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Depends on the item and if you and the military are optimizing for the same thing It's a lowest bidder situation, so keep that in mind. Mil-spec transport containers? Excellent. Mi…

We've done that at a few places I've been at - it's tricky because if the failure is too short its just annoying toil, but if it's too long there's risk of losing context and havin…

There's supposed to be a 260 megabit link: https://www.nasa.gov/goddard/esc/o2o/ Maybe it's not operating as described yet?

Yes, with the caveat that you'll need decent line of sight to it.

Which adblocker are you currently using? The arms race is getting pretty tiring...

Yes and yes, we've used it for civilian Search & Rescue in tandem with CalTopo.

We did sailing charters growing up and had one of these on the boat, I was in charge of it and the sound & feel of the CH-CHUNK is seared into my memories like nothing else. We nev…

Super neat - I did something similar on a lark to enable useful "web browsing" over 1200 baud packet - I have Starlink back at my camp but might be a few miles away, so as long as …

I guess you got me as either an easily nerd-sniped plebe or an Old — I use it in all my discourse when I'd normally take a speaking pause.

Depending on your perspective, that's either very concerning or a great business opportunity for this decade's Heroku to enter the fray.

This is very accurate - microservices can be great as a forcing function to revisit your architectural boundaries, but if all you do is add a network hop and multiple components to…

Same dream here - they work very interesting problems at very interesting scale, but I can see 3-4x the comp while working from anywhere? Not even a chance. I do sometimes fantasiz…

I'm also super excited to see more on this, it's been living rent free in my head for a long time. I played around with keypress extraction from sound recordings a couple decades a…

Those geostationary sats sound really interesting, but I've struggled to find any remotely modern tools or DB's to find visible sats - is there a current best of breed I can look a…

I've also had my email posted in mailto's in a half dozen places for... a long time. I remember in the early 00's when I'd cargo cult the old "type the whole email out as adrian at…

Funny story, I wound up finding a bunch of my old Mac-formatted Zip disks a few months ago, and trying to extract data off of them was a wild, tangled mess of external SCSI enclosu…

The ones I've seen usually just spam the spectrum with noise, since it's easiest and totally effective, and there's no need for them be sneaky or clever with their emissions since …

I'd love to find any actual FEMA publications that back up some of the numbers and claims - so far to the best I can tell is it's mostly from interviews with the regional director,…

Thanks for jumping in with your experience - every time the New Yorker article makes the rounds, I do a little light digging to try and find some sources the author based it on. Re…

Freshwater availability is a big factor that swings in the PNW's favor.

That New Yorker article goes viral every few years - it's a well written piece and spins a great yarn, but there's some significant hyperbole and it's sources don't quite back up t…

Oh hey, fellow Miku friend. I was _furious_ when they first announced their bankruptcy plan. We supposedly paid a hefty premium for hardware that enables onboard breathing monitori…

Early Hotline was amazing from a hacker community perspective - I ran a series of hotline servers off of dialup, and then was able to get some hardware on my high school campus and…

I believe OP is speaking specifically to the IoT space, which is still a bit of a stretch - but slightly more accurate than the massive ARM dominance we're seeing elsewhere.

I built a fun hack back in college that used a laser microphone to listen to keypresses - the timing and sound of which is relatively straightforward to extract letter pairing heur…