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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Allowing Yourself to Screw Up: [^]Quote: I love learning new things and over the years I've learned to fail without getting too discouraged. But I do wonder whether watching someone else fail is useful? I mean... it can be funny when the failure is spectacular I suppose. Or annoying when you get an email you're not expecting (sorry again!) but I suppose the important thing, in every case, is that you tried. The number of platforms/services he uses to email a validation code to a wanna-be blog subscriber, and then send them a confirmation ... staggers me.
"I do wonder whether watching someone else fail is useful?."
Me too.
caveat: I find Code Witch's analyses interesting ... Witch, imho a pioneer, is often on the bleeding edges of exploration of this domain of rendering on small displays. The kind of problem Conery describes here is like doing a root canal.
Is there an "art of failure" I have never gotten beyond the finger-painting stage in ?
Β«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindledΒ» Plutarch
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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"No, really, that's what it told me to do!"
"You don't believe me? Ask it again!"
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Guess that's better than De-Generative AI?
Give me coffee to change the things I can and wine for those I can not!
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I discovered (to my slight surprise) that until November 2018, the FCC of the US of A didn't allow smartphones to use the European "Galileo" alternative to GPS: "American phones couldnβt use Galileo because the FCC has regulations against having ground stations being in contact with foreign satellites".
So picking up a signal, which is there, no matter what you do, is "being in contact with foreign satellites". Not a very intimate form of contact, I'd say!
You US of A guys: How is it nowadays? Do you have Galileo enabled smartphones? What about the Russian Glonass or the Chinese BeiDou? Or is US of A more or less ignoring anything but GPS?
(Bonus question: How many of you answer: "I never was aware of anything but GPS, but now that I check it, I see that I have Galileo as well!")
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How do you check ?
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Apps like GPS Status display what birds they can see, often colour coded by constellation, or different map symbols. Right now, in my study, my phone can see 56 satellites with 5 different symbols. Labels include
### straight number, probably GPS
j### Japan?
e## Euro? (Galileo)
c## China?
r## Glonass?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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For Android install this: GPSTest[^] - the "Status" page shows you which GNSS satellites you are using.
You may be able to find similar for Apple, but I don't know.
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Note that the download page states support for "GPS (USA Navstar)" only, with not a word's mention of Galileo, Glonass or BeiDou. The page is updated in May, so I guess it is not because the information is outdated.
If it didn't say anything at all about GNSS system support, I'd think that it would show all those that the smartphone supports, but when GPS is mentioned explicitly (as the only one), I'd think that others are not supported.
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For me it shows I'm using US NAVSTAR, Russian GLANASS, and Chinese BeiDou.
It also lists EU Galileo, Japanese QZSS, and Indian IRNSS, but doesn't seem to use them
That may be the Chinese chipset (it's a Huawei P30) doesn't support the Galileo L5 frequency, just the older L1.
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Some years ago, there was a serious concern about putting all eggs into the GPS basket. Several countries (/groups) argued in favor of keeping alive some alternative navigation system, such as Loran-C in its modern enhanced form, eLoran, with a precision of 3-8 m (depending on who you ask).
Lots of people argue that there is no need for Loran: If GPS fails, we can use GLONASS. If that fails, too, there is Galileo. And BeiDou. And QZSS. And IRNSS. So all plans for eLoran deployment were canceled.
But all these systems have roughly the same failure modes, at least partially. A high-intensity magnetic storm could knock them all out. Then can all be deafened by noise transmitters in roughly the same frequency range. If a terrorist group have the means to e.g. shoot down the satellites of one of the systems, chances are that it may do the same to them all; they are quite similar.
I would relax a lot if we (re)established a backup navigation system based on a significantly different technology, with different failure modes. eLoran is probably the best candidate. It appears that funding fathers of today think one basket of eggs is enough. I do not like to think of the effects of a real geomagnetic blast. If we one day experience it, there will be a worldwide hunt for scapegoats who haven't provided any sort of alternate system. (If the storm is bad enough, it may knock out Loran as well, but the GNSS satellites are magnitudes more vulnerable!)
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trΓΈnderen wrote: It appears that funding fathers of today think one basket of eggs is enough
Always the way.
Way back in the 90's, Perrier was the top bottled water provider - if you drank mineral water anywhere in the world, 95% of it was Perrier.
Then they had a contamination problem (Benzene) and realised that they had no idea where the contaminated water was - they didn't code the bottles, case, or pallets at all so they couldn't identify the good ones from the bad ones. So they sat on it. Until a whistleblower dropped them in it, and they had to do a recall.
Of every single bottle of Perrier, world wide.
It took weeks to get clean supplies back into shops, and in the meantime people tried their local variants and wondered why they were paying so much for Perrier.
After the recall, they only got back up to 20% of the water market.
And nobody else coded either because it was deemed not vital to the business - but suddenly the board of directors wanted to know why they didn't, and what it was going to cost. They wrote some very big (and inflated) cheques, very quickly and started a massive boom in coding and marking (of everything!) which is still a huge business today.
Then in 2002 a Large British Biscuit manufacturer found that a flour filter had disintegrated on an hourly check. The line was stopped, the current batch was scrapped and because they coded and tracked every packet they turned round every lorry with a single biscuit that might have been contaminated on it. Not one reached a shop, let alone a customer.
That's the power of hindsight - money doesn't get spent until something goes wrong! Stupid, I know ...
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I bought my current smartphone half a year before Galileo services was officially released to public use (and it was probably manufactured half a year before that). It has GPS support only, and not even a very precise one (accuracy typical 8-12 m). The raw phone doesn't have anything but an on-off switch for GPS, no other status info.
I am not familiar with newer models, so I can't tell how you check yours.
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Edit - I misread your post and thought the question is about GPS receivers in general instead of smartphones specifically.
Not sure what is the source of your info, but considering that all professional grade GPS receivers (Trimble, Leica, Hemisphere, etc.) can receive all the navigation satellites out there, I very much doubt that there is such regulation or that it is enforced.
Mircea
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