How? If anything, this gives a path forward for people who can't afford to take months away from work to study for the bar exam or pay Barbri for a prep course. Compare it to professional pilots, who can work towards the 1500 hours they need for their ATP license while getting paid to do flight instructing, towing banners, flying charters or cargo, and so forth.
Why would you blow it up with a SMPS? I built a PSU for mine with a 5V switch-mode wall wart that originally powered a USB hub and it works fine. There's a 100uf filter cap on the 5V rail inside the machine already that will smooth things out. The real danger is letting the 5V rail get too much over voltage; that's what happens with the original power supplies, and it will cook the RAM chips in a hurry.
This is a great article, but I take issue with the "character matters" section. Blakey was a notorious heroin addict and was known for introducing his young sidemen to the drug. A lot of the stories are here: https://www.organissimo.org/forum/topic/80777-whats-the-deal...
From the thread:
Jamil Nasser told me (re: Dan's interview and the junkie question); when the band went on the road, Blakey stocked up with dope ahead of time. So the typical situation was - they are in some town, middle of nowhere; everybody is strung out and desperate. So Blakey says, 'let me go out and see what I can find' - he comes back with the stuff he already had, marks it up about 10 times, says, 'well, this was all I could get but it's pretty expensive." He takes their "share" out of the gig money, they go home with nothing, he takes all the cash.
Doesn't this all just boil down to "Do as I say, not as I do."?
The character section is mostly the author citing ChatGPT's definition of 'good character'. Those are all admirable qualities and, arguably, collectively do represent good character.
Disagree. I've had them in Saigon in addition to here in the States, and a good banh mi roll is much crispier on the outside. That's not the texture you want for a cheese steak -- it has to be really soft.
What if someone gives you a binary that they claim is built from a particular source code? If you don't decompile it, how do you know if that's true or not? Or what if you can't trust your compiler (a la https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/hh/thompson/trust.html)?
Did you build that C compiler yourself? Using what compiler? Unless you bootstrapped it from a handwritten assembler, you'll need to consider the attack outlined in Reflections on Trusting Trust
The breadth of that tool is just incredible. I'm about to submit my first PR to them to fix a couple of bugs in their PEF parser (classic Mac OS PowerPC executables), but it's absolutely bonkers that they have that support to begin with, and that it all works as well as it does. I'm very pleased to see my tax dollars going to something like that.
Plenty of use today in amateur radio, especially amongst QRPers (low power enthusiasts, signals <= 5 watts). It's easy to build transmitters/receivers for, and it's more efficient than, say, voice modes like SSB in terms of spectrum usage and how far you can get per watt.
Wow, so much beeping -- sidetones all over the place. You need some way of tuning. Speaking from experience, CW operators love a narrow crystal filter to help with selectivity!
