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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My favorite is Barry Marshall. He thought there was a connection between bacteria and ulcers, which was an unpopular opinion at the time. So he intentionally drank the offending bacteria, got sick as expected, and then people believed him.

More here, including (which I didn't know until now) cardiac catheterization.

I'm sure better sources exist but https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/these-five-doctors-experimented-on-themselves-and-made-big-breakthroughs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Innovation, perhaps; progress...that's something else.

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

I, read this like, William Shatner, in his, role as, captain, Kirk.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (8 children)

I'm gonna try to guess the most likely LLM response to your post, trained on reddit data:

"This."

How'd I do?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Pretty sure that's completely acceptable in parts of northern California (source: born and raised in northern California).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Blender has entered he chat (unless things have changed since I used it last).

[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I was writing up my problem set answers once, and it involved the (complex analysis) residue. I wasn't sure if there was a shortcut (as opposed to \mathrm); googling latex residue did not produce the search results I was hoping for...

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And many folks have headless setups


raspberry pis, home servers, VPSs, etc. It's kinda overkill to install a desktop environment on a headless box if the only reason you need it is so you can VNC into it for a simple task that could be done over ssh.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The Taco Bell meme afaik isn't about food poisoning at all, it's that it's a lot of oil-rich beans, which can have a certain effect.

Regarding food poisoning, I think you're right that it's worse in the USA, but the EU is not without food poisoning. My suspicion is that the media attention is different in part because food in Europe tends to come from smaller farms, whereas in the USA it tends to come from larger farms (is my understanding). So, an outbreak at a farm in the USA is bad because it potentially affects a huge number of people, whereas in the EU it may be a smaller farm with less of an impact (so any individual outbreak is less impactful). Just a guess, and it's in my opinion good to strive for lots of small farms rather than a few big ones.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I for one am glad this demographic got exactly what they voted for.

Emphasis mine.

The problem is that "they" did not all vote this way. Yeah, I too am glad that the Trumpers are getting their comeuppance


fuck them. But your rhetoric is a bit extreme and devoid of empathy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

For some (most?) of us, we don't have ssh access open to the world, so everything is over a VPN. So I can just use NFS over WireGuard which afaik is fairly secure, if you trust your endpoints, and works great over the Internet.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This realization/acceptance led to us having kids.

 

Noticed a few days ago that Sutro Tower's red blinking lights are now white. Just asked them on their website form, but wondered if anyone else knows the story with this.

Personally, I miss the red ones!

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

Howdy!

I got my Technician in early 2000s, and last year finally upgraded to Extra. Looking to set up a very basic shack.

I'm looking for an HF setup, with most of my use probably using digital modes, but would like the ability to use voice.

Current transceiver is on loan from girlfriend's dad, a Ten-Tec Scout 555


50W HF unit with separate modules for each band. One limitation of this is that the modules set the mode, so it's LSB on 40m, making e.g. FT8 not possible (without some hacking of code or perhaps hacking the module).

Antenna is end-fed with an off-the-shelf 49:1. Currently only have 20m half-wave, but have just enough room for a 40m half-wave in the attic, which is the ultimate goal.

For digital modes, it looks like there are sort of 3 classes of radio:

  • "full digital" where the radio has e.g. a USB port and handles audio, transmit, and frequency set.
  • Some computer-control with RS232, but uses computer audio+adapter to transmit.
  • No digital, use adapter to transmit. This is what the current setup uses (and it works great!)

I'm leaning towards a conventional transceiver, e.g., something from ICOM, Kenwood, Yaesu, (or others) rather than an SDR unit. I'd like the ability to go up to 50-100W if possible.

I don't have a hard-and-fast budget; would like to keep it <$1000 if possible; mostly just looking at used transceivers. Something like a Kenwood TS-590 looks pretty amazing and very "plug-and-play" (but pushing up against price). Something like a Yaesu FT-920 looks pretty feature-rich too; and even something more affordable like an ICOM 706 or even a 725 is probably more radio than I need. Or just grab a new 7300 and call it a day!

Anyway...clearly, I don't know exactly what I want, but figured I'd ask folks with more experience if they have any wisdom. Thanks!

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