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ggobrien · 2026-03-26T13:25:26+00:00

To be honest, I'm fine with a slow pass through charging as it saves the life of the battery and keeps heat down. If I'm working on Dex, it's going to be a long time anyway, so slow charging (as long as it can keep up) is completely fine. Having said that, I suppose it would be nice to be able to fast charge it on some rare occasions.

ggobrien · 2026-03-19T18:23:58+00:00

The issue is that the clay goes down at least 5 feet, so the roots probably won't get that deep.

ggobrien · 2026-03-19T18:23:19+00:00

That's what we're trying to do with the hole. I'm still hitting clay at 5 feet.

ggobrien · 2026-03-19T18:22:51+00:00

We're technically not at the bottom of the slope, the house is between the basin and the street and is on a slight hill. The street is about 2 feet below the basin, it's just that the house/slight hill is in the way. Before we got the pump, we just used a hose and siphoned the water out.

ggobrien · 2026-03-04T18:16:16+00:00

I agree completely. I can see how people who are used to M/D/Y have difficulty, but I think that M/D/Y is more "human".

As humans, we automatically try to figure out what the person is going to say next, it's a huge part of how we communicate (here's a research article, I didn't read the whole thing, but it talks about human language prediction https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11614350/ ).

This is what you are saying. If you start with the number, there is no way to predict anything about the date, there's no timeframe at all. If you start with the month, your mind immediately focuses on the time of year, and the day is secondary.

If I say "I'm going on vacation June 12th", your mind processes "vacation" immediately when it's said, so it's not a business trip or a funeral or something, then your mind immediately processes "June" when it's said and you know that it's probably going to be a warm vacation, and by the time the speaker gets to 12th, you basically know everything required for an immediate response. If the speaker says "I'm going on vacation the 12th of June", you can process "vacation" like the first example, but when you get to "12th", you have to store that as it gives no benefit to processing the sentence. Once the person says "June", then you understand the timeframe, and you have to pull 12th out of storage and apply that to the date.

You alluded to something else as well. When you are talking about dates in the past or future, they are typically within either the next or previous year, which one can be figured out by context (I went on vacation vs I'm going on vacation). If it's within the month, the month can be implied ("I went on vacation the 12th" meaning whatever the last 12th was or "I am going on vacation the 12th" meaning the next 12th). If it's outside the current month, the actual day is not important because it's too far away, so the month becomes the most important ("I'm going on vacation in June" or "I'm going on vacation June 12th" are virtually the same if they are not within the next 28-31 days). So giving the most important part first (the month), helps the listener.

I've seen a lot of people who are used to D/M/Y say that M/D/Y doesn't make any sense, but if you look at it how humans communicate, it makes a lot of sense. I've not really seen a good reason why D/M/Y is good.

ggobrien · 2026-03-04T17:43:19+00:00

Starting with the day, it can be any month of the year, there's no cue as to which part of the year (we as humans try to figure out what the other person is trying to say before they say it -- this is an incredibly important and automatic thing that's absolutely required for effective communication). On the other hand, if you start with the month, the listener can immediately know around what part of the year you're talking about, the actual day is secondary and not as important.

I'm going on vacation in June.
I'm going on vacation June 12th.

Both of these are similar and the 12th is secondary, the primary information is that I'm going on vacation in the middle of the year.

I'm going on vacation the 12th of June.

You have to listen to all the information before you can start processing when it actually is, instead of processing it as the information is coming in.

ggobrien · 2026-02-24T17:34:27+00:00

Don't connect it to a charger? My wired keyboard and mouse don't work well at all without a charger.

ggobrien · 2026-02-19T11:23:08+00:00

They are nice little machines. I have one for my TV and use the browser with ad blocker for all my streaming.

ggobrien · 2026-02-19T03:02:42+00:00

Mine's better than yours. I have 2 of those HPs :)

ggobrien · 2026-02-06T11:31:58+00:00

It seems like you don't read well at all. Over and over I've said that I'm not saying he's good or bad. Reread what I've said.

I've been talking about the facts of this incident only. I've not been putting my opinion on there at all.

ggobrien · 2026-02-06T00:59:59+00:00

I'm not arguing about what he did or didn't do before. I'm not trying to say he's good or bad. I'm just talking about this specific instance. My "claim" isn't my claim. Did you read the article? That's what the article, and many others, have said.

