Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.
That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!
I could be wrong, but I think DAB uses DQPSK (which can be thought of as a special version of QAM 4 if you squint a bit) and not anything like the higher QAM constellations because it's deliberately designed for mobile…
... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?
> so for peak loudness (someone shouting or the loudest spike in music) it can take an extra 50% power to create the upper and lower sidebands Some people save energy by turning their appliances off at the plug rather…
I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)
Before Radio 4 LW was renumbered in 1988, it was 200kHz. And before the early 70s it was referred to as it's wavelength... 1500m :P
Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...
DAB+ uses EEP (and RS) which was deliberately chosen to give better signal quality all the way to the point of losing reception. Old DAB used UEP which degrades faster, but instead of having no signal, it went to a…
The phrase "if I were to hazard a guess" should tell you all you need to know. All I did beforehand was update my existing knowledge by reading the Wikipedia article at…
Starship isn't a proven manned transport vessel yet. And Boom was founded in 2014. If I was to hazard a guess, the BFS concept is 2035 at the earliest, most likely 2040 -- and it'll be at a much smaller scale than…
Boom is planning to operate at Mach 1.7 (approx. twice that of current aircraft) with a range of about 4250 nautical miles (4900 miles, 7900 km). Over land they're only going to fly at Mach 1.3 to reduce sonic boom…
All markets are finite. But you're thinking too finitely -- remember that there was a proposal to use Starship (BFS?) as a point-to-point method of people transport too (London to Sydney in under 50 minutes I seem to…
I genuinely worked somewhere that used the term API to mean "a person in India". The same company had someone order me not to use the term "postmortem" as part of the SRE function. I did not stay long after that.
The use of the word "chore" in many users of conventional commits has always riled me. I've always tended to favour the "linux kernel"[0] style of commit subject, which thankfully gets a mention here. [0]…
There's an RFC for Peg DHCP! :D https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2322 While it's an April 1st RFC, I've seen this implemented at a Hackspace in Amsterdam, works very well!
I'd have thought that by now, most would have been swapping to WebAssembly. It's really nicely sandboxed, you expose it to only what you want, and you can compile a lot of languages into a WASM form meaning you're not…
I have done extensive research on CDC and it almost never works out because most utilities don't create compressed archives in an "rsyncable" (rsync does CDC) format, I actually saved a lot of storage using restic when…
If you're the author of https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/ -- thank you :D
As someone who predominantly writes in Go, cider-v was a massive step backwards compared to cider. I eventually moved entirely over to using vim (with the set of internal plugins for blaze etc) which became so much more…
> flow-crushing remote desktop latency Yeah, I was working out of the Sydney office. Almost everything was incredibly slow due to that latency, not just chromoting but also just accessing most sites through beyondcorp.
/me shudders. cider-v...
Cider (and p4/g4c etc) was amazing when I left back in 2020, I loved it so much, and truly miss it. I rejoined Google last year, and they'd replaced it with a VSCode clone that truly was just a glorified text editor and…
That's what Locally Recoverable Codes (including Pyramid Codes) are designed to address: you can repair a missing block using only a subset of the blocks, which you can make sure are placed in just one zone, eliminating…
GCS / Azure can survive a total AZ failure too, think of 3 x Replicas as RAID-1, whereas Erasure Coding is more like RAID-6. Only it's actually more resilient: Let's say you have 10 data blocks, and you have 4 parity…
Traditionally, that was the email address for the NTP service at various organisations, in the same way that postmaster was for the mail service.
That's a good point about LTE/5G. Thanks!
I could be wrong, but I think DAB uses DQPSK (which can be thought of as a special version of QAM 4 if you squint a bit) and not anything like the higher QAM constellations because it's deliberately designed for mobile…
... Did you replace them with pringles tubes?
> so for peak loudness (someone shouting or the loudest spike in music) it can take an extra 50% power to create the upper and lower sidebands Some people save energy by turning their appliances off at the plug rather…
I hope you mean updated... Otherwise we're about to find out what's in the letter of last resort they have onboard! ;)
Before Radio 4 LW was renumbered in 1988, it was 200kHz. And before the early 70s it was referred to as it's wavelength... 1500m :P
Not entirely true. There's quite a bit of error correction applied: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Audio_Broadcasting#Err...
DAB+ uses EEP (and RS) which was deliberately chosen to give better signal quality all the way to the point of losing reception. Old DAB used UEP which degrades faster, but instead of having no signal, it went to a…
The phrase "if I were to hazard a guess" should tell you all you need to know. All I did beforehand was update my existing knowledge by reading the Wikipedia article at…
Starship isn't a proven manned transport vessel yet. And Boom was founded in 2014. If I was to hazard a guess, the BFS concept is 2035 at the earliest, most likely 2040 -- and it'll be at a much smaller scale than…
Boom is planning to operate at Mach 1.7 (approx. twice that of current aircraft) with a range of about 4250 nautical miles (4900 miles, 7900 km). Over land they're only going to fly at Mach 1.3 to reduce sonic boom…
All markets are finite. But you're thinking too finitely -- remember that there was a proposal to use Starship (BFS?) as a point-to-point method of people transport too (London to Sydney in under 50 minutes I seem to…
I genuinely worked somewhere that used the term API to mean "a person in India". The same company had someone order me not to use the term "postmortem" as part of the SRE function. I did not stay long after that.
The use of the word "chore" in many users of conventional commits has always riled me. I've always tended to favour the "linux kernel"[0] style of commit subject, which thankfully gets a mention here. [0]…
There's an RFC for Peg DHCP! :D https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2322 While it's an April 1st RFC, I've seen this implemented at a Hackspace in Amsterdam, works very well!
I'd have thought that by now, most would have been swapping to WebAssembly. It's really nicely sandboxed, you expose it to only what you want, and you can compile a lot of languages into a WASM form meaning you're not…
I have done extensive research on CDC and it almost never works out because most utilities don't create compressed archives in an "rsyncable" (rsync does CDC) format, I actually saved a lot of storage using restic when…
If you're the author of https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/ -- thank you :D
As someone who predominantly writes in Go, cider-v was a massive step backwards compared to cider. I eventually moved entirely over to using vim (with the set of internal plugins for blaze etc) which became so much more…
> flow-crushing remote desktop latency Yeah, I was working out of the Sydney office. Almost everything was incredibly slow due to that latency, not just chromoting but also just accessing most sites through beyondcorp.
/me shudders. cider-v...
Cider (and p4/g4c etc) was amazing when I left back in 2020, I loved it so much, and truly miss it. I rejoined Google last year, and they'd replaced it with a VSCode clone that truly was just a glorified text editor and…
That's what Locally Recoverable Codes (including Pyramid Codes) are designed to address: you can repair a missing block using only a subset of the blocks, which you can make sure are placed in just one zone, eliminating…
GCS / Azure can survive a total AZ failure too, think of 3 x Replicas as RAID-1, whereas Erasure Coding is more like RAID-6. Only it's actually more resilient: Let's say you have 10 data blocks, and you have 4 parity…