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friesen··on An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest
Goes where?
friesen··on How I Run a Company with ADHD
Maybe, but only being able to focus on things that happen to grab your attention/interest is one of the major pain points of having ADHD.

It's not a matter of preferring to work on more interesting things. It's more along the lines of not realizing uninteresting things need to be dealt with (or even exist at all, sometimes) until they bite you in the ass.

Keeping up the theme of starting a blog... you'll have a rational understanding that a blog needs content. But you'll get wrapped up in solving the more interesting design/engineering problems. Once those parts of the project have been sorted out well enough that you are no longer actively solving a problem (note, I didn't say they were completed), something unrelated, but more interesting, will cross your mind and steal your attention away.

friesen··on An Interview with the Founder of QGIS
Its presence is growing in the commercial and govt spaces. Oddly enough, I actually see it used more in those than in academia. Definitely a growing presence in all three though.
friesen··on Man sues over Google’s “Location History” fiasco, case could affect millions
Only 5000?
friesen··on Windows 10 vs. Linux Performance On AMD Threadripper 2990WX
TBF, Optimus and power stuff aren't too much easier on a distro like Ubuntu (granted, they have come a long way). I usually end up having to look it up in the Arch wiki anyhow. Thank god for that site.
friesen··on Ask HN: Recommendations of good cybercrime novels?
The sequel, Homeland, is also pretty great.
friesen··on The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan
While I can get behind many of the use cases for FOAM's proposed product, avoiding interference isn't one of them.

LoRa is particularly susceptible to jamming. Given the frequencies used, accidental jamming by legally operating transmitters is a very real possibility.

It also turns out that LoRaWAN is vulnerable to selective jamming, but I'm not sure whether or not FOAM is looking to make use of the LoRaWAN layer.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.02141

friesen··on The World Economy Runs on GPS. It Needs a Backup Plan
They use a combination of GPS, terrain recognition, and IMUs.
friesen··on Study: Today’s dads are engaging more with their kids
Cockpits have maximum height limits. It varies by plane model.
friesen··on Only some people get blackout drunk
I get what you're saying, and I think I have a decent (enough) analogy to illustrate the difference.

The memory gaps you are talking about are sort of like lossy compression. The gist of what happened is there, even if you can't remember every detail. Blacking out is more like having a significant chunk deleted from the middle of the file.

friesen··on Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a 5.5-inch touchscreen
or

xrandr --output $touchpadscreen --below $builtinscreen

friesen··on NASA Finds Ancient Organic Material, Mysterious Methane on Mars
Somehow, the article managed to miss what should have be a big part of the announcement. They found evidence of kerogens. That has a bit more impact.
friesen··on We don’t need nearly as much protein as we consume
Probably has to do with bioavailability, similar to vitamins from food vs vitamin supplements.
friesen··on Ask HN: Who still misses Unity Desktop Environment? Anyone making a fork?
It does not come installed with Ubuntu 18.04. You can install it from the repo though.
friesen··on A Criminal Gang Used a Drone Swarm to Obstruct an FBI Hostage Raid
Likewise, I doubt that too many people are etching flight controller PCBs and building brushless motors from scratch in their garages.
friesen··on YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels
First, there is nothing in that wiki page that suggests that ZMA is a sleep aid. Second, the fitness community is prone to quackery.
friesen··on A Lengthy, Pedantic Review of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)
You can also just press enter and type your password like normal.
friesen··on Many Bitcoin Miners Are at Risk of Turning Unprofitable
You can make things with gold.
friesen··on The Myth of Authenticity Is Killing Tex-Mex
El Paso would like a word with you.

Agree with you on the food situation in Dallas in a general sense. But you can find loads of great tex-mex in East Dallas and Oak Cliff.

friesen··on ProtonMail blocked by Vodafone Turkey
Y'all rendered assistance to Swiss law enforcement prior to actually receiving the order?
friesen··on Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017)
Yup, that's the signalstick that I bought. Great little piece of kit.
friesen··on Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017)
Check out some of their newer hardware. The UV-5X3 doesn't have the spurious emissions problem common in previous models.

Granted, the included antenna is garbage. I ended up building a j-pole and picking up a signalstick for mine. It works quite well with both.

friesen··on Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017)
Exactly. I picked up a slightly more expensive baofeng (UV-5X3) for my fist radio. Sured it's far from the greatest radio in the world (although it's leaps and bounds ahead of the UV-5R), but it gave me an inexpensive path forward. My only real complaint is that the included antenna is garbage for transmitting. So I built a cheap roll-up j-pole out of some old twinlead. The radio works quite well with that. I have since bought a signalstick antenna (j-poles aren't exactly portable), but that early experience building an antenna made me comfortable with doing more DIY radio projects.
friesen··on Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico (2017)
Seconded. I spent about two weeks studying with the mobile version of this site in my free time and managed to pass the technician, general, and amateur extra exams in one sitting.
friesen··on On the Influence of Carbonic Acid in the Air Upon the Temperature (1896) [pdf]
Here's a pretty good one from 40 years earlier. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6xhFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA382#v=...