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The Qansheng's that I've tested have been fine, first harmonic down 44dB, which is OK for the FCC.

However, if you hack the firmware and transmit outside the bands the radio's RF is designed to transmit on, then you will probably see all sorts of spectral weirdness.

Anything aviation-related normally has 5 to 10x cost of mass-market products.

Plus you probably need a licence to transmit in those bands.

Yeah those "autopatch" devices were illegal - Ma Bell had rules against connecting any radio to the telephone system. Probably worried about long distance revenue.

The portable radios/cord free telephones back then were a bit of a legal gray-zone.

Yes, it's deliberately a low bandwidth, cheap protocol. It's hard to make something with a big margin off it.

Still, it's bad for Cisco's reputation to abandon support for existing customers.

I agree, this CPU has double the transistors of a 6502, and runs at 1/20th of a 6502 speed. A silicon product will be faster, the size of a printed dot and use less power.

No word either on how many bending cycles the product supports.

Still, it's early days, and flexibility might have some use.

Note that JPEGs can be rotated without decompression, just by swapping the axes of the compression cells.

Some of the software he uses may do this, others may decompress, rotate and recompress.

Sadly, not knowing what used to be, erases history.

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.” ― George Orwell, 1984

Semi off topic:

Interesting to look at picture of the text of the 1890 paper. That typesetting is almost the same as modern scientific papers.

Maybe Rayleigh had an early copy of LaTeX? ;-)

It's hard to generalize. The whole field of behavioural intelligence has lots of fake/unrepeatable studies.

Even Kahneman, who got a Economics Nobel has this issue:

https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...

The irony is that Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely are famous for their pop-sci/TED talks studying dishonesty. Turns out they were dishonest themselves.

https://www.npr.org/2023/07/27/1190568472/dan-ariely-frances...

The original NT was a great design, built by people who knew what they were doing and had done it before (for VMS). It was superior to the Unix design when it came out, benefiting from the knowledge of 15 years.

I worked on kernel drivers starting in with NT 3.5. However, over the years, the kernel has become bloated. The bloat is both in code and in architecture.

I guess this is inevitable as the original team has long gone, and it is now too large for anyone to understand the whole thing.

Also bear in mind that many of today's network cards have processors in them that handle much of the TCP/IP overhead.

If you like Hornblower, you should read the Aubrey Maturin series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey%E2%80%93Maturin_series

Yes, it's impressive. I had to write one in assembly years ago. However, could only do UDP unfortunately as I didn't have enough memory for code and TCP buffers in 64kB.

One wonders how many giga-watts of electricity Windows update consumes each year?

It's more complex than that now. For the last 4 years, Microsoft has a "Medic Service" that will put Windows update back if you just move those files.

That capsule better keep quiet - Boeing doesn't like Whistleblowers ;-)

For me, the interesting thing about Japanese work culture is that they pay white collar jobs overtime.

Paid overtime seems to be a blue-collar only thing in most English-speaking countries.

For a digital-only lightweight alternative that does everything a watch should do, the Casio F-E10 is ideal.

"- Invest in good docs..."

In my experience, end users don't read the docs or FAQ's or help search - they send you a question.

That's what comes with actually using the instruction set of modern CPU's instead of the lowest common denominator instruction set.

However, note that some of the modern instructions like AVX-512 use a lot of electrical power on the CPU, for example pushing a 12gen Intel chip above 300W.

Very true. Their journalists understand the technology they are writing about and explain it clearly. They also provide background and a bigger picture. One can view them as sceptical, perhaps even jaded hacks, but what they write generally stands the test of time.

In my opinion, it is the best tech news website.

The important axiom you forgot:

- The government needs to take your money via tax on profits.

Result: Via fancy accounting, businesses can pretend not to have profits and avoid tax.

NI used to be big and well known to the electronic engineers in the 1980's and 90's who helped develop the early Internet.

See ti.com - Texas Instruments

Yeah, I have a Moto G84 12GB RAM for $180 - and it has features that these Pixels do not have:

- SD Card up to 1TB

- 3.5mm headphone jack

Microsoft don't seem to have a QA dept anymore.

Very true, there are other sources of the same ideas. It's even in the Bible: "You shall have no other gods before me", implying that El is the number 1 god.

Paul Johnson has gone out of fashion but his wide works have stood the test of time.

Indeed. For most solid-state transmitters many of these non-linearities in envelope and frequency are temperature dependent too.

The same device will give different signatures at different temps.

Google "umop ew" for a list.

UMOP stands for unintentional modulation on pulse. This will start you off with the foundation papers in the field.

Thank you for that link.

There are many flaws in the paper's approach. There is much literature on this already, it has been investigated for decades. Much of the fingerprinting used comes from non-linearities in the RF power amplifiers, not the frequency.