245 points by transpute 1 day ago | 46 comments
anilakar 1 day ago
In case you did not know, the letter Q in PHICH stands for "request".
derefr 1 day ago
Some might claim that the "Q" in "ARQ" is actually "query"; and that people who choose to expand the "Q" as "request" just have a dim view of the average person's vocabulary level.
Personally, though, I'd argue that, if you think about it, the "Q" is probably not "request" or "query", but rather just another appearance of the conventional opaque "Q" that appears in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_code.
dylan604 18 hours ago
hnuser123456 15 hours ago
derefr 12 hours ago
Which makes sense, if you remember that there used to not be such a thing as pre-compounded drugs. Rather, a prescription was literally a recipe a doctor would write out for you to give to your friendly neighbourhood compounding pharmacist, who would follow that recipe to produce a drug for you.
Which in turn lends an interesting clarity to the traditional roles and competencies of "medical doctors" vs "pharmacists". In the 1800s, a trained doctor was someone who would be expected to come up with a — potentially de-novo! — drug formulation, on the spot, as a treatment for a patient; and a trained pharmacist is someone who would be expected to take your prescription, walk into a lab in the back of their shop, and come out having converted that — potentially never-before-encountered — drug formulation into something you could put in your mouth. If the active ingredient was something unusual, they would even be expected to synthesize it themselves! (Which explains why we used to call pharmacists "chemists". They were!)
withinboredom 12 hours ago
twojacobtwo 16 hours ago
froh 23 hours ago
here is the letter Q in PHICH:
https://github.com/srsran/srsRAN_4G/blob/master/lib/src/phy/...
as the sibling comment states, q is the reQuest
ajsnigrutin 17 hours ago
In colors (design, printing,...), the "K" in CMYK stands for "blacK"
selectodude 15 hours ago
BenjiWiebe 9 hours ago
slwvx 1 day ago
I see that it supports FDD only (no TDD) and is limited to 20MHz, so some limitations.
I see that it can do some amount of real-time decoding, which is interesting. In cell towers, a big part of the processing is done by fairly general-purpose processors, but still much more tightly integrated with the hardware than this software is.
rnhmjoj 12 hours ago
[1]: https://rsgb.services/public/publications/vdsl/measuring_and...
wkat4242 1 day ago
tinix 1 day ago
this should work with limesdr as well.
for something cheaper, try antsdr or adalm-pluto: https://github.com/srsran/zynq_timestamping
lots of good notes here: https://www.quantulum.co.uk/blog/private-lte-with-analog-ada...
wkat4242 24 hours ago
AnarchismIsCool 14 hours ago
teruakohatu 1 day ago
fhsm 22 hours ago
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wkat4242 24 hours ago
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dezgeg 23 hours ago