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by rkangel 4y ago
Wifi is improving now. Newer standards like Wifi 6 are doing that basically by taking the good ideas from LTE (4G) and applying them to Wifi. The cellular radio community has been much better about evolving standards, coming up with new tec
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by rkangel 4y ago
<goes and checks press-releases to remember which bits I can talk about...> It's basically LTE in the 2.4 GHz band, with a load of extra bits for beam forming, coping with speed and distance etc. Using the 2.4 GHz band allows the
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by rkangel 4y ago
There's a new air-to-ground provider though: https://smartskynetworks.com/connectivity/ (I worked on this technology)
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by rkangel 4y ago
Just because charges don't get brought doesn't mean that you didn't commit a crime. I don't know how I could possibly get one but I'd love to read an independent comparison of this sort of behaviour between US opera
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by rkangel 4y ago
You've just asserted that it's stochastic with no basis. It could easily be (and in fact is much more likely to be) a periodic operation that leaks memory. This sort of analysis is completely normal in software. E.g. in safety cri
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by rkangel 4y ago
Disclaimer: not a backend or web engineer, I mostly write embedded software, but inevitably need to implement services from time to time (and had a startup at one point) My response is "yes but what about databases". There are any
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by rkangel 4y ago
Thank you for this clarification - this is what I was missing too.
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by rkangel 4y ago
This is a helpful post because I have exactly that case and no idea what that slot was for! It's a fantastic case.
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by rkangel 4y ago
Horizontal form factor might solve the 'at rest' problem, but the moment you pick up the case to move it somewhere (even still while horizontal) the socket it going to be under load. We really need a solution that supports the car
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by rkangel 4y ago
For outdoor use electrically heated clothing also has another great benefit - it broadens the useful temperature range of the clothing that you're wearing. I fly an open cockpit aircraft (an Autogyro). In the winter months I wear a sof
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by rkangel 4y ago
The on-air duration of an NFL game is actually closest to 3 hours. It's 2 to 2.5 hours when shown without ads. The NFL GamePass service that you can subscribe to (how I mostly watch the NFL from outside the US) offers 'Game in 40
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by rkangel 4y ago
If you watch an NFL game on Sky there are a load of breaks where they cut to a UK analysis crew. Every single one of those is an ad break that they have in the US but not in the UK. Sky does still has ads, but clearly far far fewer than the
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by rkangel 4y ago
Yes. When people write `time.time()` they almost always actually want `time.monotonic()`.
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by rkangel 4y ago
Context: I'm a consultant, in that I work for a company that does product and technology development for others (Cambridge Consultants, in the UK). I'm a generalist embedded software engineer by background, although I studied elec
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by rkangel 4y ago
Is there any reason this is installed manually and not in the Firefox addons store?
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by rkangel 4y ago
It's actually https://numbr.dev
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by rkangel 4y ago
I am 99% in agreement with everything you said, so of course I'm going to focus on the 1%! If you have a 4 line stanza that needs a comment to explain what it's doing then I'd suggest that needs breaking out into a function s
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by rkangel 4y ago
This is a phenomenon called risk compensation. The Wikipedia article ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation ) covers the mechanism well, but misses one important thing - in every study that was ever done, the
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think that crypto-currencies as a fairly direct replacement for traditional currencies is probably not the future. I don't think it's a 'fad', but I think it'll settle into a niche position in the long term. The u
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by rkangel 4y ago
Given you talked about "facilities" I would assume that you were talking about a professional environment, so assuming an adult seems fine to me. Whether man has been correct and standard usage in the past is fairly irrelevant. Pe
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by rkangel 4y ago
I'm interested in Pijul and the theory I've read about the patches model makes sense but I'm still looking for an answer to my standard question on Pijul: "What real world situation does git barf at that Pijul would hand
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by rkangel 4y ago
I think there's hostility on both sides here. "Could you clarify a few things?" is one thing, but "I don't think the story adds up" is a direct accusation of lying.
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by rkangel 4y ago
Presumably because it gets tested with those sites and the JS doesn't change that much it can be fixed or adjusted as required.
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by rkangel 4y ago
This is the compiler writer equivalent of parsing HTML with regex: It is technically wrong - it isn't a sufficiently rich and powerful approach to handle all JS (HTML) that you might throw at it. It'll work for a while until it ev
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by rkangel 4y ago
You are obviously correct that the more value this tool has, the more work bad actors will do to take advantage of that, reducing the quality of the result. However, I do think Reddit is more resistant to it than some other platforms due to
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by rkangel 4y ago
The important thing to remember, it's just a sequence of bits (and if that's a multiple of 8 then you can look at it as a sequence of bytes instead). Byte boundaries are just a way of looking at the result. You get the bits in the
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by rkangel 4y ago
The correct answer to this is actually "syntax error" because your `0xFFOO:15` has got two letter O's in it and anyway 0xFF00 isn't valid erlang (no hex literals). If you mean this equivalent bit of Elixir, then I got it
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by rkangel 4y ago
I work for a consultancy in the UK. Occasionally someone leaves us to join a client. Our contracts with our clients prevent "solicitation" i.e. trying to encourage some to leave us to join them. In practice we never use those clau
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by rkangel 4y ago
There is a difference between "allowing it" and "allowing it secretly without your knowledge". There are issues of confidentiality (and potentially NDAs and therefore IP issues) and possibly issues of export depending wh
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by rkangel 4y ago
Maybe my memory is fuzzy, but I don't remember Flash being used for apps . It got used for video playing and games mostly, as well as unnecessary animation on restaurant/hotel websites. The occasional enterprise app used it, but

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