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itsamario··on How do you take a picture of a black hole?
Science mapped out our solar system and developed base12 to account for rotation and orbit.

What I haven't found is an accounting of our solar system's patterns in our galaxy.

We know about axial precession but we don't know the official cause and some suspect it's related to a pull from another galaxy or a swayish wobble from our solar system's rotation in the galaxy.

Same for a supposed magnetic flip in the earths core. They might be related but we seemingly only know of the precession measured as 1 degree per 72 years but the magnetic north pole doesn't align with any noted patterns nor cause.

itsamario··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
Not just fixed but most engineers design with UL standards so while they advertise maximum output they're all most efficient somewhere around 80% their maximum.

The batteries help the grid because they can maintain a minimum demand the power plants need and compensate for any excess demand that would tax the grid infrastructure.

I've never tested a generator, are they all producing pure sine waves?

itsamario··on US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
The biggest benefit Amazon has vs starlink is their hosting is considered the standard and because of that they already have a connection to every other network.

So any latency Sat incurs, Amazon will likely have the closest path to the destination and be the most preferred wisp

itsamario··on FreeDNS
Why dns is a topic eludes me because they all forward to root hint servers.

Why doesn't everyone just use their IANA resolvers?

itsamario··on The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)
You made it further than most. At least you're realizing our identity is formed off what we know, the more we know the fewer options we have.

The expansion of knowledge is what ends societies and erodes civilization but produces religion.

Perspective of the religions is that I is the devil, the unaffiliated individual's perspective as opposed to we. All the religions teach fasting is abstaining from I want and pursuing we need.

We drive ourselves to the truth of what matters by eliminating waste as much as possible for 6 weeks

itsamario··on Nokia Design Archive (2025)
I noticed nokia pop up in telecom infrastructure around the same time I noticed nokia phone users using something else.

My guess is they didn't realize what telecom was preparing for and decided a foothold in that industry was an investment in telephone future.

itsamario··on Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
What's to stop ownership from getting AI to pretend to be human and replace HR then everybody?

All it would need to do is object to any in person hearing

itsamario··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
Funny aspect is law is building demand for more capable ISP equipment devoid of principles.

Anybody can change their DNS and for an ISP to perform a man in the middle on all dns they would need to inspect every packet. Impossible

itsamario··on Exit the Cave
The Fourth freedom proves we've known but the pyramids also told us what never changes.

Knowing the truth is how we get free but of what?

Some of us ask to be in order, we use getting free as a launching point to "join the cast, embody principles and accept this place not ourselves.

Some ask to accept themselves and only grow old but never mature.

itsamario··on Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect
Insurance goes up. Who knows how much liability they need to cover transportation. They likely deal with claims of being kidnapped or held hostage by driver on a regular basis.
itsamario··on Exit the Cave
Jesus and Mohammed supposedly did this for 40 days. They figured it was where an outcast should die.

They got sent back. The "Celestial Mechanics" art was a similar era but instead of a new religion, that era was a Renaissance.

We're at a similar point in history where an industrial revolution quietly changed a way of life between living generations

itsamario··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
Unprofessional or irresponsible are more applicable.

Some define a standard others set it. This came up when my employer was applying for business continuity insurance

itsamario··on CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s
Most never dealt with procurement to realize choosing an operating system for an organization requires everyone agreeing to use vendors that support the os.
itsamario··on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data
I'm surprised libraries haven't taken a similar route to universities and store local data and backups for neighboring libraries.

Libraries were the archives for newspapers and local public information.

itsamario··on I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]
They use to call it rounded shoulders then labeled it as upper cross syndrome.

Our back should be subconsciously contracted. That's the opposite of how we develop and takes effort to develop and more to correct.

itsamario··on I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them
Now that EU made USBC a power standard I expect the 4k/8k/16k, 3.0/3.1/3.2, and 5/10/20gbps to be replaced with 60/120/240watts.

This way it's simpler to enforce a standard across the industries

itsamario··on How the words we teach English language learners changed
That's what I discovered religion is for, understand the language as it was created.

Ever wonder who decides what's self-explanatory and what resonates?

itsamario··on Networking and the Internet, from First Principles
That first animation should include the servers hosting the messaging platform. Or use a peer to peer application for that example.
itsamario··on Chatto is now open source
Isn't this irc?

Just need a client app to make it look like something else.

Like slack did.

itsamario··on Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
The anycast is for the /24 those IP addresses share (first.three.octects.0/24) But if you look those /24 are Arin.

Dig +trace shows the recursive lookup (forwarders) used for your NS.

They almost always end up Arin and arpa. I've troubleshot some connection issues between different data centers and transit providers and found root hint oddities I just escalate to my supervisor

itsamario··on Europe's company websites are mostly served by US vendors
Most of the 13 root dns servers are American. They're distributed geographically but still owned by American entities
itsamario··on The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)
You're mincing perspectives.

Participation in society and writing the rules are different positions.

How does a human think about cause and effect if they misunderstand the language they reason with?

We found out that less than 20% of the human race is sapient. The other 80% can't even consider other perspectives

itsamario··on The origins of the school system aimed to produce independent, critical thinkers (2024)
Voting rights was a superficial act of righteousness.

Allowing anyone to vote that can color in lines was when the patients started running the place.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.

itsamario··on Alan Greenspan has died
Big picture is credit gives the individual a chance. That occurred in the 80s and since we've have more go from rags to riches than all of history combined.

I hated the system but it's fair. English and the allied forces inherited the western world and nobody was willing to claim it, the king of England gave it to his daughter.

Gold should be revalued but we're entering a phase where America is leaving law and order for law and equity. Essentially WW2 is ending but most never bothered to consider if there's a goal to all the chaos.

itsamario··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Patient complex moves first.
itsamario··on How many of the 170k English words do you know?
I know maybe 20-30. I'm aware of maybe a few thousand.

I use the language to understand not get an effect

itsamario··on Ask HN: What is the meaning of life? Why are we here?
I'll add to maat...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_causes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways_(Aquinas)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms

itsamario··on Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone
One can't think aloud.

It's illogical to use one word when another is more concise and succinct like talking and speaking in this case.

Some words are self-explanatory like thinking.

itsamario··on U.S. science is in chaos
When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. -Confucius

I've read that asia is leading the world in scientific discoveries and therefore Mandarin gets the naming rights. That's privilege and the reason English is fleeting

itsamario··on I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii
Wise men speak when needed; fools because they want
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