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jandrese··on Patrick Stewart has died
Or with his battle pug in Dune.
jandrese··on Patrick Stewart has died
Not to mention Walter Koenig.
jandrese··on Regent's Ground-Effect Vehicle Reimagines Coastal Travel
I guess you might be able to get around this problem if the vehicle can take off and land on a land based airstrip and then stay at 10m over the water. Otherwise that is a crippling limitation since you not only need the ocean to be relatively calm when taking off, but also when landing.
jandrese··on US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
Do you take a Ku dish backpacking?!?

Doesn't Starlink have a direct to phone very low data thing? Like you can do SMS over it?

jandrese··on US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar
I am surprised that Starlink didn't eat their lunch. I think the only thing keeping them alive is inertia and the fact that Starlink still has regional lockouts and doesn't work in the most remote parts of the world.
jandrese··on Amazon to buy satellite firm Globalstar in $11.57B deal
Au Contraire, that bandwidth is definitely a joke.
jandrese··on Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
My impression is that "home value" is often a dodge that sounds better on paper than "I don't like change". You generally can't sue over hurt feelings, but if you can attach some kind of monetary value to it then the courts may take your case.

As you note home value is an extremely nebulous concept as it is tied to whatever people who currently do not live in the community might pay to buy a house. No matter what someone sells for they can always say "it would have sold for more if every single house was painted exactly the same shade of beige, you miscreants with your off white, ecru, and oatmeal houses have cost me tens of thousands of dollars!"

jandrese··on How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
This is one of the rare use cases where the users should be identifying the servers they are connecting to. If your work is that spooky then a piece of paper with the expected key signature seems like a reasonable precaution.

There used to be that "key art" that was posted to make it more visibly distinct, but I think that feature got discontinued.

jandrese··on How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
Administering your hidden service?
jandrese··on How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed
The attack on SSH seems rather poorly conceived. Not only was it detected immediately thanks to SSH printing that huge banner on MITM attacks, but it allowed the admins to easily trace every infected node and respond quickly to shut the whole operation down. Had they stuck to email they would still be running today.
jandrese··on Let's Encrypt is adding two additional remote perspectives for domain validation
Normally I think LetsEncrypt made self hosting a lot easier, at least if you wanted to support HTTPS.

LetsEncrypt is what finally solved the problem with the previous systems were perfect was the enemy of the good. There used to be a lot of focus on trying to verify that the person getting the cert was who they said they are, but LetsEncrypt came and sad "that part isn't important, protecting the data is what really matters" and basically solved the real problem wholesale. Very few people inspect the certificates on every website they visit, so those protections were mostly useless and created a roadblock to widespread adoption of HTTPS, scoping the problem down to just making sure nobody can inspect or modify the data in transit made automation not only possible but easy.

jandrese··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
Yes, give him a Nobel prize but have him share it with Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran.
jandrese··on Bark: The Toll-Free BBS for 90s Teens
I found a "BBS on a CD" as a kid in the 90s. It was intended for people setting up a new BBS but it came with a good chunk of content to seed the system with.

Unfortunately, due to the nature of BBSes a lot of the stuff wasn't terribly useful for just one person. Emailing yourself isn't terribly useful. Door games were usually multiplayer, although LoRD was playable solo, and was in retrospect a precursor to games like Farmville.

The part where the BBS admin would call your number to verify your identity was real as well. It was always fun to explain to mom why some totally random guy was calling and asking for me.

jandrese··on Tesla Roadster
Oh, it doesn't require a person to continually monitor it now? I missed that change. Until that happens I don't think it qualifies as "full" self driving.
jandrese··on Tesla Roadster
"It's not flying, it's falling with style!"

I think this is pretty unique demonstration for something that theoretically may be street legal one day.

jandrese··on Tesla Roadster
This thing is covered in cold gas thrusters, I'm betting it can go around a corner faster than almost any other car. The limitation might be G forces on the driver. Maximum performance may only be achievable in self driving mode.
jandrese··on What on Earth Is Dekton?
Was anybody disappointed that he didn't mention the price of that cooktop? He had all of that leadup with the price of normal glass ($30/ft^2), but never told us what he paid for the fancy porcelain.
jandrese··on Making big downloads resumable in Firefox
It depends. If it's a basic webpage clicking the resume icon usually works fine. If it's some file hosting thing that wants you to pay a monthly fee for full download speed the resume often fails.
jandrese··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
This year is far from typical however. The AI bubble is throwing all of the numbers out of whack.
jandrese··on Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
One word: Volume.

You can make a nice profit off of the enterprise space, but the big winners are the guys who put the work into servicing the consumer market.

jandrese··on So, you’d like to sell your print issues of The Onion?
I'm guessing they lost their back issues due to neglect and sometimes tragedy. When people are first starting out they often don't think that in 30 years time they will want a physical copy of their joke periodical and warehouse space is always limited. When budgets get tight it is sometimes the storage bill that has to be cut.
jandrese··on A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't
There is a button on the top right to turn off the music.
jandrese··on Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years
"Hey boss, do you think there is a chance this scheme might introduce radioactive byproducts into the ground water?"

"Shut up"

jandrese··on Triple-A Minesweeper
There should be additional audio logs you can find under some squares that provide snippits of backstory.
jandrese··on Triple-A Minesweeper
I like the part where it doesn't even matter if you hit a mine, you are on this train ride regardless of what you do.
jandrese··on 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
This is exactly what they are going for. To not have to build and run expensive gas plants just for a few hours in the evening. It also allows you to run the few gas plants that you do build for longer to better amortize their build costs, making them less expensive overall.
jandrese··on 4-hour battery storage is cheaper to install than gas turbines all across globe
Hydrogen is a storage medium. It's fundamentally different than natural gas. Think of it more like a more complex, expensive, and inefficient battery; with the only advantage being that you can store more energy per unit volume at large scales.
jandrese··on Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery
And it's definitely not for being critical of Israel's government's policies. You can believe that the Jewish people deserve to have a peaceful place to live, and also believe that what they are doing to Palestine is wrong.
jandrese··on Solving Factorio Quality
The bigger problem with busses in Satisfactory is they're too fragile. One component backs up and it can wreck the bus for everybody else. Setting up the extra belts to deal with overflow at every spot ends up being more work than just running dedicated belts for each component.
jandrese··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
> But there are much more modern, cost-effective ways to build very-high-altitude, very-fast aircraft. I'm doubtful that going manned is the right approach. It takes a lot of weight and space to carry a person and the required life support systems. That capacity could be better utilized for more fuel and sensors.

Is there? High speed turbofans are still exotic technologies. Or are we doing the research with drone rockets now? I have to imagine that building a modern SR-71 replacement would be an expensive development project with little commercial prospects. The sort of thing that is extremely hard to complete in the modern political environment.

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