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Comment · 7 years ago
I don’t know much about GPS jamming, but I know a fair bit about how airliners navigate. GPS is usually not used for final approach, which is typically either visual or ILS (a radio signal transmitted from the ground). This in contrast to the earlier stages of approach which may use GPS depending on the airport and the specific approach in use. If you can keep the jamming signal contained to the immediate airport vicinity and a few thousand feet above, there should be little or no impact on (non-drone) aircraft navigation.
Comment · 8 years ago
I received this mail from Namecheap today with the subject line "Important: Potential Internet Access Issues".

Apart from the weirdly misleading subject line, the advice in the mail is really misguided IMO. If your ISP fails to update their trust anchor, disabling DNSSEC entirely for your domain will indeed let you access it again, but it won't do anything for other sites that you can't access, and it rather defeats the purpose of enabling DNSSEC in the first place if your first troubleshooting step is to turn it off again.

Comment · 8 years ago
Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running. I don't see how this would be any different. I know that "reasonable good faith" is a legal term of art, and I'm saying that I don't think Google would struggle to meet that standard if they needed to shut one of these services down.
Comment · 8 years ago
... unless they decide that giving one year of notice would be too expensive or hard.
Comment · 8 years ago
It doesn't seem relevant to the subject of the article, and it's private, so I don't see why it should be detailed...
Comment · 8 years ago
Betteridge's law.
Comment · 8 years ago
Chances are, a smartphone isn't going to give you the DoF you want (except by "faking it" using post-processing). There's a direct relationship between aperture for a given focal length and the front diameter of the lens. With a tiny lens and a low f-number, you're going to have a small focal length and therefore a wide DoF.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
On a single project, I agree. But each time I start a new pet/side project I like to use a different stack. It's a good motivation to learn new technologies, and you learn more about them by using them "in anger" than you do in a purely theoretical environment.
Comment · 8 years ago
I know several people that are dual citizens of China and US. China doesn't recognise the second citizenship, but that doesn't prevent you having it. If China finds out, though, they'll apparently strip you of your Chinese citizenship.
Comment · 8 years ago
There's no such thing as serverless, just someone else's server.
Comment · 8 years ago
Wait... people who bought into a currency that is majority-owned by one entity would like some say in how that entity spends it?
Comment · 8 years ago
OT but what do you mean by "English speaker with no accent"? Clearly every person has an accent, and every system that understands language must be able to understand the various accents that people have.
Comment · 8 years ago
which will, of course, trigger the reminder as you walk down the street away from home, forcing you to go back and get the change of clothes that you forgot.

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