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by Syonyk 5y ago
Tens of thousands. > There are currently over 1,600 Starlink satellites in orbit, and that number will continue to grow; SpaceX has filed paperwork for up to 42,000 satellites for the constellation. https://www.space.com&#x2
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by Syonyk 5y ago
That's the claim made, yes. Now, how many other satellites are likely to get hit in "5-10 years" of flak flying around at orbital velocities? It's nice if your goal is to say "Well, it probably won't render
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Space is hugely, vastly, mind-bogglingly big. Useful low orbital shells around the Earth are an awful lot smaller. They're still big, like the sky is big, but airplanes do manage to, at least somewhat regularly, collide with each
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by Syonyk 5y ago
One of the concerns, at least in certain circles, about phones without easily removed batteries is, "How do you know if they're actually off?" This PoC demonstrates how you can hook various iOS processes and convincingly simu
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Persistence without “Persistence”: Hooking and faking iPhone power off/reboots(old.reddit.com)
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> why can't we just admit that we don't know what ancient civilizations were capable of, rather than assuming they were incapable of simple tasks? A quirk of humans CS Lewis calls "Chronological Snobbery" - that wha
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It is exceedingly hard to find places on the internet anymore where one can have a conversation between a range of viewpoints without it turning into an absolute shitshow, or the minority viewpoint being downvoted to oblivion. It's o
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by Syonyk 5y ago
It may fit some older definition of "social media," but the definition that it would fit as "social media" is so broad as to cover most of the internet anymore, including blogs with comment sections and forums. The line
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Just go lossless. A huge music collection now is, what, 300-500GB in FLAC? That's on the order of 1500-2000 albums, if I've done my orders of magnitude right (about 300MB/album in FLAC). I re-ripped my CD collection a few y
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Surveillance Capitalism" by Zuboff is far from an elevator pitch, but goes into some great detail on how Google more or less singlehandedly developed modern surveillance capitalism (the art of turning behavioral surplus from user
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by Syonyk 5y ago
++ for an article that mentions Jack Cohen. If you want to understand wildfires, read everything he's written. He's basically the single handed Mythbusters of wildfire understanding, and has done things like "instrumented cr
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Not an expert, but have done a lot of reading and some writing on wildfires, fire resistant structures, etc. I live on a hill that catches fire rather more often than I really enjoy and spend a lot of my spring cutting firebreaks. Any sort
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by Syonyk 5y ago
See Amazon's delivery drivers... "We never said they had to pee in bottles and run red lights to make the delivery schedules, that's on them! We just said deliver these packages..."
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by Syonyk 5y ago
A good read on the subject is "Dying for an iPhone" by Chan. The book documents the last 20 years or so of Apple's labor interactions with Foxconn and makes a fairly compelling argument that Apple, like most other companies,
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> He probably felt that flying in mountains on 1942 piece of crap... Then the right answer is not take the trip in that airplane. General aviation is pretty timeless, as far as vehicles go. If an airplane has regular annual inspecti
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Because if it were an actual emergency, survival is your main priority, "great footage of it" isn't a priority at all. And: (1) GoPros are a lot cheaper than $500. (2) GoPros are a lot cheaper than any flyable airplane. Of
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by Syonyk 5y ago
I would assume there's a decent overlap between tech types/programmers/etc and pilots. They have the money for it (GA is not as expensive as most people think, but neither is it cheap), and they have the whole attention to d
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Do pilots of small aircraft consider this in practice? No. Not unless it's required (doing aerobatics work requires it, which is rather more likely to overstress the aircraft than regular mostly straight and level flying). Smal
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> ... because that is a dark future you’re painting. I'd argue, but I can't... When a basic "cross platform application" now has 1-1.5GB of build directory for all the 50,000 nested Node dependencies that allow you
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Seriously. Your average dirt road is probably comparable to some of the runways it used to fly off when it was new.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> 1. How experienced a pilot is this man? Is he a very junior novice or experienced such that this should be a non-factor. Shouldn't matter. By the time the FAA examiner gives you a pilot's license, they should be convinced
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by Syonyk 5y ago
They just so happen to see a lot of challenges that their software is well suited to resolve... no surprises there. My predictions for 2022: An awful lot of work to be had before you go insane. I'd expect the trends of "massive co
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Shrinking consumption (ie economic deflation, a decrease in GDP) would absolutely destroy the USA. I can't really argue - the US financial industry, especially, is built on never-ending exponential growth, and some would argue t
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Solar panels on trains (or, really, just about anything that moves) is pointless. You can do it, but as a general guideline, you shouldn't - solar panels don't like moving. They're quite brittle in the efficient forms (si
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by Syonyk 5y ago
"Earth Overshoot Day" [0] is as good a place to start as any if you're serious about answering the question. They try to calculate, in some detail, at what point in the year the current civilization has used the earth's
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Proof that no matter how vile the task, you can make a competition out of anything.
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Welcome to the world of powering AC equipment on DC. It can be done, surprisingly often. But as soon as you've got some stuff that requires an inverter, you may as well just light the inverter up for everything. I've got the e
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by Syonyk 5y ago
Most modern switch mode power supplies will run on DC, but you really, really want to jack the input DC up high unless you're a fan of replacing bridge rectifier diodes and other input wiring. Active power factor correction circuitry w
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> But the controller+inverter should be running if supplied with voltage from solar/wind/generator regardless of how the batteries are doing. Most of them don't operate that way. They need the battery bank connected fir
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by Syonyk 5y ago
> Will Prose seems like a really great person. My opinion of him after his attempts to interact in this thread (turn "show dead" on - a bunch of his more arrogant/abrasive posts have been killed, and it looks like he&#x2

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