Traffic was close to zero here during covid lockdowns. It was bliss - it was quiet and serene like I’ve never experienced before.

Is it wrong to be wistful about the car-free depths of a pandemic?

They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

I think about 18 billion of that was me

I wonder how many thousands of people died as a result.

They’re not wrong that democracy’s under threat. But maybe the threat’s from the guy who has literally said he’s going to murder political opponents - y’know, the guy they support.

Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.

Fair enough. I’ll fix that.

It was hardly ever used in WiFi. Two spread spectrum schemes were available in the original WiFi spec, FHSS and DSSS. DSSS was always preferred over FHSS and in practice FHSS was hardly used and eventually obsoleted a decade ago due to lack of use. It was never “the basis” of WiFi as claimed in the meme - that’s simply incorrect.

Don’t get me wrong. FHSS is cool and it’s a great achievement. It just has little bearing on WiFi and absolutely no relationship to GPS.

Better examples of FHSS would be Bluetooth (which you already mentioned), cordless phones, R/C toys and some military communications.

Yes, it’s been obsoleted in wifi since 2014. DSSS was always the preferred option and FHSS was never used much in WiFi.

This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn’t used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though.

I should point out that techniques like FHSS are only a part of what makes up a radio communication method. You can’t say it was “the basis of Bluetooth” just because FHSS is one of the many technologies used in Bluetooth. She certainly contributed though.

It seems like the peer review process is broken too.

We should treat them like snipers? ie. We should rush them and neutralise the threat they pose?

Honestly that sounds like the kind of conversation I’d be into.

It’s a very cheap and low effort way to reduce Russia’s ability to invade across Europe and stomp a bunch of NATO countries.

For Australians: they mean American opossums, not Australian possums. Our cute little marsupial friends have appropriately wrinkly brains, thank goodness.

…is the second largest city in Australia. But also has an inflated sense of self-importance.

;)

“They banned mercenaries so we’ll just call them something different”

I once worked for a company which did exactly that - they put the marketing people in charge. It may surprise you to hear that they went from being a large organisation to going bust within a few years.

In my country that means you wouldn’t respect (for instance) ordinary people who’ve paid off a house. 1 million isn’t as much money as it used to be.

You mean aside from the ex-president?