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by positr0n 7y ago
Doesn't AWS make their own NICs to support the security features in their custom network stack?
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by positr0n 7y ago
As other commenters mentioned, it is just too far away to do that. To give you a sense of scale, if you reduce Earth to the size of a basketball, low earth orbit (space station, starlink, etc) would be less than a quarter inch above the sur
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by positr0n 7y ago
Sure doesn't seem that way to me. Blue rocket flame is coming out, and the operators talk about "ignition" and percentage thrust and shut down (when all the icicles fly off).
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by positr0n 7y ago
There are many small and large companies with relatively small compute needs (small meaning the own a small datacenter or two). Lots of the code they are running is _extremely_ legacy, and it may or may not be in their risk tolerance to swi
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by positr0n 7y ago
You probably know that using liquid hydrogen to cool engine bells is common in rocketry as well. I found this video fascinating. On one side, the engine is so cold icicles are forming. Centimeters away, the other side is so hot that it woul
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by positr0n 7y ago
Ask the average person not interested in aviation what the autopilot does in an airplane. They will tell you "automatic pilot. It flies the plane." Autopilot is technically correct, which is useless unless you are only selling it
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by positr0n 7y ago
At first I thought, wow! You don't see a company that big up and change cloud providers very often! Then I remembered Microsoft bought them (3 years ago now).
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by positr0n 7y ago
Agreed. His second podcast series, "Revolutions", is excellent as well. I have to admit I struggled a little through the English revolution. The American revolution was much more interesting. Then the French revolution was absolut
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by positr0n 7y ago
I don't think the frequencies these satellite ISPs are using is conducive to directly interacting with a phone. The antenna/receiver unit for Starlink will be the size of a pizza box according to SpaceX. Physics limits how much yo
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by positr0n 7y ago
Here's some great visualizations of the orbits and an explanation of what it means that the orbits are optimized for the northern hemisphere. (This confused me at first since obviously any orbit has to go just as far south as it does n
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by positr0n 7y ago
This looks like it enables functionality very similar to specter. https://github.com/nathanmarz/specter Except 1. Much easier to grok syntax/easier learning curve 2. Not as powerful/generic
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by positr0n 7y ago
The article mentions Bill Gates' famous week-long thinking retreats where he would go rent a cabin for a week and think about the future of Microsoft.
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by positr0n 7y ago
I've had experiences like that with a crying newborn in the middle of the night. I visualized a terminal full of log messages and considered what commands to run or if I should just reboot and see if that fixed the problem. Started lau
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by positr0n 7y ago
If the author is reading this, the link to the part 1 is broken.
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by positr0n 7y ago
Offering a GPS-like service would require totally different hardware. Each GPS satellite has 4 atomic clocks. The StarLink satellites will basically be optical routers and their timekeeping needs can probably be handled by a cheap clock and
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by positr0n 8y ago
I use it and love it, even after binding Caps Lock to Esc. The only issue I have is when I type something that ends with j or k and immediately want to exit insert mode. e.g. if I type "ack" and then mash jk to leave insert mode.
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by positr0n 8y ago
I am impressed that :imap jk <Esc> :imap kj <Esc> works great. However it seems like outer and inner text objects aren't working at all. E.g. daw, ci)
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by positr0n 8y ago
I believe the current design doesn't work with the center core because it has a modified octaweb to connect to the two side cores.
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by positr0n 8y ago
Idea: When you pay tuition you agree to pay a fee of $X,000 if the college catches you red handed cheating. The college can then offer contract essay writers $X,000 if they provide communications proving a student is buying an essay, includ
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by positr0n 8y ago
> margins (that are obscene high right now) https://wccftech.com/apple-iphone-profits-declining/ This article (and everything else I've read online) reports that iPhone profit margins are declining.
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by positr0n 8y ago
"As a result of its size, passengers were asked to crowd together on one side or the other to help make turns." That's amazing
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by positr0n 8y ago
Don't they vote on them? In my hometown of Arlington TX there have been two stadiums* built with part public financing in the last decade. Both were ballot issues in a normal election. I thought that's how it was done everywhere.
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by positr0n 8y ago
You'd be surprised by how often I've seen a database fail in prod simply because it ran out of disk space. In both cases monitoring software was running but misconfigured.
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by positr0n 8y ago
Almost the exact same thing happened to one of my family members too. 50 year old programmer with a decade+ tenure at a large corporation. 52 weeks severance retirement offer. It took a year to find a new job and only now, almost a decade l
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by positr0n 8y ago
Where are you getting that figure from? A cap is not mentioned in the article and I couldn't find it in the FCC filing either.
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by positr0n 8y ago
The citation for that line[0] says they are still testing it. From my reading it sounds like they built some hardware, but it doesn't work yet :-) [0]: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/google-moves-toward-quan..
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by positr0n 8y ago
> first thing I do .... and start setting up my workspaces based on what I've been doing There are plugins for that! tmux-resurrec will restore your sessions on reboot, including directories and env vars. It can use vim and emacs se
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by positr0n 8y ago
They are losing millions in revenue every minute their site is down. Way too expensive for marketing.
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by positr0n 8y ago
Just speculating, but it could be that the levels don't matter as much since your pupils adjust to let in about the same amount of light regardless of the actual brightness. Also, just an anecdote. But if flux is on I will get tired ar
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by positr0n 8y ago
10 cent beer night at the ballgame. 8 innings of increasing shenanigans and then a riot broke out in the 9th inning. The refs called a forfeit and the Cleveland SWAT team had to be called.

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