turmacar

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[–] turmacar 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

The last US Presidential election decided with more than a 10% margin was Regan. The only vote with above a 5% margin this millennium was Obama's first term.

"Anything lower than 10% and it probably doesn't matter much" is a weird take.

[–] turmacar 2 points 3 months ago

That'd be it.

Honestly it's super interesting to watch even if you know the moon landings happened for the history of tech he talks about.

[–] turmacar 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No, they're saying regardless of if the signal was encrypted or whatever format it was in, anyone with a directional antenna could triangulate where the signal was coming from. If there were only a repeater on the moon that NASA was transmitting to that was then sending the signal back, that would also have been able to be determined.

Both the Russians, who had a vested interest in embarrassing the US, and every other amateur and professional radio operator on the planet agreed that the moon landing was being transmitted from the moon.

[–] turmacar 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

FWIW the (not Loss) comic is from the age of Michael Jackson, not the roaring 20s.

[–] turmacar 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, no. It was (/is? damn, dude's still going. Good for him.) a comedy/commentary comic mostly about gaming and basically interactions that wouldn't be out of place in a Clarks movie. This was a standalone just a week or so before Loss.

Que super serious miscarriage storyline for "art" reasons.

[–] turmacar 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah at least with their parts lists the material cost is ~$134. So even the places selling kits for $150 are offering a pretty good deal for putting it all in a box for you. ( I assume they're able to make some savings buying in bulk but still)

[–] turmacar 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The Country is not the Continent.

Sure, the singular cultural/political/religious "those people".

[–] turmacar 45 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What are you talking about?

This is not about streaming to a laptop or Internet access. This is about a long range, low power, low bandwidth network using 2.4GHz. It's using 2.4GHz, like everyone else likes to, because it's the "free" signal band that you don't have to pay to license. It's for sending the message "Sprinkler head 1039A is leaking" from a solar panel powered transmitter without having to run a data cable or network repeaters.

It's competition for Zigbee/Z-Wave/Matter. Not the herald of the ISP crackdown Armageddon.

[–] turmacar 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Geostorm. Fun enough throwaway Gerard Butler movie.

[–] turmacar 1 points 3 months ago

a nightmare of garish bullshit that makes the entire work look like utter dog shit

Διαφωνῶ

[–] turmacar 2 points 3 months ago

It's definitely exploded but content farms were a problem even before 2022. There's a reason google results starting with "reddit" / "stack overflow" were trending so hard.

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