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It currently costs me 3x$8.18 a year to renew my personal domain, my parents, and a hobby site. It will cost me $409ea over the next 50 years. $1200 vs $3000 isn’t nothing to me.

That is my understanding. I've heard numbers around 10yr +-5, but I've never seen a study on it. I wonder if storing them zip-locked in a freezer would help (but I guess you could just use a magnetic hardrive :D )

Steam has a setup that allows you to play regular games in what looks/feels like a large home theater. I haven't used it short of checking it out, but it looked nice.

> This unexpected “Starfish belt,” which lingered for at least 10 years, destroyed Telstar 1, the first satellite to broadcast a live television signal, and Ariel-1, Britain’s first satellite.

TIL. I wonder what type of effect a “space nuke” would have on modern constellations. I would assume they have better radiation hardening now, but I’m not sure to what threshold that matters.

What are the odds a country gets pissed off by spacex and tries the shudder the constellation.

I wasn't part of the "ask your isp" era, but I would say you're painting nowadays a little more bleak then then it really is.

I can grab a cheap vps within minutes from DigitalOcean or OVH, with a public IP included. Both offer images with pre-configured software, and there are ample guides for setting up just about anything. Certbot/Let's Encrypt will literally setup add the generated TLS cert to your nginx config if you ask it to.

Matrix uses the same encryption as signal, one of their implementations can be found here: https://gitlab.matrix.org/matrix-org/olm

The M1 is visually deceptive because how it was calculated changed, leading to the spike. The M2 provides a better overview: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

The SEC does have rules pertaining to privately traded investment. They are normally more lax than for publicly traded companies, and therefor normally require the investors be accredited. The investor is expected to preform more due diligence. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp

If you are confused about how SPACs work, and the OP article didn't help, the investopedia is good https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/spac.asp

Republic looks to be some form of VC funding. The whole point of a SPAC is to take a company public without filling for an IPO.

I wouldn't be surprised if they xray the package. They will still deliver your kitchenware, but will arrive "Postage Due", requiring you pay a fee.

When I worked at the YMCA, I remember receiving my first paycheck in the mail. This was because my bank account wasn’t all the way into their system for direct deposit yet. I’m willing to bet for many places of employment, a physical paycheck is also the default. 6.5% of Americans don’t have a bank account, so they can’t do direct deposit at all. There is a good number of people who have always received a physical paycheck who haven’t gone through the process of direct deposit, such as my grandparents.

https://apnews.com/article/8b2b93d4e9474c418853e0f20e79aaa8

> This summer, the mission team will transmit a software upgrade to boost New Horizons’ scientific capabilities

I find it absolutely insane that humanity can provide a software update to a chunk of metal flying ~36000mph where a SYN SYN-ACK takes 14 hours. I'm really curious about the error correction / protocol the sat uses.

Edit: I found some info on the specs of the sat, but not the protocol.

> Data rates depend on spacecraft distance, the power used to send the data and the size of the antenna on the ground. For most of the mission, New Horizons has used its high-gain antenna to exchange data with the Deep Space Network's largest antennas, 70 meters across. Even at Arrokoth, because New Horizons was be more than 4 billion miles from Earth and radio signals took more than six hours to reach the spacecraft, it was able to send information at about 1,000 bits per second.

http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Mission/Spacecraft/Systems-and-Compo...

I have fond memories of visiting and sleeping on the USS Yorktown twice when I was a young scout. A Submarine overnight sounds awesome!

They normally bankroll and distribute the game.

I’m not sure how much configuration you have, but if you can, turn down the gain to reduce the echo (You should also keep in mind the shape of your room. Lots of empty space and square walls will reflect sound. It might be worth it to grab dampening foam if you are having a hard time). Reducing the gain will make you sound quieter, but you can now push the audio up a few db without getting as much background noise.

Also, a good EQ can go a long way to improve the vocal quality.

I’m still on iOS 13, and I currently have two TestFlight apps. One of which I cannot download because I need iOS 14. The other works fine.

