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AMS 7h ago

@azonenberg Do you have access to xray a board? Can I try one?

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AMS 8h ago

@gsuberland "Best Plumber On^Hff Earth"

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AMS 8h ago

@futurebird No matter how subtle the sorceror... something something half-brick inna sock. #GNUpterry

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AMS 9h ago

@selectric iron overdose can be kinda bad.

AMS 17h ago

ftg 1d ago

So apparently Open.Space got renamed to MoonRF, because Kratos Defense owns OPENSPACE trademark, for a military satellite control software apparently.

To quote their email about it.
"To be fair, their marketing team deserves respect. Naming a classified military network OPENSPACE is right up there with Greenland, Full Self-Driving, and the Patriot Act."

The open.space here being the folks with the very interesting scalable 5.7GHz band SDR antenna array thing, suitable for EME with enough units

AMS 19h ago

Attie Grande 1d ago

Just Excel fucking up simple things...

... amusingly enough, Just Today, I was talking to someone about how Excel isn't SIL rated software, and the knock-on implications if you're doing calculations on such a project.

NB: this has happened before, it's annoying... but today it even came out in a copy/paste of a column, so the data "physically" changes shape, it's not just about how it's displayed. 🤦‍♀️

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AMS 19h ago

@cR0w I know they're part of the lightning protection. (Wire between the towers and solid ground to preferentially take strikes instead of the spacecraft.) Not sure of there's RF stuff in there.

AMS 1d ago

Sheryl Weikal 1d ago

Birthright citizenship is not even remotely ambiguous in the Constitution.

The fact that suddenly conservatives are so obsessed with its drafters' "intent" being different from its plain language is proof textualism and originalism were always bad faith vehicles.

AMS 1d ago

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wb x64 1d ago

@mhoye moreover, for about two decades the most efficient way to make money in America has been to con a millionaire out of their ("investment") money. That changes a society.

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mhoye 1d ago

My new argument for high and progressively higher wealth tax rates has nothing to do with social justice or progressive values or functioning democracy at all, now it’s just “these people are gullible, easily manipulated rubes and letting gullible rubes hoard too much money is the socioeconomic equivalent of storing your gun collection in a daycare.”