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    Comment #49238513

    My thoughts as several things can be true at once: - This study is the source of LinkedIn ads from climate change where they try to convince people to move from gas to electric bec…

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    Comment #48985731

    I'm also curious about this.. its a reprogrammable physical SIM using the same standard as eSIM: https://www.9esim.com/en

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    Comment #48801397

    That brings up some weird memories.. I saw 2 different researchers do bit manipulation in Matlab by printing the binary data as hexadecimal string, doing string manipulation on it …

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    Comment #48800536

    There's a strong indication that SpaceX does use software receiver in Falcon 9 and Starlink: when they didn't encrypt the downlink telemetry someone captured the signal and found s…

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    Comment #48800482

    For L1 I think a raspberry pi can have a reasonably fast time to first fix, for offline processing you can go faster than real time. L2/L5 need large sampling rate and a pi is prob…

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    Comment #48800454

    > remove bit twiddling — System programming languages like C, C++, Odin, and Zig need to manipulate bits, but a scientific DSL like Fortran does not need bit twiddling operators li…

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    Comment #48613685

    Because ITAR only applies to US companies, non-US companies can do and sell whatever they want. My favorite example is CRPA antenna, where they can block the jamming signal, so it …

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    Comment #48613526

    Its an active research topic called signal of opportunity navigation, and papers has been written saying this is possible, some of the uses the idea you mentioned. I used to be inv…

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    Comment #48607033

    My pedantic self says GNSS includes other non-US constellations such as GLONASS, Galileo and Beidou, and they flew those satellites because they don't fully trust US GPS

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    Comment #48306453

    You can have ads in a terminal / CLI, for example Ubuntu put an ad for their Ubuntu Pro service when you run sudo apt upgrade: https://linuxiac.com/ubuntu-once-again-angered-users-…

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    Comment #47872309

    > I type stuff, and people see it I wish... I'm on Windows 11 Enterprise with corporate Teams, definitely 100% Microsoft approved combination and: - on one channel my message never…

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    Comment #47871682

    You can go into a really deep rabbit hole thinking about those questions.. this page explains the design decisions behind LunaNet AFS navigation signal: https://insidegnss.com/the-…

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    Comment #47858857

    - Proprietary embedded hardware compilers that only runs on windows - Building windows GUI apps

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    Comment #47811123

    Or raising alarm on a CVE in linux mlx5 driver on an embedded device that doesn't have a pcie interface

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    Comment #47759129

    Sometimes its not instant though.. sometime web search completes faster then locally installed software and because of muscle memory I accidentally opened a bing page about scrcpy …

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    Comment #47681299

    Sounds good! Hopefully i can buy one and play around with it

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    Comment #47671271

    unfortunately the FPGA verilog source code isn't open source.. and I can't see any RF block diagram in the website Some more questions because the website isn't clear: - does the F…

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    Comment #47671176

    Getting industrial grade lasers is the easy part.. it seems to be within range of aliexpress available tattoo removal laser (based on the laser pulse energies listed in https://en.…

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    Comment #47597256

    And OceanGate in recent history

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    Comment #47500608

    And to run windows only apps like some embedded toolchains. Although that gives a motivation for us to move on to gcc because windows is annoying to be used on CI/CD and gcc is goo…

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    Comment #46737734

    A bit pedantic here.. I think you might be thinking about space tether propulsion. I don't know if that has been deployed yet. Magnetorquers, as in a device that uses magnets to ro…

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    Comment #46166927

    > several Chinese rocket companies As much as I want to fly with Chinese rocket to encourage launcher competition and redundancy, export controls prevent me from doing that.

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    Comment #45808841

    Microchip PolarFire boards (and PIC64 chips, which is basically just the CPU part of PolarFire without the FPGA fabric) can do that with asymmetric multiprocessing: https://www.mic…

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    Comment #45651811

    Partly because reality is getting more stranger faster than satire. There's even an entire subreddit dedicated to that

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    Comment #45546944

    That sounds like Oberth effect in rocketry, where the faster you go the more efficient your rocket be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberth_effect