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by geoffeg 1y ago
There are a few members in my amateur radio club that have a (~200) collection of CW keys. Bugs, paddles, straight keys, etc. Some very obscure ones (only one or two made), some old ones, strange designs, etc. They'll occasionally brin
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Last commit to master was over two years ago, has mosh been replaced by something else or is the project just "complete"?
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Don't forget that internal combustions engines lose power and efficiency over their lifetimes. Bearings, piston rings and other components wear, injectors and valves get dirty, surfaces develop varnish, etc. My last ICE car started nee
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Just a note that the Heaven's Gate website is still up. It's a wonderful snapshot of 90s web design. https://www.heavensgate.com/
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by geoffeg 1y ago
I thought a recent downtime was contributed to rolling out the initial prep for IPv6 support.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
There have been many times I just decided to come back to the airport a bit later. Or circle well above the airport and watch the chaos below.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Most aircraft have a GPS on the panel that can show you the airspace around you and along your flight path, but it's not a required instrument. It's more of a 2D depiction of the airspaces, but there are three dimensional depictio
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by geoffeg 1y ago
> I'm leaning towards it being some extremely cheeky DCS/flightsim nerd because of the shortness and randomness of the flights. It screams "do it because I can and report back to the boys" to me. It's not so easy
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by geoffeg 1y ago
> everyone announces what they're doing Well, most people. :) There's no "requirement" that pilots announce their intentions on the common frequency at uncontrolled airports, some aircraft may not even have radios.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Some smaller airports are pretty sleepy. There's no control tower at his home airport (Corona Municipal Airport) and it doesn't look like there's an FBO there. There's probably generally no one at the airport unless some
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by geoffeg 1y ago
I imagine it's someone that doesn't have the monetary means to rent or buy a plane combined with a bit of mental health issues. At the uncontrolled community airport I got my PPL at there were a few pilots who were known to have e
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by geoffeg 1y ago
Starlink still has infrastructure outside the satellites to run normal company stuff. If they screwed up something in their core routing system, or DNS, etc it could affect everything.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
I love that we're rediscovering server side rendering. It's impressive to me how quickly the industry moved away from it as the default and is now an interesting, new technique to many.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
> would be more productive to bang your head on the keyboard and expect to write the code for anything. There's gotta be a joke about AI vibe coding there...
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by geoffeg 1y ago
https://solar.w5mmw.net/ is also nice for a quick overview.
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by geoffeg 1y ago
I looked into it once, I think the script or system that built the larger dumps broke and no one fixed it. I started working on it but other stuff got in the way.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
That's a lot of JS for a static site. For some reason it hijacked my keyboard shortcuts for back and forward.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
Because it links away from their site. They want to keep you on the site, clicking more links that can generate revenue for them.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I've seen the XB-70 at the Dayton Air Force Museum and each time it seems both massive and relatively svelte. Like some kind of shape that I can't quite fully understand. Really cool plane to see, especially among all the other ai
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by geoffeg 2y ago
https://www.faa.gov is up
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by geoffeg 2y ago
That hasn't been my experience at large corporations. They usually have a corporate proxy which only speaks HTTP 1.1, intercepts all HTTPS, and doesn't support websockets (unless you ask for an exception) and other more modern HTT
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I worked with a team of developers tasked with creating a few 100% static websites. Single page, no interactivity, nothing dynamic. They were talking about which React components to use, server APIs to build, etc when I asked why they didn&
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I assume something like this https://github.com/rvaiya/warpd/?tab=readme-ov-file#grid-mod...
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by geoffeg 2y ago
A good soldering iron, a magnifying glass (I have an articulating lamp with a built-in magnifying glass) and a basic multimeter is all that’s needed, but a clamp or “helping hands” to hold the circuit board would be helpful.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I recently got into Parks on the Air, where you go to parks with radio equipment and try to make 10 contacts. It's fun, gets me out of the house and can be an interesting challenge depending on atmospheric conditions. I built a small k
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I have been thinking about getting an old IPC or IPX and swapping out the internals with a modern PC motherboard and components, but only if I can do it cleanly. I haven't done it due to not having enough free time and... it just feels
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I miss Sun hardware, especially in the sun4c era. Everything was so solidly built and well thought out compared to a lot of PC hardware. The IPC/IPX is still one of my favorite form factors.
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I'm always surprised at how many non-tech people don't know about their browser's ability to search in the page. I've been on multiple calls at work with researchers who have been in the field for more than a decade and
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I've watched a few review videos on the Maverick and while it does seem like the closest replacement for my (now totaled) Ford Ranger, I still wish it was a plugin/range extended drive train. It's nice not having to stop at a
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by geoffeg 2y ago
I have a Chevy Volt (second gen). It looks like a normal car, has a 50-mile range on the battery and also has a gas engine. The passenger and luggage area are pretty normal, maybe the center rear seat isn't usable, but it isn't re

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