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To limited extend by Ukrainian army, more like a fallback method if something happens to Startlink. Mesh networks are getting used more and more by Russian army for coordinating drone attacks and surveillance - they use Chinese modems e.g. 70M-6Ghz/Uper C-X-Ku).

you never really use a lot of this stuff in most run of the mill jobs. So of course you forget it, then have to study again pre interview.

I'm wondering how software devs explain this to themselves. What they train for vs what they actually do at their jobs differ more and more with time. And this constant cycle of forgetting and re-learning sounds like a nightmare. Perhaps people burn out not because of their jobs but the system they ended up in.

Can another drone grab the fiber and walk back to your base?

Can not grab, it will get caught by branch trees and debris. The launch site is not where operators are located, most often it is well hidden, somewhat protected and hundreds of meters away.

Can you use the fiber to a master drone which acts as a repeater/controller for normal RF drones?

Battery is the bottleneck, master drone has to stay long enough in the air for all drone to hit their targets.

How much power can these types of fiber optic cable carry?

can't use it that way.

Alexa+ 1 year ago

If they have a decent API I might consider buying it. Unfortunately it's not yet yet released in my region.

functional programming is such an (semantically) overloaded term, it means completely different things to different people. Each time I read it in a blog post/tweet it makes comprehension slightly more difficult.

I suspect Openpilot sends packages to CAN bus to do steering but what makes the physical wheel rotates? I'm confused. Or when a human makes a correction to auto steering, perhaps there could be some kind of full duplex synchronization mechanism

I agree with you that searching across commit messages happens rather rarely so return on great commit messages might be questionable

where great commit messages like the one in the blog post make perfect sense are pull requests. If the commit message explains the whole thought process that the author had while working on it, it saves so much time on pull request review.