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by topspin 2y ago
It's different for everyone. For me, ten years ago, I got interested in quadcopters back when making them yourself was the norm. There is a lot of radio involved, especially at long range. That sent me down the rabbit hole. There is
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by topspin 2y ago
> Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world. Those people all over the world are still there. Every day. The airwaves are full. Yesterday I was han
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by topspin 2y ago
They offer a huge catalog of low cost equipment. Some of it is very popular and much of it is pretty niche. Quality is occasionally an issue: you buy their stuff with expectations commensurate to the price or you risk being disappointed.
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by topspin 3y ago
> How would routing be done without source/destination? There is still a source/destination address. Routing still works. But those addresses are allowed to change without disrupting the connection because the connection isn&
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by topspin 3y ago
While it is the case, by design and typically by regulation, that brakes have more braking force on paper than the engine and drivetrain can produce, in the real world it is not so straightforward. ICE engines have active heat rejection and
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by topspin 3y ago
Ironically stealth may change that. Aircraft that can't see each other at long range due to stealth will tend to wind up in close proximity.
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by topspin 3y ago
Certainly an emblematic first world problem. No actual problems left in your world? Make one!
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by topspin 3y ago
Almost certainly yes. It's entirely possible to make frequent cycling reliable, but it costs more. Higher cost is bad when the decision process is essentially "sort by price and pick the lowest."
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by topspin 3y ago
> efficiently return a list of things that the current user has permission to access I've done this with out-of-the-box Keycloak Authorization Services. There is an entire standards based framework for authorization piggy-backed on
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by topspin 3y ago
Looks to me like we're in violent agreement. The aircraft weren't deployed to counter drones, which would be foolish, but other possible threats. What drone plinking they did was kinetic diplomacy: the first real news about the
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by topspin 3y ago
That's not an good tactic for a number of reasons. The attack involved a lot of drones. Hundreds. Dealing with hundreds of drones with manned fighter aircraft is dubious and possibly a terrible mistake: committing and exposing high v
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by topspin 3y ago
It's about 1000 km from the western border of Iran to Tel Aviv. A Shahed 136 cruises around 185 km/h. Roughly 5.5 hours. Now, we can't know yet exactly what sort of drones Iran is using here, or exactly from where they we l
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by topspin 3y ago
> given that google is the source of the internet's dependency on advertisements I remember the internet before Google. There were lots of ads. It was great watching animated GIF ads load at 56 Kbps. There were pop-up adds and cr
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by topspin 3y ago
100BASE-T marked the transition from Cat 3 to Cat 5, and a lot of sites were actually still making use of coax. That was necessary but was an impediment because it meant a high cost of adoption. This coincided with the fact that, at the t
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by topspin 3y ago
We should be able to answer this pretty accurately today, with all the language model work happening.
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by topspin 3y ago
Subsidizing and augmenting demand. The State Department grants about 500,000 F-1s every year. COVID curtailed that a little, but the numbers have since recovered.
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by topspin 3y ago
Thanks for the useful explanation. Despite another comment claiming this was "common" in the US, I've been on a number of ISPs in the US and never seen PPPoE used at all. Had no idea this was still going on. On fiber even!
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by topspin 3y ago
I associate PPPoE with dial up modems. What is the use case of this today? Also, PPPoE has been around for a quarter century: why hasn't FreeBSD delivered on it? And how is a single thread not enough to fill a broadband pipe? So man
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by topspin 3y ago
That's the buyer seeking growth, even if only to shut the bought down, yielding relative growth. Big fish eat little fish. That's the universe talking, as opposed to whatever ideology you prefer to blame. The "solution&quot
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by topspin 3y ago
That's a pithy, vivid snarkonym I suppose; 10/10. The reality is that things don't exist in a vacuum: competitors exist and one of the best defenses against competitors is growth. Growth provides affordances, such as ample
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by topspin 3y ago
That is a legitimate strategy. It's being done in many products, often with SQLite or similar embedded databases, synchronized between devices and backend systems. It has the wonderful property that some fault of one database does no
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by topspin 3y ago
> but I'm one or two problems away Been there. You are not alone.
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by topspin 3y ago
Precision frequency synthesizers. Also, how to deal with the annual crop of leaves on a few acres of woods.
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by topspin 3y ago
No need for that. While it's possible to point out particular "performance" car CVTs that do indeed compromise efficiency for aesthetics, that's not done in most cases, at least not to the degree that efficiency is sign
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by topspin 3y ago
> way outside what the FCC permits Confirmed. And yet it has an FCC ID from early 2023... https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/XBPUV-K5
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by topspin 3y ago
Another comment points out the inevitability of this technology appearing in weapons long before any sort of passenger aircraft. So the likely marketing reason is a bit of gaslighting to avoid "issues" with some investors.
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by topspin 3y ago
> Needs a beefier CPU and more memory The MCU is $0.21 at quantity on Alibaba. Make it a whole $0.50 and they'd really have something. Kind of a shame.
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by topspin 3y ago
Weird that the term "drone" is used for what is plainly a missile.
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by topspin 3y ago
Supposedly "state officials" shot down bumpers on cost. They made a bet and it turns out that they've won: Biden has committed to paying the entire cost of replacement[1]. Instead of investing in bridge defense to protect a
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by topspin 3y ago
> Were the naysayers saying 2.4GHz was impossible at all, or were they saying in a normal setting? The naysayers, even if they aren't strawmen, weren't "saying" anything of note. There aren't any mysteries or qu

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