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by macintux 1y ago
That makes sense. I guess I was hung up on “a few light seconds” since that’s more like, what, 5-10 minutes per hop?
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by macintux 1y ago
At their maximum separation, Mars & Earth are about 20 minutes apart. If we had 10 satellite data centers all in perfect alignment (disregarding the sun, which obviously makes a hash out of things) they'd still each be 2 minutes ap
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by macintux 1y ago
I'd recommend reviewing the site guidelines. HN strives for more courteous discussions than you seem to embrace.
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by macintux 1y ago
I wrote one in Erlang years ago for Riak’s time series implementation. I don’t remember all of the motivations, but most of all I wanted the ability to encode incomplete date/time objects. https://github.com/macintux&#x
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by macintux 1y ago
> Very hard to do multi tasking with it. I think that's one of the appeals to full-screen mode: the ability to focus with limited distractions. I don't think it's designed for multitasking.
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by macintux 1y ago
> In the context of modern age regulation, at a social level, nobody is arguing people at large should not have access to violent and sexual content. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/project-2025-por.
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by macintux 1y ago
The question comes down to: is nudity inherently sexual? Not everyone feels it is.
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by macintux 1y ago
But carpeting that distance across the entire volume of space between the planets with data centers every few light-seconds apart seems ambitious. A hundred or more data centers in space? > throw tons of datacenter and compute that'
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by macintux 1y ago
You reminded me that a couple of jobs ago (I tend to stay with jobs for a long time) we discovered that a local paging tower had failed because one of our techs could not receive pages at home. Our assumption was that we were basically the
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by macintux 1y ago
The comment was a few light-seconds. That's a lot of hops to Mars to fill to sustain that coverage year-round.
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by macintux 1y ago
It's hard to imagine a treatment cost so low that the USG would pay for it.
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by macintux 1y ago
How would that work to, say, Mars? Have satellites filling many, many orbits between the two planets?
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by macintux 1y ago
> the free one that's not going away nor is charging for access. Care to make a wager? I'll gladly/sadly wager $100 with some broker that the NWS weather data will no longer be freely available by July 1 2026.
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by macintux 1y ago
For now. There's a pretty decent chance that AccuWeather is discontinuing this in anticipation that the NWS is going to be sabotaged. Update: https://gizmodo.com/republicans-project-2025-would-end-free-...
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by macintux 1y ago
Yes. When writing a Perl script, there's literally zero friction to using regular expressions because they're baked in. I just type what I want to run. When writing a Python script, I realize I want a regular expression, and I hav
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by macintux 1y ago
Whereas I'd run to such a place. I miss it.
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by macintux 1y ago
The friction difference between "part of the syntax of the language" and "have to use this library" is enormous.
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by macintux 1y ago
More comments at this slightly newer submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44651066
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by macintux 1y ago
TIL how it got its name, thanks.
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by macintux 1y ago
I’ll hazard some guesses, since no one has replied. - Big fish small pond. Because so few people are tackling problems like this, it’s much easier to get noticed and appreciated. - Nostalgia. I think most people have a soft spot for the com
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by macintux 1y ago
> Here's an idea: maybe don't post your photos on social media. Right. Also make sure your friends don't. And your family. Good luck with that.
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by macintux 1y ago
Have you worked with COBOL? My understanding is that the language itself isn't the real problem. Mainframes, control languages: everything around COBOL is very different from most Windows/UNIX people have experienced.
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by macintux 1y ago
As much as Cloudformation and Terraform annoy me (thankfully I’ve never been burdened with k8s) there is something magical about having your infrastructure captured in code.
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by macintux 1y ago
I started using it in the mid-90s, and used it extensively at work as long as I could, but by 2012 I gave up the fight. I still break it out once in a great while for a quick text transformation, but it’s so rusty in my memory that I rely o
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by macintux 1y ago
> Commonwealth countries are relatively minor in population compared to the USA and the rest of the world. Given India's presence in the Commonwealth, this seems an odd assertion. 2.6 billion people live in the Commonwealth[1]. [1]
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by macintux 1y ago
Social media is algorithms amplifying divisive content to increase engagement.
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by macintux 1y ago
During his first administration I was half-surprised he didn’t nominate a flat earther to head NASA.
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by macintux 1y ago
Or, judging by other comments, “0”.
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by macintux 1y ago
> This idea strikes me as even more unlikely than someone shifting their moving vehicle into reverse while intending to activate the window wipers. I suspect you've never driven an older vehicle with the shifter on the steering colu
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by macintux 1y ago
For me it's mainly about intent/unearned confidence. If someone is speculating about how such a problem might be solved while not trying to conceal their lack of direct experience, I'm fine with it, but not everyone is. If so

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