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> "good story" probably doesn't include being too uninterested to write your own answers despite parents so committed to you going to Stanford they're prepared to litigate to get you a B...

So true.

This kid is a persona non grata for elite schools at this point.

As I said in the other thread, his best bet is to go to a JuCo that feeds into a decent state school, and just lay low for two years.

He can go to an elite school for a graduate degree if he wants the club membership.
Out of these 4 basic components reading, listening, writing and speaking, it's speaking that is by far the hardest. But there's no computer that can accurately detect nuances in pronunciation and tone much like a native teacher can. This also applies to vacabulary choices and grammar.
Does this mean they can track the location of specific IMEIs from orbit?
Or Derek <wood dropping on desk>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNoS2BU6bbQ
This seems to only apply to banks.
Do you have any data about that? I have only heard the opposite from owners and it sounds a lot like the things Americans used to say about Japanese cars prior to getting stomped by them in the 80s.
Mandatory reference: https://xkcd.com/327/
Globestar have 48 Satellites in orbit [1]

Starlink has 6,426 [2] (Though that number is likely out of date by the time you read this)

[1] https://www.groundcontrol.com/knowledge/calculators-and-maps...

[2] https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-satellites.html
Same. Done a few trips to alaska and had to coordinate pickups and food drops via garmin inreach. Battery life on those is way better and more durable.
Two years ago I gave a presentation on how docker works under the hood. After trying to understand docker, moby and containerd and how they interact I was so happy to find Bocker. Pretty much show how it can be done while showing enough of the magic moves that docker itself is actually doing. Bocker is cups&balls with clear plastic cups by Penn and Teller for docker.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_research_vessel_Yantar

Marine Traffic AIS: https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:12...
Continental allergies destroy talent. This applies to much of the east coast as well as they’re downstream of the continent.

I agree with much of this post, but there is a reason the areas with the highest intellectual output are on the coast.

I just moved from Dallas to the bay. Going from multiple allergy medicines a day and a persistent brain fog from ragweed and mountain cedar to none. Going from keeping windows closed with co2 levels spiking to levels that effect cognition to living with windows open and breathing fresh air. There is a reason Texas is where dying companies relocate to.
> Like snthpy said "real" is a shortcut to say infinitely subdivisible. The numbers themselves are actually rationals.

That sounds like a fair bit of complexity vs using 64/128-bit unsigned integers or something. I guess the benefit is that then you "never" have to reallocate / defragment?
Correction to my comment: Korean Hangul is actually an alphabetic writing system.

Thank you to the commenters who pointed this out!
I can't speak for CMPA or QL, but I can speak a little bit on Unlagged:

- w/ Unlagged, the Server now stores a history buffer (g_activeSnapshots[]) of player states. When processing a action shot, it uses the timestamp sent by the client (cmd.serverTime) to interpolate or rewind states for collision checks (G_EvaluateTrajectory()). This allows the server rewinds player positions to the moment a client action occurred (eg: firing a shot)

- Unlagged reduces choppy movements by making clients use a snapshot buffer (cg.snap, cg.nextSnap) to interpolate positions with CG_InterpolateEntityPosition(). Extrapolation uses velocity vectors from the last known snapshot (currentState.pos.trDelta).

- Unlagged tries to compensate for high latency by rewinding entities to their positions at the time of the shot (ClientThink_real() and G_RewindEntities()). Uses a circular buffer (via lagometerSnapshot_t) to store past states.

- Position corrections (cg.predictedPlayerState) are interpolated over several frames using VectorLerp() to fix prediction mismatches between client and server.

- Commands are stored in a circular buffer (ucmds[]) and replayed when missing packets are detected (ClientThink_cmd()). This attempts to mitigate packet loss by buffering input commands for later execution
Wow … this escalated quickly.
SQLite: Outlandish Recursive Query Examples
>Tired, you parameterize your deploy script and configure firewall rules, distracted from the crucial features you should be working on and shipping.

