rzimmerman

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by rzimmerman 3mo ago
The article mentions this, but it works on Macbooks as well! You can set up a shortcut key (press the fingerprint button 3x) to enable and disable it. I have a work shuttle I take and this makes it so much more tolerable to use my computer
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by rzimmerman 9mo ago
Yeah the solar array on Starlink is held perpendicular to the velocity vector, so the cross section relative to the colliding body will invariably be smaller than the worst case.
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by rzimmerman 9mo ago
It's interesting to try to create a metric of collision avoidance "stress" and resiliency to outages. I don't think this is a particularly useful one (and the title is alarmist/flamebait), but it is a first cut at s
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by rzimmerman 1y ago
If you're interested in building something, Planet released an open source hardware/software satellite radio that works over amateur radio bands for ~$50: https://github.com/OpenLST/openlst
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
Should have said "potential legal requirement". There was a persistent threat of blocking the use of E2E encryption for this exact reason.
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
I can't believe how uninformed, angry, and still willing to argue about it people were over this. The whole point was a very reasonable compromise between a legal requirement to scan photos and keeping photos end-to-end encrypted for t
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
If your core concern is privacy, surely you'd be fine with "no bytes ever leave my device". But that's a big-hammer way to ensure no one sees your private data. What about external (iCloud/general cloud) storage? Th
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
It's a web of danger for sure. Configuring CI in-repo is popular (especially in the Gitlab world) and it's admittedly a low-friction way to at least get people to use config control for CI (or use CI for builds at all). I think th
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
I worked for about a year with a consulting firm that handled "Y2K compliance". Unlike this Andersen exercise in legal face-saving, it was a real job. Big companies hired us to do a full inventory of their site equipment (this inc
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
The Snoo is great and the key feature that actually helps prevent SIDS is the restraints and swaddle, which is not being moved to a subscription here. It's actually FDA approved to reduce the risk of SIDS. The "bonus" rocking
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
I spent time on a compile-to-JS language and found it very rewarding: https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal This was before async/generators were added to JS and callback hell was quite real. I wanted to shape it in t
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
I'd argue that even propellent-less deorbit devices are a waste of time. The best answer is what we're doing now: rules about deorbit capability and orbit lifetime, as well as debris production. Even when there are failures, as lo
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
Active debris removal (harpoon satellites, magnet arms, whatever) are not a solution to this problem and are a huge waste of money. These missions answer the question "could one dock with debris and deorbit it?" To which the answe
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
Yeah that's an obnoxious take. Having a film about human climate impact in an air-conditioned desert venue is ironic and worth calling out. But not everything ought to be viewed through the lens of "colonialism = evil". It&#x
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
I went to see the Dead there and it was fantastic. The sound was excellent and they used the beam-forming to have the vocals sound like they were coming from the stage below, while the instruments seemed non-directional. The haptic chairs w
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
It seems like this removes the footgun in vanilla AES-GCM where you really need to rotate keys every ~2^32 messages if you are using a random nonce. Nonce collision in AES-GCM is catastrophic (it allows attackers to at least sign arbitrar
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by rzimmerman 2y ago
We have a budgie (parakeet, a very small bird) that is obsessed with phones. Honestly anything reflective gets him going, but if you even reach for your pocket to pull your phone out he flies to you. He just flirts with the phone and I have
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
He wasn’t fired for his beliefs. He was fired for screaming and interrupting a coworker’s presentation in a public setting.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
+1000 for the B+W Brother laser printer. I've had it for years and it always prints when asked, no drivers or weird software, works from any device on WiFi. I've never replaced the toner.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
By "offenders" I clearly mean parties exceeding a legal limit (or any treaty-negotiated limits). It's a way to enforce laws and agreements. Of course I'm not implying that creating or releasing any amount of methane inhe
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
There are several satellites focusing on human-driven methane emitters and monitoring that will be active in the next few years, like Planet's Carbon Mapper ( https://www.planet.com/pulse/carbon-mapper-launches-sate
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
Brandon Rhodes has made such a wonderful contribution to the aerospace and python fields with Skyfield, pyephem, his port of sgp4, and astropy. Really wonderful helpful stuff.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
One of the best purchases I have ever made is my Brother laser jet. I’m still on my first toner cartridge after three years. It works every time and never complains or updates.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
This is an excellent answer and explanation. It’s helpful for people that want a deeper understanding of what’s going on with lithium batteries and where the 80% recommendations come from. But in terms of general advice that does the most g
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
It’s really disheartening to see the percentage of people that don’t understand this (and feel perfectly comfortable having an argument about it). People posting comparisons of receipts from 8 years ago and saying that prices are “really st
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
Well technically he died in March, but the law holds true.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
Honestly this is mostly fair. The fine is small but non-negligible. The infraction here is really the poor propellant tracking which is a mistake, not some nefarious plot or gross negligence. The satellite didn’t quite make the graveyard or
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
A counter philosophical take: As a human, I can live a perfectly happy, healthy life without eating animals. Statistically it’s healthier, cheaper, and has no downside other than taste (meat tastes good, no argument here). So ethically, how
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
It’s pretty horrifying. I never thought about the raw number, but millions of animals tortured and killed every day is astounding. Hundreds of millions. Future generations are going to look back in horror.
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by rzimmerman 3y ago
That's a cool idea and it could be a lot more useful with modern approaches, like true type systems and pattern matching. I don't really have time to work on that but I support the effort of bringing some of CoffeeScript back to t

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