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[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

Wrong community?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago

It's crazy to me that the feature sizes on chips are smaller than the wavelength of visible light. Chip designers have not been able to inspect their work under a regular microscope for decades.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

I swear it says „Barbaras Rhabarberbar" in there somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not like commercial AM/FM radio stations playing music, but radio in the more general sense. 5G cell phones and satellite-to-earth communication systems use that frequency range, for example.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (8 children)

2.4 GHz and 5 GHz are both "ISM bands." These are frequencies that regulators have set aside for unlicensed use.

Fun fact: 2.4 GHz is free to use because of microwave ovens. Microwaves are really noisy around 2.45 GHz. Rather than try to regulate their radio emissions, or make people license their kitchen appliances as radio transmitters, the FCC allocated that patch of spectrum for free use. Any device that can tolerate the noise can use that bit of the radio spectrum.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Same. There's are still updates, but only a few per year.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Check the prior post in this community. The sign is changed multiple times as the techbros invent new bullshit business ideas:

Uber but for Cats
~~Uber but for~~ Cats on the Blockchain
~~Uber but for~~ AI Cats ~~on the Blockchain~~

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

That damn mosquito kept you awake all night.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Your friend tried to get you to try new pizza toppings, but you only like pepperoni so you picked off everything else.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You learned to dance a haka, but you have all the coordination of Elaine from Seinfeld.

Edit: sorry, this sounds a bit more dickish than I intended.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
 

I am trying to cultivate a new community: [email protected]. The name is lovingly stolen from a slogan of the 99% Invisible podcast: always read the plaque.

The community highlights informative signage: monuments, memorials, interpretive signs, and simple plaques. Some posts may be historically significant, others may be interesting novelties or touching memorials to good people who have passed. You never know what interesting thing has been left there, right out in the open for all of us to read.

 

The article has some interesting information about European passports, too.

The rise of tourism in North America and Europe in the mid- to late 19th century caused difficulties for the existing passport and visa systems in Europe and in 1861, France abolished passports and visas, with the rest of Europe following suit.

By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, passport requirements were nonexistent nearly everywhere in Europe and the United States. The First World War brought new concerns for international security, prompting the requirement of passports and visas to travel abroad.
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the U.S. passport requirement was only a war measure that officially ended when President Wilson left office in 1921. The U.S. was not a member of League of Nations – despite it being the brainchild of its aforementioned president – and did not require passports for international travel again until Nov. 29, 1941, mere days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

 
 

If code that can be directly compiled and executed may be suppressed under the DMCA ... but a textual description of the same algorithm may not be suppressed, then where exactly should the line be drawn?

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