adamtj

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by adamtj 6y ago
It is allowed to used an encrypted connection to administer a remote repeater, like for amateur satellites. Only the control link may be encrypted. The repeated signals may not, just like any other amateur transmissions.
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by adamtj 6y ago
Radio spectrum is a limited and shared resource. It makes sense that it's licensed and regulated. But compared to other parts of the spectrum, the license is cheap and easy to get and the regulations are minimal. It's a public
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by adamtj 6y ago
How close will this be to being able to resolve starspots on something other than our sun?
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by adamtj 6y ago
Get a 3M respirator with the appropriate filters for handling lead. When finished, wash up with Hygenall Lead-Off.
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by adamtj 7y ago
That's not hard to imagine. Quick, what's 1/3 of a meter? The sometimes problem with metric is it's base-10. The prime factors of 10 are 2 and 5. Feet are in base-12, which has the prime factors 2 and 3. Three is mu
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by adamtj 8y ago
Probably all of it.
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by adamtj 8y ago
In his essay "Gramscian Damage", ESR explains what he sees as the source of our ideas about cultural relativity. http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260
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by adamtj 8y ago
I believe you are under a mistaken assumption. It's never ok to kill the suspect. Still, one can be justified in using lethal force. It's a very subtle distinction. You never shoot to kill. That's simply murder. You sho
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by adamtj 8y ago
Are the police not able to run away? No, not really. To threaten somebody with deadly force is a felony. You or I would have a duty to run away if possible. A police officer has a duty to apprehend the suspect. What if the officers ran
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by adamtj 9y ago
Websites are like salespeople and the police: they can and will use your data against you. The first time I was told about Strava, I immediately dismissed it as useless. (After all, what service could they possibly provide when I'm un
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by adamtj 11y ago
I'm told that the US military uses the phrase "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."
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by adamtj 11y ago
She, not he. The gang member in this case is a woman. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Pearson
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by adamtj 11y ago
See also, "The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction" http://engineering.linkedin.com/distributed-systems/log-what... https://news.ycombinat
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by adamtj 11y ago
When you don't know what a word means, the best place to start looking is usually a dictionary. For example, Merriam-Webster's definition 3: a small or inferior remnant or offshoot; especially : a group (as a parliament)
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by adamtj 11y ago
If you are unprepared for a meeting, who's fault is that? There are different kinds of meetings. You need know what kind one is before you agree to attend. If it's a decision meeting, then you need to do your silent reflection b
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by adamtj 11y ago
The fix isn't quite right. It may technically produce correct output now , but it's sloppy. The sloppy code is brittle and dangerous and perfect food for bugs, but that's a minor problem. After all, a single mistake or a
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by adamtj 11y ago
Should hackers actually kill somebody, I struggle to find a reason why the relevant automotive engineers and their managers shouldn't be charged and convicted of negligent homicide, or worse. After all, somebody had to make the decisi
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by adamtj 11y ago
Pedagogy? No, this article is written in that modern style of popular non-fiction which is meant to entertain above all other concerns, including such silly things as pedagogy, clarity, rigor, or sometimes even factual correctness. This st
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by adamtj 11y ago
Or, perhaps planets able to support civilization are relatively rare, and the few civilizations dumb enough to loudly broadcast their presence soon get exterminated when their planets are colonized.
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by adamtj 11y ago
Intentionally or not, the author has cherry-picked the data in a way that completely undermines the article. The conclusion that "lives are at stake" is obviously true and supported by the data, but the implication that the US ha
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by adamtj 11y ago
This is a conversation with Andy Weir about Elon Musk, among other topics.
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by adamtj 11y ago
I don't understand the purpose of these extreme licenses. If you don't want to restrict the usage of your software in any way, why not place it in the public domain? As I understand it, the point of owning something is to restric
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by adamtj 11y ago
> O(length of string) per step The big win here is not that it's as fast as the optimal algorithm (it's not), but that it's nearly as fast and vastly simpler. You're technically right that the given code is O(n^2), bu
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by adamtj 11y ago
A MITM can easily spoof IP addresses. You can't trust unsigned data, and IP address headers aren't signed. You also can't trust signed data if you don't trust the signature. That's the real problem here. This who
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by adamtj 11y ago
Even if a MITM can intercept HTTP requests to your server, they still can't hijack your registration attempt. The real problem is that if somebody can intercept your HTTP traffic, they can register their own account key. After all, th
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by adamtj 11y ago
> but may be (much) smaller. The suffix array is already very small. It doesn't store the full suffixes, just the numbers. It's basically a list of pointers with one pointer for each character in the input data. The characte
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by adamtj 11y ago
This might be one of those situations where the simplest and cheapest way to figure out if something will work for you is to just try it for a bit. You can always stop, but right now you're at risk of data loss. Perfect is the enemy
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by adamtj 11y ago
What the article describes is real science. That makes her a scientist. She's also does acupuncture, which makes her a pseudo-scientist. The two aren't mutually exclusive, and here is a person who is both. That's the real
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by adamtj 11y ago
Surprisingly, I think your heuristic may have failed this time! Acupunture is pseudoscience and you would normally be right to disregard it, but in this case what Gokhale does for her day job seems entirely irrelevant. This is an article
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by adamtj 11y ago
Can you give some examples of problems you've solved?

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