I was saying that. I've got a portable radio from the 70s that I use sometimes.

The poster doesn't like me because he's something of a reactionless drive true believer and I am not.

The extendable antenna is for FM. The AM antenna is an internal coil type.

It's still a thing. The BBC are still broadcasting radio 4 longwave (oh it's now the same as the normal one, so less test cricket and shipping forecasts). LBC do medium wave round London certainly and there's a bunch of others. Usual scattering of pop, desi and so on.

If you drive anywhere in the arse end of nowhere you get radio 4 longwave (also really cricket doesn't lose that much on the radio), but you can get quite a lot of FM drops and of course bugger all mobile reception.

I don't own a car so my driving is skewed heavily towards places I need to hire a car to get to, so there's probably more arse and of nowhere than average.

Also the odd MW channel.

Ah the crying emoji.

I saw recently someone confuse the crying emoji with the tears of laughter emoji. The sent it on my road's Whatsapp group in response to a message that sometime died.

Kiiiinda but if a single things was done to fuck his immune system then that isn't an especially unlikely series of events to follow

Nonetheless some agencies prefer to simply kill someone off in a car crash. The 9mm holes in the head being from the steering wheel. There's also the old favorite of committing suicide by shooting yourself twice in the back of the head with a rifle.

Yep. The rotting carcass of HP is still lumbering zombie like through the world trying to feast on brains and inkjet ink scams.

I had one of those! AM and FM! Best tech the 80s had. I have a vague memory it used the headphones as an ad hoc FM antenna, and had a slide switch on the side so you could use the built-in speaker while the headphones were plugged in.

Okey dokey I know you're are a physics and reality denying moron but I'll play

It's this radio:

https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/...

But go on do tell me how this radio has a 1 yard long antenna...

Also has it not occurred to you that radio stations can simultaneously stream online and broadcast on AM at the same time? It's not alien magic voodoo...

Glad my sig is still trolling you. When you stop denying that kinetic energy well approximated by a half m v^2 at noon relativistic velocities then I can explain to you. But until that point there is no hope of you ever grasping why your love of propulsion scams is doomed.

I particularly live how you switched smoothly from the EM drive (which didn't work) to the new electrostatic drive (which doesn't work). I saw another one where some crank claimed he could generate net thrust with a propeller in a closed box. Would you like me to dig that one out too so you have something to get excited about when the EM drive successor is also proven to be fake?

Don't know if it's the suicide phase, but it's certainly the giant crappy company stage.

Many giant companies continue to exist and be large and crappy for a long time. IBM, HP, and so on.

So part of the national emergency system in the US is built around AM radio.

They should probably mandate long wave reception then too while they're at it. Even better for propagation than medium wave.

Effective AM antennas are not exactly small

u wot?

I've got an AM radio I listen to semi regularly for the 24/7 crazy phone in (it's LBC in the UK, where AM radio isn't a right wing thing) when I'm doing housework/cooking. It's online too, but you need an account and to provide details so fuck that. It's hand held and also received Radio 4 LW just fine too.

You haven't actually made a point, apart from an incorrect one about APIs and stated that files are bad and URLs are good.

But no actual argument.

Unix isn't exactly the be all and end all, and it's been somewhat extended with plan 9 and hurd, but Linux then sprouted a bunch of those namespace features too.

So... I guess URLs tell you the protocol but so does simple namespacing.

So what is your point? Why not make it rather than state unsupported assertions?

You don't seem aware that there are multiple APIs on top of files too.

Not every operation is shoehorned into read and write.

USB or NIC driver. Left out a word.

Still unclear: do you mean the USB HCI or the gadgets? For the Bluetooth HCI, it makes perfect sense to represent it as a file: you can just fling bytes at it to get it to do stuff. Why not use read()/write() which are already there and the filesystem as the namespace mechanism?

For example.

If you need such an abstraction system wide

The kernel is also there to provide abstractions.

That's what libraries are for.

It's also what kernels are for. You are not as far as I know proposing that the entire FS layer is dropped because fundamentally the mechanisms in USB Flash, spinning disks, NVMe, network filesystems are so different, so why not have specific APIs for each. So it seems you are VERY PASSIONATELY stating that the line SHOULD be draw in a different place.

But you're begging the question: why should it be the way you say?

Meanwhile, the rest of the world can move past your restrictive, antiquated file abstraction to a far more useful set of abstractions.

That's just emotive language with no substance.