Nothing against EV, but a full electric Ferrari is almost a profanity IMHO.
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lormayna commented on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived thetimes.com/culture/book... · Posted by u/Thevet
This is an unrealistic argumentation, usually deployed to paint contemporaries in a bad light by comparing them to "saints" who are, conveniently, always dead. And it's particularly funny that Borsellino is now in the "saints" category, when he was explicitly namechecked by Sciascia himself in the newspaper column that originated the term "anti-mafia professional". Falcone also got extremely close to becoming the national anti-mafia czar, because his career had been defined by that very subject. Both were killed precisely because they specialised in this area and refused to move elsewhere.
Sciascia was 67 when he wrote that column, and was likely just aggrieved by the fact that national response to the mafia was escalating to levels before unseen (for a number of reasons). He might have had a point about another name-checked personality, the politician Leoluca Orlando, who survived those terrible times and ended up ruling Palermo for more than 20 years - something a lot of people see as realistically incompatible with actually being the anti-mafia hardliner he is supposed to be.
Saviano, however, is just a specialized journalist.
> And it's particularly funny that Borsellino is now in the "saints" category, when he was explicitly namechecked by Sciascia himself in the newspaper column that originated the term "anti-mafia professional".
If you read the original article from Sciascia [1], you can understand that he was complaining about the risk of judge appointments drived by anti-mafia positions, more than competence.
> Saviano, however, is just a specialized journalist.
If Saviano is only a specialized journalist, why is invited in many public talk-show where the topic is different from Mafia?
lormayna commented on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived thetimes.com/culture/book... · Posted by u/Thevet
Sciascia Died in 89, Saviano was 10 years old and wouldn’t start writing until the early 2000s.
It's not about the year of birth, it's about the role. Saviano creates his own career with mafia and now is acting as opinionist to any other option (i.e. now about the constitutional referendum that "will enforce the mafia").
Falcone, Borsellino, Livatino, Don Puglisi (just to mention people that paid with their own life) fight heavily against mafia, but they never converted this fight in a career.
lormayna commented on A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived thetimes.com/culture/book... · Posted by u/Thevet
Modern version has spawned TV show https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Saviano
Saviano is exactly one of the "antimafia professionals" that Sciascia complained about.
lormayna commented on Europe’s next-generation weather satellite sends back first images esa.int/Applications/Obse... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Is there any info about the modulation/encoding/frequency?
It would be great to have an open source decoder for RTL-SDR like we have for NOAA or METEOR.
lormayna commented on Building a Real-Time HN Display for $15 medium.com/@lee.harding/b... · Posted by u/kylegalbraith
Why not using MQTT? A Lambda that fetch new comments from HN, parse them into Markdown and push into MQTT; the ESP only needs to subscribes a topic on MQTT and render the messages.
lormayna commented on Killing the ISP Appliance: An eBPF/XDP Approach to Distributed BNG markgascoyne.co.uk/posts/... · Posted by u/chaz6
I have been worked for a regional ISP 10 years ago and having an architecture like that one, would be a godsend.
With centralized BNGs we were not able to apply upstream QoS policies for subscribers on the backhaulings and we had to apply policies on DSLAM access ports.
We ended using a couple of cheap Mikrotik as PPPoE concentrators for every access room, in a similar way as you did. But the reliability of Mikrotik routers was not the best
> 5G cells are small and very dense
Not necessarily. In rural areas and using low frequencies, I believe they can even be larger than GSM.
> LTE and 5G are based on CDMA
No, the last CDMA based cell standards were 3G/UMTS and the Qualcomm equivalent (CDMA2000 or what it was). From then on, it’s all been OFDM.
> In rural areas and using low frequencies, I believe they can even be larger than GSM.
In Europe GSM is going to be dismantled. And techniques like beamforming and radio resource management reduce the power consumption for 5G base station and phones.
> No, the last CDMA based cell standards were 3G/UMTS and the Qualcomm equivalent (CDMA2000 or what it was). From then on, it’s all been OFDM.
Even if 5G is using more advanced modulations like OFDMA or NONA, the concept is the same if you compare the with FM used by walkie talkie: those are modulations way more effective in term of energy and information effiency than a traditional FM transmission
Both not true.
Both European PMR446 and the US FRS are limited to 0.5 W; GSM uses four times that. There are walkie-talkies with very small antennas too. The limiting factor is line-of-sight, in any case.
If you're fine with less than real-time audio, you can get much, much smaller and low power.
1) LTE frequencies are in the frequency intervals 600—900Mhz, or over the Ghz. Higher frequency means smaller antennas.
2) 5G cells are small and very dense, this means less power consumption.
3) LTE and 5G are based on CDMA, a technology that is way more efficient in term of bandwidth efficiency than the FM modulation used by a walkie talkie