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"Work to live, don't live to work". When you're on your deathbed work won't sit there with you and hold your hand. People are critical, not buildings or computers or networks. If you do choose to go down the path of overwork for recognition (as I did in my early 20s to earn a business visa) set strict guidelines around it and ensure you benefit as much as your employer. No one will manage your own work life balance better than you.

Same with Australia, individual free speech is not formally protected in legislation.

I run HA solely in my wine cellar, it's exceedingly useful to have an indoor hydrometer monitoring my conditions. I run 3 in different parts of my wine cellar.

Mars pretty much always loses out when compared to a Moon colony or actual space colonies that can be designed to produce earth-like gravitation.

Once that's sorted/well understood it makes sense to travel further out into the Solar System. Until then, it's just unnecessary risk.

In May SMILE was launched. It's a collaboration between ESA and CSA. I expect more of this to develop given the US trajectory currently.

ITAR is for US persons ONLY. SpaceX services the global market, as does China. Sure, NRO won't be launching on a Chinese stack but it'd be a bit foolish to think commercial launch consumers wouldn't look at the top two launch providers to decide who they'll pay to launch their payload.

China's emissions peaked in 2025 and have been declining since. They have rolled out massive amounts of renewables, unlike the US.

It legitimately cooks my brain that the son of Nimarata Randhawa is arguing with Ankit Gupta about whether prioritising hiring of American workers is DEI.

Food maybe, but morale on the Ford was reportedly quite low and there has been some conjecture that the fire that has knocked it out of service was not accidental.

yes, but it was still a bubble as 99 of those companies went bust. AI is an obvious bubble, and it will soon burst. The question is what survives. If you can predict that, you can also make bank.

Obviously I would have forgotten most of this given the change was 20 years ago but IIRC DST config on Solaris at the time was statically coded. You could modify the timezone config as a hacky fix on Solaris 8 but the permanent fix involved recompiling zic.

I live in Western Australia. for 3 years we trialed DST from 2006 to 2009. It was a nightmare personally, I was a sysadmin at the time and enterprise management tools were expensive and crap so we had to roll out DST file changes across our fleet manually. And because the change to allow DST for our region was a rushed job we then had to roll back after the 3 year unsuccessful trial.

Honestly, it was super stressful at the time. And DST that doesn't exist doesn't bother you in the slightest. Every day ends and flows into the next like the last. But the stress of a clock change twice a year doesn't have to happen, it's a choice.

This is where I land as well, except I'd go higher. Ukraine has caused the pricing of any FPGA equipped SDR to skyrocket.

Plus incredibly high sample rates that the sSDR supports would likely result in a lot of drops in sampling due to sustained throughput issues of the device itself. You'd be surprised how much dropping occurs on even fairly modern/grunty machines. I used to record X band weather satellite baseband on a HP Dev One and ended up using a ramdisk for baseband recording as the PCIe 2.0 bus wasn't able to handle the sustained write speeds once the nvme drive's buffer was maxed out. Basically anything above 30Msps would go to RAM.

As strong as the lure is of a cute RF device, I've never bought a flipper as I couldn't justify it given the multitude of other SDRs and radio hardware I have. EG RFNM, BladeRF 2.0 xA4, hackRF clone, RTL-SDRs and NESDRs, as well as a YardStick.

3x higher than other rocket builders. Comparing a rocket factory to a construction site it borderline laughable.

Iran currently has tasking control of a single Chinese military spy satellite with sub meter resolution. They struck this arrangement before the war. This capability has provided them targeting/tasking info as well as post attack BDA capabilities.

The delay on commercial imagery purchase isn't to hinder Iran, it's to hinder our understanding of the conflict.