kawfey

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by kawfey 7y ago
I got into ham radio when I was 15, before that I was fascinated with CB radio, FRS/GMRS, DXing distant AM/FM stations, and radio scanning. I also played a lot of video games and texted nonstop, built and fixed PCs for my friends,
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by kawfey 7y ago
Ham radio volunteer and emergency communications is an awesome way to serve the community. It's also 99% of the reason why I got into electrical engineering and landed in the career I'm in. It's still a fun and technically re
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by kawfey 7y ago
You're right. After coming home from any big 48-hr long CW contest I swear the quiet whirring of my refrigerator's compressor is trying to speak to me in morse.
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by kawfey 7y ago
I'm not a linux hater, but as long as it's in linux-land, there won't be much mass adoption. Not necessarily a bad thing, but might as well named it YAXC and tossed it into the list[0] (oh turns out Dino is on the list and th
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by kawfey 7y ago
I'm beginning to think that a majority of high-altitude balloon experiments are facilitated by amateur radio APRS transmitters. Balloon launches are also huge PR events and great for students to get involved into science (and ham radio
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by kawfey 7y ago
It's like if you replaced your 2015 car with a new, but heavier 2020 model. Since its heavier, but has the same braking system as the 2015 model, it has a longer braking distance. To remedy that the engineers put in a "braking cha
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by kawfey 7y ago
It's not aerodynamically unstable. It's aerodynamically different than the 737-800 but Boeing decided instead of new pilot training and possibly re-certification, they would address the difference in it's flight characteris
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by kawfey 7y ago
I'm willing to bet airliners are going to remove any indication of what aircraft submodel is planned for the flight prior to ticketing, if not aggressively debating that move.
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by kawfey 7y ago
putting a piece of paper over the windshield/viewports would work. Also setting a pitot/ADS failure because surely the pitot tube would have been jammed up with bug guts.
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by kawfey 7y ago
I've found that if you try to plug a USB male into a USB 3.0 jack backwards, you can wedge the male connector substrate under the female connector substrate, causing it's connectors to short circuit with the housing, blowing a pol
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by kawfey 7y ago
Yes, but you lose recency in whatever you're talking about, especially if you consistently upload a daily video that talks about yesterday's events. Even in a gaming video some of the quips and tangents might be temporally relevan
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by kawfey 7y ago
These and the aforementioned YouTubers have their videos accelerated to the top after 10 or more years of consistency in quality, non-controversy, and positive audience engagement. The Algorithm knows any video produced by those creators is
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by kawfey 7y ago
Amateur radio changed my life. In high school, I thought I was a nobody, maybe I wanted to be a truck driver, or a psychologist...who knows. Who cares? I was pretty depressed. I'm 28 years old and I fucking love amateur radio. I always
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by kawfey 7y ago
I'm starting to assume the two others are the two peer reviewers that approved the change.
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by kawfey 7y ago
Unionizing is inherently political. https://jacobinmag.com/2018/07/unions-collective-bargaining-...
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by kawfey 7y ago
People agreeing with or rationalizing Google's response are not held in high regard on this thread.
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by kawfey 7y ago
> We dismissed an employee who abused privileged access to modify an internal security tool,” a Google spokeswoman said in a statement, adding that it was “a serious violation.” See my other comment reply.
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by kawfey 7y ago
If my company's handbook on privileged access is anything like Google's, it's completely against the rules to do something like this, even if it's for a noble or worthy cause for its employees, even if other employee&#x2
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by kawfey 7y ago
that's the problem with seeing one side of the story, and the other side being a megacorporation which will never explain the firing more than "abusing privileges."
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by kawfey 7y ago
Bad headline. It should read "Engineer fired her for abusing privileged access to modify an internal security tool." That's a pretty dumb way to notify co-workers of their right to organize, but I guess it's a really goo
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by kawfey 7y ago
The fear is illogical because there is a 1 in 2,925,000 odds of dying on commercial aircraft [0]. Before the MAX 8 was grounded, it had well over 2,000,000 hours of flight time on 387 aircraft performing 8,600 flights/week for 56 airli
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by kawfey 7y ago
I fly SWA frequently, and not a flight went by without overhearing some person asking if this is a MAX8, and a number of people not realizing the MAX8 is a submodel of the 737 series.
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by kawfey 7y ago
A fantastic investment I've made for my unavoidable commute is buying a newer model car with automatic/adaptive cruise control. Most newer Hondas, Toyotas, Subarus, have lane keeping, automatic braking, and adaptive cruise. It mak
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by kawfey 7y ago
FCC Part 15 allows for intentional radiators and is the basis for WiFi. With directional antennas, one can make a P2P link that reliably exceeds 10km. A world record has been set at 381km [ https://www.wired.com/2007/06&
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Amateur (Ham) Radio Camp for Youth Being Held in Cincinnati, Oh(yotaregion2.org)
1 points by kawfey 7y ago|0 comments
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by kawfey 7y ago
Americans don't have an intuitive sense of metric units, and Wired is based in the US and has mostly US readership. I agree with you, and I'll bet the editor also agrees, but they'd probably get FAR more comments to use imper
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by kawfey 7y ago
In the UK, it's illegal to listen to radio traffic for which you are not the intended recipient, so yes, it seems the ham committed a crime. But at the same time it sheds light on a very GDPR non-compliant method of transmitting PII an
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Radio ham who streamed NHS pager messages via webcam may have committed a crime(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by kawfey 7y ago|1 comments
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by kawfey 7y ago
Uncontrolled airspace is much more of a concern, since there is no tower HQ can call.
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by kawfey 7y ago
Edit: here's a first-hand experience from a ham affected by the fires: https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/dpevai/experi...

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