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OK, then in that case I managed to receive the signal from a satellite 800km above but passing over the other side of the planet. How's that explained?

I used ANT500 [1] that came with HackRF One. I had to play with the angle a little to get a clear signal (horizontal worked for me). [1]: https://greatscottgadgets.com/ant500/ …

I'd assume this thing having been launched in 2005 has enough memory to hold imagery for the entire planet so one wouldn't have to be in the region they want data for. That's my assumpt…

OK, since I pack a HackRF One, I couldn't resist trying this. Inside my apartment in middle of Sydney, this is what I got for IR imagery from NOAA-18: https://imgur.com/UbCBQd5 S…

Hmm, I'm very surprised that magstripe readers don't have sensors that detect physical presence of a card, even to this date. But regardless, the main point for me was how trivially one coul…

I wrote the parent comment on the go so here's more details. I'm specifically referring to the python script [1] mentioned in the article titled "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recur…

"that's two potatoes in series" - rarely one comes across such a combination of words. I'm still laughing.

Hmm, given that a few hundred line python script fed with large stream of characters can start producing sentences with correct grammar (however mostly nonsensical), I agree that we, given the complex…

Given the author's comment: "Xorshift generators (also discovered by Marsaglia) are fast and do very well on statistical tests (much better than MWC1616). An xorshift variant called xorgens4…

You don't need the full versioned repo, just the top commit (ie cloning with depth=1). Also, git compresses the objects before sending them.

Daniel mentions in the comments [1] that this is a binary build and implies that it's not meant to be hotlinked to. [1]: http://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/16/…

This looks great. Have you thought about turning it into a unix filter?

You only delay saving time and bandwidth — you eventually have to clone the repo for any ops other than checking the head SHAs and unless the repo is rarely updated, the delay will be short.

That only gives you the commit for the head of the branches. If there were multiple commits since you checked last, you'll miss some!

It might not be a "competitive" alternative, but it does what CT and MRI do — takes picture inside the body.

Given their concern for ranking of their IP space, they'll be watching you with fifty eyeballs after granting you access.

I've recently started on Rust. Can someone who knows both Rust and Scala draw comparison on the myths the author is talking about?

Any links?

OneLook Reverse Dictionary [1]. I use it all the time and it's helped me with coming up with domain names. [1]: http://www.onelook.com/reverse-dictionary.shtml …