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   Solarbird :flag_cascadia: (moira@mastodon.murkworks.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Apr-2026 09:33:38 JST Solarbird :flag_cascadia:

   okay so let's think this out

   I have a UHF antenna at a not well known height pinging a location gmaps says is 1084 meters away (line of sight).

   We'll call the altitude of that location 0m to simplify maths. Openmaps has it on the low side of a 20m line. That matters to get actual altitude at the end; at most, it's another 2-3m down probably?

   At 850m (straight-line) from my 0m location, a signal clears a +70m hill on its way to either end.

   So start at 0m and create a right triangle with the signal path, and 70/850 should be the tan() of the angle from the 0m point. Therefore 70/850 = X/1084, and doing the maths gets you X = 90m.

   90+20=110m, ish.

   But my best direct estimate from the same topo maps is 93-95m.

   #gmrs #AmateurRadio

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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@mastodon.futurist.info)'s status on Thursday, 02-Apr-2026 18:48:55 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "Don't let your past define your future" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   --
   Futurist Jim Carroll is writing a series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, based on 36 lessons from his 36 years as a solo entrepreneur, working as a nomadic worker in the global freelance economy. The series is unfolding here, and at pivot.jimcarroll.com.
   --

   In the late 1990s, I was at the top of my game.

   I had written 34 books and was the go-to expert for the "Information Highway." I literally did thousands of interviews with the media - and can still find many of them online. On paper, in print, and in broadcast, I had 'arrived.'

   I did so many interviews that for a long time, I was pegged everywhere I went as 'that Internet guy.' And yet, when the dot.com collapse happened around 2001, many people thought the disruptive impact of the Internet had come to an end.

   So too did my career - the result was that my bread and butter dried up.

   People no longer wanted 'Internet strategy.' They wanted the next big thing, and that 'big thing' was a broader range of trends and disruptive innovation.

   Since I was spending all my time on stages and boardrooms speaking about those issues, albeit with a technology and Internet focus, I decided I would be a "Futurist, Trends & Innovation Expert," a self-anointed title I carry with me to this day. That's when I came to realize that the "Infinite Pivot" isn't a one-time event.

   Why did I shift? By 2002, I realized being "The Internet Guy" was a brand with a shelf life. The world was moving from how to use the web to what the world would look like next. I had to do something uncomfortable: abandon a successful brand to build a significant one.

   At the time, it felt like a massive risk to leave the security of a known niche.
   But by choosing my own title, I was claiming the future. I stopped being defined by the tools I explained (the Internet) and started being defined by the perspective I provided (the future).

   I was NOT letting my past define my future. Just as I refused to let my accountancy career and designation define my technology role. (I'm still, at this moment, a CPA! I just don't talk about it much!)

   And wow, was this pivot a success!

   It took hard work but from about 2005 to this day, I've built an entirely new career with an entirely new brand. And in this is a critical lesson for any organization: you might be the market leader today, but if you allow that success to define your identity forever, you will become a legacy act.

   True agility requires the courage to "self-title" into your next phase before the market forces you to.

   --
   Futurist Jim Carroll is still known to some folks as 'that Internet guy.'

   **#Past** **#Future** **#Redefine** **#Identity** **#Pivot** **#Brand** **#Reinvention** **#Change** **#Internet** **#Futurist** **#Courage** **#Legacy** **#Agility** **#Transformation** **#Career** **#Success** **#Growth** **#Evolution** **#SelfTitle** **#Freelance**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/04/decoding-tomorrow-the-infinite-pivot-series-7-dont-let-your-past-define-your-future/

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   💜 🩷 Iconoclast Beryl 🩷 💜 (rasp@raru.re)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Jul-2025 10:38:50 JST 💜 🩷 Iconoclast Beryl 🩷 💜

   in reply to

   @Paradox one thing I find hilarious about the anime is the case of Akemi Miyano. Now her only role in the series was VERY early on - chapters 13-16... and in chapter 16 she dies at the end.

   So fast forward to the anime coming out it was early days for that too, they weren't really sure how long things would go so they let her live.

   .... fast forward to chapter 241, her sister appears and becomes not just a major player but a main character... and her sisters death was a big part of that.

   So the anime staff, suddenly remember they hasn't actually killed her off when they were supposed to and basically had to scramble to put together a new episode solely to make sure she actually died this time.

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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 22-Nov-2024 08:07:10 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   On Linux (and I can only imagine on other platforms) `curl -I https://example.com` will output the headers with the caret return (\r) character at the end.

   So if you're piping it, say, into `sed` with a regex that matches the end of the line with `$`, you might want to do `\r$` instead.

   You know, if you want it to work as expected.

   That was a weird Bash script bug to figure out, that's for sure.

   #SysAdmin

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   casey is remote (realcaseyrollins@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Nov-2024 04:20:00 JST casey is remote

   I used to be okay with silly bad-faith arguments from #MSM hosts, especially on the right, because I assumed they were joking and speaking tongue-in-cheek.

   The election cycle has shown me, though, that 1) not all of them are joking and 2) even if they were, media literacy in the #USA is so poor that citizens would even know it was a joke if the people said "please clap" at the end.

   So I now have far less respect for lowest-common-denominator media that I did as a kid.

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   Rimu (rimu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jan-2024 03:34:15 JST Rimu

   in reply to

   @darren @kariboka I originally did fork kbin and created https://kglitch.social as a result. However that proved to be a dead end.

   So I made this instead: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi