Karrot_Kream

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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
They don't. Resilience isn't additive. The more nodes you add, the more announcements and traffic you add, which congests the network further. Regular internet topologies work because of high throughput backbones.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yeah this was the reasoning behind Meshtastic and it still works very well in this usecase. Folks trying to scale these meshes run into all sorts of issues inherent to routing over a mesh with infrequent and unstable nodes. But for a messag
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Meshtastic was never designed to be a wide mesh, it was originally meant for personal networks.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
> Then it became so common to be a techy person and surround yourself with other techy people that it was easy to fall into a bubble and not realize it. When all of your news websites, coworkers, social media feeds, and friends in the gr
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
In 2007 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=63294 the median age was 25.5 and mean 27.3. In 2022 (15 years later) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30897468 the median age using midpoints was between 35
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Do you know what the MSS is on a Halow network? Curious if it makes sense to run usual TCP and UDP based applications on them or whether we would need to switch to things like CoAP.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
These ideas yes, but these networks already have a concept of message oriented semantics and so there's not much of a need to rebuild most of those protocols. A lot of what Finger, Gopher, et al does is define the application layer sem
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
The inherent limitations of free spectrum mesh technologies will never lend itself to a replacement for the Internet so will always largely exist in niches. Niches like personal nets, local nerd networks, or emergency response (tho actual f
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Wisdom of the Crowds has been shown to be overly idealized and not particularly effective unless aggressively controlled for independence of opinions. Basically, if you tend to hang out on similar social platforms you won't actually be
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Agree with this FWIW. The music and movie references here are largely from the 80s. Nostalgia here tends to be rooted in the 80s to the early 90s. This place feels solidly GenX to me which makes sense as the first web-forward generation.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Please read a book about these things. HN commentary on any form of trending issue (of which PE acquisition is right now in various other social media) tends to be more about the commenter's own value judgement than any form of discipl
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Sorry I don't mean Japanese firms hiring Japanese workers, I understand that's largely due to language fluency. I meant how much in-person work happens in remote branches. So many Japanese shakaijin friends at Japanese companies a
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yes but 2 ends up being a good check on 1 in the higher productivity ends of the knowledge work economy in Japan. I'd disagree a bit in degree to what alephnerd says and additionally think a lot of the actual "zangyou" (&quot
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
I don't know why cross venue arbitrage would be unskilled? There's a lot of it for the taking and I, and others, do so.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Correction: 5.7 mbpd additional for the East-West Pipeline summing up to 10.4 mbpd still roughly half of the capacity of SoH.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yes ADCOP not ADNOC, you are indeed precisely correct. But it's also called the Habshan–Fujairah pipeline :) The East-West Pipeline that empties into Yanbu can run 7 mbpd and House of Saud claims [1] that it ran at 1.3 mbpd before the
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Think about how much food we throw away in the developed and developing worlds. How often we buy new clothing when we could mend old clothing. How often we ask for more when we could do with less. How often we want to eat at a restaurant wh
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Sadly math professors aren't very expensive. Academics are paid terrible wages. Until recently, tenure was the carrot at the end of a grueling education. But now that tenure positions are getting rarer (well, tenure positions aren&#x27
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
I don't think there's a substitute for reading the source material. You have to read the actual paper that's cited. You have to read the code that's being sourced/generated. But used as a reasoning search engine, it
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
It was probably the Reddit exodus. A lot of people from Reddit realized that HN has the same topics as Reddit and has the same upvote/downvote interface around the same time Reddit was having its API changes. The folks who did it were
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
UAE already built a pipeline called ADNOC that ships oil to Fujairah. They're committing to doubling [1] their export capacity by 2027. [1]: https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/uaes-new-west-east-pipe...
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
I don't mean they'll literally ally, I meant any one of them could guarantee the UAE. Also multiple partners don't need to ally to necessarily guarantee the UAE. UAE has been growing closer to China recently and now that UAE
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
The US, China, Russia, India etc can bolster UAE defense in Fujairah. It's UAE and Omani controlled waters around there, the same area that the US is enforcing its current blockade.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Iran is already sanctioned. The actors willing to ignore the US's feedback on Iran's insurance plans are already not playing by US rules. This is insurance for the shipping companies that are already operating on sanctioned fleet
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yes. The US is already increasing exports from the Gulf and UAE broke with OPEC to increase the throughput of Fujairah. If Gulf countries start exporting through Fujairah or other ports, it's eventually game over for Iran.
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
How does it matter that it's traceable? Everyone knows the ships going in and out thanks to AIS. Many of these ships are already either falsely flagged, sanctioned, or just Iranian flagged. And as far as paying in rubles or yuan, this
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yeah I remember running a few CTFs in school and was always scared (in a good way) about what the players would do to the game's servers . For this reason we also only ran the CTF on the school's network and IT even floated runni
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
Yeah bodegas and specialty grocery stores are for this and tend to be frequent in dense or HCOL areas in the US. We shop at one (also because we're food snobs and cook a lot, so we strongly prefer not getting the "Costco basics&qu
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
We live in a smaller place and my wife and I just piggyback off friends and end up going roughly once a quarter as well. We do have enough space for a year's worth of toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc but even then it's often n
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by Karrot_Kream 5mo ago
I think sockpuppets are only useful in a community with non-text signals like upvotes and downvotes or likes. These kinds of signals are not necessary and often plain corrosive to small communities. In a larger community they're a grea

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