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pdc56··on On tea and the art of doing nothing
tsesting your thoery now
pdc56··on Starlink Maritime
I lived and worked full time on a boat for many years. The answer to your question is in three parts:

1 - normal cell hand held phone use, you can often get (patchy) reception up to 15 (more sometimes) nautical miles off shore if lucky.

2 - setup a wifi hotspot on your phone and pull it up the mast. Range increases, i'm not sure how much to, but at 15nm the reception is good. Can work out further too, i've been on the far side of the channel islands in CA and had (poor) reception

3 - device with directional antenna up the mast - I always intended to do this but never did. I expect probably can get genuinely good coverage at 20nm out, maybe a bit more

pdc56··on Carmakers feel chip crisis easing
I'm sure a complete coincidence, but last week I got chips I've been after for over a year (USB 3.2 hub IC)
pdc56··on CAD/CAM constraint-based geometry sketcher for Blender
Thanks for this. I just got a surface studio with pen and was looking for something like this but failed to find anything.

I did the tutorial and it worked fine, but then when I started fresh I got a bug where I couldn't see any geometry until after I finished the pen operation, rendering it useless. What a shame. I'll try it again one day after they hopefully fix it

pdc56··on Launch HN: Micro Meat (YC S21) – Technology for scaling cultivated meat
Has anyone done a study where bioreactor meat is offered on actual restaurant menus to see how many people actually order it? Not actually offering it, but apologising to the customer if they order it and explaining the study.

I can't seem to find anything. I find it hard to get excited by technology development in this area without having confidence people will be interested in it.

Good luck anyway!

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