cfraenkel

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by cfraenkel 3mo ago
You should save the exaggerated euphemisms for your audiophile subreddits. "square waves pressed on to vinyl" just proves you have no clue of the physics to an HN audience.
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by cfraenkel 8mo ago
Re thumb vs finger control. RSI researcher once told me "Which could you live without, a finger or your right thumb?"
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by cfraenkel 8mo ago
You think you do. The issue is it's just about impossible to isolate translation from rotation. You would always be doing just a little rotating every time you touched the ball, whether you wanted to or not. And any time you tried &
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by cfraenkel 9mo ago
Just because one corp does something x bad, it means some other corp is ok to do something 10x bad? There's a huge difference between a utility scale power plant (you know, with things like tall chimneys) and "truck mounted"
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by cfraenkel 9mo ago
Also works in Firefox (144.0.2) / MacOS (10.15)
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by cfraenkel 9mo ago
"There will come soft rains" Ray Bradbury
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by cfraenkel 10mo ago
>Photos cannot be rare BS. Only if you pedantically define 'photo' as collecting an image at xyz location at a particular instant. I'm quite certain that photos of the Eiffel Tower are NOT rare.
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by cfraenkel 10mo ago
This article might point to a way: https://neuburger.substack.com/p/cities-panic-over-having-to...
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by cfraenkel 10mo ago
FYI, on this android tablet (android v12 / FF 144.0.2), the 'start typing a book title...' field doesn't do anything. On the Mac, it brings up a list of matches to select from.
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by cfraenkel 11mo ago
A long time ago, worked on a comm satellite program. It used a whack of tuned cans to combine high powered transmit signals with harmonics in each others' frequency bands to feed into the antenna. I once asked how they worked. The a
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by cfraenkel 11mo ago
Orbital and escape velocities??? The elevator is sitting over a stationary spot... it's moving at earth's rotational velocity. Only the portion above the GEO anchor is moving at orbital velocity.
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by cfraenkel 1y ago
Not really? "I imagine Pepys used Shelton’s Shorthand because he had to take copious notes of Navy Board meetings and take official government minutes." Since the diary (and so his shorthand use) pre-dates his appointment to the
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by cfraenkel 1y ago
To begin with, airplanes do fall out of they sky, sometimes right on your backup generator. (speaking from military experience where yes, there is an entire backup studio waiting to take over, just in case. Or rather, the 'studio&#x2
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
An aspect missing from the article and comments here is that magnesium is also available as a topical application. I have some in a spray that I can apply to my knees before bed, we also get some from a local source in a cream base for ma
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Sure there is. It's called single payer. There's no way to fix this with the current layers of middlemen milking profits from what should be a public utility.
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Checklists are great! Until TPTB decide everything should be a checklist, and then that everyone needs to be trained to the checklist and no more than that, and then start punishing any deviation from said checklists, and the all the newbie
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
You obviously didn't live through it, or you wouldn't be spouting such offensive, naive nonsense. How many working class families do you know that can afford to buy economically significant amounts of T-bills, as opposed to, you
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
If you only want to see what you want to see, it's easy to find evidence. On the other hand, look at the commonly posted wages vs productivity graphs (productivity goes up pretty much unbroken, but wages flatline since roughly mid-70
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Off the top of my head: Shannon, Nyquist, Hamming. Lapping them you say.
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Economics, and the Powell Memo, followed by Milton Friedman and the Phillips curve and trickle down and Reaganomics, to start with.
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
It was spin stabilized. A stuck relay would have just created equal thrust all the way around the spin - ie the thrust would cancel out to zero. This design required thrusters that fired for very short intervals at a given delay after th
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Define early. And it does not include this vehicle. I can't personally speak for Skynet 1A, but the DSCS II satellites, first launched in 1971 (so developed at roughly the same time), most definitely had an encrypted command uplink.
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Interesting enough read, but the post title is misleading. It was hardly a gift, it was an estate tax payment. Not everyone is a greedy narcissist only out for themselves!
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
*Dead* satellites are supposed to be boosted into a graveyard orbit so they don't clutter up the neighbourhood for everyone else. Of course if it just fails, and can't be commanded there's not much anyone can do, but that
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Oh come on... there's lots of reasons. Understanding where the money goes. How much are you spending on dining out each month? How much does your car cost when you add it all up at the end of the year? It's easy to fool oursel
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Um, except that the article is about a trademark. Mickey (the Paraguayan company) isn't printing comics or producing cartoons, so how would copyright apply? (as your linked article from duke.edu explicitly explains)
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
And also made missions at least 3X more expensive..... It wasn't just the on-paper launch costs. Everything had to be man-rated, meaning, among many other things, everything that operated during the launch had to be triple redundant,
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
All these other comments should just go read the book, it's worth it and a good, if horrifying read. What 'no mechanism' above means is that for many decades the SIOP consisted of 'launch everything'. The only way
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Of course the command and control uplink is encrypted. Always have been. All military satellite tt&c uplinks are encrypted. (Commercial as well, almost certainly, I just don't have personal knowledge.)
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by cfraenkel 2y ago
Design constraints aren't an issue for prototype runs, since you'll have the same constraints for the production mold. Actually, now that I'm writing this out.... the constraints issue is a plus, since it's a dry run

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