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Mine was snorkel.

D1 1v1 ladder matches on Case's and IDL...good memories.

Interesting :)

It’s impressive, to me at least, given the antenna is in an NVIS configuration (configured for distances of ~1k miles) and given that anything below S7 is in the noise. I have trie…

Might be using a digital mode designed for weak signal communications. I'm not familiar with what might be used commercially but in amateur radio FT8 is popular and amazing. I live…

He’s good at running the pace they ask him to run and it varies from race to race. Harder than it sounds. Ideally, the pacer runs that pace with little variance rather than looking…

Member of the engineering team here - I would break the history into 3 phases: 1) Alpha / Beta phase where we experimented with several off-the-shelf key-value stores (RocksDB, Lev…

Excellent book if you're looking to understand the foundations of 2D & 3D graphics / game dev, although the topics covered have even more broad applications. I had quite a bit of e…

Hi halfmatthalfcat, InfluxDB team member here. I wouldn't say we encourage mixing InfluxQL, Flux, and TICK scripts. We encourage new use cases to use Flux and existing use cases to…

I haven't looked but the latest 1.7.x is probably close to 2 years old. There have been quite a few improvements since 1.7 so you might see some improvements by upgrading to the la…

Hi physicles, member of the InfluxDB team here. What version of 1.x are you running? Also curious to know if you've tried 2.x.

No. When you get a spam call, the caller ID is often not random. It's usually the number of some other person on the spam caller's list of people to call, often someone from your s…

Because spammers populate the caller ID with other people's phone numbers. For example, a spammer might make the caller ID show your (or my) phone number. The caller ID that shows …

Ditto, except the one I wrote only works for landlines. https://github.com/dgnorton/norobo