I can say without a doubt of all technically oriented communities the HAM radio community is by far the most rude, hostile, and least educated in their field of any group.
The amount of just pure idiocy and lack of understanding of even the basics is astonishing considering this is a licensed trade.
@freemo Perhaps also on the other end of the scale some of the most technically aware too (so a bit of big gap but equally balanced looking at the extremes?)
I've seen some great HAM users and posts and often thought of you... and I guess I would see the bad ones as they wouldn't be here so yeah hard to say as I don't know but think even a few specialist could outweigh millions of users considering you can pick up and play with things like anything else at some level and then be super-technical on another level - bit like computers I suppose. And I hope I'm not comparing it too wildly or incorrectly but something 'like' that example...
Sticking my neck out further perhaps Truckers and Techies as as way of saying it in too short of a phrase...
Like others of my ilk, I've used many different #programming languages, through the decades. Of those, a handful managed to blow my mind upon first encounter:
• 6502 assembly—it was a shock to my system, because it was my first language, which I learned in the early 1980s as an #EE undergrad learning to incorporate microprocessors into electronic circuits
• C—I was stunned by the friendliness of a high-level PP language, compared to assembly (depending on one's perspective, C is high level)
• LISP—it wasn't the "lost in stupid parentheses" syntax that shook me, because in the company of assembly any syntax is good syntax, but it was the power of the LISP macros, compared to the criminally insane C macros, that blew me away (another plus was that I came across 𝜆-calculus by way of LISP)
• Smalltalk—forty years ago, OO wasn't yet a thing it is today, but what a refreshing take on design and organisation Smalltalk was, compared to the then-prevailing PP approaches
• ML—the Hindley-Milner inferencing type system swept me away (it was my first encounter with Type Theory), and later the Standard ML functors (SML modules introduced me to Category Theory)
• Haskell—a professor of mine in #CS grad school introduced me to Haskell in the early 1990s, and I'd just say that it was a stunner on many levels
I pity today's youngsters. Many of them just learned Python and are done. Learning a high-level, interpreted, scripting language (which has picked up loads of new features over a three-decade lifespan and has accumulated tonnes of technical debt, and is now being used on an enterprise scale, nay global scale) as the first, and possibly the only, one is unkind to the mind of a programmer.
My wife just fell victim to a One Time Password (OTP) scam.
Someone rang saying that they were from the phone company #EE and told her that she was eligible for a discount, she just needed to confirm a passcode sent to her phone. They knew her email address, name and telephone number. They were very pushy. She gave them the code and only saw later it was a change password code. #scam#socialEngineering 🧵
We put in a password change request, logged in to the EE website and saw that they had upgraded her plan to include the latest iPhone, and put stuff in her basket. We emptied the basket. The scammers then changed the email address on the account locking her out.
We called #EE immediately, they cancelled the transaction and switched the email address on her account over to her backup email. #scam#socialEngineering
Be careful out there, and stay suspicious. There's no such thing as a free lunch and telephone companies don't call you about draws to give you discounts. #scam#socialEngineering#EE
My broadband doesn't need to "prioritise work when I'm working from home" because I have enough bandwidth to meet all the needs of my household. #Fibre#broadband
#EE are touting some stupid Work Mode and Game Mode among which their sales stuff says: "Connect to the best gaming servers. Geo Filter chooses the best quality servers to avoid lag for smoother online gaming."
How? Surely the game goes to its coordinator and does that? Or do they intentionally block game servers out of region so there's no chance they can be picked?
🤙 Ni fydd #EE yn cynnal eu gwasanaeth #Cymraeg ym Merthyr Tudful os nad oes galw, felly OGyDda sicrhewch nad oes #HSBC arall yn digwydd drwy rannu’r isod at sylw holl ddefnyddwyr Cymraeg ee ⚠️
Found a nice little group of guys, mostly in west virginia who apparently are on 3.803MHz every night 8 - 9pm... it is right in the sweet spot for my antenna (80 meters band i have a limited window where it tunes up very nicely). Happy I found the group so i have something to do. All really clear tonight, s9+10 so very promising. its about a 280 mile contact, which is pretty decent for 80m too.
Just got my first 10 meter contact on the new antenna! 2,400 miles away in washington on 28.1MHz... 59 signal over RTTY.... very happy with this antenna so far
WOOOOOT! First contact on 80 meters on my new antenna. 3.892MHz, 290 miles (PA to west virginia).
The last antenna (same model and configuration) never worked on 80m because we never tuned the whip right... but this one everything was 59, excellent stuff!
When I was a wee lad entering #software development (in the 1980s), most of us came from #EE and #CS backgrounds. And it was a common practice that each of us had small, pet projects—signal processing, image processing, hardware simulators, computer graphics, graph algorithms, networking protocols, programming languages, operating systems, chess engines, approximate polynomial algorithms for NP-complete problems, etc.—that we used to hone our theoretical and practical skills. These were toy problems, for sure; but they had heft, nonetheless. And we didn't just hack up the code; we studied the underlying theories, before we implemented these toy projects. And we didn't clone existing ones.
This was what I was referring to, when I posted earlier about "daily practice routine" for #programmers. I've tried to inculcate this good, life-long habit in my younger colleagues, without success.
These days, most software practitioners see themselves as mere coders, not programmers, and they feel no need to improve themselves, since they've already mastered JavaScript or Python syntax. This attitude is detrimental to the longevity of their careers.
These kids are swamped with having to maintain millions of lines of buggy code that their predecessors had cobbled together off StackOverview. There is no requirements, no specifications, no design, and no one person who understands the entire system.
Furthermore, their non-technical managers are always pounding them to keep raising their "commits", which is now the key metric used in promotion and pay rise.
As such, in just a couple of months of starting employment, eager youngsters turn into jaded code-pasters who experience no fulfilment in programming.
Mit 75% erneuerbaren Energien ist Kenia schon jetzt ein Vorbild im Klimaschutz. Dort findet auch der Klimagipfel #AfricanClimateSummit statt. Der Kontinent ist durch günstige Bedingungen für #EE mitentscheidend für eine internationale #Energiewende. Europa muss ein zuverlässiger Partner bleiben.
2001 gab es 200kW. Innerhalb von 11 Jahren wurden daraus 16.300kW, also 80 mal so viel.
Von 2013 bis 2023 gab es dann einen Ausbau mit viel geringerer Steigung. 40 MW innerhalb von 10 Jahren ist nur ein Faktor 2.5.
Unter 10% Zubau im Jahresmittel. Das ist zu langsam. So schaffen wir den Plan für Erlangen von 100MW bis 2026 nicht.
Die Regierung Merkel hat nach 2012 den Ausbau der #EE zerstört.
If you do any sort of #Electronics work where you have to strip tiny wires of 20 AWG or less I highly recommend you get yourself a precision wire stripper.
Habe mir mal die Ergebnisse von #SmartRegion
Pellworm angesehen. Dabei ging es um die Verknüpfung von #RedoxFlowBatterien, Lithium-Akkus und #EE. Laut Springer-Presse #Welt ist das Projekt gescheitert. Allerdings sieht das, das Projekt ganz anders.
Haken die Ergebnisse gibt es nur noch via wayback-machine. Ich habe die Infos mal auf what-the-fact gestellt.
Nein, Markus. Schlimmstenfalls droht die Abwanderung von Industriebetrieben aus #Bayern, weil die bayrische Landesregierung seit Jahren die #Energiewende verpennt und lieber Bäume umarmt oder weiter von #Atomkraftwerken träumt.