jalgos_eminator

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by jalgos_eminator 8mo ago
Fascinating read, I had no idea they had digitized radar systems in the 1960's. Even though we look back on older systems as "outdated", "obsolete", "primitive", etc. the engineering behind them remains
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by jalgos_eminator 10mo ago
I've been travelling a lot the last 6 months and have really wanted to try out my SDR on the plane, but it looks so sketchy.
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by jalgos_eminator 1y ago
How does the computer restrict power? Is it just a lower rev limiter?
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by jalgos_eminator 2y ago
> So you're thinking about more and more corner cases, that require the stars to be just right for the size of systemd to matter. These weren't corner cases, they were everyday reality. We had to intentionally slim down the fi
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by jalgos_eminator 2y ago
OpenWRT doesn't use sysv init, it has something called procd (~120KB compressed). Its very reliable, and they have a large install base on mission critical devices. > And OpenWRT abandoned this goal. They have not. Individual dev
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by jalgos_eminator 2y ago
> So you couldn't spare around 1Mb of compressed flash or 2Mb of uncompressed flash for systemd? Absolutely not. > That hasn't been the case in quite some while These routers and APs still exist and are in use. Yes, they ar
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by jalgos_eminator 2y ago
OpenWRT is VERY sensitive to firmware size. I developed for a device with 16 MB flash that had both a normal (~11 MB) and recovery firmware (~3MB) on flash. The rest of flash was used for persistent storage, bootloaders, and calibration da
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by jalgos_eminator 3y ago
I wonder if there's anyone here that would know what would happen if this same ad were played on broadcast television? The public backlash would of course be bad, but I'm curious about FCC stuff. Seems like there's differen
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by jalgos_eminator 3y ago
How does Netflix make money? HBO Max? Apple TV? Amazon Prime Video? Google wants to have their cake and eat it too by having a "free" platform but also controlling exactly how people view it in their browser. If you want to ac
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by jalgos_eminator 3y ago
I could see the writing on the wall. Offerup I think does this. If you click through an item in a search the URL has a UID in it. Then if you click on the seller and find the item from there, its an integer (which is likely a database in
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
IBM has been on the decline for a while now: https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/IBM/ibm/revenue
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
>> The whole point of vim is that you change your mental model to become faster at editing text. > The whole point of vi and vim was to edit text visually, instead of as lines. My language was very imprecise here, I should know bet
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
> modal editing doesn’t really fit my mental model of how an editor should work The whole point of vim is that you change your mental model to become faster at editing text. People don't come into programming with a blank slate abo
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
vimtutor. It comes with the full vim install, at least in ubuntu. It will give you the basics, then afterward you can run :h <command> to see what the less used commands do.
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
That's part of the world in the dystopian movie "Anon" - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5397194/ You can replay any moment in your life that your eyes saw or your ears heard... but so can the governme
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
At least with motorcyclists its their own lives, not others like when car drivers speed excessively.
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
You laugh, but AMD did that in the mid-2000's with the Athlon XP series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_AMD_Athlon_XP_processo... The numbers used to match their clock speed (ex. Athlon 1000 was 1000 MHz),
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
Most people seem to mention using them as an adjustable wrench, but they've been most useful to me as parallel jaw pliers. Unlike with traditional pliers, you can positively hold things with flat parallel sides while you do some work
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
As a buyer, Ebay is still the place to find specialty used items. I've also bought some uncommon tools that were brand new (at full retail price) because I would rather not buy from Amazon. But the real reason you would use Ebay is
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
That's funny because when buying things from Craigslist I try to round the price to an even number since the transaction will always be cash and few people have enough small bills to make change. For instance if the asking is $125, I&#
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by jalgos_eminator 4y ago
The github change also messed up my workflow, which involves pulling/cloning my company's git repo from lots of machines, many of them being short lived or disposable. Now I have to save the password forced on me in a file becaus
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
They do that for all individuals, not just "at-risk" individuals.
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Yeah, I barely remember my dad buying a Saturn in the 90's and he bought a Tesla for similar reasons just before all this craziness started. I'm looking forward to buying a car in the next couple years since these sales models ha
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Its interesting you mention Destin from Smarter Every Day, because he always came off as a very earnest learner in his videos. Yeah, he's still putting on a show, but it does seem like he genuinely enjoys and revels in the things that
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
There's big demand for loud cars. You really only need a couple assholes per 100,000 population to buy them and hoon around late at night for it to be a public nuisance. This isn't going away until the government bans gas cars c
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Since most people here are just saying "old stuff", I'll throw in a product you can buy right now for reasonable money: Japanese made hand tools, specifically JIS screwdrivers. These are required if you work on Japanese moto
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
I have strategically picked my card and all I need is a major DNS provider and reddit to go down. Hopefully I get a real prize and not just my data being leaked. https://outage.bingo/?month=1&seed=69420
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
Absolutely not, unless you are going very slow (like bicycle speed). The wind noise even with a good helmet is deafening and well above OSHA limits for workplaces. I would never ride without earplugs if my trip was over 10 minutes or abov
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
When I hover over the link, Chromium shows " https://8.8.8.8 ". And when I manually typed in " http://010.010.010.010 ", it converts it to 8.8.8.8. I also tried it with the integer representation of
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by jalgos_eminator 5y ago
> This does not necessarily mean any new genetic material or "nature responding". But this is exactly how evolution works. There are always mutations in every generation, and sometimes those mutations are beneficial. These ge

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