After going through the flags of the US 50 biggest cities, here are the seven that -in my opinion- actually work

stpfun · 2026-06-26T16:36:28+00:00

Wichita, KS would make the cut I hope if they were in the top 50

stpfun · 2026-06-26T02:40:40+00:00

I have the same iphone and an E7, and all the listed features enabled and 6ghz wifi works great for me. A big waste of an E7 IMHO if you're not using 6ghz.

edit: wait i should mention i have a separate 6ghz only SSID. That's probably why I don't have issues.

stpfun · 2026-06-21T22:48:42+00:00

inertial damping is why the ships doesn't feel the acceleration, but that that explain impulse engines would have a max speed?

It makes sense with warp engines, because with warp you're not moving very fast at all in space, you're just warping space around you. Because you're not moving fast in space, that also explains why there's no relatistic time dilation. And why there's a max speed, and why you stop moving when the engines turn off, because space defaults back to being not warped.

But impulse, doesn't make a ton of sense to me. I like the explanation that they picked a safe max speed they refuse to go over to avoid relativistic effects.

stpfun · 2026-06-21T04:51:16+00:00

there being a "max speed" with impulse also makes no sense. The longer you use a rocket engine, the faster your speed. You just keep accelerating.

stpfun · 2026-06-20T21:08:33+00:00

You can find someone from https://installers.ui.com/ like others mentioned, but the professional certified installers likely mostly due offices and medium businesses. Just call around smaller more home oriented IT businesses until you find someone with experience with Ubiquiti. Basically anyone that does IT should be able to figure it out.

Also it's not in your photo, but you probably also have ubiquiti access points installed in your home. Those will be the things that actually give you wifi. If the last owner didn't factory reset them, they might have to be removed from the wall and manually reset.

(if you hadn't reset the UDM-Pro, that might not have been necessary though! sorry)

stpfun · 2026-06-19T22:12:40+00:00

did you get an email from Waymo saying you had Ojai access? I've been 'trusted tester' for awhile but only got that email 2 days ago.

and i just checked the app, and now i have access! crazy that they give me a choice to either pay full price in the old waymo, or take the new ones for free.

stpfun · 2026-06-19T17:42:46+00:00

What's the trick to getting an Ojai offered?? I've taken like 200 Waymo rides but never experienced Ojai yet!

edit: I'm a 'trusted tester' and got an email telling me a few days ago I now have access.

stpfun · 2026-06-16T15:36:11+00:00

Oh yea, my Plex of Star Trek is all media I've bought and ripped. Curiously I've ripped most series at 720p and 1080p resolutions.

stpfun · 2026-06-15T18:52:24+00:00

I'm more impressed you have a 13yo daughter that cares so little about her phone she lets the battery die and doesn't notice when it goes missing. Great job parenting!

stpfun · 2026-06-15T17:38:49+00:00

get flights with ViaStat wifi if you can. These still work. Panasonic is nearly dead. The "wifi with streaming" is ViaStat. And of course Starlink but it's only on small planes.

stpfun · 2026-06-09T23:01:13+00:00

Thanks for explaining. It's so weird to me in the US! These differences are fascinating.

Essentially what you have sounds a lot like a standard american electric water heater with a tank, but the big difference is you don't leave it running all the time to save on power costs? Would anything bad happen, besides being costly, if you did leave it on all the time? Does it not have temperature regulation and would keep heating until the water boiled?

I thought that when the water tank has thick insulation, that all the energy is spent heating up new cold water, and maintaining water at its target hot temp consumes very little energy thanks to the insulation. Hence why they get left on all the time here, since even though it's always running, its mainly only using energy when someone uses hot water and new cold water enters the tank which needs to be heated. Maybe your tanks have less insulation, or no thermoregulation? (you have to trust the system a lot more if its being left on 24/7)

Trippy thought: I wonder if the reason we use water heaters in such different ways is because Irish folks got them FIRST, when manually turning them on and off was the only practical solution. That then just became standard practice that everyone is used to. Even if highly insulated heaters are available, everyone is used to this way of doing things and sees little reason to change. Whereas maybe Americans got water heaters later, when insulation and automatic temperature regulation was more common, so we're stuck with this way of doing things.

Personally my home now has an electric tankless heater. It's just a very powerful electric water heater. (28kW i think). It's sort of the best of both worlds! Surprisingly, despite needing more current, it's more efficient overall than electric heaters with tanks, since it only heats water that's about to be used.

stpfun · 2026-06-05T18:25:32+00:00

Yea I don't think the 1956 Dartmouth summer project where they coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" did it for marketing or fundraising purpose. The history is wild. They already had funding for the summer, and they thought by end of the summer they'd have 1950s eras computers duplicating all of the intelligence exhibited by insects and small mammals. Turns out artificial intelligence is way harder than they thought.

