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by paulirwin 6y ago
I appreciate your respectful skepticism. It is entirely possible that the supplements contained significantly more than on the label. However, I'd like to point out that the generally recommended dose for supplements is only 800IU in a
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by paulirwin 6y ago
There is another important pair, too: Vitamin D and Magnesium. But consult your doctor before taking extra amounts of anything. There is a lot of misinformation on the web around Vitamin D, such as that even high amounts (>= 5000IU) are
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by paulirwin 6y ago
I believe you're supposed to use Native Messaging for that: https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Sorry for the late response. Yes you're correct, 50W max on that band, at least in the US. I was replying to a person referring to FT8 on the HF bands where the max power is 1500W. 73
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by paulirwin 6y ago
Also, if you are having to touch your face a lot while wearing a mask, you have the wrong mask. I wear one to the grocery store and after an initial adjustment I don't usually have to touch it again.
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Thanks! I guess I had been misinformed on that. I was also probably thinking of the RemoteFX stuff, like GPU and media redirection: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RemoteFX
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by paulirwin 7y ago
As far as connecting to existing sessions goes, yes, RDP is closer to VNC to X11. In that respect only though: you can't also simultaneously use the same session locally unlike with VNC. However, as far as the actual implementation goe
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by paulirwin 7y ago
100W FT8 bothers you? There are people pumping 1500W on FT8. I would get the sentiment on WSPR though. I run 100W, and I'm rarely picked up above -7dB. Some of us have to given our QTH, antenna, and where we're trying to reach. No
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by paulirwin 7y ago
This should probably be the HN link to the original source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/04/0... From the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a post re
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by paulirwin 7y ago
I'm sure I'm not 100% accurate on the numbers here because I don't feel like finding the receipts, but close enough. Here's another anecdote from the US. My dog has a pulmonary condition that requires him to take Sildena
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by paulirwin 7y ago
At AM radio frequencies, most of the radio waves are reflected back to earth or absorbed in the ionosphere. Same concept as how amateur radio HF/MF propagation allows individuals to communicate with people around the world, past the ho
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by paulirwin 7y ago
I believe pretty much any outside of the amateur bands that you're able to get appropriately licensed for. I know the commercial "business band" can be encrypted, ISM low-power bands can be encrypted (i.e. the same band WiFi
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by paulirwin 7y ago
I started with a $25 RTL-SDR v3 kit that includes two antennas (for VHF and UHF, approximately). That allowed me to listen in on 2m and 70cm band repeaters, and familiarize myself with the language, etiquette, modes, etc. I recommend that t
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by paulirwin 7y ago
You may use it for personal communications, but others can hear/see/decode what you're saying/sending. I hear people on 2m repeaters talk with their spouses about going to the grocery store all the time, but the point is
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Identification is of course there to ensure accountability. But actually, as you learn with the exams, identifying yourself makes you less likely to get punished (i.e. with an FCC fine) if you're operating in good faith. If you'
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by paulirwin 7y ago
How times have changed. You can now get a two port (S11/S21) battery-powered color touchscreen NanoVNA vector network analyzer that can do Smith charts, SWR, and all kinds of other things for under $40. I use one to analyze ham radio a
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by paulirwin 7y ago
I am excited about the potential of EV trucks and a Tesla truck especially. Absolutely I'll consider it once it's reviewed well and it actually ships. After the Model 3 situation I'm not going to put down a deposit or anythin
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Hi, F-350 owner here. My wife and I's other car is a Prius. In addition to woodworking and desiring a truck bed for that, we tow a camper with which we can boondock (dry/off-grid camp) via solar power. I purchase carbon offset cre
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by paulirwin 7y ago
It also might be a result of the pattern matching proposal having only been introduced this year, and concurrency/coroutines having been a focus in C++20 already. Whereas compile-time programming has been discussed for a while now and
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Even as a C++ amateur I didn't find it as a meaty or intimidating proposal, rather it was refreshingly brief. If you understand that constexpr functions can be evaluated at either run time or compile time, it makes sense that asm isn&#
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Lucene is still great today for smaller indexes that can entirely fit in memory and can be indexed quickly on app startup. Think something like searching for a setting in Windows 10 settings, or if you had some other fixed, small data set t
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Another anecdote: a friend recently had a stroke and was unable to use his phone or computer for many months. I'm sure his grieving, caregiving family members were not thinking about the ToS specifics of his social media accounts to ma
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by paulirwin 7y ago
There usually isn't activity on dead people's accounts that are memorialized. I'd be incredibly heartbroken if someone took my deceased younger brother's accounts because he's "inactive".
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Typically companies add production in Brazil solely for selling to Brazil, due to their protectionist tariffs.
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by paulirwin 7y ago
I've learned to take Amazon reviews, especially those where there's a high likelihood of user error such as this case, with a giant grain of salt :-)
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by paulirwin 7y ago
You still have 3+ years until free security support runs out in 2023. But that said, check out this QOTOM fanless unit that has 4 Intel NICs with a Celeron J1900 64-bit processor. I can attest that it works great as a home/SMB router w
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Note that 460 Wh/kg is the density of the electrode, not the cell as a whole which given the aqueous electrolyte would be less but still higher than existing technologies. However, the key point is not just the density, but the density
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by paulirwin 7y ago
> as they see fit They're doing this in the open through the W3C WICG process [1]. They're not doing this as they see fit. > for their own purposes. Open standards are available for anyone to use and benefit from. That they
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by paulirwin 7y ago
Having attended an ISO C++ meeting and hearing the very constructive dialogue between the various compiler teams and vendors, I am not that pessimistic. I believe they are trying to prove that they can be interoperable with other implementa
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by paulirwin 8y ago
It could still download it as normal, but show a warning at the end after it computes the hash and compares. Just like getting around a bad HTTPS cert, the browser could allow you to say "I know what I'm doing". Edit: To clar

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