mNovak

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by mNovak 6y ago
Agreed. I think free tier user limits (where appropriate) are much better than trial periods for evaluation. I'm busy, and if it's not mission critical, evaluating this piece of software may not be the only thing on my to-do list;
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by mNovak 6y ago
Sounds very cool. Curious to know your thoughts on offloading data from the satellites - 9x resolution sounds a whole lot like 9x the data. Is this challenging, or also easier since you're low altitude? Are you building up your own gro
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by mNovak 6y ago
It's generally harder to keep drones aloft 24/7 though. Also then subject to more stringent airspace laws.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Would have been very cool when I was starting out, hope to see this concept grow.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Vet care and pet products generally have been a target of private equity lately. Of course so has private (human) practice.
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by mNovak 6y ago
At a minimum it's unnecessarily vague--hardware is far too broad when it's really just microprocessors. For that matter, in the way they use it, "programming hardware" applies to all code that runs on a computer. Anyway,
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by mNovak 6y ago
Deer seem to be a problem everywhere. In the US midwest they're all over the place.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Not to play into the metaphor, but that feels a little like saying every brand of cigarettes is dangerous, why should Marlboro take heat? Sure, it may not literally kill you, but I think a lot of people agree that ubiquitous data harvesting
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by mNovak 6y ago
Thanks for the detailed info. I had read once that some large animals (e.g. blue whales) have surprisingly little cancer.. any idea why this is the case? Or is it just the rarity of us testing large animals for cancer?
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by mNovak 6y ago
That's funny, I remember this being a popular facebook group 10 years ago, alongside the "7 degrees of separation official experiment"
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by mNovak 6y ago
I guess I'm curious to understand who has the money and motivation but not risk to spend $1M on stolen data?
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by mNovak 6y ago
The latter I think is being underrated as a major contributing factor.. fear of retribution and all that.
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by mNovak 6y ago
At a glance, plenty of people storming the capital look to be pretty young, so there's clearly cross-generational effect happening. Actually, I worry about this new generation of whatever the "alt-right" turned into since 201
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by mNovak 6y ago
I don't think that's true. Trump's base is rural and suburban, white, non-college educated [1]. While income isn't listed here, that does not align with typical wealth distributions. [1] https://www.pewresearc
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by mNovak 6y ago
Is it just me, or does the pictured drone shell look 3d printed? There is for sure money to be made for any (ABCA based) company to sell minorly tweaked clones of popular consumer drones.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Operating nearby to helicopters may be feasible
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by mNovak 6y ago
Packaged 'apps' to run in the cloud. Rather than everyone selling a SaaS which they're just hosting on AWS anyway, they should just have a one-click install of an instance to my personal AWS. There's really no reason it
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by mNovak 6y ago
If you're on android, Google very much has your contacts and who you communicate with, where you go to eat and where you call for pickup, and your interests via search and gmail...
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by mNovak 6y ago
25-30% doesn't strike me as a very small subset to be regular purchasers! That's a huge amount of people.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Small point, but the idea here is not using additional spectrum, the antenna design lends (in their analysis) up 29dB added link budget. For a more intuitive example, that's roughly the equivalent of pointing a satellite dish at your p
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by mNovak 6y ago
This reminds me of the Rockwell Retro Encabulator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w&t=1s
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by mNovak 6y ago
Do you have a reference for the half-duplex note? That would seem a waste given that they already have FDMA. Also most satcom applications are full duplex.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Based on the teardown, it's impossible to tell; again largely comes down to what their ICs are capable of. But based on the patents, and what I've heard unofficially, it does support 2 simultaneous beams. The point of that isn&#x2
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by mNovak 6y ago
As an antenna engineer working on phased arrays, I find the claim that reducing the physical size directly reduces manufacturing cost by an order of magnitude laughable. As if the plastic radome or PCB factors into the cost at all. The cost
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by mNovak 6y ago
Those are the bands designated by ITU / FCC for everyone else as well. To change them would cause big interference problems for existing systems.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Minor thing, but I'd make the 'Premium', 'Pro' etc labels of the pricing table clickable. Bottom of the page felt somewhat unintuitive for the only signup link. Not sure if this is in-scope, but I noticed the link o
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by mNovak 6y ago
You should check out the new CMMC requirements -- basically a new set of basic cyber security requirements for all DoD suppliers, starting next year. It's heavily based on the NIST guidelines, so strong on 2FA, and discourages arbitrar
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by mNovak 6y ago
In their simple example of a website hit-counter, can someone explain how you would aggregate batches of 50 requests to amortize compute costs? I thought the whole point of the DB is to store information between disparate requests?
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by mNovak 6y ago
I think they're saying we've come to expect SpaceX rockets to successfully land, so much so that one not doing so is noteworthy. Something nigh unfathomable 10yrs ago
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by mNovak 6y ago
Hint, you've got one in your kitchen

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