MPSimmons

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by MPSimmons 8mo ago
> the most ambitious thing possible really?
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by MPSimmons 8mo ago
Datacenter capacity (and thus heat) grows by the cube law, but the ability to radiate heat grows by the square law, so it seems like it would be advantageous to have a bunch of smaller satellites, if you were concerned about cooling them.
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by MPSimmons 8mo ago
They re-enter and burn up entirely. Old starlinks don't stay in space.
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by MPSimmons 8mo ago
Balloons work by displacing the atmosphere (mostly nitrogen with some oxygen) with something lighter (helium or hydrogen). This causes buoyancy, and makes the balloon rise. This only works so long as the atmosphere being displaced weighs m
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by MPSimmons 8mo ago
yeah, they legitimately used to be but the rest of the world has definitely improved and Teslas weirdly haven't that much. They're cruising on name brand and a really decent charging network, but even that moat is being breached.
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
How many on the government side, I wonder. There are wars that haven't killed so many people. This seems like another revolution.
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
Cloud providers in general haven't gone very far toward providing hooks for validation. It seems easier for the cloud provider to implement the equivalent of a dry-run flag in API calls that validate that the call would succeed (even i
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
>The whole premise of IPv6 is that every device should have a globally routable IP I would agree with the small adjustment of, 'every device should be able to have a globally routable IP'. There are a lot of devices, like the o
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
I don't need that, I already have a Twitter account
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
>This difference in theory versus practice is precisely why we see people objecting that IPv4 is more secure as far as default configurations go when it comes to home use. I mean, I agree with them. I think people who say 'NAT is no
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
I agree with the majority of your point, but hopefully your printer hasn't been assigned IPv6 IPs that are global in nature and is instead limited to site-local. For anyone who is reading this but hasn't use IPv6, IPv6 addresses a
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
That's an amazing book, and I highly recommend it, for anyone who isn't familiar.
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
I love this so much! Thank you!
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
This is an awesome effort. I stared and played with the rotating graphics at the top for a while before reading the rest of the article, trying to figure out why it was so much better than a lot of the efforts I'd seen before, and I ki
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
I disliked Adams, but this is a good eulogy. >For Adams, God took a more creative and – dare I say, crueler – route. He created him only-slightly-above-average at everything except for a world-historical, Mozart-tier, absolutely Leonardo
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
That's really cool! I've never seen those before. Has anyone ever set up the parrot equivalent of Chatroulette so parrots can interact with each other remotely?
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
Damn, I really enjoyed reading this. Great writeup!
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
All humans get a certain amount of respect, Scott Adams included. What level of respect do you think dying earns you, above and beyond that? And why would being dead earn you more respect than you had in life?
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
>He also just passed away, show some respect. It takes more than dying to earn respect.
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
Ope! Sorry, I missed it!
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Cory Doctorow calls for abandoning anticircumvention appeasement laws globally(pluralistic.net)
15 points by MPSimmons 9mo ago|3 comments
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
> scale and degree matter I agree, but I don't know where that line is. So, back in the 90s and 2000s, you could get The Gimp image editor, and you could use the equivalent of Word Art to take a word or phase and make it look cool,
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
>I wouldn't even think twice about banning CSAM outputs. Same, honestly. And you'll probably catch a whole lot of actual legitimate usage in that net, but it's worth it. But you'll also miss some. You'll always m
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
I am, in general, pretty anti-Elon, so I don't want to be seen as taking _his_ side here, and I am definitely anti-CSAM, so let's shift slightly to derivative IP generation. Where does the line fall between provider responsibility
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How LoRa Modulation Works (2021) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by MPSimmons 9mo ago|0 comments
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
Oh, that's good that they added them. I stopped being active in on the sites a long time ago, so I missed that.
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
The fact that they basically stopped the ability to ask 'soft' questions without a definite answer made it very frustrating. There's no definitive answer to a question about best practices, but you can't ask people to sh
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
>Lp(a) levels are almost purely genetically determined and so elevated Lp(a) is essentially due to a poor roll of the genetic dice... For simplicity, we will devote little further attention to either of these secondary risk factors” As s
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by MPSimmons 9mo ago
As far as I can tell from the narrative, Venezuela was basically serving as a puppet state for China, and if that's true, I would probably give that as the primary reason, but who knows. Maybe it's because Venezuela did poorly in
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by MPSimmons 10mo ago
Gonna have to write more speeding tickets to pay for these, I guess

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