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by jtickle 1mo ago
The unfortunate reason this isn't doable in the US anyway, and any time someone has a great idea on how to improve elections this inevitably comes up: preventing coersion. It's difficult to balance transparent voting with ensuring
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by jtickle 4mo ago
OpenBSD folks would consider the GPL to be less open due to the requirement to apply the GPL to any derivative works.
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by jtickle 7mo ago
I don't have you in my log! Southeast US here. What aspects of ham radio are you into? Any HF nets you frequent? To be honest, life keeps me away from radio most of the time so there is nothing "regular" that I participate in
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by jtickle 7mo ago
If you are interested, find and go to an amateur radio club meeting. The licensing test makes sure you know the regulations and some theory. It does not help introduce you to "ham culture" which is definitely a thing. I learned al
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by jtickle 7mo ago
This is amazing to see. I have some audio recordings, digitized from tapes recorded in the 1960s, of my great-grandfather who was raised on a farm in Iowa. He talks about his experiences in amateur radio in the early 1900s-1920s. He mention
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by jtickle 1y ago
All of the "btrfs eats your data" bugs have been fixed and the people who constantly repeat them are people who relied on an experimental filesystem for files they cared not to lose. FUD all around. I have a btrfs on my home file
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by jtickle 1y ago
I know ultraviolet CCD sensors exist and are probably expensive, specialty scientific equipment. I've kinda had this hope that one smartphone manufacturer (any of the big ones) would go to the trouble of including a UV camera and drive
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by jtickle 1y ago
I recently started using Aider and had that thought about too many commits. What I realized though was: (1) if I'm going to contribute to a project, I should be working in a local branch and interactively rebasing to clean up my histor
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by jtickle 1y ago
I have seen this sentiment on HN a lot recently. Any good resources for that? I was quite the accomplished web developer 15-20 years ago and want to catch up without having to learn a new library or framework every six months.