I currently own or have previously owned domains that are considered “premium” by namecheap standards. I straight up can’t pay $1000/yr for a personal site/non revenue generating site.

I’ve been hosting my own matrix server for just a few months now. I have a small handful of users. Bandwidth hasn’t been a problem for me, as I’ve only served 5GB in the last 30 days. It’s the sheer number of requests that the server handles that I find staggering. In the last 30 days, my server has handled 1.3mm requests!

It seems like everything polls for data, which I see as wasteful. I recently saw they were adding socket support in a recent MSC... hopefully that will help.

The article did mention how they are used to draw fire away from populous areas. I think that has value...

My freshman Bio professor said the same thing. He went through and listed a bunch of drugs/antibiotics, when to take them, and their pet (mainly fish) counterpart. This was all done with the intention of helping us poor college students. I think I still have those notes somewhere....

You can also disable biometrics by spamming the lock button.

I never knew the origins of the TTY console on my machine. To hear it was an accessibility tool at first is really cool. It does make sense that if these were widely available, people would use them to dial into a computer!

I wonder what other interesting innovations I use that I don’t realize have such a deep history. Thanks for sharing the article.

I had the HoloLens first edition for a good few days in the past. It was cool to be able to work, and put a second monitor on the wall behind my workstation. The games were also cool, generating levels around my apartment. The only downsides that really stick out to me (this was a few years ago) was the low resolution, and the heft.

Apple seems to place this as a mix between a HoloLens and a VR headset. They have the silicon to integrate the processing into the headset (like an oculus). I’m curious where it will go. I currently enjoy my Index, with my main wish for it to be wireless!

Two 8k pixels is a ton of data. I’m not to optimistic everything will be running at that resolution. I wonder if they have some fancy upscale tech (like DLSS)? Or if the idea is to do video passthrough?

I went ahead and ordered them later that day. I had seen the custom options, but since I don't have a 3D printer/have awful eyesight, I wasn't sure it was worth the hassle of trial and error/poor fitting lenses. I am under the assumption that they will not have an effect on the visual quality, but I can update you if you are interested. I never tried the DK1/2, I've only really put time into the Vive and Index.

I think it would be neat if Valve made it so you can more easily pop the lenses in and out, allowing you to pick what you need prescription wise (and in your case fresnel vs non-fresnel). I am unsure how well that would work, since the focal distance between headsets could change.

I’ve been fine with KeePassXC, mainly because the file format is just AES encrypted xml. Sure, they could have still done something nonstandard and potentially dangerous, but with all the other clients people make I would expect that to get exposed reasonably quick.

IEX is an exchange with the goal of executing its trades without HFT firms in the middle. https://iextrading.com/

The harder part for the average person is ensuring their brokerage routes their order flow through IEX. I am not sure how the average person would do that.

I found out last week that there are prescription inserts for headsets. I’ve yet to get mine, but as someone who wears glasses the concept sounds awesome. https://vroptician.com/prescription-lens-inserts/valve-index...

I bought and index and have been driving it with a 2700x and 1060 6gb. Alyx was hands down one of, if not the best gaming experience I’ve ever had. I think the index controllers really take the experience to another level. Being able to pick up things by grabbing them is awesome. The headphones on the index are amazing too, and really help with immersion.

Support with other games is pretty good. I bought a bunch of games during the summer sale, and haven’t found anything unplayable for me. Not all games have full finger tracking, and not all games have the ability to pick things up like you can in Alyx. Some older games have been updated for Alyx style controls, but many control exactly how they did with the Vive.

I tried VR in Linux first, then tried on windows. Windows has better feature support and performance hands down. If you have a better GPU, you might be fine, but the advantages to booting into windows was worth it to me.

I found a bunch of sticker packs here that were easy to install. There must be a way to import telegram sticker packs, because I see them referenced. https://signalstickers.com

It has to do with a mix of high market speculation, that the printing essentially replaced GDP and a few other things. I think this NPR podcast handles the topic well. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/821787090