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Yes but that somewhat limits the practicality because you need two receivers, a clear signal path between them and one has to be relatively static. It's fine for surveying but for …

It's not possible, even with pretty ideal conditions. Edit: I excluded RTK stuff in that comment :)

Which is probably the greatest problem with it.

Not really. The OS syscall interface, ABI and the fact everything is abstracted via your C compiler normalises the differences between the machines pretty well meaning you only end…

There are varying degrees of corrupt and totalitarian. We're not quite Russia bad yet, but we have however run "quick processing overnight courts" to deal with hundreds of people, …

Yes, where I reside unfortunately.

Like the US?

This is why I still like old Unix systems (early BSD/v7 etc). It is possible to get a complete understanding of the system in a relatively short amount of time and they're still pr…

MIPS is on the rise again as recent SoCs are more power efficient than ARM. I don't have a source for this unfortunately. Sony Bravia EX series televisions are MIPS and Linux based…

Actually most can't be emulated because emulators don't exist and those which can typically can't be emulated correctly (Sparc emulators for example which are notoriously sparse an…

This fundamentally goes against the Unix philosophy though which is to provide small well-defined parts from which you can construct a complete solution from. If you need a complex…

Similar story. Signed up to post this :) In 2009, our development team lost a whole 10 hours to a degraded Linux mdadm RAID1 that wouldn't rebuild due to an obscure error after a d…