wildzzz

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by wildzzz 2y ago
An old coworker used to work on what is basically a Stingray for air platforms with some sort of directional finding capability. Presumably, you'd strap it to a drone and fly it over villages where you suspect bad guys are. Do this eve
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by wildzzz 2y ago
It was probably getting picked up by some component in a microwave transmitter and getting mixed into the signal.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Several overweight men stand up and walk towards the cabin, immediately throwing off the weight distribution and the plane plummets.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
That's cute, it sounds like a little Cessna
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Obama wasn't necessarily anti-gay marriage, but like most liberals at the time (and like liberals for most issues), was sitting somewhere in the middle. He was in support of civil unions which would grant legal rights to gay partnershi
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Companies are less shy about paying for recurring licenses because it's easier for them. No need to worry about keeping track of a perpetual license that a former employee purchased or having too many unused seats for a network license
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Anything that tries to hide the unsubscribe link or makes it especially difficult to unsubscribe, not only gets unsubscribed from, but also gets marked as spam by me in Gmail. I'm guessing that not only does Gmail filter spam by conten
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by wildzzz 2y ago
The Unsubscribe links are so good now because all of those newsletters use the same handful of email marketing services. It's pretty much impossible to run your own email marketing campaign without them, you'll get sent right to e
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by wildzzz 2y ago
You wouldn't want to make something that can stand on its own and actually get complete the mission. How would you afford an army of Agile developers with inflated salaries constantly churning out code that solves problems that don&#x2
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by wildzzz 2y ago
One downside of using non-rad hard parts is degradation from TID (gamma) and latch up effects. You can have chips monitoring other chips to reset whenever they latch up but TID is mostly permanent. The good thing is that TID in LEO, where S
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by wildzzz 2y ago
I spent 2 semesters covering controls and I barely felt like I learned anything.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Montana is still legal apparently but I'm sure cops could write you a ticket for the infractions you commit while on your phone, just not for the phone itself.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
"Inspect Element" didn't exist at the time so it worked out great.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
You're thinking about taking commercial parts and screening them for radiation tolerance rather than building parts from the ground up to be radiation hardened. Sometimes a vendor gets lucky and the chip has a pretty decent radiation t
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Ternary is the right word. Ternary numbers or logic have 0,1,2 or true, false, and something else. Ternary functions just have three arguments that could be binary logic, similar to a second order polynomial. Ternary comes from the Latin ro
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Because there are certain things that you just learn with that hand because it's traditional. My wife usually uses her mouse in the right hand but she actually prefers using it left handed.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
For me, eating and writing are the few things I'm only good at doing left handed. Knives are left handed as well. Scissor use is always right handed since most scissors are right handed, using left hand scissors is hard for me. Sports
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by wildzzz 2y ago
They do get a per diem for incidentals but no overtime or any extra duty pay for being in space. This astronaut said it was only an extra $1.20/day. Meals and lodging are provided for so maybe that's deducted from the standard gov
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by wildzzz 2y ago
I remember disabling right click on a geocities site I built for my friends to show off their hand-drawn comics. Another guy in our 4th grade class was rehosting our comics on his geocities so I disabled right click.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
TI basic was pretty frustrating. The best thing I made was a program to calculate default WEP keys for Verizon routers based on the SSID. Converting bases was only possible by recreating all alphabet strings and then indexing those and doin
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by wildzzz 2y ago
You still need the photons to hit the surface of the object and deposit their energy. Talking about the temperature of the surface of the sun is just a simpler way to refer to the energy output. What you are saying is a very high level view
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by wildzzz 2y ago
2mW would require about 1.5m² of area. I could maybe see this being used to pull a little bit of energy out of a room to charge batteries or capacitors to run sensors or other low power devices in short bursts. But you could harvest more po
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by wildzzz 2y ago
The only 100% safe method is to not do the illegal activity at all. There's always a risk/rewards analysis to be performed when committing any act that could have negative consequences whether you're playing the stock market
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by wildzzz 2y ago
I worked at a help desk one summer and every inbox had a different sound effect. We had several different external customers each with a dedicated machine to handle their tickets. The most critical customers (i.e. the biggest fines) got the
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Can you define "designer"? That means so many things in different fields. Like are you a web designer who knows stuff like React? A mechanical designer that would have a mechanical engineering background? Or a graphic designer tha
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by wildzzz 2y ago
The Pinecil nor TS100 definitely do not take 3.5mm jack tips but I see that the TS80 does. Thanks, never seen that before. I still don't trust putting 100W through it though!
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Just because a crime is especially egregious doesn't mean that the accused is more guilty than any other crime. I fail to see why a rape-murder should give the accused less time to prove their innocence than just a regular murder or ra
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by wildzzz 2y ago
Why retain it as a potential punishment if the burden of proof to obtain it is impossible? There's always a chance the evidence is objectively incomplete and even if they confess, there's always a chance they were coerced. Putting
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by wildzzz 2y ago
That's the great thing about such a simple design, you can actually sit down with pen and paper and verify operations.
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by wildzzz 2y ago
We do something similar at my job for the greybeards that were very influential on our current projects. They "retire" but are retained as a very part time employee that only get paid if we need to bring them in for a day or two t

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