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by topspin 11y ago
Except the history hasn't been one where Venezuelans merely `tighten belts' and struggle through. The last time this happened (suddenly raising gas prices because the financial gears have finally stripped) under Pérez the Caracaz
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by topspin 11y ago
"The cynic in me thinks that this letter is more about brand image." The cynic in me agrees. My cynic also notes the sudden indifference to corporate power publicly defying a federal judge. I cynically believe that if the shoote
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by topspin 11y ago
The definitive source of amateur radio literature is the ARRL. You can learn about licensing and efficiently practice the current test material at hamstudy.org.
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by topspin 11y ago
David Rowe is creating fully open digital voice hardware, including a TDMA repeater system. He presented his latest work at linux.conf.au 2016 and it is pretty amazing. Worth learning about even if you aren't into radio: Open Source
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by topspin 11y ago
We're getting beyond my depth here, but a few things occur to me. First, I know microwaves `work'; the optimal frequency at which water exhibits the skin effect is about 10GHz, so at 2.45GHz the energy from a microwave oven penet
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by topspin 11y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a doctor or burn expert of any sort. I am an extra class ham. An RF burn will penetrate more deeply than a "conventional" burn of similar degree, possibly burning nerve cells, circulatory and other structure
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by topspin 11y ago
He's still doing live coding sessions on Twitch. Nothing has been released yet. Despite that there is already at least one comprehensive Jai language tutorial that I've seen and also syntax highlighting rules for at least one ed
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by topspin 11y ago
The path can only be so 'hot'... any given cryptographic operation using the artifacts maintained by this `keyring' system will be many orders of magnitude greater than an overflow check on allocation, hardware support or not
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by topspin 11y ago
Right, so the new check recipients will be people that were otherwise capable of sustaining themselves, as those who aren't are already accommodated. I suspect that the 'human capital' liberated by basic income will mostly f
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by topspin 11y ago
You would think that, but that doesn't appear to be the case. There are a plethora of GoPro clones available now. I count over 50 distinct brands offered via Amazon Prime and hundreds of models filling the spectrum. The "action
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by topspin 11y ago
Postgrest deviates from some REST URL conventions that REST users are familiar with. As an example, one very common convention gives each item a distinct path with the 'id' (the primary key of some table, typically) as the last p
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by topspin 11y ago
The Khmer Rouge also indulged notions of racial and ethnic `purity' as they persecuted Chinese, Vietnamese and others. Shall we imagine the Khmer Rouge was also some heretofore unrecognized manifestation of `fascism'? Attempts t
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by topspin 11y ago
I would know nothing of this person or his views but for the concise, image/video free list of hyperlinks+descriptions I frequent on Hacker News. Ironic.
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by topspin 11y ago
This is correct, but ambiguous. What, exactly, was the reason? The 90's client-server model involved fragile, proprietary stacks of non-portable client software and proprietary protocols. That model would have you "install"
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by topspin 11y ago
Watched someone via GoToMeeting try to use 2.0 yesterday on a Windows server. They couldn't start capture on the interface; start button grey'd out with no explanation. Installed the older version (1.12.8) and it worked perfectl
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by topspin 11y ago
Well I suppose if there were an "anti-liberal" that hadn't yet evacuated Flint they would blame the exclusively Democrat government for their obviously malfaisant administration of the Flint water supply.
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by topspin 11y ago
"Comey believes..." Comey is the emptiest suit I've ever seen testify before Congress. Comey is told by his handlers what he should claim to believe and otherwise he carefully avoids believing anything. At one point today he
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by topspin 11y ago
> India has such a coal shortage they are making a pivot faster than many people think to Solar and Nuclear. I'm sorry but those claims are so far out of phase with reality I have to respond. India's response to coal supply pr
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by topspin 11y ago
Culture? Hmm. Maybe. These highly ordered, dense and costly neighborhoods are hostile. Anxiety is high among residence. Remove that and replace it with a degree of liberty, some space and the need to collaborate to keep the road open a
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by topspin 11y ago
Well that's 100% out of phase with my experience. I just ended 21 years in the "Front Range" area; Boulder, Fort Collins CO. Bike trails and bikers abound, anti-car municipal governments impeding road development, everyone
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by topspin 11y ago
It does make sense to talk about C and C++ together like this. The fact is that writing high performance systems software means using systems interfaces, and until there is a portable interface that doesn't imply the use of malloc, po