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sdmike1

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    This is pretty neat! I was working on an SAO board for Defcon and this would have been really handy for that!

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    Comment #42606029

    Stuff for GSM/CDMA has been around for years, OpenBTS is the primary example. This is the first I've heard of anything more modern/complicated being implemented. From my understand…

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    Comment #42170458

    Working in the government space sector, generally speaking, you're given a mission lifetime which is seen as a minimum. your payload/spacecraft/instrument needs to last at least th…

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    Comment #41674450

    I can't seem to find a reason for shutting it down in the article. Does anyone have info on this? Was it for budget reasons or was their a failure on orbit?

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    Comment #41583490

    The benchmark page looks to be broken, the JS console is showing some 404'd JS libs and a bad function call.

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    Comment #41478081

    As someone who specializes in the type of low level systems that are still built in C, C++ is considered high risk let alone rust. That is largely the reality of the industry. Some…

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    Comment #40988208

    The Ingenuity is a really interesting project with some important lessons for spaceflight with unhardened CotS parts. However, I would argue that it and the Europa Clipper are two …

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    Comment #40146060

    I ran into this in university and burned a late night writing a simple program. It was a really fun experience that I would recommend people try at some point!

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    Comment #38016450

    A Firefox version of this would be super handy! Does that already exist?

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    Comment #37835003

    T1D that was also diagnosed somewhat later in life (24), the convenience of having something like a tandem that can buy and large manage my levels, is really nice. I definitely sti…

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    Comment #36628161

    wow! this is an amazing site! I'm about an hour from Albuquerque, and if this place has an in-person store I'm going to have to make a pilgrimage!

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    Comment #36423369

    Yes, I was using speech to text and did not proof read closely enough.

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    Comment #36412465

    I think the non-standard definition of simple is the wrong way of looking at it. people 's thought about what is simple and what is complex is different from person to person. C. i…

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    Comment #36319860

    Damn, that's a hell of a message. it'll be interesting to see if it starts to go dark again, if slacktavism takes over and there is no follow through.

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    Comment #35559085

    This isn't the most complicated thing in the world, but it has helped me more than once and I hope it can help others!

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    Comment #35091684

    you could argue that flash fell under this category, but that also perfectly demonstrates how much of the web was made inaccessible as a result of removing it

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    Comment #34632675

    > cruise missiles in the gulf wars famously did this by following the street grid - even turning at street light That's fascinating! Do you have more info on this?

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    Comment #33802590

    They would lose us, that's for sure

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    Comment #33348693

    I'm seeing about a 50% speedup. It depends what you mean by game changing, but you should certainly see if 3.11 is a drop in replacement for whatever you are doing.