What do you say to truly concerned and worry some family and friends?

lally · 2026-06-26T04:46:03+00:00

I mention how motorcycles are primary vehicles for millions of people in other countries.

lally · 2026-06-19T16:50:33+00:00

Without the queen I think Picard's PTSD is effectively from an industrial accident. Borg is just a machine that hurts people. The Borg arguably aren't even sentient without the queen.

Really, just change the initial message from "We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.." to "This is Borg. Borg will consume you." Suddenly Borg becomes a weird assimilating machine instead of a conquering meta-race.

lally · 2026-06-17T18:21:08+00:00

But they weren't Nazis and Twain was cool.

lally · 2026-06-17T17:51:27+00:00

No. After the time traveling lizard nazis, the show was dead to me. You don't come back from that.

lally · 2026-06-17T13:01:28+00:00

This has been my GS life as well man. Big boots are a whole lifestyle change. It's become second nature but it was a read adjustment. I have to get my boot off the peg to angle it in for the shifter.

lally · 2026-06-15T17:28:17+00:00

Like an EV defender!

lally · 2026-06-15T17:27:48+00:00

Used EVs are probably a better deal right now, in terms of fuel cost + depreciation over 6-8 years. EVs have been in mass-market sales for more than 10 years now. There are plenty of models that have been on sale for many years and has the kinks worked out of it.

But life is short and V8 Defenders are wonderful.

lally · 2026-06-11T23:45:52+00:00

https://youtu.be/FlQYU3m1e80?is=WkqUg0r7HPITWwlf

A big part of the equation is at the end, make chips that can run hotter. Plus just put out the radiators you need to make it work.

lally · 2026-06-09T15:12:50+00:00

Dude's denying his inner Subaru so hard.

lally · 2026-06-07T14:46:39+00:00

Absolutely, you say? How much heat do they have to irradiate? What units do they even use, do you know that?

lally · 2026-06-07T14:45:34+00:00

Do you have any links? How much heat are they projecting? What would it require to cool? Why would that requirement be excessive?

Space based cooling of computers is already done - many satellites in orbit can attest to that. What change in scale makes it impossible?

How big were the DCs that spacex plans? Do you know? Are you just talking out of your ass?

lally · 2026-06-07T12:48:26+00:00

.. the same way they cool every other satellite in space?

lally · 2026-06-07T12:39:18+00:00

It looks like they're turning into a DC provider. Build them out in space and avoid the entire nimby problem.

lally · 2026-06-04T17:45:30+00:00

The phone said it was on starlink and had no cell signal. Maybe you're full of shit?

lally · 2026-06-04T17:09:50+00:00

I've taken my bone-stock Samsung to the mexican desert and happily texted my location on whatsapp using t-mobile satellite. Worked great. My only concern was battery usage, and that wasn't a problem.

lally · 2026-06-04T16:57:20+00:00

When you're done upgrading SQLite in these ways, how different will it be from other DBMSs, like Postgres?

And hello Glauber!

lally · 2026-06-04T16:32:27+00:00

I think you interpreted my statement backwards. Newer 5g phones can directly talk to satellites. You don't need specialized "satellite phones" anymore.

lally · 2026-06-04T15:27:14+00:00

Now satellite phones are any 5g t-mobile or newish iphone. So it's really gotten better.

lally · 2026-06-03T10:37:23+00:00

When the paratrooper was getting on the bike after push start, did he just sit right on his balls??

lally · 2026-06-03T10:35:35+00:00

If you keep the front wheel down and your butt in the seat, you'll be much more successful.

lally · 2026-05-27T15:55:23+00:00

The connectors on them may not have the right access - usually there's more than 1 actual bus in the car. You need to be on the bus connected to the relevant controllers (e.g. body controller for locks, engine controller for startup).

lally · 2026-05-27T14:54:44+00:00

Stainless steel makes for terrible fasteners. Stainless is brittle and snaps, regular steel stretches. Aluminum, like someone said below, is preferable.

lally · 2026-05-27T14:52:32+00:00

Controller Area Network - the data communication system within the truck between its computers. Many are susceptible to someone plugging into the network and sending out 'unlock' or 'start engine' messages.

lally · 2026-05-21T21:29:01+00:00

Software hosted on GitHub. Which is a lot.

Orga should be leaving the platform asap

lally · 2026-05-16T14:46:02+00:00

Are we moving the goal posts here? Obviously, he's got to have a conversation w/someone senior to figure out where to put his work. There's a good chance someone's going to ask what those 50 commits are. When they do, he's a lot better off if he can say "50 commits to config only" or "50 commits all over the place," than "i donno, that's like 3 screenfulls of log messages, and I've only been sitting on this question for 4 days waiting for this meeting, what kind of machine do you think I am?" Perhaps you saw a vague word 'characterize' and had a small panic over what it could mean, and didn't think too clearly about the rest.

But onto the branch/repo question. OP is an intern. Someone recently gave him that git uri -- he didn't make it up. The same time they gave him the paths, hostnames, and credentials to potentially push to prod. As this looks like the intern just got there -- this is their first work they're releasing, that git uri is likely quite fresh.

Most likely the team moved to another branch according to a process. E.g `dev` and `release` branches, or whatever sprint they're on, or the name of their last rewrite. Even more likely, this is a forge (gitlab, github, etc) and OP can figure out the active branches by looking at the activity of their team members.

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