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Wish they could solve the GPS altitude weakness

Watches that use GPS for altitude are terribly inaccurate

It is interesting to run the opensource GPSTEST app on a smartphone and watch the MSL "settle" over time but each sat seems to disagree

* https://github.com/barbeau/gpstest

btw watches are now getting THREE multi-band L1+L5 GPS chipsets, should help things

quad-band GNSS coming soon too!

* https://the5krunner.com/2026/03/06/tri-band-gps-garmin/


Decreased vertical precision is an artefact of measurement geometry more than e.g. number of frequencies.

Horizontal position has the benefit of having satellites at almost all azimuths. But the vertical position estimate only gets satellites from at most half of possible elevations (above the horizon).

See "Vertical Dilution of Precision":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_of_precision


I guess we are using mems pressure sensors for altitude these days.

No more offensive weapons

Let them buy all the defensive weapons they can afford, Iron Dome, etc.

I think US gives them the weapons otherwise, they don't even buy them? No more.

It is insanity to let them just kill whomever they want whenever they want as many as they want

Israel has a right to exist but not kill thousands of innocent people

They also have universal healthcare while US never will because we've spent $21 Trillion since 9/11 on militarization, adding another trillion this year and now have to replace all the tomahawks etc



They will just start making their own offensive weapons.

They're import-reliant. They don't make steel, don't make aluminum, don't have a large chemicals industry, etc. They're very vulnerable to sanctions and trade restrictions.

Start? They have a large military sector already with IAI, Elbit etc.

No, just give them nothing. "Right to exist" is a bullshit propaganda term. Doesn't mean anything.

If it were me, we'd go a step further and apply sanctions, just as e.g. Russia and Myanmar are sanctioned.

It frames themselves as under attack, which thereby gives themselves moral justification to attack, and when those attacked attack back they fulfill their justification, and the circle of violence and death perpetuates.

>Israel has a right to exist

Countries don't have any "right to exist", this very term is thought terminating propaganda created by Israel. Israel does not have a right to exist, countries either are, or aren't. People have a right to live.

And as it stands, Israel is a terrorist nation commiting war crimes and a genocide daily.

"Defensive" weapons also do not exist. If you give Israel weapons, or sell them weapons, you are complicit in their actions.


> thought-terminating propaganda

Exactly. I always struggled with this (which is the desired effect) until I heard Francesca Albanese give this exact answer.

There is no right to exist for a country under international law, but there is a right to live for people.


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What he's saying is that Israel itself doesn't have a right to exist based on international law, but its people - be it Israelis or Palestinians have a right to live.

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Palestinians are already being hurt by israelis, Palestinian land was stolen by israelis, Palestinians are being put in open air concentration camps by israelis, humiliated, abused, starved, killed, hunted down, so excuse me for not caring much about your "problematic statement". Countries have no legitimacy to exist, however they do have history: Israel as a state is a lot more illegitimate in its existence than a Palestinian state, and considering it is the state committing a genocide right now and it doesn't seem to be sticking: Israel doesn't have a right to exist, and the state that is right now Israel is also a terrorist, genocidal one.

Israelis forced themselves in stolen, colonised land, settled with violence, used the weapons of the western colonizers against local populations and actively worked to destroy every attempt at peaceful cooperation that there has ever been, member of Israel's current government having actively called for the murder of Rabin and might very well be directly involved in it. Israel has made it so that the situation effectively ends with either Israelis dying, or the whole region dying.


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>I suggest you focus on the present

>Uses the age old "hurr actually the name Palestine was Judea"

Ok Mossad. Israel attacked Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Egypt, Jordan, is a terrorist country and doesn't have the right to exist. Israel is the one killing Palestinians and Lebanese citizens right now.

(PS: you know people see through when you post 50 prepared paragraphs of Zionist propaganda, right?)


if I remember correctly the space shuttle had four computers that all did the same processing and a fifth that decided what was the correct answer if they all didn't match or some went down

can't find a wikipedia article on it but the times had an article in 1981

https://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/10/us/computers-to-have-the-...

apparently the 5th was standby, not the decider


can amateurs bounce photons off the mirrors left there by Apollo 17 yet

or does it still need industrial grade lasers?


