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by kragen 1y ago
Well, the tape may not survive its second pass across the read head, so it's good to capture the analog waveform in as much fidelity as possible.
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by kragen 1y ago
Mortars miss; suicide drones don't. And even the crappiest combat FPVs outrange mortars at 10+ km. The second drone gets through the net. And I wouldn't be surprised if US mortar rounds cost more than Ukrainian drones. But cer
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by kragen 1y ago
It's not paywalled, though, which makes it far better than the NYT link!
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by kragen 1y ago
Both Ukraine and Russia have more combat aircraft than the US, if you count drones. Of course the US has a far larger air force if you count by dollars rather than by airframe count, but if that's because they're buying US$10k mi
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by kragen 1y ago
It helps Lockheed Martin by preventing 21-year-olds from waltzing into the Pentagon and selling weapon systems to the DoD, allowing them to capture 300× more value than if they were subject to market competition.
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by kragen 1y ago
> The Archer Strike platforms integrate with Kraken Kinetics Terminus strike payloads No relation!
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by kragen 1y ago
For the primary photo on biographies of living people, Wikipedia prefers photos to be as current as possible.
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by kragen 1y ago
Oh, yeah, my suggestion was pretty dumb.
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by kragen 1y ago
I hadn't played it in a while. 12 Kills, Rank: Hell's Proctologist. To make it playable singleplayer on a keyboard with no keypad: http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/xevil
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by kragen 1y ago
It's a ticking time bomb that distributors are steering clear of for good reason. You are correct that current copyright law is pretty silly, but that silly law is frequently enforced by serious courts.
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by kragen 1y ago
Could we maybe change the title to something like "Lee Felsenstein is still alive"? I was worried when I saw the title.
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by kragen 1y ago
Yeah, I was just doing some calculations on this. You'd think that with 3.5 meters you could do better than a few kilometers, wouldn't you? Is something wrong with their telescope? I don't know what wavelength they're
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by kragen 1y ago
No, definitely not, not in Montana. Maybe in France or Vietnam.
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by kragen 1y ago
What homelessness problem? I have a house, don't I?
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by kragen 1y ago
Damn right. Keep yer damn laws off my exocortex!
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by kragen 1y ago
I used units(1): : yeso; units Currency exchange rates from FloatRates (USD base) on 2025-10-06 3749 units, 113 prefixes, 120 nonlinear units You have: 2 arcsin(earthradius/moondist) Unknown unit 'arcsin&#x
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by kragen 1y ago
These are good and important points, and I'd add that the rapid churn in the software ecosystem, especially in the Python world, further undermines the ideal of reproducibility, both at the most basic PDF level of "Can I see the v
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by kragen 1y ago
It's just sort of anachronistic. Caml was no more designed by people deep in Linux life than James Clerk Maxwell was into aviation or Christopher Columbus liked to visit the Massachusetts Bay Colony. They probably would have been, bu
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by kragen 1y ago
1 degree and 54 minutes, it turns out. Amazing when you think about that, isn't it?
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by kragen 1y ago
Hey, thanks!
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by kragen 1y ago
The entire HF band, including the parts already used for something, is only 27 MHz of bandwidth, it's full of noise, and at any given time only a fraction of it can propagate to the other side of the world, dependent on time of day and
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by kragen 1y ago
I don't think this is correct. Drills use "universal" motors which don't care if they're running on AC or DC, because 60Hz AC motors are limited to 3600rpm, which isn't nearly fast enough for a drill, and also
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by kragen 1y ago
No, only for about a minute or two. But there are a lot of lithium-ion batteries capable of 10C discharge rates which can survive several minutes of max load. For 100 amps I am guessing you'd need 10 amp-hours of 10C-capable lithium-
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by kragen 1y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Sorry I didn't see it until now. People do install electric night storage heaters in existing housing, and this is just an especially cheap recipe for one. I don't think it would take much more space, al
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by kragen 1y ago
This is a towed light artillery piece, like the Gatling, not a heavy small firearm: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ametralladora_Maxim#/media/Arc... Later versions did become more portable, but the Maxim was a
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by kragen 1y ago
Thermal energy storage solves the problem of cooking and washing. I have a half-liter thermos bottle that leaks about 0.3 watts at ΔT ≈ 50° (635g of water dropped from 71.9° to 69.8° over five hours and 8 minutes), so any power supply avera
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by kragen 1y ago
I mean, the set of valid deforestation transformations you could do to an OCaml program is not literally the empty set, but OCaml functions can do I/O, update refs, and throw exceptions, as well as failing to terminate, so you would
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by kragen 1y ago
Diana Merry, Lorinda Cherry, Fran Allen, Lynn Conway, Grace Hopper. There were numerous smaller contributors as well; my friend Ann Hardy, for example, had to rewrite the OS for her cloud computing startup from the ground up to get it to b
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by kragen 1y ago
That sounds like "Cocaine seems innocuous to me—it's a party drug, like strychnine." It's hard to imagine a historical myth about personal computing more harmful than the myth that it was invented by a man who spent hi
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by kragen 1y ago
I think you mean it would not dethrone Dr. Gatling, whose contraption did indeed automatically remove spent shells, which illustrates just how fuzzy these questions of attribution are.

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