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There's a smaller version of type F that has the same frame as type N, just missing the middle pin, so it is reversible. It has the same risk of reversing neutral and phase as type F, but (while I'm no expert) that has never been a problem for me.

It's missing the European high voltage plugs as well.

relevant xkcd

base12 has the advantage of being divisible by 2, 3, 4 and 6, while base10 is only divisible by 2 and 5.

Optical Character Recognition. Basically just extracting text from an image.

Here's a circular rainbow from ~~an aircraft~~ a skydiver:

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EDIT 2: not from a plane

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I'm not an expert, but I guess it would depend on the speed of sound in the rod.

Fun fact about that: in morse code, SOS is a prosign. This means it gets its own special rules.

Rather than being three seperate letters (...

...), it's one letter without any letter spaces (...---...). This is something that applies to all prosigns in morse code, though most of them are just two letters long.

Also, when sending it on repeat you just continue the pattern without any spaces. Instead of ...---... ...---... (with a letter space) or ...---.../...---... (with a word space), you send ...---...---...---...---... and just keep continuing the pattern. iirc SOS is the only prosign where this is a thing.

Other prosigns are for example HH (........) to indicate a correction to something previously sent, and SK (...-.-) (silent key) to signal that you have finished with the current conversation and the frequency is now clear.

No problem, thanks for replying.

That makes sense. It looks like a really clever way of letting the boot process allow for basically any arangement. Thanks!

They do, but compounding errors are always a problem with inertial navigation.

Instead of GPS, they can use fixed radio beacons like VOR and TACAN (which I think are both just US systems, but there are similar systems around the world and at major airports). This is basically the system that was in use before GPS.

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AM Radio has an extremely important role in emergency broadcasting, because you can cover a whole continent using just 3-4 broadcasting stations, and it is so easy to demodulate, that you can build completely analog recievers that need no power source (they use the carrier wave as a power source). This also means that AM receivers are very cheap, so in a lot of developing countries the only broadcasts most people can afford, and will reach them are AM.

I think we should keep AM radio around, at least for emergencies.

Also, unfortunately, when HF bandwidth gets freed up, it mostly ends up going to companies that use it for high frequency trading, and not to things where it would benefit the public, like ham radio, or digital broadcasts.