At the very least, I wish Digital Radio Mondiale won out over DAB. It’s designed to use the existing long, medium and short-wave bands and can even co-exist with an AM broadcast. I imagine digital radio would work quite…
It’s still quite a lot of power for AM (amplitude modulation) broadcast on any band. If Radio 4 was on shortwave with 500kW transmitters, I probably would have been able to listen in on my radio at home in Australia, no…
There’s still a lot of utility stations in the LF/longwave band. Particularly time signals (WWVB in the US, ALS162 in France, DCF77 in Germany, JJY in Japan, etc.) and NDB beacons. At least in VK/Australia, there’s the…
HF propagates through skywave (most reliably from 5-30MHz), which is where the signal bounces off the ionosphere. In the MF (AM broadcast) band, you can observe this at night - in Australia I can pick up the 50kW…
Doesn't excuse CHU: two 3kW, one 5kW ERP. And by the virtue of shortwave propagation, it could be heard across the world. For the past month and a half (from when the news of its impending shutdown was revealed) I was…
The $17,000 Apple Watch was a (rather silly) attempt to compete in the high end watch space. However, they also launched the base "Sport" model at US$349.
Have to say, it’s quite wild to me that one of the design blunders of macOS Tahoe could be a pages long blog post. I’d actually forgotten about the menu icons in Tahoe (I tried Tahoe during the beta period and lasted…
Nix is sort of that third option, though I really wish there was a well-documented way to use it on macOS as purely a binary/source package manager. A lot of stuff I read online goes into setting up nix-darwin to manage…
If it's a mechanical one, there's a possibility that it's been repaired or replaced. The mechanism after all these years will likely wear out. At the same time, I know someone with a car whose odometer has been at…
An aside on your last point: In the D gear, a lot of auto transmissions will be set up to allow for the wheels to spin somewhat independently of the engine (in any gear) when you aren't accelerating, which accounts a…
A long time ago, Apple actually did more or less this for the coreutils in A/UX, which was their own UNIX for the 68k Macintoshes. This page has a screenshot of the GUI provided for ls:…
Medium format digital is a thing for those with deep pockets (e.g. Fujifilm GFX). Large format, on the other hand…
I’ll absolutely admit knowing very little about the nuances of payment networks in the US, particularly with contactless —- but my experience (in Australia) is that payment terminals that support contactless inherently…
It's been in macOS for quite some time. Mostly dormant now but at one point it was what powered the Web Sharing option in the Sharing prefpane. It was also used in OS X Server (both the OS X versions designed for Xserve…
>It seamlessly detects when the peer is local so it doesn't route out to the internet and back One of my use cases for Tailscale was connectivity between my primary NAS and an off-site NAS I use for backups. Being able…
It's what happens when a country dismisses a proper national ID number/card -- the nearest available substitute gets used, sometimes regardless of how well the substitute works as an ID. The United States Social…
Anecdata, but I think for pre-paid services Optus never stored that information, and only used it for the required identification. I had activated a pre-paid Optus service (in a store, using my drivers' licence as ID)…
I've had mixed results depending on devices -- my Apple devices tend to hop between bands and APs quite excellently. On the other end, I've got a Nintendo Switch which stubbornly sticks to the first AP / band (I'm…
As far as consumer routers go, wouldn’t it be trivial to re-tool the usual port forwarding interface to simply accept connections to a specific address-port? That combined with a internal block-all-inbound rule would be…
For me, the point is not constant active monitoring but being able to see when some application runs away with my system resources. At a glance network monitoring is also very handy — I can check if an application is…
I've personally had very good experiences switching back from Homebrew to MacPorts. Wouldn't go back to Homebrew. I find it much faster now, which is quite funny to me because back when Homebrew was new (and a lot less…
What exactly do you mean by “work with the USB-C format?”. USB-C defines the physical connector. Would a C-to-Lightning cable count? Because those do exist, and are now what you get in the box with newer iPhones.
