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deeth_starr_v··on Reentry of International Space Station Batteries into Earth's Atmosphere
There are geo stationary orbits that don’t degrade. If you’re orbiting earth or moon they will always be tugging at it Edit: as mentioned above getting it to geo stationary would be costly. It’d also be in a place hard for missions to reach. Also meant Lagrange point not geostationary
deeth_starr_v··on Firsty.app – free 300kbit/s eSIM for US/EU
All your traffic routes through the cell to their gateway. The gateway has session info and can pass/block traffic
deeth_starr_v··on Private company landing on the moon today
Not limited to having a daughter. My extended family has a trans son. Luckily they are in California. That’s a difficult thing to navigate in itself without living in a state where the fad is to elect the worst people possible.
deeth_starr_v··on The majority of traffic from X may have been fake during the Super Bowl
This seems vibes based. Twitter censored in the past and continues to censor. If you were in the out group and now are in the in group you’re happy even tho you were unlikely to have been censored
deeth_starr_v··on Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute
Not trying to get you to try again, but I used to feel that way about meditation until someone pointed out the goal was not to be empty and not have thought. When you have a thought you just observe it and make note of it and go back to your breath or experience or body scan. Sometimes you will just have a billion thoughts and you can’t get past that. Other times, and the more you have a practice, this gets easier. Ultimately it’s not about meditation but being mindful as you go about your life, and that’s what you’re ultimately practicing when you are meditating. Good luck!
deeth_starr_v··on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU
Modern typescript based web-app … you’re going to want the fastest single core speed cpu & nvme possible to make it not suck.
deeth_starr_v··on The Earthquake That Will Devastate the Pacific Northwest (2015)
Beautifully said. The whole pacific west is a scary wonder. Only thing I’d contest is that it’s just as likely to happen today or tomorrow as next year. Best to be prepared.
deeth_starr_v··on About Stolen Device Protection for iPhone
It’s a big problem is the USA also. It’s been in the news in prime time for about a year. They’ve been really slow to address it
deeth_starr_v··on Elon Musk Demands 25% Ownership Threatens to "Build Products Outside of Tesla"
The board is captured. They won’t be the ones pushing back
deeth_starr_v··on OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY: new open source router board by OpenWrt and Banana Pi
Agree. I’m running a N5105 w 4x2.5g that was $150 on AliExpress. 2x2.5g is the minimum I would do for a homelab
deeth_starr_v··on Xbox Multiplayer Analysis Tool
There’s not much. For a bit you could get some people to gift you an emulator for retail mode via a testing link. But that was cracked down on. Xbox is pretty locked down
deeth_starr_v··on Xbox Multiplayer Analysis Tool
Just a word of warning about this. You need to reboot into a crippled slow sandbox to do this. You’ll need to boot back into retail mode to play games. Getting a developer account lets you test your app in retail mode
deeth_starr_v··on Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
It’s been common knowledge that any Chinese ED supplement on Amazon that is effective has Viagra in it. This is not a bug but a feature
deeth_starr_v··on Apple M3 Pro Chip Has 25% Less Memory Bandwidth Than M1/M2 Pro
A sly comment I saw elsewhere was this gives them a nice bump they can use when the M4 is released and they go back to 4x4

Edit: my personal feeling is this is just a cost savings they are doing like they did with the base SSDs

deeth_starr_v··on Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
Right. That makes the most sense. Let’s Encrypt wasn’t involved … it’d just need to be linode/hetzner
deeth_starr_v··on Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident
I mean, I’ve seen the auto renew fail a lot with the certbot. They definitely should have checked it in the renew period to make sure it was working, but I feel for them
deeth_starr_v··on Colorado Supreme Court Upholds Keyword Search Warrant
I’m sure apple keeps logs so you can be looked up for law enforcement
deeth_starr_v··on Stack Overflow announces 28% headcount reduction
Chatgpt4 is better than 3.5, but I think it’s also because 4 uses larger models because you are paying, while 3.5 has been cut down. I still find that 4 will give bad technical answers … for example, ask it to help you write a Caddy reverse proxy config and it will give you garbage very emphatically
deeth_starr_v··on Comcast squeezing 2Gbps internet speeds through decades-old coaxial cables
I don’t believe this will be widely rolled out. 2gb/200mbps down/up has supposedly been offered in my area for a year but I’ve never been able to get it. I switched to ATT fiber when it became available
deeth_starr_v··on Calls to investigate tax sites for sharing financial information with Meta
Same reason it’s an issue for an auction site to trade stolen goods
deeth_starr_v··on My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
We don't know exactly why the account got taken over, but I doubt using the browser login would have prevented this (school azure taking over whatever microsoft account was logged in).

Also, Google tracks you across all websites once you login to the browser (even if you don't use google login on them). If they weren't tracking you, using the browser profiles would be great.

deeth_starr_v··on The beautiful Silent ThunderBolt-3 PC
I found this write up confusing also. At the end when he said, "Apple announced a fanless M1 which would have solved my problems", I was like, Wut? You problem was sharing peripherals between a pc and a laptop, right?
deeth_starr_v··on Google illegally spied on workers before firing them, US labor board alleges
I'm kind of surprised by the option to use a personal phone anyway. Whenever I've worked at big tech, there has never been an option to use a personal device or laptop. Even getting a USB port enabled takes a VP to ok it often. But this tends to be in R&D depts.
deeth_starr_v··on Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?
I did several and they were all through Zoom. The transaction was only through the Airbnb website.
deeth_starr_v··on Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products
This is where these guys lose me. There is no way you get Netflix or Hulu or Disney in Firefox without EME or something similar. Ultimately the question is do you want to be a mainstream browser or not? Obviously Mozilla does and most people want it to be and don't care about it. If you don't like copy protection then don't buy stuff with it or torrent instead. This is such a tired argument to be having in 2020 and boring complaint about Mozilla.
deeth_starr_v··on Push-Button Installer of macOS Guests in VirtualBox for Windows, Linux, macOS
You don't need a special script to install Macos in Fusion.
deeth_starr_v··on Jetson AGX Xavier
Not on a Xavier but on a TX2 I was able to get a single reasonable 4K stream with NVENC and gstreamer. Quality wasn't super awesome since it's realtime encoding. We ended up using two TX2s (one for each stream). I'd probably go with two Xaviers for better quality or step down and do 2 higher quality 1080p streams.
deeth_starr_v··on Apple’s abandonment of Intel chips is inevitable (2018)
The obvious answer is buyer preference and cheaper gas.

https://www.theonion.com/a-statement-followed-by-a-question-...

deeth_starr_v··on If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try charging it on the right
I'm not sure about on Linux, but the GPU passthrough on Macos (Fusion) is not like KVM passthrough. When I looked into it I found out it's for one specific use case. Won't increase performance for general apps like Photoshop.
deeth_starr_v··on Denmark: No aid for companies which pay out dividends or are reg. in tax havens
The point you're missing is that the tax cuts were unfunded and paid for by huge deficits. So that huge overhang will limit how much deficit spending politicians might undertake to offset any downturn. And they may need to raise corp taxes now and create even more drag.
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