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codyd51

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About codyd51

Static analysis, file formats, operating systems, oh my!

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    Comment #44622840

    I believe this is not the case in today’s ubiquitous equal temperament?

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    Comment #42422652

    The waveform produced by sounding a note on most physical instruments will often not exhibit a peak, or will not exhibit the strongest peak, on the note being sounded. Rather, most…

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    Comment #41093910

    Hi, author of axle here - thank you for the shout out! It’s been a wonderfully fun and enriching project to work on over the years. I’m now working on XNU at Apple, so won’t be wor…

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    Comment #40090784

    One potential hiccup with your one-photino-bird-universe theory (which is quite fun!): I believe I remember a scene in which the ‘birth’ of a photino bird was described. If I remem…

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    Comment #40055236

    What a wonderful thing to say about a stranger's article! Thank you very much for posting this.

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    Comment #40051167

    Whoa, thank you! I don't know much about RF and learned ad-hoc for this project, and it seems perfectly plausible to me that someone knowledgeable would be able to look at this and…

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    Comment #40051152

    Thank you for linking this, this course is phenomenal! Several of the videos were immensely helpful in my GPS journey.

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    Comment #40051117

    Thank you very much for your thoughtful offer! I won't be able to readily work on side projects after starting my new role next week, and am content to consider this project comple…

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    Comment #40051105

    I believe you are correct. My understanding is that the root P key is rotated daily, and needs to be manually uploaded to any military hardware that needs to use it.

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    Comment #40051099

    Thank you very much! I agree, they are incredible! I really had no idea until making this project, and it makes things like cellular phones so astoundingly impressive.

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    Comment #40051093

    This project only supports the 'legacy' C/A variant of the NAVSTAR constellation's signals.

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    Comment #40051059

    Thank you for sharing this! It is sort of a vulnerable thing to write, because it reveals the shapes and bounds of my own ignorance, and the path I took to learning. I am really gr…

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    Comment #40051036

    I am really grateful for this nice comment, thank you! As a self taught programmer with no background in RF or EE, this project was definitely a stretch for me and involved lots of…

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    Comment #40051031

    Thank you very much!

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    Comment #40051024

    That's so great to hear, thank you for the nice feedback!

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    Comment #40050999

    This is amazing! I had no idea tech like this was available on the market. Thank you for the correction.

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    Comment #40042946

    Yes, I forgot to mention downloading the orbital parameters over the network! Thanks for mentioning this as well. In this case, I was meaning to refer to brute-forcing the Doppler-…

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    Comment #40042511

    GPS jamming or spoofing on a wide scale is definitely a viable attack! As another commenter noted well, making everyone appear at exactly the same location would be nigh-impossible…

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    Comment #40042471

    Hi! Yes, "from scratch" is definitely always a bit of a funny term. I also implemented the receiver in Python, which is quite far from "scratch" =). What I mean by it in this conte…

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    Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    Hi everyone! Shortly after publishing my iOS 4 jailbreak last October[1], I got to work on my next hobby project: a from-scratch homebrew GPS receiver, which can solve the user’s l…

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    Comment #39947763

    Yes, you're absolutely correct! The design here totally suffers from unbounded memory use if you draw onto a large canvas. (Restating parts of your comment for confirmation that th…

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    Comment #39947348

    Thanks very much! The other commenter is correct that the work loop typically revolved around booting a QEMU instance which ships my UEFI application. The main run script will rege…

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    Comment #39946817

    Wow, thank you so much! I made these using HTML canvases and TypeScript. I’m drawing everything in code, including the pixel art (which is defined in the source). The animations ar…

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    Comment #39946053

    Ha! I take your point.