loodish

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by loodish 5mo ago
> Not an EE myself but honestly baffled how the author got that impression with the huge expansion of RF engineering in the consumer space - Lots of RF devices doesn't actually mean much RF engineering. If you want 5G connectivity a
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by loodish 5mo ago
The receiver frequency is generally assumed to be accurate. In practice the time quantization is the far bigger error and masks any frequency fault. That time quantization is why most receivers report an accuracy of 3m or 10ns. The time cor
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by loodish 8mo ago
Yes. Significantly safer than a Windows system in the default config. If you expose a Windows server default install to the internet it will be compromised in days. (I don't know how. I do know AWS was very unimpressed with me.) In con
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by loodish 8mo ago
The finiteness of fossil fuels isn't real in a practical sense. The globe burnt about 8.8 billion tons of coal in 2024. Which is a huge amount. This is the peak, most estimates are that we will reduce from there. Australia alone estim
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by loodish 8mo ago
There are much faster responses available. For example France could gift or sell Denmark some nukes, possibly with a Rafale as a launch platform. Denmark would be an instant nuclear nation-state. I'm not sure there is the political wil
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by loodish 10mo ago
If you breach the LGPLv2/GPLv2 licence then you lose all rights to use the software. There's no penalty clause, there's no recovery clause. If you don't comply with the licence conditions then you don't have a lice
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by loodish 11mo ago
I like cron jobs that run during the work day. If something goes wrong I would prefer to handle it at 10am rather than 10pm. Why make life unpleasant? If it really needs to run during a low load period I line it up for 6am work time. Again
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by loodish 11mo ago
Folks that really care about security go for tamper evidence. For example you can get a filing cabinet which has a lock and a counter that ticks every time it is opened. You pair it with a clipboard where you note the counter count, why you
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by loodish 11mo ago
I understand that being a fork of Snowplow is how you define yourself, but there's actually nothing on the webpage that provides any detail of what the product does, other than "event pipeline" right up the top. I suggest put
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by loodish 1y ago
Absolutely. The ability to search for these flags before a commit, during a review or release is so valuable.
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by loodish 1y ago
The vanilla vim version is MANPAGER="vim +MANPAGER --not-a-term -" Documentation can be found via :help manpager.vim
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by loodish 1y ago
The .d directories make management via tools such as ansible much much easier. You don't have weird file patching going on with the potential to mess things up in super creative ways if someone has applied a hand edit. With .d director
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by loodish 2y ago
Graphql is nice but there are all sorts of weird attacks and edge cases because you don't actually control the queries that a client can send. This allows a malicious client to craft really time expensive queries. So you end up having
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by loodish 2y ago
By this logic an American state should remit the sales tax they collect on imported cars back to Germany. The Germans would probably love this, twice as many German products are sold in the US as US products sold in Germany. Sales Tax, Valu
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by loodish 2y ago
AMR (adaptive multi-rate audio codec) can get down to 4.75 kbit/s when there's low bandwidth available, which is typically what people complain about as being terrible quality. The speech codecs are complex and fascinating, very d
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by loodish 2y ago
The implications of weaponising a lithium battery, which seems like what was done, are potentially really significant. Lithium batteries are everywhere, most of them significantly larger than the one in a small pager. This includes secure e
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by loodish 2y ago
> I would imagine the rewards of silent surveillance (tracking, audio) would be of much higher value than this kind of attack where 3 out of 1000s targets were killed. The reason they were using pagers, as opposed to phones, was to avoid
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by loodish 2y ago
Shorting the battery would probably cause an explosion in around one minute. That's close enough to simultaneous. From https://www.mdpi.com/2313-0105/8/11/201 A puncture causes runaway/explosion in