kawfey

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by kawfey 1y ago
idk, hardware engineering (whether electrical, mechanical, civil, aerospace, etc) is just as lucrative and IMO more interesting, since physics isn't an invention of the human mind like software is, and mistakes go boom instead of segfa
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by kawfey 1y ago
>Overall this cost us about $40k About $10,000 per unit (including the PTAC removal/wall repair), sheesh. A new mini split in my St Louis (city) house was $5.5k, and that was one rung up from lowball $4k contractor. Also, instead of
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by kawfey 1y ago
Bluetooth and wifi messengers have been awful over the years, but pretty much every hardware messanger (Gotenna, beartooth, and now meshtastic/meshcore/TTN/lora etc) have been very effective. Also FRS radios are still a thing
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by kawfey 1y ago
for me kagi started out as a few searches and compared between it, DDG and google. and then i ran out of free searches, so I gave them $5. and then i ran out of $5 worth of searches so i kept renewing, $5 more. And again, and again. At this
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by kawfey 1y ago
same model as flightaware et al use for crowdsourced ADS-B air traffic monitoring. You set up an ADS-B receiving station, send your feed to FA, and in return you get a premium-level account.
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by kawfey 1y ago
The bolt EUV has a paddle on the wheel above the turn signal stalk that is used to invoke regen braking in normal drive mode, and when used in one-pedal drive mode adds an extra bit of regen without having to use the brake pedal. It also do
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by kawfey 1y ago
IMO it's because we (americans) are in an oligarchy, and barring modifications to the urban fabric that stem from (often repetitive) loss of life, there are no massive corporations to bankroll or lobby for pedestrian and urban mobility
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by kawfey 1y ago
My wife and I area treating beef (and pork, lamb, and other mammalian meats) like peanuts, because she got the alpha-gal allergy from a lonestar tick bite. PSA: check for ticks ps: the loss of beef/pork/lamb in our diets hasn&#x27
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by kawfey 1y ago
> My spouse and I find that we are overwhelmingly the ones calling to organize playdates rather than vice versa. Why do you think this is? Because it's very true for me too -- not only play dates but also just regular socializing, l
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by kawfey 2y ago
the brightline has an unfortunate reputation of being a "death" train, because it gets a lot of news when it collides with vehicles. IMO the onus is on the driving idiots who bypass rail crossing signals and gates, and/or get
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by kawfey 2y ago
or mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow m
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by kawfey 2y ago
People don't prepare, so either pressuring or mandating congress to keep AM a standard is necessary. There is already mature roadway infrastructure that provides localized announcements via AM - tunnels, bridges, mountain passes, low-v
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by kawfey 2y ago
I grew up using Google (and ask jeeves and yahoo.) In school, google won. Now, google sucks. It's all ads, AI SEO maxxing, and the work to find useful results has gone up manyfold. I found myself using site:"" to get closer t
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by kawfey 2y ago
I just put them, along with all of my other photo/video on a local NAS that's backed up to an offsite and to backblaze. sticking to a consistent file naming method of your choice is the best, but that's entirely based on your
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by kawfey 3y ago
It's a sad day for radio amateurs, as it's a sign of the solar cycle maximum, which is fantastic for HF/shortwave radio propagation, but it must come to a minimum over the next 5.5 years, which conversely sucks.
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by kawfey 3y ago
honestly I trust the security of FaceTime or Zoom more than that of third party telehealth apps.
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by kawfey 3y ago
It happened to me in the app mentioned in the article, not FaceTime, on ios. it also occurred to me in a zoom in macOS. Seems to work in any video calling app.
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by kawfey 3y ago
I still sneak in an HT to listen to VHF/UHF ham radio and airband. One flight, we were experiencing moderate turbulence and didn't get our drinks/snacks. The captain announced "we're asking for clearance to help us
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by kawfey 3y ago
it takes a bit more than 10 minutes to convince my family to also migrate their passwords and re-figure out how to use it when all their life they used the same password for everything.
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by kawfey 3y ago
it's one of the few walled gardens that i'm actually happy with
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by kawfey 3y ago
It is possible - https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-gps-decoding-plotti...
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by kawfey 3y ago
A friend of mine put a list of over 350 amateur radio YouTube channels, many of which fit in the undiscovered electronics/maker label. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1BiqqCvRnzNx-iuH9...
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by kawfey 3y ago
Maybe not useful for you, but ham radio is objectively useful for myriad reasons. Also, very specifically, 47 CFR § 97.113(4) states "messages encoded for the purpose of obscuring their meaning" are prohibited (with one exception
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by kawfey 3y ago
https://youthontheair.org i'm doing my part!
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by kawfey 3y ago
This last weekend was ARRL Field day, a huge operating event designed to be "practice" for when the "stuff hits the fan" but also just gets a ton of people on the air using portable stations set up in public and austere
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by kawfey 3y ago
A related resource specific to amateur radio and GMRS repeaters is https://www.repeaterbook.com/ . Very useful to find repeaters near you, if you're looking for them. You can find them in RadioReference too, but they te
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by kawfey 3y ago
I would buy a car without an AM radio. In fact I'd buy one without FM or AM. I always use my phone (or ham/cb radio) for audio entertainment, and never do i ever turn on the actual radio. that said, a crank AM/FM radio lives
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by kawfey 3y ago
> without a single failure well..at least 8 engines failed on the way up. At least a majority of them were lit! There was lots of very heavy debris that left the pad and flew hundreds of feet away upon ignition; I have a feeling that som
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by kawfey 4y ago
My company's IT bans installing anything outside of their software application management/installation application. All software goes through a laborious approval process. Webapps like this are very useful to me.
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by kawfey 4y ago
That, or Long Island CW Club [0] - highly recommend either one. Or Learn CW Online/LCWO [1] for self-led drills and practice in addition to those apps. And definitely avoid charts, graphs, mnemonics, memory hacks, visual aids -- at al

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