turmacar

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[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

He bought co-founder status at Paypal too IIRC. He was ousted in part because he wanted to rename it "x.com". Weird that.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days 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@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days 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@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days 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@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Country is not the Continent.

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

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week 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@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Geostorm. Fun enough throwaway Gerard Butler movie.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

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

Διαφωνῶ

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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.

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even with amazing documentation, it can be hard to find the thing you're looking for if you don't know the right phrasing or terminology yet. It's easily the most usable thing I've seen come out of "AI", which makes sense. Using a Language Model to parse language is a very literal application.

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