Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Why wouldn't you compare to the entire fleet? You think they're going to deploy an entire data center in one sat? That'd be as dumb as trying to deploy an entire data center in one rack back on Earth. Of course if you frame
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
> How was it by accident? I say by accident because high power capacity wasn't a design goal of Starlink, merely a side effect of deploying a communications network. > My bad. So they're only short like 6 orders of magnitude
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
> Starlink has deployed 50x the ISS's solar cap across its entire fleet (admittedly 3 years ago); the author's calcs are 500x the ISS for one datacenter. So 3 years ago they managed to get to 10% of the power budget of one data
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
I was skeptical at first for much the same reason the author of that first article is; there are a lot of obstacles. But the more I think about it the less daunting those obstacles seem. The author uses the power capacity of the ISS's
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Always a bit scary when an open source project changes stewardship like this, but I'm quite relieved to see all involved parties seem to be aware of the dangers and very much on the same page about not screwing this up. Done right, com
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
US median household income is at an all time high.[1] The pandemic caused a decline for a few years but it's recovered now. [1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/200838/median-household-...
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
> those owning the property will look for something else to do with it Not if there's a law mandating they maintain a certain amount of parking. Eliminating such laws is part of what the article is advocating for. Other than that I
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Parking maximums would be just as stupid as parking minimums. Instead of oversupply with inefficient use of space you'll get under supply with businesses starved of customers who can't find a convenient parking space. Let the mark
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
I think "manufacturer is the attacker" is precisely the threat people are most worried about. And yes you can analyze binary blobs for backdoors and other security vulnerabilities, but it's a lot easier with the source code
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
"People you send messages to have access to those messages. (And could therefore potentially share them with others.)" doesn't seem like a particularly scary security threat to me.
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Yeah, whether or not precise location info is required, even coarse 24/7 location tracking is a huge privacy issue. Privacy was simply never a part of the core design of our phone system in the first place. That needs to change. Device
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
> This has been shown numerous times by comparing the likes/impressions ratios for different accounts posting similar content. That seems like dubious methodology. Obviously if a celebrity posts something that's going to get mo
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
The industrial revolution multiplied the size of the global economy by several orders of magnitude, but it didn't create it. International trade has been happening on a smaller scale since large-scale civilized society existed. And I s
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
I think it's actually not that hard to get right (or at least "right enough"), as evidenced by the fact that markets have successfully run the entire global economy for thousands of years with no central oversight and almost
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Even with 90B in tariffs collected this fiscal year (since October) the government still spent 600B more than they collected.[1][2] Tax cuts would be great, but if you cut taxes without cutting spending you're just borrowing that tax c
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Yeah, fair point. Yes, obviously taxes on businesses are born by the consumer. Saying that automatically makes them an "own goal" though is... quite the take.
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Good point. The screenshot says the new requirements are for inventory shipped to Amazon by sellers on or after March 31. So they're not cleaning up existing inventory, just changing the requirements for new stock. It'll probabl
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
Ah yes, of course it's entirely America's fault Iran's citizens are revolting against the despotic theocratic regime currently in power. Because surely nobody would organically want regime change when the ayatollah is such
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by Ajedi32 9mo ago
In many of the countries where this would be the most useful, protests are illegal.
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
> one trick is to at most minimally use the under seat storage [...] Then, you can put your feet in that space Oh, interesting. I've always done that, it never really occurred to me that others might not. Even if you have a bigger b
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
I think once you get past the 95th percentile in any metric like that things start to get more difficult. I'm not even that tall and I sometimes have trouble finding pants that fit me. I imagine there are probably similar difficultie
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
1.9m is 6' 3", already in the 93rd percentile of US adult males according to this chart. https://preview.redd.it/oruqlgczepp91.png?auto=webp&s=cb797f... 2.1m is in the 99th percentile. Maybe you just have a lo
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
I know American at least has some rows with extra leg room that aren't the exit row. (Though obviously if you want more space you have to pay for it.) Not sure about others.
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
I agree that sounds frustrating. Respectfully though, it sounds like you're a special case and that's not a problem which would apply to most people. But maybe in the future I'll make a point of checking whether the person be
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
Many airlines don't let you choose your seat without paying extra. But yeah, maybe if you're that tall that's just an unfortunate extra cost you have to bear.
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
Why does leg length matter? Reclining doesn't impact leg room much since only the upper part of the seat is moving backwards any significant distance, and the space under the seat where my feet go is completely unaffected. Are your leg
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
> 4 core Skylake (Mac 2016) would be well beyond human capabilities Not if the computer's time limit is set at 15 microseconds. It's not a question of whether the computers have "enough power"; just whether they are m
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
I'm also over 6' and I don't understand the problem? The seats only recline a few degrees, it's not like they're laying on my lap! Even fully reclined there's plenty of space in front of my face, and leg room i
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
They profit from regular posts too, since those usually have ads next to them. But fair point.
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by Ajedi32 10mo ago
A "revert filesystem state to x time" button doesn't seem that hard to use. I'm imagining this as a potential near-term future product implementation, not a home-brewed DIY solution.

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