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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I'm also on 9.69.1 but I think my problem is that I'm running Android 5.0.1... Not sure why the options would differ between OS versions though.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
How? Everyone says there is an option under "Notifications" but I only see "People & places" and "Ride services".
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Disregarding the privacy issues, I find this to also be insanely annoying. I want notifications to be important. Not a bunch of spam that ultimately equates to advertising.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
The current system appears to vastly under represent the young and poor and over represent the elderly. The politicians exist to represent everyone's interests so any statistical disconnect undermines the system.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
More to the point, it takes time to notice, track, lock and (in some cases) get approval to fire. That gives you seconds to minutes to not only fire but for the missile to reach the intercept point. Missiles and radar tend to operate in a
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Patents be damned, I use that in KSP from time to time. Can I claim prior art? If you're on a level orbit and you fly off to the moon, adjusting with a tiny bit of inclination so that instead of nearing the moon on the same plane but
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
OP appears to be one of their engineers. Flagged...
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Come to Colorado. Formerly the apex of flyover real estate. Now the location of million dollar 2000sqft houses. I see maps from as late as a decade ago with nothing on them where whole cities now exist.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I agree that it's a huge fluff piece. That said, I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with setting up shop overseas like this. They're not going there and trashing the place, first and foremost. Money is be
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I can't imagine an inverted deployment at 100' would end well...
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
No, worse. That thing would turn into the tumble dryer from hell with partial power. It has no blade pitch control (like a helicopter does), requiring power on the motors in all four corners to maintain stability. The real emergency situa
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
IIRC CBDR is not really in the FAA PPL curriculum at all. I only recall a quick mention from my CFI when I went through it. It's much more heavily emphasized to military pilots as missiles are designed to predict an impact point and
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
So when will chips with a fix in silicon be available?
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Crazy theory, but their stock very steadily this year and a lot of retail investors probably had short positions that they've been holding as a result. Lets say they threw this whole thing together betting that it would cause a bump i
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
You don't need any 10x PhDs. You need some competent, well paid QA devs to go over the product and make sure the obvious stuff is working before you ship. I've heard of a bunch of companies cutting QA staff in the past year or
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. The FAA-NTSB-NASA relationship doing the same thing works extremely well in the aerospace sector. The FAA creates the rules, NTSB investigates accidents and NASA handles "near miss" reporting, all worki
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
This is a really interesting point you bring up. I think the issue is that we look at air travel as inherently risky and as such want to do everything to reduce risk. Over the past 100 years we've come to deeply understand risk manage
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Trump calls for US Postal Service to raise Amazon's shipping rates(washingtonpost.com)
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
The last one kinda got overrun with trolls and people with strong differences of opinions, as did the Obama-social media post. Yesterday was weird...
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Sorry to hijack this, but referring to your other comment, I also saw weird stuff going on today with posts getting flagged. Seems the bots and trolls have found our corner of the internet as well... Not sure what's going on exactly.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Sure, but that's on the receiver side for carrier recovery. Wouldn't it be problematic if you mashed a bunch of channels/allocations sufficiently close together that they started wandering on top of each other?
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
There's also the limitation of oscillator precision IIRC. 1ppm deviation is 1hz at 1mhz and 1khz at 1ghz
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Keep in mind that comparing bandwidth between bands that are very far apart isn't super useful. You can easily select down to fractions of 1khz at 1mhz but not at 2.4ghz so 1.1mhz of bandwidth means something different at UHF vs HF&#x
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Digital takes up less bandwidth per channel than FM. This allows the government to resell the frequency allocations. This is what happened with analog broadcast TV in the US.
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
To add to this, the closing speeds are so fast that you would need to detonate explosives far in advance for anything to happen anywhere near the target. If you detonate at the usual anti-aircraft distances (a few meters), the time it take
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I wouldn't say that there's no evidence of this behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG We also have a fair amount of evidence that there have been attempts in china to implement hardware back-do
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
What I really want is a macbook air form factor laptop with nothing but a battery, a keyboard and a screen that has a slot where the touchpad would be for a phone. Use the phone for storage, cpu and touchpad with the extra screen area and
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
I don't really understand. Do you mean cell site simulators (IMSI catchers?) interfering with aircraft or flying the simulators on aircraft to broaden their reach? In the latter case, they would (I'm assuming) be flown with prope
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
There are no FAA regulations regarding phones/electronic devices other than a blanket rule that you can only enable them with the permission of the captain. The rules regarding cellphone use on planes is from the FCC. They don't
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by pdelbarba 9y ago
Go in the editor and you can set units to "player" and "playable", playable meaning you can then switch to them in game from the map menu under I think "team".

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