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mrecheese 🧀 · 1d
FT8-type digital makes sense for long-range comms, but D-STAR, DMR, etc. I think are really just about cramming us into less FM bandwidth, while controlling access. There are some disturbing presentat...
Bill Cypher profile picture
Joe Taylor modes are not the same thing as digital voice. I'm a huge fan of the Joe Taylor stuff but digital voice is idiotic.

The repeaters are dead! I know! Let's turn each repeater into 80 distinct TGs so we really never EVER get an answer when we throw our callsign out!

There is definitely a contingent of old fart hams who are hell bent on destroying the hobby so they are the last generation. Just listening to the local repeaters while working makes me want to strangle some of these guys. Some brand new call sign calls for a radio check with full quieting and gets dead air, then a regular calls 1 minute later and gets 5 responses.
mrecheese 🧀 · 1d
Yep, that about sums it up. We're really lucky to have a good one in range. When Cheese Jr. gets on there, they always talk to him. A couple even sent him QSL cards for his first contacts.
mrecheese 🧀 · 1d
FT8-type digital makes sense for long-range comms, but D-STAR, DMR, etc. I think are really just about cramming us into less FM bandwidth, while controlling access. There are some disturbing presentations I've seen on NXDN where boomers get positively orgasmic about registration and permissions on r...
mrecheese 🧀 · 1d
HELL YEAH BROTHER https://i.nostr.build/Il7gxmvDR5ruGOAY.gif
Yarnlady 🧶 · 1d
I can only get so erect...
Matt - Spook, CEO NanoStrategy · 2d
Helpful if you know you're going to fall. Lol
Bill Cypher profile picture
Or if you can do it reflexively. I don't need to know I'm going to get burnt to pull my hand back quickly. I'm sure you did something reflexively as you fell.

If you take a beginner judo class the first thing you practice is falling, hundreds of times. Then you begin to get thrown. When you are getting thrown so others can practice their throw, you also practice falling correctly. Good coaches will intervene just as quickly if you fall wrong as if you throw wrong.

I train BJJ not judo but we do takedowns each class. Go to class and fall 20 times before 7 am 3 days a week. You won't need to know in advance any more after a while.

It may seem silly but falling in the bathroom killed Bob Saget. How many old people fall and break a hip? How many of them die from complications and the mobility issues that a broken hip causes? Slip on ice and hit your head? Be Aaron Rogers and repeatedly break your collarbone? Falling competently is a seriously underrated skill.
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Matt - Spook, CEO NanoStrategy · 2d
I was thrown out of a moving vehicle while focusing on what my next golf play was going to be lol Had no idea it was coming until I'd already hit the ground (a lesson to never trust the asshole driving the cart 😂). Sometimes you just can't prepare. My typical reflex is to tuck when I roll though....
Matt - Spook, CEO NanoStrategy · 2d
You usually don't go into golf thinking about falling but lesson learned. It can happen anywhere. Thanks for the tips
Matt - Spook, CEO NanoStrategy · 2d
My buddies were fucking around on the golf course yesterday (and I didn't get the memo). The guy driving my cart took a hard left at full speed, while I took a hard right. Is it just me or does the g...
Bill Cypher profile picture
We forget how to fall.

Also braking strength is a different skill than accelerating strength. A breakfall is braking strength. Most of adult life and most forms of training focus on accelerating strength.

Jumping into my truck bed was fine but I noticed I couldn't just jump down any more. BJJ and ballistic strength training like clubs and kettlebells made it so I can jump down again.
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Matt - Spook, CEO NanoStrategy · 2d
Helpful if you know you're going to fall. Lol
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Bill Cypher profile picture
File structure. C derivatives require header files and rust doesn't, a module is a single file. That makes it easier for computers and humans to keep what they need in their context window.

Also rust error messages are way more clear and helpful.
Noshole · 2d
😂idk 🤷‍♀️ I have yet to try it myself, just bought it
Jimmy · 2d
I suspect they also want to use it to find security vulnerabilities in other countries' intel agencies before they can patch. Which countries? All of them, all the countries, every single one, no exceptions.