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by lb1lf 7y ago
That it can, but IIRC it does so by relaxing the timing constraints and halving the number of slots in each channel. Still leaves them with the interesting problem of the satellite necessarily seeing a lot of handsets at the same time; meth
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Same goes for Berlin[0] - where the eastern districts are still predominantly sodium-lit, whereas whiter lights are used in the western part. [0] https://www.citymetric.com/horizons/you-can-see-berlin-s-eas... Edit: As
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by lb1lf 7y ago
When in university, I took part in a CUBEsat effort. I brought the mechanical assembly -no electronics, just the aluminium structure- of our satellite to CalPoly for a CUBEsat workshop; on the way back to Europe I found out the hard way tha
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Oh, we've got one like that, too! (In Aalesund, Norway) - Kongens gate 10b[0]. It measures 294cm towards the street - 9ft 8in. At one point there was a store selling neckties on the ground floor. :) [0] https://www.flickr.co
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough, Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evol
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-The slavery bit I referred to is perhaps more accurately described as forced labour; the concept being that crewing agencies of the unscrupulous type trawl the countryside recruiting crew for offshore fisheries; the crew then have their ID
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Indeed it is; he looks into various shady aspects of the marine industry - rogue fisheries, shipping, waste dumping, slavery &c - a grim read by anyone's standards. On a related, but lighter note, the memoirs of Max Hardberger (Mar
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by lb1lf 7y ago
The crew are (were) paid by a crewing agency, typically providing a crew to the charterer, who finds a ship from some shipowner or other to offer freight services to commercial clients. The shipowner is invariably located in a PO Box in a j
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by lb1lf 7y ago
The crew won't know; they are supplied by a crewing agency acting on behalf of the charterer acting on behalf of &c. Really - it is quite common for mariners not to know who the owner is.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I can, to some extent, do this in my phone banking app; I can update region/type of transaction/maximum amount; my bank even lets me have whitelists ('No card-not-present transactions outside EU, except renewal of magazine s
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> I definitely have Bank of America notify me when I do something out of the ordinary. -And such routines are incredibly efficient; while commissioning one of our deliveries (heavy engineering equipment) in Namibia a few years ago, I fou
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Toyota is rather conservative with regards to new technology, which IMHO is part of the reason they tend to score very well on all kinds of reliability barometers. (An almost fanatical devotion to quality and process control being another
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-That is a very valid point. And, of course, they should all obey the same rules (well, traffic regulations being one, but also how they handle the unexpected - it would be a tough sell for a manufacturer who rather damaged the vehicle than
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by lb1lf 7y ago
This. I try to maintain a TBR (to be read) shelf or two at home, comprising a few dozen titles, both fiction and prose. The reasoning is that I'd rather have a choice when picking up the next book, rather than just having to read the l
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Yes, automated systems will also do unpredictable things - the point I was (poorly, as it were) trying to make was that the mix of autopilots and humans are likely to create new problems; without being able to dig it out now, I remember a s
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by lb1lf 7y ago
It isn't the SOLE action for L5 to be feasible, but I believe it is a REQUIRED action. (Emphasis added not to insinuate you'd need it, but rather to show, well, my emphasis. :)) For the foreseeable future, there's simply too
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> I fail to see the point of autopilot at all if you're supposed to be able to correct it at any instant in real-world driving conditions. -The cynic in me suggests we need autopilot as a testbed on the way to the holy grail of Leve
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> I believe every car manufacturer has a disclaimer that the autopilot can only be used as an assist. That the driver needs to keep his eyes on the road, and ready to intervene at any given time. -This is the scariest bit, IMHO. Basicall
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-For me, two main reasons, none of which relate to the perceived superiority of the vinyl format - a) In recent years, it has been a trend that the vinyl masters suffer from less compression than their digital counterparts. Hence, they may
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by lb1lf 7y ago
Also, you have countries that do not exist anymore; Norwegian author Bjørn Berge published a book (Since translated into English with the title 'Nowherelands') in which he briefly sketches the circumstances that brought countries
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I no longer collect stamps, but surely there are countries in which (some) stamps are still made to a very high standard? While the Norwegian Post have also catered more and more to collectors than to the actual use of their stamps for the
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-In Norway, they one-upped that - the (now defunct) Røros copper mines operated for more than 300 years, and the spoil dumps from the processing are quite the sight [0] Rather than tidying them up, though, they were put on the UNESCO world
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-Perhaps a stupid question, but wouldn't that UI live and thrive inside a Win98 VM? (I am cursed by the instrumentation gods - I have to keep all sorts of late-paleolithic configuration software running to support the ditto hardware we
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by lb1lf 7y ago
-I had the same problem - too many cameras - as there was a time when you could buy film cameras for a song. I have since pared down a bit (not sufficiently, though - the collector gene is strong in this one) - Nikon F (various bodies both
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I am in the very fortunate position that despite living way out in the boonies, I have a proper, brick-and-mortar record store of the High Fidelity kind within an hour's travel from home. Both the guys running it have an encyclopedic k
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by lb1lf 7y ago
This, this and this. I've consistently found my keeper ratio to be much higher when shooting film, as the memory cards are small and single-use only. That forces you to think your composition through, take an extra second or two to ens
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by lb1lf 7y ago
> ...truly rehabilitative is simply impossible -While comparing the US to Norway is a bit like comparing apples and oranges, I'd like to point out that our (vee-eery rehabilitation-oriented) correctional system does have one of the
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by lb1lf 7y ago
I believe Lucille Ball claimed she helped zero in on a Japanese spy during WW2 as her root filled teeth chattered with the morse code sent by the nearby clandestine transmitter. Just a tall story, of course.
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by lb1lf 7y ago
In Norway, if I remember correctly, these showed up late for the party. Everybody and their dog already had zip drives, and then LS120 shows up, media twice as expensive, not a LS120 drive to be seen. Good luck gaining traction. Then, of co
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by lb1lf 7y ago
When I was on a student budget, I mostly asked my lab tutor kindly if I could help myself to the parts stocked by my university - the lab people were so happy someone actually wanted to build something that I was basically given free acce

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