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mighty_plant··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
Some day before invading Taiwan China and Russia will try to take them all down: https://archive.is/AMIxX
mighty_plant··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
Same here on Arch Linux. Sign in does not open the browser.
mighty_plant··on Quarkdown: A modern Markdown-based typesetting system
Maybe running Latex in a container would meet your requirements?
mighty_plant··on Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
There were definitely some interactions but of course Eichmann tried to keep social activities to a minimum just so much that he didn't give rise to any suspicion.

I assume that people don't want to talk to reporters because of the bad image cast on them. I mean having a mass murderer in your community and not identifying him people may think that you're either dumb or you were actively ignoring it. After the war people mostly tried to forget about the Nazis as a coping mechanism for their common guilt.

mighty_plant··on Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
After the war he lived four years in the same small village as my grandmom, breeding chicken and working in the woods until he saved enough money for his escape to Argentina. He supposedly even sold his eggs to the Jewish survivor community of the closeby concentration camp Bergen-Belsen.

https://www-weser--kurier-de.translate.goog/niedersachsen/ei...

mighty_plant··on MQTT vs. Kafka: An IoT Advocate's Perspective
I once had to develop something similar. The solution my company had chosen was to transmit the weights and possible errors via a Websocket connection between the UI and the scale adapter - a small Java service doing the raw socket communication. Weirdly the commands to stop weighing and set tare, get tare, etc. would be send via RabbitMQ from the UI server to the adapter instead of using the WS connection.
mighty_plant··on Nobody needs a faster dishwasher – solve real user needs
Be careful what you wish for. Professional dishwashers as most commonly used seem to be linked to health disorders: https://studyfinds.org/dishwashers-harm-gut-health/
mighty_plant··on Chess is booming and our servers are struggling
At least on when using the app https://github.com/lichess-org/lichobile/issues/1027 prevents playing any blitz games without taking a bigger rating hit.
mighty_plant··on Chessguessr – Wordle for Chess Games
I wanted to try it but it doesn't work with my Pixel dark mode
mighty_plant··on Lichess Statement on the War in Ukraine
> Lichess will not remove Russian or Belarusian flags from user profiles. Russia and Belarus exist as countries, and removing their flag does not change that. There are also many Russians and Belarusians who disagree with the war and are protesting it, whose bravery we respect, but by nationality still identify as Russian and Belarusian.

In these days I think deliberately displaying the Russian flag on one's profile has to be interpreted as supporting Russia's government. Regarding "Russia and Belarus exist as countries, and removing their flag does not change that" - no one wants to remove Russia nor Belarus as countries but Russia wants to do so with Ukraine with the help of Belarus. I also would have wished for Lichess to communicate their stance more quickly.

mighty_plant··on Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop yields – CF Industries
And this is why sanitation has to be rethought. It's time to recycle human excrements and get rid of the expensive sewage system. At least in Germany there are a few startups exploring this idea with help of modern technology. Here is a good article about it: https://daily.jstor.org/a-history-of-human-waste-as-fertiliz... and a German podcast where I first heard about it: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/projekt-sanitaerwende-w...
mighty_plant··on Employee Scheduling
Google or-tools are quite fun although a little bit of a pain to setup and get started at least if you want to use the JVM and support different OS. Just to share a little anecdote about my use case: The department I work in consists of about 40 developers and once a year we had a day together just to form new teams in a self organized manner. Management wanted about one third of a team to move to a different team to spread and gather knowledge but completely backed off during that day. We had a special coach and scrum masters supporting us but still it was very exhausting and a lot of the developers didn't like it. The devs that showed motivation to change teams were more or less forced to go to the teams which were disliked the most (either because of their domain or the already present members). So in the end there was not much rotation and the whole thing was quite expensive so that this year it was cancelled. That's when I started to use Google or-Tools to write a little tool that suggests teams based on some constraints like size, at least one experienced dev / software architect per team and an optimization function based on preferences of each dev for a certain domain as well as their sympathy towards other devs When I announced it it got almost no attention and was dismissed as "inhuman".
mighty_plant··on Self-hosted, super simple photo stream
Looks cool. How much storage do Github Pages or Netlify support for free?
mighty_plant··on My Thoughts About the Coronavirus: Ray Dalio
I guess invest in anything that "treats" social distancing like medication, video games, VR, collaboration technology, etc.
mighty_plant··on It Is Past Time To Kill "Just One Child"
I hate reading 11px sized text.
mighty_plant··on Massive Dosing - the LSD Thumbprint
That reminds me of a speech by Terence McKenna who has to be mentioned anywhere psychedelics are discussed ;)

If you like you can have a listen to this sample used in a song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDlbsgdXFxY

He has been sampled in numerous other songs, too, most of them are psychedelic ambient tracks. I also recommend anything you can find about him on youtube especially "Seeking the Stone"