adrianpike

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by adrianpike 6d ago
Recursive Self Improvement
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by adrianpike 5mo ago
Depends on the item and if you and the military are optimizing for the same thing It's a lowest bidder situation, so keep that in mind. Mil-spec transport containers? Excellent. Mil-spec rucksacks? Not so excellent.
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by adrianpike 5mo ago
We've done that at a few places I've been at - it's tricky because if the failure is too short its just annoying toil, but if it's too long there's risk of losing context and having to remember what the heck we were
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by adrianpike 5mo ago
There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ Maybe it's not operating as described yet?
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by adrianpike 8mo ago
Yes, with the caveat that you'll need decent line of sight to it.
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by adrianpike 10mo ago
Which adblocker are you currently using? The arms race is getting pretty tiring...
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by adrianpike 10mo ago
Yes and yes, we've used it for civilian Search & Rescue in tandem with CalTopo.
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by adrianpike 1y ago
We did sailing charters growing up and had one of these on the boat, I was in charge of it and the sound & feel of the CH-CHUNK is seared into my memories like nothing else. We never got any declines, but I always wondered how that reco
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by adrianpike 1y ago
Super neat - I did something similar on a lark to enable useful "web browsing" over 1200 baud packet - I have Starlink back at my camp but might be a few miles away, so as long as I can get line of sight I can Google up stuff, alb
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by adrianpike 1y ago
I guess you got me as either an easily nerd-sniped plebe or an Old — I use it in all my discourse when I'd normally take a speaking pause.
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by adrianpike 2y ago
Depending on your perspective, that's either very concerning or a great business opportunity for this decade's Heroku to enter the fray.
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by adrianpike 2y ago
This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to update when you tweak a data model, all you'll get is
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by adrianpike 2y ago
Same dream here - they work very interesting problems at very interesting scale, but I can see 3-4x the comp while working from anywhere? Not even a chance. I do sometimes fantasize about making a career shift when the cash comp isn't
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by adrianpike 2y ago
I'm also super excited to see more on this, it's been living rent free in my head for a long time. I played around with keypress extraction from sound recordings a couple decades ago in college, and it was remarkably straightforwa
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by adrianpike 2y ago
Those geostationary sats sound really interesting, but I've struggled to find any remotely modern tools or DB's to find visible sats - is there a current best of breed I can look at?
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by adrianpike 2y ago
I've also had my email posted in mailto's in a half dozen places for... a long time. I remember in the early 00's when I'd cargo cult the old "type the whole email out as adrian at adrianpike dot com" thing on
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by adrianpike 2y ago
Funny story, I wound up finding a bunch of my old Mac-formatted Zip disks a few months ago, and trying to extract data off of them was a wild, tangled mess of external SCSI enclosures, `ddrescue`, and then quick archiving it up onto the NAS
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by adrianpike 3y ago
The ones I've seen usually just spam the spectrum with noise, since it's easiest and totally effective, and there's no need for them be sneaky or clever with their emissions since it's very very rare the victim would hav
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by adrianpike 3y ago
I'd love to find any actual FEMA publications that back up some of the numbers and claims - so far to the best I can tell is it's mostly from interviews with the regional director, which, while valuable, isn't quite at the le
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by adrianpike 3y ago
Thanks for jumping in with your experience - every time the New Yorker article makes the rounds, I do a little light digging to try and find some sources the author based it on. Reading through some of Goldfinger's publications will he
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by adrianpike 3y ago
Freshwater availability is a big factor that swings in the PNW's favor.
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by adrianpike 3y ago
That New Yorker article goes viral every few years - it's a well written piece and spins a great yarn, but there's some significant hyperbole and it's sources don't quite back up the claims. Yes, a 9.x will be devastatin
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by adrianpike 3y ago
Oh hey, fellow Miku friend. I was _furious_ when they first announced their bankruptcy plan. We supposedly paid a hefty premium for hardware that enables onboard breathing monitoring, and suddenly they're pretending they have to ship i
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by adrianpike 3y ago
Early Hotline was amazing from a hacker community perspective - I ran a series of hotline servers off of dialup, and then was able to get some hardware on my high school campus and have a server on our T3 for all of a day or two before our
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by adrianpike 3y ago
I believe OP is speaking specifically to the IoT space, which is still a bit of a stretch - but slightly more accurate than the massive ARM dominance we're seeing elsewhere.
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by adrianpike 3y ago
I built a fun hack back in college that used a laser microphone to listen to keypresses - the timing and sound of which is relatively straightforward to extract letter pairing heuristics from, and from that, given some time, you can build p
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by adrianpike 3y ago
Yep, even the furthest spot in Wyoming in the Thorofare wilderness complex is something like 19 miles out from a road. One thing to keep in mind is that only a few miles over rugged terrain can be a _lot_. A few miles away from a remote for
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by adrianpike 4y ago
Both - the firearm has to be incredibly precise, but you also have to take into account wind and air density to get that much accuracy, and a big portion of marksmanship is accounting for those. Knowing that you'll have a temperature c
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by adrianpike 4y ago
Yeah, that was the rough plan, start with a pair of mics and triangulate out - I was hoping to iterate all the way up to a pair of laser microphones on different window panes, and on paper I think it should be all doable. I'd assume al
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by adrianpike 4y ago
Not this specific code, but I have done accoustic keyboard analysis in the past with success. The thing I wasn't able to get working was multiple keyboards in a single room - in theory it should be doable, but the signal processing was

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