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by teraflop 5y ago
AFAIK, in the US it is technically illegal to transmit with a Baofeng radio in any way without a license. Even if you program it to only use the FRS/GMRS frequencies, it is not properly FCC certified as a device that is legal for use o
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by teraflop 5y ago
Yeah, but the faster speed of light through vacuum can still be enough to make up for the longer path. Back-of-the-envelope calculation: at an altitude of 550km and minimum elevation of 25 degrees above the horizon, a single Starlink hop co
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by teraflop 5y ago
I tried this process twice in the past two years. Despite providing them with the original PayPal receipt and transaction ID, and still having control of the original email address that the receipt was sent to, and even knowing the original
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by teraflop 5y ago
I read it as a playful joke that isn't necessarily poking fun at anybody. Is changing pronouns really any weirder than assuming a secret identity?
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by teraflop 5y ago
AFAIK there are no restrictions on who can use the IRS's Free Fillable Forms, though there are a few fairly obscure forms it doesn't support. https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...
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by teraflop 5y ago
> For example is strong consistency really necessary for tweets? Do you really need to see a followers latest tweet instantly? The problem is that "strong consistency" basically means your system behaves in predictable ways tha
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by teraflop 5y ago
Via SF&F Stack Exchange, a short story from 1990 with a similar premise: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/260530/ai-controll...
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by teraflop 5y ago
Nobody's saying a massless neutrino would be incapable of carrying energy. Here's how I understand it: If a neutrino has no rest mass, there would be a variety of ways in which the decay energy could be distributed, with some
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by teraflop 5y ago
Presumably the parent commenter meant "8 billionths", not "one 8-billionth".
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by teraflop 5y ago
Here's another way to put this into perspective: Photons carry momentum, although it's too small to be perceptible under ordinary circumstances. If a typical photon of sunlight hits an oxygen molecule in the Earth's atmospher
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by teraflop 5y ago
Not quite the same style, but I enjoyed "Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes". https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/dialogue.html
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by teraflop 5y ago
As the article says at the beginning, this is intended for per-CPU data structures, not shared ones. For example, buffer pools where you don't care exactly which pool a given thread takes its buffers from, but you do care about maxim
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by teraflop 5y ago
You might be thinking of the old Google Currents, which was a completely different product (a "digital newsstand" app) with the same name.
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by teraflop 5y ago
As usual, take headlines about inflation with a grain of salt. Yes, the year-over-year inflation reached a new peak. But the month-over-month inflation rate has actually been declining since last October: https://www.bls.gov&
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by teraflop 5y ago
That's a good idea. I'll have to try that if I can ever manage to get a hold of a human being again.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Same here, except I did manage to find the original transaction ID, and they still wouldn't give me access to my account. They acknowledged (after several months' wait time) that the ID was correct, but they claim the account
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by teraflop 5y ago
That infographic is a very simplified view of a complex subject. Here's a more detailed overview: https://www.spaceacademy.net.au/watch/debris/orblife.htm Bear in mind that Starlink is much lighter and "
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by teraflop 5y ago
Would you say the Senate Intelligence Committee report, which was released by a committee of 8 Republicans and 7 Democrats, and which found that: > Russian intelligence services' assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral p
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by teraflop 5y ago
There are JDK Enhancement Proposals that discuss the encapsulation of these internal APIs, including some examples and alternatives: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260 https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/
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by teraflop 5y ago
The same way you can receive/transmit a 5GHz wifi signal using devices running at a fraction of that clock rate: most of the critical high-frequency signal processing happens using analog electronics. The actual sample rate of the digi
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by teraflop 5y ago
Even under the GDPR, the right to be forgotten is not absolute or unconditional. If a person revokes consent for their personal data to be used, the data must be deleted if "there is no other legal ground for the processing". Bu
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by teraflop 5y ago
I'm sincerely baffled by how many people seem to feel that the exact order of operations in this situation makes a big difference. Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that Young really did say "get rid of Rogan or I'
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by teraflop 5y ago
Reddit is much more usable with the "old" version of the site, which you can set as the default in your preferences. Frankly, I'm continually amazed that they haven't killed it off yet, but for now it's a big improv
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by teraflop 5y ago
Off the top of my head, I can think of a couple of things it tests for: * Ability to reflect on and critique their own ideas, using technical common-sense. If someone has never had a reason to research or think too hard about how GPS works,
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by teraflop 5y ago
Given that Tesla's default strategy when confronted with defects is to deny and deflect, why would they want to pay their software developers to build systems that reliably collect evidence of defects?
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by teraflop 5y ago
Probably worth adding that you can already buy essentially the same thing, except powered by a hand crank, for $15-20 on Amazon.
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by teraflop 5y ago
At first glance that looks impressive, but if you look at it more carefully, it has a lot of bugs and half-implemented functionality. So I don't think it's lifted verbatim, unless the source is a pretty poor student assignment or
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by teraflop 5y ago
I don't know if it's "on purpose", but that's a correct result of how the animations are defined in the CSS, not a browser bug. The stylesheet defines a single set of animation keyframes going from top to bottom at
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by teraflop 5y ago
Now you've got me curious which came first, "paste" or "zip". Python's zip function was added in PEP 201 [1], which credits the Haskell 98 report with the name. The same function appears in all prior versions o
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by teraflop 5y ago
I dutifully entered everything they asked for, because, you know, they're Equifax and they undoubtedly have it already. Then they said I needed a "verification code" and gave me the option of half a dozen phone numbers and em

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