lexicalscope

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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I think this might be part of the issue though - I saw another article about this plan that said people often _don't_ try to contribute because their welfare benefits are subject to them not doing certain things. For instance - you get
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I find this amusing because I'm generally suspicious of sites that don't include some form of reference to wherever the information was retrieved - perhaps a habit from when I did more stuff in academia. Things don't exist in
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I think that's his point - he doesn't want a license to protect this, at the end he even explicitly states in spite of this he won't change his process - he just wishes people wouldn't be jerks about this kind of thing.
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I actually was thinking that the graceful degrade was how it was implemented initially and was about to write it off until I got to that part. Interesting. At this point I still don't buy that Apple is doing this to hold things back. D
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I've seen some of the enforcement actions - on a first offense they often just give you a stern warning unless it's clear you were doing it willfully and maliciously (interfering with a company's communications because you ha
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I've actually said a few times I think it's a bad ruling - I'm just not practically impacted by it :). That said though I think being alarmist about it does not help the cause - it makes people less likely to actually listen
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Yeah - it sucks and this FCC rules is concerning, but not as concerning as I initially thought it was. Don't get me wrong - I think this is a stupid rule, but I just don't think it's as big a deal as the article, and title in
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I actually completely agree with you on this - what they're proposing is going to stifle a lot of wireless hacking and will be overall harmful to try to avoid what is probably already at best a marginal problem. Most people that overpo
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Good call - similar to how you load firmware for Wifi using a blob a lot of the time. But for a lot of advocates of this they still might not be okay with this as they don't want any blobs. Which I can get, but even more reason it&#x2
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I agree - but this rules doesn't apply to anything except SDR and modular systems that are also consumer devices - which are not most consumer devices. That said - I am not condoning the FCC policy at all - I'm actually against it
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I still think it's kind of alarmist, but I can see your point of view as well. My goal was not to be better than their explanations, but only to summarize why I think they're being alarmist - I agree it's a topic worthy of di
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Agreed - they're more concerned about transmission, which is part of why they have more strict requirements around scanners to try a lot harder to avoid this.
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Depends on the licensing/certification of the device - for consumer equipment (particularly scanners) it's required, for certain experimental and test equipment it is not. EDIT: I think this happened in 1994 - google "cell bl
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
But the FCC regulates a great deal of equipment, and this is only targeting a very specific subset of that equipment - not all of it. I was initially pretty concerned as I'm a Ham radio operator, but this really does not concern me ove
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I disagree - saying they might ban operating systems, with no context, leaves out the fact they're only talking about modular radio systems or software defined radio systems. Edit: also to be clear, as another comment pointed out, this
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
This is because this is entirely intended for software defined radio and modular radio - around which the entire point is the RF component does not contain as much signal processing logic, and that is done in software. Restricting software
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
As I recall, they got around this by not being FCC licensed - in other words, HackRF is classified as a kit/developer component, and is not legal to operate unless you hold an independent license from FCC (e.g.: if you're a Ham yo
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
This is already done in scanners to prevent scanning cellular frequencies as required by FCC regs.
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
You can make it difficult and very hard in practice through antenna and component design in the case of small internal radios - in radios with external antennas it becomes a great deal harder though, and in radios that are open for modifica
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
This title is kind of click-bait - they aren't prohibiting operating systems, they _might_ be prohibiting installation of operating systems that are not approved on certain types of devices that allow software defined radio - that is,
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
I've heard various things about how this software is written, but in short generally there should be failsafes. I don't know where you live - but I know where I live at least a buddy that worked on writing the control software tol
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
My favorite gem from that link is this quote (Linus signs a post where he apologizes for flaming Tanenbaum) 'Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds' Oh how hopeful we are when young ;)
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
As long as it isn't actually getting worse I would agree. If it gets worse, you should get help (in your case as well :P).
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
It's weird like that. It's like at first the thoughts move wonderfully, like you're in the flow you get programming, but all the time. Then they move faster, and faster, and faster, and suddenly your brain is more chaos than
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
You may have a less severe variant of bipolar disorder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclothymia . If it doesn't impact your life though, it isn't a pathology, it's probably fine. If it starts to seriou
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Mania is not something you want to experience daily, or on a routine basis. It is not fun. It is _powerful_. It is being absolutely certain of everything you are, everything you think, everything you know. It is knowing that everything you
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Anecdotally, many people I know who also have bipolar disorder (I have bipolar II) are also successful and by most measures very intelligent. It would be interesting to see a comparison of rates of bipolar individuals by industry - of cours
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
The dismissive attitude towards proofs and apparent disregard for the important distinctions between "proofs" and "arguments" is kind of upsetting. It's an interesting paper, but it's hard for me to get past th
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
That makes sense - thanks for clarifying.
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by lexicalscope 11y ago
Thanks for this. This is a bit misleading though I think, as you can actually unwrap and ST unlike an IO - my most common use for ST is actually to use a mutable object in a case where it's inefficient to keep copying immutable (e.g.:

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