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- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 6 days ago:
Not parent, but when a minute isn’t quite enough, 77 seconds might do the trick. Multiples of eleven are quick to enter, and with a simple number with no “minute” button, 66s is easier than 1:00.
- Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of companies view their free plan as recruiting/advertising — if you use TailScale personally and have a great experience then you’ll bring in business by advocating for it at work.
Of course it could go either way, and I don’t rely on TailScale (it’s my “backup” VPN to my home network)… we’ll see, I guess.
- Comment on Hell 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty standard bandwidth/latency tradeoff in my view: email is high bandwidth (it’s in writing, you can re-read, etc.), whereas phone is low latency (several back-and-forth explanations can happen in seconds). Each has its place.
If social anxiety is a factor, that’s a perfectly valid, but separate, issue.
- Comment on this is my hole! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Congratulations, homosexual! 2 weeks ago:
In my head it was definitely Cave.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 3 weeks ago:
“Full term” pregnancy is ~40w from last menstrual period, or ~38w from conception. There are ~4.345 weeks/month, putting full term at ~8.75 to ~9.2 months. Note the 9.2 months includes ~2 weeks before fertilization.
- Comment on Today is June 1st, the start of Pride Month. This scene from "Blood Oath" weighs heavily on my mind. 3 weeks ago:
Because not all humans strive for honor.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 3 weeks ago:
People praise the female reproductive system as miraculous because it can make a baby in only 9 months. Like that’s neat and all, but my reproductive system can make a baby in approximately 13 seconds, so I don’t see what all the fuss is about.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 weeks ago:
Yep, you’re right — I was just responding to parent’s comment about fiber being best because nothing is faster than light :)
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 weeks ago:
That’s…not really a cogent argument.
Satellites connect to ground using radio/microwave (or even laser), all of which are electromagnetic radiation and travel at the speed of light (in vacuum).
Light in a fiber travels much more slowly than in vacuum — light in fiber travels at around 67% the speed of light in vacuum (depends on the fiber). In contrast, signals through cat7 twisted pair (Ethernet) can be north of 75%, and coaxial cable can be north of 80% (even higher for air dielectric). Note that these are all carrying electromagnetic waves, they’re just a) not in free space and b) generally not optical frequency, so we don’t call them light, but they are still governed by the same equations and limitations.
If you want to get signals from point A to point B fastest (lowest latency), you don’t use fiber, you probably use microwaves: arstechnica.com/…/private-microwave-networks-fina…
Finally, the reason fiber is so good is complicated, but has to do with the fact that “physics bandwidth” tends to care about relative bandwidth (“frequency divided by delta frequency”), whereas “information bandwidth” cares about absolute bandwidth (“delta frequency”), all else being equal (looking at you, SNR). Fiber uses optical frequencies, which can be hundreds of THz — so a tiny relative bandwidth is a huge absolute bandwidth.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 weeks ago:
80% of the USA lives within urban areas (source). Urban “fiberization” is absolutely within reach.
Agree that running fiber out to very remote areas is tricky, but even then it’s probably not prohibitive for all but the most remote locations.
- Comment on Geologists doubt Earth has the amount of copper needed to develop the entire world 3 weeks ago:
So the irony is
I see what you did there…
- Comment on Technically the truth 3 weeks ago:
Left pedal looks more like a dead pedal to me.
And as others have said, change in direction is still acceleration. That’s part of Newton’s (apocryphal?) apple story — he witnessed an apple falling, and wondered why the moon doesn’t also fall. His amazing insight is that it does fall (accelerate), it’s just that it falls in such a way that it orbits, rather than hits, the Earth (for timescales relevant to a human).
- Comment on Misunderstood the assignment… 3 weeks ago:
“Can you hold it” was meant as “abstain from pooping for just a little longer,” but was instead interpreted as, “poop, and then hold the poop in your hands.”
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 4 weeks ago:
I think you mean more scrupulous, not less.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
If you lose power, you can use one of these cables to power your house (or at least, the part of your house on that phase).
This is not how you should do this, but it can work. It is not a good idea (possibly illegal?).
- Comment on Your help needed: PhD research on why people choose to self-host 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully you can publish in an open-access journal — if not it would be great if you could share an arXiv preprint :)
- Comment on *play imagine being sung by random white celeb* 4 weeks ago:
You said that no one…
I don’t think that was the parent commenter though…
- Comment on Let's play this game again 4 weeks ago:
You experience the passage of time as ever increasing in speed, and before long the universe has died, leaving you — immortal and sentient — alone in the cold, dead cosmos, for eternity.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 4 weeks ago:
Physics is like sex: sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it.
— Richard P. Feynman
I think the same is true for a lot of folks and self hosting. Sure, having data in our own hands is great, and yes avoiding vendor lock-in is nice. But at the end of the day, it’s nice to have computers seem “fun” again.
At least, that’s my perspective.
- Comment on Selfhosting on old MSI laptop 5 weeks ago:
Whatever you decide for your laptop, I’m a proponent of a barebones off-site setup if you’re trying for 3-2-1 backup or similar.
I use a raspberry pi 3 with a single HD (ZFS) retaining some number of daily/weekly/monthly snapshots. Daily rsync, everything over WireGuard+VPS (TailScale would work too).
- Comment on Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus? 1 month ago:
Sounds like the opposite reasoning may have some truth:
“Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: ‘Look, until America goes into political decline, there won’t be an American pope.’ And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don’t want America running the world religiously. So, I think there’s some truth to that, that we’re such a superpower and so dominant, they don’t wanna give us, also, control over the church.”
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 month ago:
Nah just give them the
.texsource and let them deal with it. - Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I just wish we’d have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today’s dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999 — cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn’t have a very extensive product list, so there’s only one “entry level” laptop to choose from. And yes it’s fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite — the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
- Comment on Hear me when I tell y'all 1 month ago:
I am the Walrus?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Interesting, TIL — thanks!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Books has become e-books.
To some extent — but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Cashless requires power all the way from PoS to wherever the servers live.
- Comment on Seriously Jesus, who was doing that for that to be added 😭 1 month ago:
It makes for a mean cappuccino, and is environmentally much, much lower impact.
- Comment on Meta's Reality Labs Has Now Lost Over $60 Billion Since 2020 - Slashdot 1 month ago:
Compensation for engineers in the Bay area will average much higher than $200k, and that’s not counting benefits (medical, etc.). So cost to the company will be way higher than 200k/employee.
For a project that has hardware, there will be large expenses associated with that — custom silicon has huge setup costs, for example.