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Comment · 1 month ago
and breathing flux is a far larger concern than leaded solder. Physically getting them somewhere (eating while soldering, not washing hands, etc) is still a problem.
Comment · 1 month ago
I've never seen a coffee mug, or glass drinking vessel wear out. They always end up broken first.
Comment · 1 month ago
using 'roof solar is expensive, therefor solar is expensive" is borderline disingenuous. It's well established that roof solar is freqently not cost effective.

Which has little relation to installing 100 acres worth. and, its likely the ROI will get even higher as we build more solar fields, and more HV transmission lines.

Comment · 1 month ago
I've not done unity3d dev- but yea, all I've seen from it are games using XML, or BinarySerializer. sometimes its compressed.
Comment · 1 month ago
they do take it at a single place and time though! 12:00.00, then 12:00.033, then 12:00.066, then 12:00.1....

I'll go out on a limb and say that's their argument if it goes to court. maybe it's only 5fps instead of 30. It's still the kind of BS the courts need to stop allowing.

Comment · 1 month ago
for games its more often .net BinarySerializer.
Comment · 1 month ago
like apache parquet?
Comment · 1 month ago
they said they didn't change the behavior for range requests. So, it'll still be the basic no compression. (eg, server side decompression)
Comment · 1 month ago
afaik, ZFS will read an entire Record at a time- and that's the same granularity as its compression.
Comment · 2 months ago
Everybody is focused on the tubes... What about the diffuser with pyramid shaped lenses? the highly directional light projects a beam (flourescent lights are known for awfully harsh shadows) through the thin, lightweight 24x24" or 24x48" lens(diffuser). as the light is projected down a minimum of 8 feet the tiny deflection from sound hitting the diffuser is amplified. Then, at an interface of light and shadow on the floor, the moving projection becomes a brightness signal that has audio encoded in it. they could use a lens and a photodiode. Didn't exactly have 5000fps cameras falling off trees 40 years ago.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's not presently on scihub (also, $25 for access? fuck off...), but the whole study stinks of "dickens scholar checks modern reading comp, vastly overestimates familiarity with victorian england and dickens' prose.".... .... here's the bio of the first author of the paper > SUSAN CARLSON is a professor of English at Pittsburg State University, where she teaches courses on nineteenth-century British literature,
Comment · 2 months ago
I was thinking G-man and a suprise helicopter on your lawn. The government hasn't made a spectical of throwing the book at a jammer recently.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's 2026: we have more ways to defeat jamming, or make it irrelevant, at unit costs trivial for commercial and most private applications. 1) atomic clocks can be smaller than a closed fist and allow GPS to work with 3 satalites with ocassional drops to 2. 2) the same clocks can be used to filter out radio sources from the wrong direction. 3) star navigation (commercial is often above weather, most weather is clear in some IR bands) 4) Terain following (easy to store maps now) 5) Inertial. 6) magnetic

When combined it is very hard to break the position fix. I expect the issue with the system is it's a military tech. with all it's that'll associated legal problems. After all. it'd bypass most the protections built into GPS modules.

Comment · 2 months ago
are you aware of n-grams?
Comment · 2 months ago
It seems I may have misremembered my example and inadvertantly made duty to retreat appear worse than it is. However- it was meant to highlight the positons both sides and it holds correct enough for thst still.

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