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Demigod33on SpaceX delivers 3rd batch of Starlink satellites in two weeks

> I don't think anyone has the ability to shoot down enough Starlink satellites to make a difference.

Not with rockets, but maybe with lasers? What damage can a single one do? Could a country deploy them at specific orbits to have enough coverage to destroy a sufficient amount?

Demigod33on Go Developer Survey 2020 Results

> It's interesting that 17% are not satisfied with editor support for Go.

GoLand does a better job and is more stable and reliable than VSCode here, even having to restart the daemon from time to time for VSCode. Of course it could also be what you said, I can only write for myself. I hope they will be able to introduce stability and reliability of the former.

Demigod33on Minecraft vs. Roblox (2020)

Or they don't understand why its a good habit and so follow the advice blindly, not knowing when to skip it or not. Breadth of experience.

Demigod33on Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

Is the gut usually the main target or just as byproduct getting wiped? If not then its not necessarily an issue.

Demigod33on Over 140k virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science

I wonder whether its possible to transplant the bacteria out before such a treatment and introduce them again later..

Demigod33on The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Google Allo

Why would it be less successful compared to Apple Pay? Isn't it the same functionality?

Demigod33on UC’s termination of Elsevier contract has had limited negative impact (2020)

> free access to arbitrary literature was not exactly the limiting step in anyone’s research career in my experience.

What are limiting steps?

Demigod33on The bizarre beasts living in Romania's poison cave (2015)

At least at that place. Imagine all the other places which perished due to various reasons. A numbers game.

Demigod33on “User engagement” is code for “addiction”

Do you mean the book by Kevin Maney, Al Ramadan et al.?

Demigod33on Tesla voids warranty if you try to power your home with your car

It does not even have to be worse to be a problem. Maybe the battery requires certain loads and capacity at certain times to work efficiently and not age as fast. There are too many unknowns.

Demigod33on Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

> they said it was impossible

What reasons did they name?

Demigod33on Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

Thorough explanation, thank you.

Demigod33on Tesla voids warranty if you try to power your home with your car

There may not be a good equivalent in case the load is different enough from normal use.

Demigod33on Use Touch ID for Sudo on Mac

What if one file was written by a malicious program?

Demigod33on Show HN: I wrote a book about using data science to solve “everyday” problems

Is there also a drm-free version available?

EDIT: Nevermind its in the post and I was confused: https://gumroad.com/l/everydaydata

Demigod33on M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short periods of time

iPad Pro V1 was ok, except for the smart keyboards dying. Anyone know where they can still be bought?

Demigod33on A Warning to Users of NurseryCam

Don't embedded devices fix the DNS-server to a specific one? Worst case the provider fixes it to their own. That has downsides too though.

Demigod33on Harvard epidemiologist: my colleagues assumed UK coronavirus plan “was satire”

Sources:

- Article on SARS-CoV https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/

- Article on Coronaviruses in general https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/256521#symptoms

Demigod33on In a swipe at Chrome, Firefox now blocks ad trackers by default

Let's see whether Google pays less now to be the default search engine in Firefox.

Demigod33on Google search takes 7 seconds on certain queries

Is there a bang to disable personalized results?

Demigod33on Why do developers at Google consider Agile development to be nonsense? (2016)

> Developers should create a Google Design Document (a fairly minimal, but structured design doc), explaining the project, what goals it hopes to achieve, and explains why it can’t be done in other ways.

Does somebody have more on this? I'm never sure how to structure my design documents, how does a Google Design Document look like, is there a template somewhere on how to write one? This would be super helpful, please.

Demigod33on You don’t want a child prodigy

Among other things, today's technology is simply not good enough to enable learning to show what wonders one may (with time and effort) achieve.

Demigod33on Blockchain study finds zero success rate and vendors don't call back

https://m.imgur.com/a/RlUj9Ed

Is NIST correct?

Demigod33on Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

Broadly said experience.

Denying reality, however bad it may be, hurts in the end more since this sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly influences action to avoid the thing I denied out of being. Once everything is allowed there is not much necessity to deny the thing that is stopping you (me in this case). Imagine a central belief that can bring many useful actions to a halt just by being there.

Blame is from other people. You can deny all blame. You do not have to blame yourself. That's a thing which I haven't been taught before. Since I did rather the reverse, it needed the exact opposite to work out. Only consequences are physical. That's why only those matter.

Demigod33on Dealing with past trauma may be the key to breaking addiction

Two mantras helped me.

1. Everything is allowed (especially what already happened.).

2. I may accept consequences (if I wish), but I must not accept any blame.

Demigod33on Teens who refuse to use social media

So loading it up on a website and letting kids do their things is not enough? What would be required to learn this by themselves, if a blogpost is not enough? Memorization by repetition, self-improvement cycles, what do you think would be enough that they can learn it by themselves?

Demigod33on Teens who refuse to use social media

> being taught about it

How do you teach something like this? In a classroom, or is it only good incase it comes from experienced parents?

Demigod33on Teens who refuse to use social media

> The problem with school

Have you thought of viable solutions for this?