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by myth2018 6y ago
My two cents in addition to lebuffon's reply: The occasional amateur gear is usually not enough to demodulate signals from Mars, since they're too faint. You'd need much larger dishes to, roughly speaking, "ingest"
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That's a good question. I don't know how to estimate, but it might be around the thousands in fact. Most of active hams are more interested on making short contacts and exchanging call signs. Scientific and technical experimentati
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Indeed, but there are other important factors besides size. DSN have way bigger requirements in terms of signal to noise ratios, since they need to demodulate received signals. Scott Tilley, on the other hand, seems to be mainly interested
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Those 60 cm are probably enough for his requirements. It seems that he's mainly interested on detecting signal presence, but not necessarily demodulating it. Then, I suppose that the signal-to-noise ratio provided by his small dish is
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I have no hands-on experience with homemade equipment for the GHz bands, but I've read that they are a bit less challenging than it seems at a first glance. Mostly because of the availability of GPS receivers providing highly stable, r
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Wow, I'm a ham radio operator and today during Perseverance landing I was wondering if it would be possible to receive signals from orbiters on Mars using homemade equipment. Now I have my answer.
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+1 here. I already had a background on electronics and, lucky me, I burnt no parallel ports. When I joined the university I met a guy who built amateur solid motor rockets and I designed and built a prototype atmospheric probe for it. It me
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by myth2018 6y ago
Not yet. I'll talk to my doctor. Thanks for the advice. Regular cardio makes me feel "functional" most of the time and I see some advantage on not taking this sort of medicine. But it would be nice to have some "fail ove
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I'm on a very similar position. I found my ADHD out just about a year ago. After failing in many areas and going through a divorce, I can see some light at the end of the tunnel now. Here's what is working well for me: - reducing
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Indeed. Things that make life worth living and, when they lack for too long, you start to ask, after all, what is the point of all that hard work.
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Lol sounds so familiar. I use Rico, in Brazil.
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I know, but here I'm talking about a decades-old broker which targeted intermediate and professional investors since forever. Besides, nothing prevented them from offering an alternate, more amateur-friendly platform, without turning t
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> "because simplicity" And a very flawed interpretation of "simplicity" btw. What is the point of creating an interface containing the bare minimum of buttons if that will lead users to spend more time to perform what
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Indeed. And they should listen to the actual users and product managers as well (assuming product managers know the use cases very well). Instead, so many UX designers behave like "they knew better". That perfectly describes what
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My stock broker have recently redesigned their systems to provide us "an improved experience". Except that, besides removing some functionality existent in the previous platform, the new one doesn't allow you any longer to la
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Indeed. I'd never realized the power of keyboard strokes buffering
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Those are good points. And that's why I'm such a big fan of simple, as-much-text-based-as-possible interfaces. By self-imposing a decrease in her degrees of freedom, one gets fewer things compounding the probably already high proj
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> And in terms of performance I fear slow, ad-filled websites slowly trained users to accept bad performance in applications outside the browser as well. At least I don't know how to otherwise explain the widespread indifference tow
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Indeed. I'd also mention a small experiment I often do. If you have the opportunity of visiting a company still using COBOL, Clipper or some other text mode software, ask their users for an opinion on those old systems compared to the
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It's also worth mentioning that the misconception of thinking UX as being solely related to aesthetics is getting dangerously more and more common, even among professionals referring to themselves as UX designers. Aesthetics is importa
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of such mode. I'll check it out
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I use it regularly, mostly to reading articles on news websites which are getting more and more cluttered with heavy video-based ads and all sorts of garbage. But I used to use it more often. Some years ago I worked mostly on a terminal win
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Actually at least Carmack did. Why would vocalizing that be dumb? It's actually not a matter of perceived capabilities, but of concrete results, and, in the case of those guys, there aren't plenty of room for discussion on this re
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> What does John Carmack not know? As of 2014, relational databases. https://mobile.twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/457916010234...
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That's unfortunate and I've been basically in the same position of yours. I've written here already about some issues I faced. In my case, I've lost all my savings and much more, but I'll not compare my situation to
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Diplomacy, Science and maybe Aviation. I believe that the entire world would benefit if Esperanto were adopted as lingua franca in these three fields, especially in Science. It's hard for the members of the "linguistic status quo&
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I think simplicity doesn't necessarily mean having less widgets on the screen. If, by removing widgets, those interfaces are making you to perform more steps and to think more to find and execute the functionality you need, then I&#x27
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I often see the second law being broken by the first (or a misinterpretation of it): in the eagerness to make the site look beautiful, the designer make it slow, either deliberately with animations, either inadvertently by increasing load t
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I can't see other way than entirely forbid drugstores from having loyalty/rewards programs based on personal identification. They would be allowed to ask for your information when buying through app/web, but could never give
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Thanks!

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