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by signaturefish 6y ago
That /is/ how "we" do it with trains. The difference is that long-distance truckers generally live in their cabs for weeks on end, so they can't easily hand it off to another driver.
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by signaturefish 6y ago
Wow, that's a stronger signal than I thought. Maybe I'll give it a go with a whip the next time the ISS passes over me.
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by signaturefish 6y ago
I believe you can hit it with an HT, although the Youtube videos I've seen of doing it have been an HT with a hand-held Yagi cabled in in place of the usual whip antenna. A resonant dipole would probably pick it up - as others have sai
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by signaturefish 6y ago
Agreed. It's absolutely reasonable for a politician (for example) to get into power and discover that for some reason they can't do the thing they promised to do, but I'd love it if they'd just briefly say so and why, ra
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by signaturefish 7y ago
737-Max's problem started in the engines, from an informed outsider's perspective (it was an attempt to graft an engine with too large a nacelle to an aging airframe design). The sensor failure precipitated the crash, but it was
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by signaturefish 7y ago
I believe Godot is still lacking an ads component, yes - it's an open-source game engine, and ads aren't really a priority for the development team. Which, of course, means there's a gap in the market for an easy-to-use capa
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by signaturefish 7y ago
Re the "physical space" argument, battery-electric systems tend to come up a /lot/ heavier than an equivalent ICE drivetrain as I understand it, and are in different places in the vehicle. The engine/motor becomes
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by signaturefish 8y ago
With the exception that she died a year ago :( I do like her work, though - her metabooks (writing about the process of writing fiction) are quite good, and her translation of the Tao Te Ching is really well done.
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by signaturefish 8y ago
Engineering logbooks are a great idea (and electronic/mechanical engineers have been doing it for a while - because it works!). I use a spiralbound notebook and a fountain pen for mine, because I find the change of tools helps me to th
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by signaturefish 8y ago
The problem for the Land Rovers is not that they can't handle the weight of all the infantry gear, it's that they can't handle the weight of their modernisation package. They're soft-skinned light fast patrol vehicles, o
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by signaturefish 8y ago
The original paper is at [ https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fbioe.2018.0016... ]. I haven't read it yet, but it looks like interesting stuff: TMR always felt like a stepping stone to somewhere els