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by wkjagt 2y ago
Anecdotally, it's not just the size of the cars that makes them dangerous, it's the driving style of the people that buy them. When I look at how people drive in my area (a smaller town in Canada), it's very often the people
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I noticed this week that even Radioddity doesn't know it's not an acronym. "Whether you’re a first-time buyer or a seasoned HAM, we hope you’ll find our products, prices, content and resources to be just what you need."
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Old guys are amazing. They have a lot of knowledge and stories to share. I got into ham radio earlier this year, got my license too, and now learning CW (Morse). I've learned so much from these "old guys".
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Have you tried a QRM Eliminator? I haven't tried one myself yet, but I hear good things about them. Also, some really simple things can be really noisy. Cheap LED bulbs for example can be super noisy. I had one above my desk that was t
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Very fun stuff, and nice post. Reminds me of my 2048 game clone in Ruby in about 100 lines ( https://github.com/wkjagt/2048 ) And I just saw that I did this - oh god - 9 years ago. Time goes way too fast.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Maybe it's not for technical reasons. It would be easy technically to have them be interchangeable. But someone who just purchased a stamp, and got one with a 0 or an 0, might worry about it not being delivered because their 0 might be
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by wkjagt 2y ago
Computers were still something special back then. I miss that too.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I can't help but feeling a little sad about single use electronics. Not even from an environmental perspective (though there's that too) but just the fact that there's some pretty cool electronics, doing digital and analog st
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I don't remember reading any of the manuals of any of the games I played as a kid in the 80s. I don't even remember seeing them. I just remember putting the game in the console as quickly as possible and figuring it out.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
That's still the title of the actual post. I like it though.
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by wkjagt 2y ago
I feel that I am very sensitive to "translations sounding like translations". A feeling of "that isn't quite how a native person would say that, but I can't really identify what's wrong". My mother tongue
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Driving around at night in a somewhat low car (1993 Miata in my case) has become increasingly unpleasant because trucks are getting higher and headlights are getting brighter. On most trucks on the road today, the headlights are at eye leve
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Something similar is true for street lights. We recently got LED street lights. And while they're brighter than the old ones, what bothers me more is that they're not diffused. If I accidentally look at one, I keep seeing the indi
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This reminds me of a really cool video on superheterodyne receivers that Technology Connections did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz_mMLhUinw
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I read "AM is quite easy" as "AM demodulation is quite easy".
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Not that it matters much, but it seems to be somewhat unclear who came up with the idea for the superheterodyne receiver first. Could be Armstrong, or Lévy, or even Schottky. The patent in the US was eventually awarded to Lévy. Armstrong de
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I have two degrees but don’t think I’m very smart. I’m actually pretty slow at understanding certain things. I have one big quality though that really helped, and still helps me get through complex things: I can get really really obsessed w
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by wkjagt 3y ago
This is very cool. I’ve been looking at VNAs to start making my own antennas for my Meshtastic devices.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
But like in Mario Kart, you can now easily pass them.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
If you’re referring to the shells in Mario Kart, then you should also try the lightning bolt :-) When it hits someone’s kart, they shrink down and slow down, and their engine noise becomes high pitched.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Oh this looks really nice. Thanks for sharing!
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I would use that too, for sure! I kind of feel like experimenting with this now. I have no idea how doable it is to just "start scraping the web" though. uBlock Origin is open source, so I guess that could be used to help filter o
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Valid point, but there was something charming and innocent about "the welcome to my website" that I miss.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
> If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of those old sites would surface. Maybe using an ad blocker to build a list of "websites that serve ads" (in addition to domains those ads are served from), and using that
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I love the comparison with gentrification. It’s not the same though. You can still see the old web untouched, it’s just almost impossible to find. But if you do find it, you don’t see the gentrification. Maybe it’s more like Rome being surr
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by wkjagt 3y ago
42 hex in decimal is 66!
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by wkjagt 3y ago
When did we stop explicitly welcoming people to websites (literally: “welcome to my website!”) . The same era that “going on the internet” was an actual activity. I miss that. It’s like we all stopped being excited by the web.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to filter out the noise of the “modern web” by black listing big tech the same way we block ads. Might be an interesting project.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
I guess the bigger impact is when gaming, which is when there is sound, and you're touching the screen.
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by wkjagt 3y ago
Google "My car is allergic to vanilla ice cream". I can only find rehashes of it, not the actual source, so I didn't link to it, but the basic story is easy to find.

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