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Shannon-Hartley says the theoretical maximum data rate for a channel with AWGN is proportional to bandwidth and the log of signal-to-noise ratio. For an off-the-shelf microphone/sp…

I think they only care about preventing data flow in one direction while still allowing it in the other. This isn't strictly an air gap, but it fits their use of the term "data dio…

> 25 years ago it seemed like physics was mostly complete, and the only remaining work was exploring the corner cases and polishing out all the imperfections. It doesn't feel that …

Writing code _has_ helped me feel better on some bad days. Even looking back at old projects brings me contentment and reassurance sometimes. On its own, it can't provide the happi…

My wife is also T1 diabetic. In principle, yes, a major airport's medical team should have everything that a diabetic needs to survive. However, depending on the person's blood sug…

My mother said similar things before her death, and I accepted them with love while privately dismissing them. But since then I've softened a little. I still don't believe in those…

This blog post[1] may interest you. As you suggested, the workflow seems to be: 1. Try various techniques that might trick the firewalls on both ends to let the connection through.…

>you can get a sport pilots license in as little as 20 hours of training This is not enough training to operate safely, in my opinion. Even in VFR conditions, I think it would be n…

I think this means that a previous iteration of this effort had a value of £249,000. The article is mainly about the current iteration, which has some other total value that is pre…

I use the Redirector[0] browser extension to do this, and it works great. [0]: https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/

I hadn't tested it before, but yes, it looks like there's coverage for some major Canadian cities near the border, including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver. You can check…

This seems to imply that there isn't any high-resolution precipitation data available that could provide these "minute-by-minute" forecasts, but that isn't true. The National Weath…

I tried using this a year or two ago—seemed like a really cool idea, and I still think it is—but I couldn't find an actually useful application for it in my life. Not saying there …

This sounds fun. Rust is amazing, and I've been playing with it on AVR chips lately. And I spent several summers sailing years ago. Email me if you'd like. Curious to know what you…

I wonder how difficult it would be to implement a language for specifying Factorio factories without worrying about physical layouts. This post provides a lot of good insights into…

When I started my last job, I thought I was going to be writing a lot of Python and C. It turned out that the position had a lot more React and TypeScript than I expected, and at f…

I know this joke, but in the version I've heard it's mechanical engineering students instead of programmers, their professors instead of conference participants, and the aircraft i…

These ideas have almost no empathy, and they frighten me. The world they describe is a dystopia.

I mistook the screenshots in the README for screenshots of [Doom Emacs][0]. The default theme looks similar. [0]: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

I'm interested in trying to determine whether or not someone I know has this disorder by examining their 23andMe data (with their consent, of course). I imagine that it might be po…

I was about to write a reply claiming that you're different from autocomplete because you take input from more sources than just the words you've said before (e.g. your vision), bu…

Did this system for surface-to-air recovery more or less get its lunch eaten by helicopters? Still, pretty neat.

I agree, at least generally. However, something I've learned is that privacy always has a cost. I wouldn't count on retailers to pay it when most of their customers won't notice or…