Does anyone understand what was meant by "This is because almost every standard (except ISO8601, whatever) is just a file, and you can read it." Initially I thought it was because the PDF of ISO-8601 is not a file commonly distributed with operating system. But that's not unique to ISO8601, you won't find IEEE 1588-2019 or NMEA 0183 v4.11 on your computer either. For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO. Is there something special about ISO8601 that is not contained in the standard?
I believe the IEEE and others also would come under the exceptions to the "almost" - anything you'd have to make a special effort to seek out and purchase.
> Don’t let people bully you into thinking that just because something is complicated, it’s impossible.
> This is because almost every standard (except ISO8601, whatever) is just a file, and you can read it.
In context, (my interpretation is that) "standard" includes things like The Time Zone Information Format [1], the GNU docs about TZ [2], etc. I think the idea is to say "the documents laying out the details of complicated things are still just documents, you can read them if you're interested and don't have to just see them as meant of domain experts. Some of them have barriers to access like the ISO documents, but even excepting those you have direct access to most everything you might want to understand, don't let the idea of standards intimidate you."
> For ~20$ I think I can buy a PDF of the standard from ISO.
You might find most standards for ~20 USD, but ISO8601 direct from iso.org will set you back 173 CHF (~200 USD) for part 1¹, 194 CHF (~220 USD) for part 2². For $20 you get only the latest amendments from them.
Meanwhile the Estonians will gladly sell you their version of part 1 for just under 30 USD.³
NIST does a lot of really neat work outside of crypto standards. Judah Levine and all the other
metrology folks are awesome. It's unfortunate that they get grouped together by comments like this.
Sorry, yes I only meant in the context of cryptography of course. NIST is a great organization and it's really a historical accident that they do anything with crypto.
Are you referring to the 45 year old Cessna when you say private jet? It looks like that plane flies a lot around Louisiana and Texas. Weird to jump to a conclusion about F1 money and an entitled pilot.
I mean, I'm just guessing, but AUS becomes one of the busiest airports for non-commercial planes this weekend every year. Even an old Cessna is literally a private jet, and they clearly weren't listing to ATC, so it's either entitlement or some sort of minor disaster that almost became a major disaster.
It's a choice to fly your airplane across the land/takeoff trajectory for a major airport. They also essentially flew by the F1 track on the way.
Private plane then. The point is the same. If you're flying a couple miles away from a commercial airport and across the path of the runways, maybe you're not required to be listening to ATC, but that's definitely a choice you're making to risk it.
No, it isn't. You can get a Cessna for less than a Cybertruck. You cannot get a private jet that cheap.
> If you're flying a couple miles away from a commercial airport and across the path of the runways, maybe you're not required to be listening to ATC, but that's definitely a choice you're making to risk it.
There's an explicit system of controlled airspace around airports.
The Cessna was operating in airspace it had the legal right to be in and no need for ATC coordination. Near some of the busiest airports, etiquitte requires you try not to make a nuisance of yourself as a GA pilot to ATC.
You clearly know this more than I do, and I'm probably wrong in general, as it seems. I guess I find it hard to believe ATC is just flagrantly flying planes full of people in airspace they shouldn't be, but maybe that's normal.
You’d be surprised! For example, when I take off from Palo Alto in the Bay Area and fly northeast over, say, Fremont, staying under 4000 feet, I am in what’s called Class E airspace where I am not required to transmit on the radio. I regularly see arrivals into Oakland in front of me at my altitude and below. It is technically considered controlled airspace, as IFR aircraft must operate on an ATC clearance, but my VFR ass can legally barrel right through without talking to anyone! Obviously that’s not the smartest or safest practice but it’s legal.
YES, I love the physical buttons. I have mine rotated so that the buttons are at the bottom, and it works well. The weight is distributed more evenly this way as well.
Did they actually announce that the Oasis was discontinued or did they just stop making them?
I've been a kindle user for so long I'm embarrassed to admit I don't have any concept of what it is like to get ebooks outside of the Amazon ecosystem. Was the change easy to make? Do you feel like you have access to as much content as you did with a kindle?
I use a Boox reader, but pretty close to the same experience. For me, I either buy the book from one of the many places that lets you download epub, or buy it on the Kindle store and download it from Libgen. It's really a non-issue. I've only run into one or two books I wasn't able to get an epub of, and those I ended up reading on the Kindle cloud reader on my laptop.
I have both an old Kindle Paperwhite 2nd Gen I think and a Kobo Clara.
The kindle 'lives' in the car and the Kobo at home so I always have something to read.
I use Calibre to sync to both.
Rather than directly accessing Amazon from the Kindle I download bought books to my PC then strip the DRM - so I can read the same book on both the Clara and Kindle.
I'd say that the initial awkwardness is from deliberately not connecting the Kobo or Kindle to the internet to stop them from 'phoning home' when you set them up. The Kindle is easy - just don't connect it, the Kobo seems to insist but there's a simple step-by-step to bypass the enforced sign up on the Clara I use.
Good BMS systems which don't stress the battery, limiting max SoC, liquid cooling, not using its peak current draw as often, etc.
Also most drivers won't really use that many charge cycles per day or whatever. I easily use like 90%+ of my phone's battery every day, I'll use up most of my laptop's battery when I'm on the go. Both of these devices often sit at a high state of charge and goose the voltages more to get more juice out of the pack at the expense of how many cycles they're good for. Meanwhile it's not like I'm driving >200mi every day.
By "managed", they mean periodically charged and discharged, and kept out of the heat. which is why I don't want to keep a baofeng battery in my glove bod
Beats me, I'm just getting into this now. I started with a Reolink NVR, but it's a piece of crap, so I'm looking for a better alternative.
It looks like either Frigate or Viseron will do what I want. I started setting up Frigate, but realized I should downgrade my Reolink Duo 3 to a Duo 2 before I go too far. The Duo 3 really doesn't offer much better image quality but forces you to use h265 and consumes a lot more bandwidth. Once I stabilize my camera setup I'll get back to setting up both Frigate and Viseron and see what performs better. I like that the pro upgrade of Frigate allows you to customize the model and may make use of that.
It's kind of crazy to see how prevalent MYChevrolet and/or myGMC are. There are more MYChevrolet / myGMC SSIDs than attwifi. I have to think this is because so many people are doing the stumbling from inside of a vehicle.