Where's your Sysop?
I worked with an office of Germans who insisted that ASCII was sufficient. The German language uses letters that cannot be represented in ASCII.

In fairness, they mostly wanted stuff to be in English, and when necessary, to transliterate German characters into their English counterparts (in German there is a standardised way of doing this), so I can understand why they didn't see it was necessary. I just never understood why I, as the non-German, was forever the one trying to convince them that Germans would probably prefer to use their software in German...
Maybe some aspects of the Plan9 UI? (rio/9term, plumber; acme as well).

You should be able to get this to work on Unix with plan9port.
You don't have a clue what you're talking about, so from what did you derive these harsh feelings? Starlink satellites are in LEO, without active boosting they decay in mere years.
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It’s not going to work inside buildings, and they would need to charge you a fairly astronomical fee per minute.

However, a Starlink mini dish can let you cheaply make calls from basically anywhere with some minor setup.
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You involve yourself in executing the idea and talk up those contributions. If it turns out you were wrong, hide.
> With Apple supporting them

Oh, no. Apple owns them at this point. 20% ownership, and they have 85% of Globalstar's current satellite capacity for themselves. GSAT isn't really putting new customers on the constellations and Apple is funding all the replacement hardware.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/1/24285347/apple-globalstar...
50k between Texas and SF isn't a difference, that's the whole point of cost of living adjustment. That being said, my rate is my rate. People happily pay it. I have access to the entire planet for my options, not just whoever happens to have an office within commuting distance from my house.

A large percentage of YC startups fail, so that's not really a metric that's useful. Basic market analysis will do: more potential employers = higher pay.
OK, but symbol literacy, at least in this sense, is a long way from literacy in a language having the grammar of the spoken language of these people (or a grammar equally as expressive, as we see, for example, in the case of scholars who read and wrote in Latin while conversing in the vernacular of their time and place.)
Did you actually get banks to print that on your credit card?

I’m impressed, most I know struggle with any kind of non-[A-Z]!
The multi-pass box blur effect is the one I've seen in game engines.
It’s proposing a decentralized naming scheme, with nearly zero implementation details, with the idea that it works like split-horizon dns plus some undefined form of list sharing. Adding a bunch of cryptographic stuff to it doesn’t really change the hard bits of discovery.
No, the Anglosphere isn’t Especially NIMBY
I think the standard ls doesn't have much in terms of color/icons, so its simplicity probably makes it a great side project for improving on.

Not a big surface area, some easy improvements. A whole lot less stressful than rewriting grep (although I'm massively grateful Burnt Sushi did such a crazy thing)
Equally, China has enough missiles to blockade Taiwan permanently. There's no reason for them to attempt an amphibious landing or anything insane like that. It's unclear to me what the US response would be in a blockade situation, but Chinese hypersonic missiles do pose a threat to carriers.

This isn't Desert Storm we're talking about here, China is a real threat.
This can't be a serious take, right? Chinese consumers don't expect much less when it comes to maintenance and repair. And given their 3M+/year vehicle production output, they're not a small player.
In Japan electric bikes were relatively cheap as you say but in Canada, a bike to carry my family costs more than 5-6k, closer to 10k.

I can't even import those electric mama charis because of unwarranted concern about batteries.

Hard to support bike infrastructure when safetyism means bike routes are only for singles and the rich.
Canary deploy dude (or dude-ette), route 0.001% of service traffic and then slowly move it over. Then set error budgets. Then a bad service wont "bring down production".

Thats how we did it at Google (I was part of the core team responsible for ad serving infra - billions of ads to billions of users a day)
I think this website set a new record: Asking to share data with 1587 "partners"
They always have been...
You've moved me a place of uncertainty here. I had some confirmation that _some_ browsers use box blurs for this effect, I _know_ some game engines use multiple box blurs to approximate Gaussian blur (having seen the code myself).

