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Fred Spinner

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Katılım Ekim 2024
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Fred Spinner
Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@i2cjak We are going to live in a world where all of our identities are stolen because of zero security in code, and the best we will get when to recover them are "You are absolutely right!" it's gonna suck.
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@i2cjak It's really only useful to someone who knows what they are doing to write blocks of code, not whole applications. Grok does a good job designing simple analog circuits too, including making a spice model that you can then make work. Code is about the same.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@Mikehomeseller Both were very good for prog pop albums. Asia was a new sound, that Yes album was the pop version/lineup of Yes and honestly it wasn't as new or creative as Asia. Wetton indeed was awesome and he never got the full credit he deserved.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@CaryKelly11 Most beef is finished with grains before slaughter to fatten them up a little when fed with grass. Even really high quality grass fed beef. Ruminants can handle this if the entire diet is not the crap Omega 6 stuff.
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Cary Kelly@CaryKelly11·
The marketing term, "Grass-fed", is fairly meaningless now days. Kerrygold butter was recently unsuccessfully sued for not disclosing that their grass-fed cows also ate grains. It's not a lie. It's just not the complete truth. Opt for 100% grass-fed or grass-fed/grass-finished if you want the real deal. "Grass-fed" by itself, is just noise. Source: parkerpasturesgrassfed (IG)
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@Robbie_W1RCP @digikey You occasionally will get a genuine type 43 core from Amazon but most of the time they are Chinese EMI cores. One thing the Chinese really can't make properly is ferrite.
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Robbie@Robbie_W1RCP·
If you’re buying these from Amazon, do not use them for antennas. @digikey has the correct item that works. 1934-1592-ND is a legit 240-43 ferrite core toroid. I have an antenna to build. #hamRadio
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Mary Tiles Texas@MaryTilesTexas·
Feminism told women we can do everything men can. That’s a lie. There are high impact, heavy labor trades I’m not built for. Luckily tile isn’t one of them. Women have been helping in the trades for a long time, I don't need you to label me a feminist to be proud of my work.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@stabmarine @BoringBiz_ In 1992, it took me until 1997 to get a steady engineering job. From a very good school that since WWII had 100% placement until 1991. If this is real she will eventually land an engineering gig but I assure you that this has happened before.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@david_trolinger Interesting. I have a grid dish on GOES-19 and it's marginal at best at the size it is. I may someday need to try it. I don't leave mine running, I only play with it occasionally. Your setup is interesting.
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David Trolinger N5ZKK@david_trolinger·
Added some aluminum mesh while troubleshooting as I thought another DB or more would help. Now getting a super good signal from this small mesh dish in the heat of the day. VIT is in the 200's. 2026-03-20T18:53:35Z [monitor] gain: 5.21, freq: -1454.3, omega: 2.158, vit(avg): 209, rs(sum): 30, packets: 58, drops: 0
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David Trolinger N5ZKK@david_trolinger·
Strange problem with my Vitality GOES station this past week. Pre-amp failed, replaced, worked until sunset and the VIT went thru the roof. I thought the sun must be the issue (Vernal Equinox occurs at 14:45 UT on March 20th) but it ended up being the COAX. Bad Coax.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@Robbie_W1RCP @N4JAW I was listening to 20m yesterday on a toy Chinese SDR, and it was like a light switch when it hit. You could literally see the QRN come up about 6 dB and the signals go down 3 dB.
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Robbie
Robbie@Robbie_W1RCP·
The bands are dead Jim! @N4JAW Got my activation in on 40m, but 20 is silent!
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@CaryKelly11 Both are true. Everything in moderation. Going by statistics vitamin D is probably a bigger issue over the entire population. Linolic acid makes getting a burn much more likely and with seed oils we get far too much of it. So like everything else it's pro and anti cancer.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@sixfootcandy You must be a late Gen X. Us early ones didn't get a job in our fields for 5 years out of college because like now there were none. Food and rent is worse now for sure but we went through basically the same thing. All generations have issues sometimes in their lives
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sixfootcandy@sixfootcandy·
As a Gen Xer, I can tell you boomers and even my own generation comparing their 20s to today’s 20-30 year-olds needs to stop. I paid $600 for a West Hollywood apartment at 23. Today it’s $3500. Burgers weren’t $20, they were $6 to $8 in a nice restaurant. Life is not comparable. It’s a completely different world now.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@miles_commodore I grew up near one of the stores. It was a huge deal. Oddly enough if you ever visit the NSA museum in Maryland they have a whole display about how they helped with the new packaging. Truely bizarre.
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Miles Commodore
Miles Commodore@miles_commodore·
In 1982 Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide killed 7 people in Chicago. Do you remember that?
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Polymarket@Polymarket·
JUST IN: Reddit CEO says the company is considering requiring Face ID to ensure humanity in order to crack down on AI bots.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@CaryKelly11 As terrible as that sounds if it ends up in something like ground beef it will help moderate prices somewhat and not be bad. Now if it turns into pink slime 2.0....
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@Mikehomeseller Best track Firth of Fifth. Best of their albums overall. Not a fan except occasionally if Battle of Epping Forest. Cinema Show is a classic as well.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@BarefootStudent That's because all my adult kids are entering the market. It sucks and they all did well enough in school it's not their fault. How long have I been working since college graduation? 34 years. Close enough.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@cqcqcqdx I would love to fart on a Wildblue dish after having one for a couple of years.
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Fred Spinner@w0fms·
@cqcqcqdx Yeah I would be amazed if that worked well even on rx, and mag loops have very strong near fields. There is no way that would pass FCC safety rules at any appreciable power. No Bueno.
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RossRadio@cqcqcqdx·
Giant Magnetic Loop Antenna on the roof of the shack of Curt WR5J.👍
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