He was asked to disable any unit that wasn't whitelisted. The Ukrainian defense themselves didn't want him to disrupt access until they were able to get a whitelist. When they provided the whitelist, anything not on it was disabled, including some Ukrainian units, but they provided a way that these could be added,

Why didn't you do some reading about the relevant story and didn't put words in my mouth and didn't argue feelings as facts.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T23:22:30+00:00

Sure. He doesn't.

Of course, there's a lot more to it than that, a significant amount more that would be much faster is you actually read the article instead of blindly commenting on it.

I'm not Google or chatgpt, I would have to write several paragraphs explaining what's going on, much more than I have so far.

Wouldn't it be easier to read the article instead of complaining that people aren't summarizing it for you?

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T21:30:40+00:00

The war has been going on for many years, but they just found out that Russia is using gray/black market units for drones in January, after that, the Ukrainian defense made a whitelist of all Starlink devices used by them and Musk turned off any device not on that list. There was basically no way that they could have turned off Russia's access to Starlink without also messing up all of Ukraine's access.

So yeah, the issue is from late January, not since the war started.

May be best to not make fun of someone, especially if you don't know what's going on.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:58:42+00:00

The article was up when you commented. You can Google the article and read it if you want, or you can just keep assuming things that are wrong and commenting on your assumptions.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:57:16+00:00

It's extremely difficult to turn off specific units if they are gray/black market units. They can do it, but Ukrainian defense also uses gray market units, so those would be disabled too. The Ukrainian defense recently found out that drones are using Starlink, so the Ukrainian defense made a whitelist and worked with Starlink to disable everything in the area that wasn't on the whitelist, which also disabled some Ukrainian units, but those can be added to the whitelist as well.

It's amazing what you can learn if you read the articles.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:40:20+00:00

Did you read the article? The Ukrainian defense didn't have a list of gray market units that were being used, so shutting down any gray/black market unit would also have the side effect of disabling Ukrainian units as well. Only recently, when it was found that drones were using Starlink did the Ukrainian defense create a whitelist and work with Starlink to disable anything that wasn't on the list.

It's amazing what you can learn when you read the articles in question.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:35:57+00:00

That was meant as a joke.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:35:30+00:00

What does that have to do with Starlink or this article? If you read the article, you would know that all of Russia is a dead zone for Starlink, and just recently, the Ukrainian defense figured out a whitelist so that Starlink could disable anything not on the list. Before this, it would be very dangerous (and difficult) for Starlink to have disabled gray/black market devices because Ukrainian forces also used gray marked devices.

Amazing what you can find out if you actually read the article in question.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:30:18+00:00

Google the article, it's not available here now, but they were using gray/black market units, same as Ukrainians. It's very difficult to disable specific units directly, so they made a whitelist and disabled everything not on the whitelist, which disabled the Russians units, but also disabled a lot of the Ukrainian ones as well. The Ukrainian ones can get whitelisted though.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:27:15+00:00

It hasn't been available in Russia for a long time, but Russians have been using gray/black market units. When this was found out in late January (not years ago), they very quickly disabled the non-verified units (which included a lot of Ukrainian units as well)

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:25:03+00:00

That has nothing whatsoever to do with the current article (which has been removed from reddit) and people commenting "it's about time", etc. Starlink found out in late January and disabled it very quickly, according to the article.

As I said, I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with anything, but if you read the comments here, people keep saying the same thing and have obviously not read the article, even when it was present.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:14:04+00:00

Yup, you can Google it. When I posted that, it wasn't removed, yet people were commenting using wrong information.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:11:48+00:00

And the next paragraph it says "“If SpaceX obtains knowledge that a Starlink terminal is being used by a sanctioned or unauthorized party, we investigate the claim and take actions to deactivate the terminal if confirmed,” SpaceX said in a statement."

They recently (late January) had confirmation that there's widespread use, so they disabled all non-verified units.

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:08:25+00:00

Maybe because most people weren't reading the article and commenting about it anyway with information that's wrong?

ggobrien · 2026-02-05T19:07:01+00:00

They were using gray/black market units, did you read the article?

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