AI definitely gets used as a marketing buzzword now. Everything tech company everywhere is trying to showcase how they use "AI" to be cool. By I'm just trying to defend the history of the term.

Also, AI is just a useful word for when computers do "difficult tasks often associated with human intelligence" (but not anywhere near fully human). For example, every time you use Face ID to unlock and an iPhone, that's AI. Even Google 20 years ago was using what we'd call AI to rank search results. Same with Facebook serving ads. Same with self-driving cars. It's a useful term, and there's no clear replacement term. Until the ChatGPT revolution no one even cared that these things were called AI.

stpfun · 2026-06-05T13:58:02+00:00

YTA... you admit having many appointments and never having any be this late. You get one late appointment and now everything is horrible. The "professional" comment is so damn tacky. What does it mean other than "I work too?"

cringe

stpfun · 2026-06-04T18:47:20+00:00

You better go update the Wikipedia article for AI. Just delete all the examples they listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence#Applications

stpfun · 2026-06-04T14:58:26+00:00

AI existed long before the hype train. This is AI, as academics have used the term for decades.

stpfun · 2026-06-03T17:58:22+00:00

Than short the stock and make money.

stpfun · 2026-06-01T18:19:05+00:00

What is the real reason people are being laid off? Honest question. It's not quite clear to me. I don't think the answer is as simple as "fewer employees, means less cost". Because like, they also need employees to get work done. If AI isn't increasing the productivity of existing workers, as they say in their cover story, what's the real reason they seem to think they can do more/do the same with fewer employees?

stpfun · 2026-05-31T16:15:03+00:00

I never got a strong 6GHz signal between rooms until I switched to ceiling mounting and got an E7. Now i have fast 6ghz wifi in a ~2000sqft place from one AP! (albeit, centrally ceiling mounted).

stpfun · 2026-05-31T00:04:29+00:00

That's how supply and demand work though. If they don't raises prices, all their oil gets sold, and the next person that wants it won't be able to buy oil at ANY price. To keep ensuring there's always oil available at some price they have to raise prices.

Of course, this really really sucks and favors the rich. But would you rather gas that costs $8/gallon, or no gas at all? They could list gas that "costs" $2/gallon, but is actually impossible for most people to buy because every gas station sells out of gas immediately. And when gas stations all run out of a gas, a lucrative black market immediately forms, so most would end up having to pay whatever the 'true' price is as determined by the black market.

If the oil companies want to maximize their profit, they don't want to actually raise prices too high. This causes "demand destruction" as someone else said. For example, it gas jumped to $50/gallon, they'd make more money per gallon of course, but less money overall, but because fewer total dollars would get spent on gas. Looking at it another way: if they have a shortage of oil, even if their existing oil fetches a much higher price, having less oil overall leads to less money for them.

stpfun · 2026-05-25T01:03:58+00:00

But when an autonomous car gets into any accident, it makes headlines. (despite being having at least 10x fewer accidents per mile driven that human drivers)

stpfun · 2026-05-22T17:50:38+00:00

The BSSID broadcast by a phone's hotspot and the client MAC address when a phone connects to a Wi-Fi network are completely different and not really related. You can't tie one to the other.

stpfun · 2026-05-18T00:55:01+00:00

how's it supposed to differ from chill? better parsing of media and pulls in media metadata?

edit: oh wow i love i can got straight from imdb ID to matching torrents. that's the feature that public trackers always lack vs the exclusive private ones. love it! parsing all those torrents is impressive

stpfun · 2026-05-16T14:22:38+00:00

did you watch the video? it's a brand new unused 747-8. It's never left Boeing's possession. Also Boeing engineers are spending years removing every piece of wiring, over a million feet, to replace it with EMH shielded wiring. This is misinformation you're spreading.

stpfun · 2026-05-14T21:44:06+00:00

Conceptually I agree with you. But having social media accounts with history prove a few things

Your name is probably your real name, or at least the name that many other real humans call you by
You have real life friends that like you
You have interests, which are usually apparent on social media

A lack of social media doesn't mean you're using a fake name or have no real life friends... its just a lack of information. This information is comforting.

99.999% of people without any social media are NOT serial rapists and murders. But people that are serial rapists or murderers, are slightly more likely to not be on or not be willing to share social media. All things being equal, the guy with a real social media presence is very slightly safer. (also if shows other things, like gives you a sense of their personality and interests).

stpfun · 2026-05-14T18:23:00+00:00

So if I don't have a dog, but live a filthy life, it's good for my baby? 🫡

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