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by fr0sty 7y ago
> Even now after the "ban" that catch is pushing up near 10,000 a year. Not sure this is true. This site[0] puts the total 2018 catch at only 1553. [0] https://iwc.int/total-catches
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by fr0sty 7y ago
Exactly. "consumer" is the important qualifier. Yes printers are relatively cheap and reliable, but even the most consumer-centric printers are far from "plug and play" last I checked. When there is a printer that an &qu
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by fr0sty 7y ago
ISM bands are available to use with whatever encryption scheme you wish to employ. And as others have mentioned elsewhere: control mechanisms just need authentication, not encryption. Plenty of ways to skin that cat.
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by fr0sty 7y ago
There is unlicenced spectrum where encrypted traffic is allowed (900MHz, 2.4GHz, 5.8GHz) why aren't those adequate for these experiments?
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by fr0sty 7y ago
Hams care about people following FCC rules in much the same way gun owners care about ATF regulations, or car-club members care about whether modifications are steet-legal (or CA Smog-legal), or DIY forum people care about work being permi
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by fr0sty 7y ago
The relevant court decision in that link related to faulty construction resulting in water incursion over months/years. I don't see how that is at all analogous to the scenario we have been discussing (DIY smart outlet malfunction
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by fr0sty 7y ago
Are you saying you know of an instance where an insurance company sued their own customer for accidentally burning down their own house? I'd like to know more about the particulars because that sounds like another urban legend.
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by fr0sty 7y ago
I believe it is an urban legend that homeowner's insurance claims (specifically fire damage to structure or other contents) are being denied with any frequency because a 'homebrew' contraption was present in the home, adjacen
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by fr0sty 7y ago
> you'd have to provide the whole "paper trail" for every single bit of your setup Can you cite any firsthand account of this sort of thing happening somewhere in the US? Given the ease with which people can reach millions
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by fr0sty 7y ago
> And probably deny your claim and coverage (and probably cancel your policy). Can you point me to an instance of this actually happening? I see this warning given all the time but have to date never found an instance where someone'
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by fr0sty 7y ago
> You only need 85% to pass the real exam. Current requirement is lower. Only 74% (26/35 or 37/50) to pass. One other thing to know is that the exam questions are split in to sections (35 sections for Tech/General, 50 for
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by fr0sty 7y ago
Archive.org has scanned several old "callbooks" which you can try searching in: https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22callbook%2...
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by fr0sty 7y ago
I would put a vote in for http://hamstudy.org as another good resource. In addition to having the question pools available and giving practice tests it also has user-contributed explanations of how to arrive at the correct answe
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by fr0sty 8y ago
Is there a reason you don't store the images of submitted games? Acquiring real-world training data to test changes with would be very useful. Perhaps make it an opt-in feature people can select when uploading a game so people are &quo
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by fr0sty 8y ago
The plane in question was a highly-modified P-51 taking part in the Reno air races. Looking through the report it was routinely pulling 4G in the turns already (at ground speeds of 360-380kts) so quadrupling that in the face of structural f
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by fr0sty 8y ago
AF447 was a bad airspeed sensor and a switch of the control system from "normal law" to "alternate law" as a response to the momentary bad inputs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
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by fr0sty 8y ago
No idea what they mean by "Equivalent" either, I was just doing the math with the figures quotes up-thread. Look at the correction at the bottom of the NYT piece: > "A news analysis article last Sunday about the impact of
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by fr0sty 8y ago
Jet fuel is 840kg/m^3 so 70,000kg is ~146m^3 which is a cube roughly 5.2m/side. I personally would not consider that a "enormous" amount of fuel to move 400+ people 5,500km.
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by fr0sty 8y ago
You are off by a few orders of magnitude. Total fuel load is 70,000kg and a 747-400 carries 416 passengers in a typical 3-class configuration[0]. That comes to only 168kg/passenger. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by fr0sty 8y ago
Username: snowdem0n Very generous of you. I've loved using it to answer stackexchange answers but don't have enough use myself to justify the membership.
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by fr0sty 8y ago
FWIW: "Organic" != "Pesticide Free". Rather it means that the compounds sprayed on the crops are "organic" in origin. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/science-sushi/httpblogs...
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by fr0sty 8y ago
Point of order: Your bank told Google (and likely anyone else who is auto-billing your card) that your CC# or Expiration Date changed. Google did not solicit this information from the bank on your behalf. Further Point of order: This is lik
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by fr0sty 9y ago
Requiring students to submit their VCS history along with the finished project would at least up the cost to the students for copy and pasting. They even hint at that sort of solution in the piece by mentioning cosmetic changes to the files
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by fr0sty 9y ago
> Yup, and that's highly illegal Which part? Powering your house w/out transfer switch (when disconnected to the utility), or actually back-feeding power to the utility? I would be surprised if the former was uniformly illegal
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by fr0sty 9y ago
Look at page 21 of that document. "This (pollution) exclusion does not apply to bodily injury or property damage: ... (3) caused by common household chemicals used to maintain the residence premises." Additiona
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by fr0sty 9y ago
Tesla's powerwall claims 90% round-trip efficiency (AC in vs. AC out) and most SMPS power supplies are also 90%+efficient as well so you are losing <20% capacity (not 100-200%).
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by fr0sty 9y ago
And imagine if you had a house fire and had your coverage denied. Would you be at all shy of posting those details on a public forum? I'm not saying that denials like this can't/haven't happened, just that I've neve
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by fr0sty 9y ago
Keep reading the Erie policy. Look for phrases like: "...into or upon the land, the atmosphere or any course of or body of water, whether above or below ground." and "but this exclusion does not apply if such discharge, dispe
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by fr0sty 9y ago
> I expect the insurance would not cover it. I see this blanket assertion in lots of comment threads, but never with a citation. > (just like it doesn't cover fires caused by storing gas or propane in your garage)? This is an ass
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by fr0sty 9y ago
> which I must be able to show to certain agencies at any time. Which agencies and for what reason? There is no general obligation of US citizens to carry identification or even to provide your name to authorities unless you are reasonab

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