At present, by requiring the use of Apple's IAP system for subscriptions, this is already taken care of. Given the Apple vs. Epic stuff going on, this may change soon -- In that case I'd also like to see rules against…
I wouldn't bring in an entire library, but one big thing I find Apple Music has over Spotify is how well your traditional library and the Apple Music library converge. I make use of it a lot for albums and songs not…
The software experience is the one thing I wish Apple would improve upon faster. It's got quite good as of late, but there's still a lot of things that could be way better all around. I can certainly agree that Excel on…
At the very least, I wish Digital Radio Mondiale won out over DAB. It’s designed to use the existing long, medium and short-wave bands and can even co-exist with an AM broadcast. I imagine digital radio would work quite…
It’s still quite a lot of power for AM (amplitude modulation) broadcast on any band. If Radio 4 was on shortwave with 500kW transmitters, I probably would have been able to listen in on my radio at home in Australia, no…
There’s still a lot of utility stations in the LF/longwave band. Particularly time signals (WWVB in the US, ALS162 in France, DCF77 in Germany, JJY in Japan, etc.) and NDB beacons. At least in VK/Australia, there’s the…
HF propagates through skywave (most reliably from 5-30MHz), which is where the signal bounces off the ionosphere. In the MF (AM broadcast) band, you can observe this at night - in Australia I can pick up the 50kW…
Doesn't excuse CHU: two 3kW, one 5kW ERP. And by the virtue of shortwave propagation, it could be heard across the world. For the past month and a half (from when the news of its impending shutdown was revealed) I was…
The $17,000 Apple Watch was a (rather silly) attempt to compete in the high end watch space. However, they also launched the base "Sport" model at US$349.
Have to say, it’s quite wild to me that one of the design blunders of macOS Tahoe could be a pages long blog post. I’d actually forgotten about the menu icons in Tahoe (I tried Tahoe during the beta period and lasted…
Nix is sort of that third option, though I really wish there was a well-documented way to use it on macOS as purely a binary/source package manager. A lot of stuff I read online goes into setting up nix-darwin to manage…
If it's a mechanical one, there's a possibility that it's been repaired or replaced. The mechanism after all these years will likely wear out. At the same time, I know someone with a car whose odometer has been at…
An aside on your last point: In the D gear, a lot of auto transmissions will be set up to allow for the wheels to spin somewhat independently of the engine (in any gear) when you aren't accelerating, which accounts a…
A long time ago, Apple actually did more or less this for the coreutils in A/UX, which was their own UNIX for the 68k Macintoshes. This page has a screenshot of the GUI provided for ls:…
Medium format digital is a thing for those with deep pockets (e.g. Fujifilm GFX). Large format, on the other hand…
I’ll absolutely admit knowing very little about the nuances of payment networks in the US, particularly with contactless —- but my experience (in Australia) is that payment terminals that support contactless inherently…
It's been in macOS for quite some time. Mostly dormant now but at one point it was what powered the Web Sharing option in the Sharing prefpane. It was also used in OS X Server (both the OS X versions designed for Xserve…
>It seamlessly detects when the peer is local so it doesn't route out to the internet and back One of my use cases for Tailscale was connectivity between my primary NAS and an off-site NAS I use for backups. Being able…
It's what happens when a country dismisses a proper national ID number/card -- the nearest available substitute gets used, sometimes regardless of how well the substitute works as an ID. The United States Social…
Anecdata, but I think for pre-paid services Optus never stored that information, and only used it for the required identification. I had activated a pre-paid Optus service (in a store, using my drivers' licence as ID)…
I've had mixed results depending on devices -- my Apple devices tend to hop between bands and APs quite excellently. On the other end, I've got a Nintendo Switch which stubbornly sticks to the first AP / band (I'm…
As far as consumer routers go, wouldn’t it be trivial to re-tool the usual port forwarding interface to simply accept connections to a specific address-port? That combined with a internal block-all-inbound rule would be…
For me, the point is not constant active monitoring but being able to see when some application runs away with my system resources. At a glance network monitoring is also very handy — I can check if an application is…
I've personally had very good experiences switching back from Homebrew to MacPorts. Wouldn't go back to Homebrew. I find it much faster now, which is quite funny to me because back when Homebrew was new (and a lot less…
What exactly do you mean by “work with the USB-C format?”. USB-C defines the physical connector. Would a C-to-Lightning cable count? Because those do exist, and are now what you get in the box with newer iPhones.
At present, by requiring the use of Apple's IAP system for subscriptions, this is already taken care of. Given the Apple vs. Epic stuff going on, this may change soon -- In that case I'd also like to see rules against…
I wouldn't bring in an entire library, but one big thing I find Apple Music has over Spotify is how well your traditional library and the Apple Music library converge. I make use of it a lot for albums and songs not…
The software experience is the one thing I wish Apple would improve upon faster. It's got quite good as of late, but there's still a lot of things that could be way better all around. I can certainly agree that Excel on…