of my own, but it really took the wind out of my sails to run into such bad luck with one of t
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by fapjacks 6y ago
You didn't understand what I said. I have an amateur extra license, and do a lot of volunteer work proselytizing for ham radio, working at field days, etc. For most people, there is a semantic payload with "radio" which conve
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I also use microG on my phone.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
It's nice of you to accept Apple's calling it "radio" but UWB is radar technology. Newer iPhones have radar built into them to make their location tracking more precise. Most people don't understand (or can't u
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by fapjacks 6y ago
As mentioned in sibling comment, there are no alternative, but I use microG, which is an open source Google Play Services (the core vehicle of most of this fuckery) shim that allows you to use apps that require Google Play Services (like Ub
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Which makes it weird that we accept this bullshit from our phones, considering that you have your phone with you whether you're driving or walking or taking the bus.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
This backlog of customers are the ones that unimaginative naysayers were talking about in the 90s when they said there would be no commercial interest in a private launch industry. Just because you can't see a commercial opportunity in
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by fapjacks 6y ago
That's fine, but it doesn't answer the question of why you would trust a NYT product "review": https://www.nytimes.com/privacy/privacy-policy
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by fapjacks 6y ago
It seems like you're unironically saying "isn't enough to launch whole new industries" in the same moment that SpaceX is averaging about a launch every week or two (one tomorrow, another 07APR) with a backlog of customer
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Why do you imagine the NYT isn't taking a bigger paycheck for saying the same thing the fake Amazon reviews are saying? We live in a world where brands are trash. They're built by the lowest bidder with the absolute cheapest parts
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by fapjacks 6y ago
In many ways, predicting the future is just about looking at how to apply past trends to our modern world. People and organizations with the resources to do so are actively working to cram their "curation" into the public sphere,
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I don't know when it started (as it's been years since I wrote anything in Python) but the last couple of years I've been seeing way way more of these generic Python environment / configuration errors around the internet
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Give it time. Once these bands become more utilized, and more hardware gets pumped into the system, this bandwidth allocation for hams will shrink just like it has in every other band. They'll find any reason to reduce these allocation
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by fapjacks 6y ago
You're doing the same thing that other dude is doing; you just think you're better.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Huh? I bet I could come up with a few words and a few different ways of using them that you'd look down on me for. I could probably do it in one word and one usage.
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Why? This was the situation in the 90s. No one trusted the internet. It's hard to imagine unless you lived it, but buying something online was once seen as completely stupid, and people were universally skeptical of information (and pe
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Twenty-one days versus three for everybody else. But it's also possible to turn a naked short into a disclosed short via a naked call option (which also is not backed by an actual share).
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by fapjacks 6y ago
Right, my spidey senses were tingling, too. So I looked into the RFC's author, and noted his position as one of the champions of QUIC as HTTP/3, and his promotion of encrypted DNS (specifically DoH), and then an interesting articl
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by fapjacks 6y ago
I didn't assert that COVID wasn't part of the equation, and it's nicer for everybody if we don't assume somebody hasn't read an article (though I agree it's a natural thing to wonder sometimes).

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