I updated a few sentences in the article to reflect that uncertainty. Thanks!
Where do you get 7 years? That is not true of most EV. Even the worst ones, like the early Leafs did better than that.
Do you think that this is not already the case? If not, what was the point of 15+ years of government education?
maybe the us and nato should back away? at least ukraine is on russias border wtf are we doing there

i do object to your use of the word "genocide" when there is a literal U.S. backed genocide occurring right now in gaza
> US auto makers have been on the ropes since the 1980s.

Without a doubt.

In about 2000 the US automakers sued the EPA because their proposed clean air regulations for about 2009 were "impossible".

They were actually more lax than what Japanese automakers were already selling cars for in the year 2000.

So the automakers sued the US government to admit that in 2009 they couldn't build cars that were as clean as cars Japan was already making in 2000. That says a lot.
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Is there a port of AfterDark that runs on MacOS? Would love the nostalgia.
I agree that cars are at least double the mass they need to be. The size of cars needed for a school run or to drive to work are generally quite small, but most people seem to have giant trucks for the occasional times they go camping or carry something large.
And the postal code.
What I wonder about the Starlink constellation is, how secure it is physically? There are people burning down 5G towers. How plausible would be for a conspiracy nut to create a rocket to take out the satellites? Maybe starting a cascading effect?
I think his point is that most Starlink satellites do not have this technology, but he's probably still wrong quantitatively.
Is there a reason you and some many commenters here are concerned about food security? Has this became a nativist rallying cry of some sort? Because by all fact-based accounts there is no problem with food production in Europe.
There are about 6 thousand Starlink satellites out there and their total count may grow to some 40 thousand in the future.

But even if we abstracted the LEO to just one sphere, it would be quite a bit BIGGER than the Earth alone.

If 40 thousand, say, small cars were distributed across the entire globe including oceans, would you call the result "unsustainable pollution"? In fact, compared to what we live in today, such a world would be positively pristine. We are used to having 40 thousand cars in every city of 80 thousand people, which is usually just a small dot on the map.

Space is big. Even near-Earth orbits are mindbogglingly huge. Even if there were millions of satellites on low Earth orbits, that space would still be several nines of vacuum.
Great article and thought provoking.

> and unlike your colleagues in management, you won’t spend all day in meetings.

The author will be surprised. In a bureaucratic company like Google, even an E6 can spend all their time having meetings and writing docs, to the point that they even get rusty at drawing boxes.

> If you want to reach this level, you’ll need to become a master of your chosen craft

One thing that worries me is that mastery also means specialization, and specialization is the most risky when there's a paradigm shift. My cope is to be specialized in a category. For instance, be a specialist in distributed systems instead of being a master of building Spring-boot services. That said, even that type of specialization is not immune to paradigm shift. Case in point, scaling out a service is really not that hard these days compared to 10 years ago.
It also lacks active thermal management. That's more or less a requirement for long battery life.
Why switch carriers for that, you can get the same functionality built-in to iPhones and it's not dependent on carrier.
Also non-geologist, but my understanding is that the gassing is a sign of "frothing", active magma. It's the difference between boiling just water in a saucepan, and boiling water and pasta - the latter will result in the saucepan overflowing.

I believe that the switch in out-gassing behaviour suggests that the magma viscosity and gas levels have hit a critical point that means that the field is more likely to erupt.
Heh, funnily, I know I wasn't sane. I bought the "weapons of mass destruction" and "pre-emptive strike" lines and the notion of not letting the terrorists win.

What happened, I think, is much more banal. Everyone was pissed at such a large successful terrorist attack. Politicians took that as a strong signal that they must do something. And the easiest solutions were new policing agencies, privacy invasion, and invading sovereign nations. Those were easy answers to sell to angry citizens. They were also the wrong answers that lead to hundreds of thousands dead, the region destabilized, new larger terrorist organizations (ISIS/ISIL) and trillions of dollars wasted.