Getting industrial grade lasers is the easy part.. it seems to be within range of aliexpress available tattoo removal laser (based on the laser pulse energies listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment... and rough laser tattoo removal energies listed in https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10421900/ .. take aliexpress rating with grain of salt)

You do need access to a large telescope (at least 1.2m based on the wiki article), a sensitive detector (is photomultiplier tube sensitive enough??) and most importantly, access to your local laser clearinghouse so you don't accidentally shoot an airplane, blind the pilot and got arrested, or a satellite and start a war (if you believe some guy on quora). Probably the last part is the hardest thing for an amateur


There is a very simple alternative to age verification

WHO IS PROVIDING INTERNET TO A CHILD

they are liable

there's no such thing as free open access internet without someone paying the bill

unless it can be demonstrated the child stole internet somehow, hacking, etc.

then the person providing the internet is liable for the child's activity

Same if you aren't going to supervise your child and they come home for hours after school and watch porn on the TV

They don't age verify to get cable TV

If you have a credit card, you are an adult

Someone is paying the bill, they are the adult, they are responsible


What a nice vanilla view of the world. It's way to simple as an answer and lacking links to reality.

If not before but with high school kids will need access to a computer and also the internet in many schools and countries.

I get that parents are responsible but parents have limited resources. Even the best parenthood will not keep kids from wanting to engage with peers. Even the best filter or block by parents will not cover the www and their millions of websites and services.


What if the parent is not responsible?

Should society help the child, by making it more difficult for them to access harmful material, in the same way we age verify alcohol?

What if the parent is responsible, but finds themselves in a situation where they don't have the time/ability to either educate or set up robust controls? Should we make their responsibilities easier?


Instead of controlling the children, we should control the source. Perhaps we should ban harmful content from the internet. Not the government. But we, as users, need content to be reviewed by moderators. People should decide what is harmful. I’m sure we all know what is harmful, not just for children. Psychology shows us what goes on in an adult’s brain, it is exactly the same as what goes on in a child’s brain.

With this line of reasoning you can just take away any agency from individuals and put it into the hands of the state, which leads to totalitarianism.

Public policy seems tricky if we must take every line of reasoning to its extreme.

The idea that the state should decide which way of parenting is responsible is extreme.

Before Youtube and Wikipedia there used to be a great website I liked to read about Philo Farnsworth but cannot remember the name of it for the life of me now

farnovision.com ?

if you haven't seen the footage from someone in a passenger jet nearby, it rocks

https://old.reddit.com/r/aviation/comments/1sagcc1

https://v.redd.it/l11tehzzvrsg1/CMAF_720.mp4

Think about how much technology evolved to create that scene, to fly nearby and being used to take that video, wow


You can't really see anything in that video. The craft is very small on screen.

I suppose zoom would have some awe factor

But it's awesome enough as is

a 100 meter tall spaceship nearly 6 million pounds carrying nearly a million gallons of fuel for nearly 10 million pounds of thrust for JUST eight minutes

all that to escape Earth's mighty gravity well

pretty freaking amazing to watch even at that distance


Didn't Nokia put a 4G cell node up there?

Who is going to be the first to make a smartphone call from the moon?

Lag won't be too bad, just 1.5 seconds or less


2.2-2.7 seconds of delay due to light speed alone (so maybe a few ms more for electronics and en/decoding).

I had to watch "go at throttle up" on replay on the news in 1986 for the entire year, like almost every newscast

I was only a teenager and it burned into my brain badly

To this day cannot watch any launch with people onboard live


The event itself was a few years before my time, but after reading about it and eventually watching the historical news footage, the phrase "go at throttle up" also seared itself into my brain, and ever since I flinch when I hear it.

Same. I watched last night, UK time, and I couldn't shake the worrying feeling. I was relieved that they got into orbit. Now I can be a little bit excited until re-entry. That worries me for the same reason.

In the UK as a kid, when Challenger happened, our children's news programme reported it before the mainstream TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_2701000/27...


So what happens in a few years when a submarine pulls up some miles off US coast and unleashes 100 super-automated drones to terrorize the country?

Heck maybe not even a sub needed, some smaller country could have an automated tiny raft too small to be seen on radar tow in the drones

They could charge via phantom power from powerlines and will find a way around GPS jamming


I think you could just ship generic robot dogs in a container and have local contractors straw-purchase firearms, 3d-print cradles, and combine them. None of the contractors would need to know what they were doing.

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