trothamel

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by trothamel 2y ago
I'm more thinking of times when I've been driving through areas with spotty cell service, rather then the actual backcountry. The sort of thing where you could drive to it, but still haven no service.
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by trothamel 2y ago
A very important thing about this is going to be 911 (and other emergency number) calling. Since 911 calling bypasses network locks, we'll have a world where everyone outdoors can reach help.
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by trothamel 2y ago
The same frequency, but not connected via AC. There are multiple DC and Variable Frequency Transformer ties between the various interconnections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_power_transmiss...
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by trothamel 2y ago
I'd suspect that if it takes 2 years to plan and build and connect EV stations, that's a problem, and we should review what's causing it to happen so slowly.
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by trothamel 2y ago
I suspect the money is going out before the charging stations are being built - but if it's taking 3 years to build them, that's kind of a problem in its own right. I don't mind the government spending money to do stuff, but
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by trothamel 2y ago
The letter from the FHWA to states is here: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nevi/resources/state-pl... It looks like it's being suspended while new guidelines are are produced. To me, this makes sen
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by trothamel 2y ago
Yes, it's part of the (leaked) Tetris Guideline. https://tetris.wiki/Tetris_Guideline
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by trothamel 2y ago
My car has limits the government puts on it - it has to shut off it's engine to reduce fuel consumption to hit a government mandate. My shower doesn't use as much water as I'd like, as the government mandates a flow restricto
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by trothamel 2y ago
There is a rule of law issue here. Say, for example, congress passes and the president signs a law that says that product sponsorships in videos need to be disclosed. If a US company (or a European, Australian, Japanese, etc) country violat
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by trothamel 2y ago
It also helps that they fairly routinely land boosters (with New Shepard), which means they've likely worked out the 'landing' part. Now to see if they can solve the reentry problem.
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by trothamel 2y ago
Also node the 52,000 visual novels at https://vndb.org/v .
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by trothamel 2y ago
They want to spend $429B to link up 6M schools. That's a cost of $71K a school. It looks like Starlink is $17,000 for ten years of service, so even if you were to add a few thousand dollars for installation, there's a lot of overh
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by trothamel 2y ago
This article is from 2020.
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by trothamel 2y ago
In 1993, the price of a non-functional lunar rover was $68,500. That's how much Richard Garriott (son of astronaut Owen Garriott, creator of the Ultima game series, and after that, private astronaut that spent 12 days at the ISS) spent
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by trothamel 2y ago
I saw this exhibition a few weeks ago. My generally feeling was it didn't work that well, mostly because the MAD stuff is very dense, more dense than you'd expect from painting in an art gallery. A lot of it is also very dependent
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by trothamel 2y ago
SpaceX seems a bit salty about it, justifiably so: https://www.spacex.com/updates/#starships-fly
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by trothamel 2y ago
A police officer looks over your shoulder, sees the X app open, and starts an investigation.
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by trothamel 2y ago
> correctly describes a joy-ride of the gods. Pretty much this. Polaris Dawn is happening because Jared Isaacman wanted it to. And my point is that SpaceX has gotten the price down to the point where he was able to afford multiple trips.
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by trothamel 2y ago
Given that SpaceX is about to launch four people on what is more-or-less a joyride (Polaris Dawn), it's really only the government and boeing that seem to be having problems.
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by trothamel 2y ago
As I mention in a sibling post, Soyuz might have more launches, but it also has way more launch failures.
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by trothamel 2y ago
Thanks for running the numbers, which I think prove that it's impossible to say that Soyuz is more reliable than Falcon, even if you count AMOS-1 (which feels like it should be counted) and CRS-1 (which I don't).
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by trothamel 2y ago
Looking at the three most recent Soyuz variants: Soyuz-U had 765 successes in 786 flights. (97.3%) Soyuz-FG had 69 successes in 70 flights (98.5%) Soyuz-2 has 160 successes in 166 flights (96.3%) Falcon 9 has 362 successes in 365 flights. (
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by trothamel 2y ago
Either you or the company pays tax on the tip portion of the reimbursement.
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by trothamel 2y ago
Disallowing tips from corporations seems like it could go a long way to curbing abuses.
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by trothamel 2y ago
No. Software freedom 0 is that you should be free to run the program as you wish, for any purpose. If that means loading your system up with third-party crapware, that's on you, not them. That doesn't mean Microsoft shouldn't
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by trothamel 2y ago
Their attitude for crewed flights is to put pictures of the astronauts on every work order generated for the mission.
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by trothamel 2y ago
30 years ago, it was possible to be lost - not because you wanted to be, but because you had no way of figuring out where we are. GPS and other GNSS networks have solved that problem. It used to be possible to not have high-speed internet,
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by trothamel 2y ago
Dissimilar Redundancy. Say the Falcon 9 suffers an in-flight failure. The last time that happened, there was a stand-down for quite some time, and I suspect that there would be a similar amount of time before people could be flown on it, ev
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by trothamel 2y ago
I bought the Keychron V6 a couple weeks ago, and I'm loving it. It only has 4 extra keys, but it's nice to have a single button that builds and flashes a device, rather than a multi-key combo. Also runs QMK/Via, which means I
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by trothamel 2y ago
This bans the use of alternative youtube clients, but not the creation of such clients.

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