The right answer just wasn't flashy. Locking cockpits, diplomacy with Afghanistan leaders, and ultimately intelligence gathering and a targeted strike on Osama bin ladin if he was found. We Americans wanted blood, what we needed was to address the holes that made the attack possible and to just move on.
> astronomical fee
For those wondering, this project ports the game to run in modern browsers. Cool!
I'm going to disagree here, slightly. If anything I think Manna is something closer to AGI; and its capabilities certainly imply that it's Turing Complete.

Which means the owners will constantly be playing whack-a-mole with edge cases and emergent properties that they couldn't anticipate from a prior fix.

This is what would destabilize the dystopia; though that doesn't imply more freedom. It could just mean replacing one set of oligarchs with another; skynet; or just anarchy if Manna started becoming very buggy.

On the otherhand, I don't think Vertebrane is Turing complete though I haven't given this a deep amount of thought; though I can't see how a bad actor couldn't coopt Vertebrane into a Manna.
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Can anyone explain how upload would work? How can an unmodified cellphone upload data to a satellite?
I think this is the answer.
That is also a problem for hybrid powers vehicles, the battery is small and it gets charged and discharged 0-100 / 100-0 very often, if you use the hybrid as intended.

Some manufacturers limit this, but in a few years we will see a lot of hybrids that have batteries that barely work and will not deliver the expected ev only distance by a lot.
> It will happen over time

I'm optimistic.

I think that, once SpaceX starts launch Starlink satellites with Starship, they'll be able to increase their globally available bandwidth by a factor of 5-10x (although it might take 5 years to roll out). A lot of that bandwidth will be eaten up by existing demand. But hopefully some of it will enable novel services like global cell service through a single provider (even if it's limited to low bandwidth applications like text and voice).
It was high school.
I noticed there wasn't so much as a word about labor substitutability and the tyranny of logistics. Just like the famous example of how nine fertile women can't produce a baby in one month, there are task differences between hiring say one programmer for eight hours or two programmers for four hours. More communication overhead at the very least, let alone other logistical changes. In order for such changes in practice they would need to demonstrate that the change would be better for such a retooling to take place.

All this is before getting into scarcity of labor as a factor for making such changes unviable to undesriable. Even if we had fully automated basics provided for it wouldn't make sense to cut down on the hours for the remainder that are in high demand and limited supply due to reasons like requiring talent and/or other personality qualities (most people don't have it in them to be a surgeon cutting people open even if their skill level is irrelevant), and have a high lead time in "production". We just plain wouldn't have enough qualified top end people to deal with the number of people who need say brain surgery to have brain surgeons working fifteen hour weeks. Even if it was somehow the norm elsewhere in the economy they would be paid/incentivized up to work longer hours than others.

And this is before touching the final issue of "would there be enough productivity produced with a fifteen hour week" to support the resulting society? You have to do the math here, you can't just assume "it's the CEO's fault for being paid so much" when if the math actually says that even if you could do that they would actually get $2.52 more a year.

Unfortunately upon closer examination the projection of fifteen hour work weeks amounted to just wishcasting.
A decayed satellite doesn't just disappear though. There's particulate pollution from it burning up, not to mention the pollution from rocket launches.

There's also the light pollution that the astronomy community has been complaining about for years.
I'd still carry an old-school PLB (not a satellite messenger subscription service) for the enduring battery-life, ruggedness, and reliability when it matters. And use LTE-Starlink for the basic non-urgent but super convenient communication needs.
The boom _during_ Covid has been crazy, but I think it's still possible to get a FAANG job that will get you to the US. The other route would be joining a FAANG in the UK and then changing teams after 1-2 years.
Very sorry to hear that Marshall died :( I just went on howstuffworks.com and I see two articles on astrology on the home page. For real? I thought it was a science-based website.
> I think his point is that most Starlink satellites do not have this technology

Ah, thanks, I missed that.

Wait another month, there will be at least another ~500 in orbit.
> One space based cell plan for the whole world

The baseband on handheld devices do not have that much power to transmit and receive from Starlink directly; and hence the partnership with MNOs. With 5G (after Google & Meta got involved, the designs took on a Cloud/Internet-heavy focus), Starlink very well might have "slices" carved out exclusive for its own use world over.

