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If you want some in-depth technical details on how VORs work, I found this video very helpful. It goes into many of the details of the analog radio engineering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ2gG1v9Xg8

Re:Apollo astronaut Frank Borman has died on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:58PM (#38213566)
Re:All the stupid startup/app ideas I've had so far on Friday October 07, 2022 @10:06AM (#33121524)
Here is a German company that created a device where you can donate by putting cash into the collection bag or by swiping your card. You can even change the amount by turning the handle.

https://digitalerklingelbeutel.de/klingelbeutel/

Re:Starlink Maritime on Thursday July 07, 2022 @05:27PM (#32019681)
Yes, you are right. I had not seem the price tag when I posed the question. This product is for merchant ships or yachts and does not make any sense for small boat owners.
Re:Starlink Maritime on Thursday July 07, 2022 @03:43PM (#32018410)
Is anything know about the power consumption of the Starlink antenna? Does the maritime version use less power than the conventional unit?

The fixed-location version of Starlink consumes around 60 to 100 W constantly which is problem if you want to e.g. use solar panels on a sail boat to supply the device.

Re:Segmented Displays [video] on Monday May 23, 2022 @06:31AM (#31477228)
The designs are available here: http://www.michieldb.nl/other/segments/
Re:Running a Law Firm on Linux on Friday November 12, 2021 @10:26AM (#29200143)
Paperspace does offer that: https://workstream.paperspace.com/
Re:macOS Monterey Preview on Monday June 07, 2021 @05:23PM (#27427157)
I currently use Barrier to control three computers (Mac, Windows 10, and Raspberry Pi) from my Mac laptop.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

Re:How toilet paper is made (2014) [video] on Tuesday March 24, 2020 @05:22AM (#22673256)
If you speak any German, the children's TV show "Sendung mit der Maus" did a more in-depth movie about making toilet paper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwSPihWGOCI
Re:Debugging a Live Saturn V on Sunday December 22, 2019 @11:29AM (#21858044)
"We resealed the cabinet, signed off on all the paperwork and got the out of there without any more sight seeing."

That's the NASA spirit!

Re:Ask HN: What are your favourite self-hosted tools? on Saturday August 26, 2017 @03:29PM (#15106940)
InvoicePlane is a superb tool that I regularly use for writing, sending and tracking of the invoices that I send to my clients: https://invoiceplane.com/

I wish it had a proper API, though.

Re:Jarvis – A Personal Assistant for Linux on Friday March 10, 2017 @06:30PM (#13843065)
Another similar project is Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai/get-mycroft/
This reminded me of a project by Sun Microsystems called Project Wonderland. They created a virtual world in which you could attend meetings and look at slides together with other avatars – although this was not in VR.

Here is a demo video: https://youtu.be/-CFOGDBFKrk

Re:The Dirty Truth About 'Clean Diesel' on Sunday January 03, 2016 @04:50PM (#10832637)
If you want to know exactly what Volkswagen did in their software for the emission control unit, I recommend this talk from last week's Chaos Communication Congress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZSU1FPDiao
Re:Berlin community radio on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @10:43AM (#10738373)
Another community radio from Berlin (with a real FM frequency): http://www.88vier.de/
Re:Williams tube – cathode ray tube used as computer memory on Thursday November 26, 2015 @06:51PM (#10635239)
There is an art installation that uses cathode ray tubes: http://www.alpha60.de/art/love_letters/

I guess that they probably don't use the tubes as the actual memory. But it looks extremely cool.

Re:Modelling game economy with Neo4j on Saturday May 30, 2015 @08:21PM (#9632453)
There will be a Neo4j hackathon for beginners in Berlin, Germany later today: http://www.meetup.com/graphdb-berlin/events/222114664/
Re:Ask HN: What will be the future for email? on Sunday May 10, 2015 @08:58AM (#9519779)
Wow, I had the very same idea. But everyone I told the idea basically said: "email is a horrible protocol stack, you don't want to build anything on top of it" or just something like "email is dead". I still think it is good idea.
yes it can: import js js.globals.document.getDocumentById("...")
Yes, in his talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiBfOFqDIAI&t=1355 Ryan Kelly already showed a Python 3 version of pypy.js
Re:Instant Cloud – SSD Bare Metal Servers on Friday April 10, 2015 @05:55AM (#9353340)
How does that compare to other cloud servers?

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