Notices by AN/CRM-114 (flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange)

@clacke did that conflict go nucular?

Now spinning, the original Star Wars original score (1977). Listening notes:

- I love how sloppy it sounds compared to later soundtrack, it sounds like the entire London Symphony Orchestra went out drinking one Friday night, kept it going all through Saturday, slept four hours, dragged themselves out of bed at seven in the morning, and ground out the whole album in one take because it’s a fucking space wizard movie but a job’s a job mate. Nevertheless such consummate pros that they still did a solid job full of manic energy. True punk (approbative)
- Try to pick up when they play the wrong notes. There’s one off key clarinet fart in Leia’s Theme that gets me every time
- Those horns are old school tinny like on Toscanini’s recording of La Boheme. Tasty
- John Williams loves some flute noodling
- The end credits reprise: so nice they play it twice
- Nobody knows how to end Cantina Band #1

@moira ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: knife-edge diffraction

https://www.raymaps.com/index.php/knife-edge-diffraction-model/

@ai6yr @pattykimura @steter @copter_chief that seems like a lot until you think about the weight the front seats carry

@pattykimura @steter @copter_chief @ai6yr I used to live in a place with bad snow and found that even with all wheel drive my car would tend to fishtail just being so light in the back. A few bags of tube sand in the back and it rode on rails even on slush on a hill.

Do not test this in your first huge snowstorm

@clacke it’s kind of amazing that forty years later we have a new tool to add to the coreutils box

Maybe there’s something out there that fills this gap, but it bugs me that jq tends to be embedded as a string in shell scripts or YAML the way that awk is embedded in shell scripts or shell scripts get embedded in YAML and then the tooling isn’t there to check it: a hole where bugs can sneak in. How do you handle these cases?

@thomasfuchs Maybe Apple announcements were always this smug and pretentious, but at least in the old days they showed some steak to back up the sizzle

@douglasvb @IrrationalMethod @mattblaze @KanaMauna @ai6yr and lest we forget VA(AW)-33 “Nighthawks”, the nuclear strike squadron that flew a prop-driven A-1 Skyraider variant armed with nuclear bombs. Put the ball to the wall, climb and release at 45 degrees, then do an Immelman and hope the white paint on your tail keeps it from getting vaporized by the blast

https://theaviationist.com/2024/11/29/ad-5n-skyraider-nuclear-role/

@douglasvb @IrrationalMethod @mattblaze @KanaMauna @ai6yr it was kind of an open secret that pretty much everything had a couple nukes just in case. Ship launched AIM-7 Sparrow SAMs? ASROC depth charges? Tomahawk SLCMs? Sure, why not

@tk 1.25m is peaceful

@saucerlost Welcome to AVALANCHE

@thomasfuchs It is no coincidence that Google acquired Doubleclick in March 2008

Makes me think about how Boeing acquired McDonnell-Douglas in 1997, but MD management won the culture war

Apparently there are people on here who acknowledge that LLM use can be bad while vehemently defending their own daily use

I get it, dude. I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for like a decade

I should also mention that as a smoker you stink all the time, you have no sense of taste, anyone who doesn’t share your habit thinks you’re an asshole who shouldn’t be around kids, and at any hour of the day you can step outside and talk to someone who agrees that you are in fact the oppressed minority

@aeva @cwebber “We have Giger Bar at home”

@sungo @silverwizard I knew a dude who was really into SCO UNIX before then… and then there was the lawsuit

I just learned this minute that Darl McBride died from ALS complications last year. Huh

@silverwizard @sungo thinking of the old friend of mine who built underwater camera robots that ran QNX in the early 2000s, the same time that I was configuring early Aironet access points that ran QNX

@tk I’m not sure if this would work in your situation but this might be a good starting point

https://q82.uk/gammamatch

@tk I saw the same curve on a dual band vertical I foolishly mounted within several wavelengths of aluminum siding. The sawtooth you see looks like the interference pattern from RF reflected back into the dipole, and the phase changes with wavelength

One thing I’m looking at is the railing parallel to the dipole at about 70cm below, which looks like a giant yagi reflector element. Maybe you can test this by temporarily changing the orientation of your dipole. Maybe you can make the railing part of the antenna with a gamma match? Just throwing stuff out there

@paninid @passenger I’ve said elsewhere that US Christianity is a cult of a subservient god who works for you:

“Jesus is my house elf”