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@alt_kia

⁂ dysfunctional Verilog programmer ✦ shockingly nice under the circumstances ✦ bc1q9khhjegh5pqt5ufy9jyzeurz2pe4yqsa2dmm4l or 1LTH32oMxUnNNTUAJfhFCWZcKzgftB8hq ⁂

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Joined April 2013

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    i have a question about time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) systems (for locating non-cooperative RF emitter). i see stuff like "accuracy of range estimate is inversely proportional to bandwidth of signal" which makes sense if you're cross-correlating received signals at baseband,

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  2. Wanted to try something that looked good in a style of watercolor!

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  3. Feb 1

    The apocalypse wasn't as bad as you expected—blankets remained soft, and there were plenty of them; fire remained warm, and there was plenty of it; and more than anything, hiding from the vast monsters reminded you of childhood

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  4. Feb 1

    honestly this image is far too applicable

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  5. afaict "agent defeat" munitions do incorporate some explosives (to penetrate any tanks/containers where the agent may be stored) but the principal action comes from pyrolants that generate intense heat for a long time and maybe also emit chlorine and fluorine and HCl and HF gases

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  6. what's "agent defeat"? it's shorthand for "destruction of chemical/biological agents with least collateral damage"; and munitions that accomplish that should not generate lots of gases/shockwaves: otherwise the agent will be dispersed before it is chemically/thermally destroyed

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  7. all of this (in JP of course) is in the opening of episodes 10 and 11 of the first season of Sayonara Zetsubou-sensei; who included these utter shitposts

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  8. wowww ok so after deduplicating and doing a bit of merging of directory trees where i had sorted PDFs in the past, i have a neat little library of 1020 well-sorted PDFs and only 2917 unsorted PDFs (which isn't that bad)

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  9. almost 100GB of *duplicate* PDFs >_<

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  12. when that's done, i'll move out everything that's already well-organized (i have a few directory hierarchies with PDFs inside by subject/project). remaining PDFs i'll deal with over time: every day select a few at random with software, and those that spark joy i'll sort properly

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  13. in a common directory, and then run rmlint (which deduplicates and allows selecting which set of files to keep as originals); that way i'll have a single directory with all my PDFs, without duplicates, and without removing any sorting/organization that i previously had

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  14. oh i figured out how i'm going to deduplicate/sort my PDFs without destroying the residual order that exists: i'll use rsync with --include to copy over *only* PDFs from everywhere that i may have them -- while preserving the existing directory hierarchy -- and then put that all

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  15. honestly filesystems, like in general, are kind of accursed.

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  16. NFS is a set of protocols where "NFS turds" is a legit technical term and honestly the impression you get from that may not be wholly inaccurate.

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  17. unsure why Mac OS 10.15.3 doesn't behave well as an NFSv4 client against my linux machine's NFSv4 server but i downgraded it to nfsv3 and now it stopped being pathologically slow

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  18. 11 Dec 2018

    Western Project (2020) has been announced as a live-action film from Universal. Taking place in small town America, European gods suddenly come to life, and FBI agent Marisa Kristensen with her mysterious sidekick "Reimu" have to make the boisterous deities get along - or else!

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  19. Jan 10

    Also dear gods please don't suggest any object level examples of X in my mentions. There's a reason this thread is as abstracted as it is.

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  20. Jan 10

    Of course a lot of why we need X-positivity movements is also that often X is just fine, or not nearly as bad as the people against it think it is. A large part of healthily handling this is being prepared to find out you're wrong.

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  21. Jan 10

    It's important to be able to have open and honest conversations about important subjects. Some things are bad. Some things are unhealthy. Weaponized shame is both, and when you direct it at people you just cause them to close ranks and refuse to change.

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