robscallsign

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by robscallsign 3y ago
My daily boot into Linux I'm prompted by no end of updates. Hundreds of megabytes of core libraries, fonts, office suites I never asked for but are installed by default, and of course, the weekly or so kernel update and getting to pla
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by robscallsign 4y ago
I suspect it's the same reason why Microsoft just doesn't sell a version of Windows without telemetry for a flat rate: there is just too much money on the table for tracking and selling your private data over the lifetime of the v
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by robscallsign 4y ago
Interesting! One of my goto's for programming is the soundtrack from the game LA Noire, with rain/storm sounds in the background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGKxCAg_0o&list=PL0B80EA34D... https:/&
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by robscallsign 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. First, while I probably have a few thousand hours in the F18 in DCS, and a few thousand takeoffs and significantly fewer landings, I'm just a flight simmer, with no real experience in military or civilian aviation
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by robscallsign 4y ago
... and trained enough to handle any possible combination of inflight emergency, equipment failure, change of weather, safetly handle any last minute directive or change by ATC, etc.
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by robscallsign 4y ago
I've been a fairly serious flight simmer for about 20 years now, including 13 years of DCS, and have flown the DCS F-18 since it's initial release 4 years ago. This topic gets discussed a fair bit within the flight sim community,
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by robscallsign 4y ago
It can be hard for Linux fans to admit when anything on Windows is better, but Voidtools's Everything is one. I've used (and still use) most file indexing and search tools in Linux, and Everything is just categorically better. A
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by robscallsign 4y ago
I'm curious if anyone has a similar image of the shoreline of the west coast of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington state, etc.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I've been wondering how the EV adoption will play out in Canada. For example, the city I live in with a population of 162k had a record all time low of -48.3 C, and average lows in January of −17.9C, and 4 of months of the year have a
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by robscallsign 5y ago
If they're not connected, then they're just two antennas. What happens when you get far away from your wifi hotspot or a cellphone tower? The voltage/energy transmitted becomes vanishingly small, and smaller than the thermal
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Thats interesting, thanks for pointing it out
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I had read the LOTR several times, but it wasn't until I listened to it as an audiobook did it click for me just how much of the spoken dialog in the movies is pretty much word-for-word from the books. I get what you and others are s
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by robscallsign 5y ago
It's also the ongoing cost of the voice and data plans, replacement cost of the phone if/when it breaks, replacement cost of the phone when the $3 Trillion dollar tech company forces it to be obsolete, replacement cost for the bat
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Running some "last mile" type infrastructure would help hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people in Canada who live close to cities. > Limited funds Using the term "Limited funds" here you're trivializing
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Yes, I won't disagree that running cable or fiber is expensive, but I'd like to see a push to run cable or fiber to places like ours which are on a major highway, and only a few kilometers out of town. Somehow in these discussion
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Is this really reasible to scale for a company without their own launch platform though? As a Canadian living in a "rural" area, 15km from a municipality of 160,000 people with no access to wired broadband internet, I'd rathe
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I don't know enough orbital mechanics to understand the feasibility, but it's fun to consider that putting a shade over some of the hotter cities of the world - Phoenix for example, could have a big effect by reducing the need for
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by robscallsign 5y ago
It would be easier to attack/sabotage/JAM/DOS the ground stations.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I second this. If your goal is to release it publically, chances are most of your dirty laundry and uglier hacks are either pain points that are systemically hard (installation, different OS versions/platform, dependencies, build envi
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by robscallsign 5y ago
His show is a discussion and an interview, not a scientific debate, thesis defense, or a court hearing. It's up to us as listener to do as you say, use an open mind and question the information as it comes out. I like how Rogan doesn&
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I'm in Ontario, Canada, 46.5 degrees latitude and typing this on Starlink. Even with the occasional dropouts Starlink is 10-100x better than any other option that we have here (the only options are LTE, or other satellites, like xplorn
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Thanks for the reply, that image is pretty compelling, It seems that space based telescopes could be substantially larger than Earth based telescopes, based on not having to build a structure to support their weight then?
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by robscallsign 5y ago
In this instance I feel like loudly claiming that I'm paying for Starlink is the best use of my consumer voice. There are dozens of us!
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by robscallsign 5y ago
IANAA (I am not an astronomer), but I'm wondering - what are the implications for cheaper commercial spaceflights and satellite launches on research astronomy? Isn't terrestrial astronomy sort of limited by the Earth's rotati
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Living in "rural" Canada, 7 miles from a municipality of 160,000 people, getting Starlink a few months ago has been an absolute quantum leap in terms of our connectivity. In the 7 years living here our LTE internet plans have lite
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I mean... a lot of countries already do a yearly influenza vaccine
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I think that sentiment is a function of the HN startup/hustle culture, where anything less than becoming a unicorn is seen as abject failure.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
Your pithy analysis seems to entirely discount having passengers in the back seat, or multiple rows of seating like minivans.
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by robscallsign 5y ago
> This article is heavy on quotes but very light on actual data. This is a trend that I see in media (mainstream and otherwise), where they take something that is by nature very difficult to study, find some researchers or limited studie
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by robscallsign 5y ago
I thought the same thing, looks like a fairly thin plastic drop cloth that could start fairly quickly if the wind direction or strength changes.

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