See also: Cloudflare's Zero-Trust SIM (2022), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32982697
> Farming subsidies are a national security tool, not a handout.

It's absurd to not acknowledge they are both.
I'm challenging Andrew’s (Acquire.com) valuation tool
Last week Acquire[.]com launched a valuation tool and to my surprise, my SaaS has got a high valuation.

I don’t think it will sell for the valuation given by the tool ($15k for a $1k ARR product).

So, I went to Andrew with a challenge: if my startup is sold for $15k, I’ll donate $5k to women’s makers. If not, he’ll do so.

Below is the challenge.

https://x.com/leonagano/status/1859021684013232309?s=46
That's great, but I don't think it addresses the basic point: sharing edge names requires a way to share those names, and that's a trusted third party (one with a degree of centralization, to boot).

There are ways to (dis)intermediate that trust (like a PKI), but the shape of that PKI or other technique is itself a question of decentralization, security, etc. I think that's a very hard underlying problem that the petname design needs to at least offer some opinions on in order to make claims about security.
HawkEye 360 has been doing this for a few years.
Ugh, your dagger of truth cuts me so deep...but truthfully so. :-)

I'm beginning to feel ageism big time nowadays. And, while i'm thankful that i don't have any impact from disability (yet?!) from employers, the wealth accumulation is not enough to where i'd be comfy just yet. I wonder if "unicorns" outside of FAANGs nowadays are simply trying to accumulate enough wealth from conventional corporate IT jobs to have a comfy retirement like folks from the 60s/70s/80s/90s eras have had? ;-)
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Compared to what?

Traditional satellite phone corporations used to charge something like 8 USD/min.
If you can make a rocket that reaches a Starlink Satellite then there are many other targets the same rocket can hit that would be more damaging.

Rockets are a military technology, and are treated as such.
> The only issue I see is that cellphone battery life is terrible compared to inReach like devices. Not sure I'd want to depend on it for longer than a few hours.

I think it depends on the application you're using it for.

If you're constantly using the gps - yeah, I'd definitely agree with you.

But if you're using it purely for emergency communication, you can just turn off the cell phone, and it should be fine.

It's also possible to pursue a hybrid approach by bringing a battery to change the phone.
Misanthropes [1] look at human civilization as a disease.

Look instead at what we've accomplished.

Think about the hard steps to life and intelligent life. About how silent the universe appears. Consider then how we're taking leaps towards making the cold and bleak universe self-aware. We are a part of evolution.

What would be tragic would be for this earth to simply boil away. Its life giving gasses and materials to vanish, unused, and life to be forgotten. Return to an unthinking rock.

[1] Maybe it's uncharitable to label you as a misanthrope, but looking broadly at this behavior in general.
I doubt there is enough overlap between people able to build a rocket capable of taking out satellites and people who are afraid of 5G.
I feel so, so mixed about this.

It’s going to be unambiguously good for wilderness rescue and disaster response.

But I like camping and hiking in remote areas in order to remove myself from the world. And I think the lack of connectivity discourages unprepared people from taking on more than they can handle in the wilderness. If the wilderness becomes fully connected, will it spoil that feeling? Will it lead to the last few truly remote places in the US suddenly being overrun with TikTok crowds? I honestly have no idea, and it’s a little scary.

But it feels like an anachronism that we don’t already have worldwide connectivity, and I guess this was just bound to happen.
I don’t know if the spec supports that on its own. Although, it’s a good feature request.

You’d have to update the WG configuration each time a new IPv6 address connected. So, you would probably need to connect through something like a client that could push a config update and restart the service.

Not impossible, but that’s another layer of complexity to maintain.
Farmers and people supporting farmers are still a small minority and while they can probably swing some election in some country if they were to massively support only one party or coalition, the money comes for the strategic importance. It would be naive to think it's just "for the votes".