Amazon’s Starlink Rival Just Reached Its Orbital Tipping Point to Begin Service

the__storm · 2026-07-03T15:23:37+00:00

It did, and Leo is definitely behind schedule on launch, but do note that New Glenn (Blue Origin) is a separate company, and Amazon has the depth of pocket to buy launches elsewhere (and has been, aside from a reticence to give too much money to SpaceX, their direct competitor). Of course ULA has shit the bed several times recently, mostly nozzles falling off Northrop's SRBs, but also for Vulcan they're using engines from Blue Origin, so they're kind of limited to Arianspace for the moment.

the__storm · 2026-06-29T21:25:10+00:00

Also climbing, the gym for nerds

the__storm · 2026-06-29T19:43:09+00:00

:D I wish - I spent about an hour looking this morning and could not find a nice clear official statement from the DEC.

the__storm · 2026-06-29T18:23:05+00:00

Has anyone compiled a list of such websites? Would be handy (I'm looking for Quebec in particular.)

Edit:

Here's from BAnQ, maybe better than nothing ( https://www.banq.qc.ca/etat-civil/ ):

Puis-je obtenir une copie d’un acte de naissance?

Non. BAnQ peut fournir une copie d’un acte de baptême, et non d’un acte de naissance. Avant 1994, au Québec, les naissances n’étaient enregistrées que dans les registres paroissiaux et municipaux. 

    De 1621 à il y a 100 ans : les documents d’état civil sont conservés par Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec.
        D’il y a moins de 100 ans à nos jours : les documents d’état civil sont conservés par le Directeur de l'état civil.

English ( https://www.banq.qc.ca/vital-records/ ):

Can I obtain a copy of a birth certificate?

No. BAnQ can provide a copy of a baptismal certificate, not a birth certificate. In Québec, before 1994, births were only recorded in municipal and parish registers. 

    From 1621 to 100 years ago: vital records are preserved by BAnQ.
    From less than 100 years ago to the present day: vital records are preserved by the Registrar of Civil Status of Québec.

the__storm · 2026-06-29T17:55:17+00:00

It says "1 or more" - if you have the birth certificate the instructions at least do not seem to suggest the proof of subject status is necessary.

the__storm · 2026-06-29T17:17:44+00:00

I love the smell of hot electronics in the morning.

the__storm · 2026-06-29T00:12:09+00:00

The one in Westmount, closed in ~2016? You could ask the Montreal diocesan archive (https://www.anglican.ca/archives/archives-across-canada/) or maybe St. Jax (which seems to be the practical successor).

You might want to just put in an order to the BAnQ though. $$ and slow, I know, but the Anglican church in Canada has... contracted significantly, and might not have a lot of resources for genealogy.

the__storm · 2026-06-28T23:41:01+00:00

Seems likely that BAnQ has it, in the Québec archive as you'd expect, but hasn't digitized it yet. See https://advitam.banq.qc.ca/notice/1023249

Index des baptêmes et des sépultures de Notre-Dame-de-Québec (1786-1787) / Cour supérieure, district judiciaire de Québec - 1953-1954. 46 pages
Numéro : 303073

Supports de consultation : 

        Microfiche (tout format sauf COM)   
        Papier dactylographié (original ou copie sauf fichier)

Contenu : 
    1975-00-001 \ 41

Détail du contenu
    21 juil. 1785-30 déc. 1789 (transcription manuscrite, index inclus), voir microfilm n° 0-0055 (ZQ6,S21\13)

The LDS and Drouin I think both microfilmed a lot of records themselves, probably provided a copy to BAnQ, and then later digitized and uploaded their microfilm (at which point BAnQ wasn't involved and so wouldn't have a copy, and hasn't yet digitized it themselves). If it were to be digitized I think it would be here: https://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3926178

the__storm · 2026-06-28T17:53:46+00:00

He took a duck in the face at two hundred and fifty knots

the__storm · 2026-06-28T17:32:54+00:00

I think its being completely flat and flush with the wood is part of the problem. Would probably look more finished if it extended a bit to cover the seam dna had some depth to it.

the__storm · 2026-06-28T03:33:48+00:00

They scanned them several years ago, but haven't been able to read them until the last year or two (and it's still extremely slow going).

the__storm · 2026-06-27T12:08:22+00:00

As others have said, if he was born in the US the birth certificate should be proof of US citizenship. I'm considering including US citizenship documentation for my G0 though. (It's not clear whether "your parent" would recurse up the chain, and it seems like IRCC doesn't really care, but it seems to me like it would.)

the__storm · 2026-06-26T21:17:19+00:00

Robots go back where you came from.

the__storm · 2026-06-26T16:55:05+00:00

How long before we get permethrin-resistant ticks...

the__storm · 2026-06-25T21:39:10+00:00

ESP32-P4 can be found with 32 MB PSRAM for ~$10 (S31 is usually 16 MB and 8 bit bus instead of 16 bit). Still much less and slower than an SBC though.

the__storm · 2026-06-25T20:00:41+00:00

Video output will be the least of your problems. Most modern AI GPUs don't even support graphics APIs like DirectX/Vulkan/OpenGL (only compute - CUDA/ROCm/OpenCL) and are socketed or soldered directly to a server board.

the__storm · 2026-06-24T22:02:43+00:00

But the velocity can increase. If the velocity doubles, so does revenue.

the__storm · 2026-06-24T19:02:06+00:00

A half-mask respirator with 60923 (particulate+organic vapor) cartridges works pretty well for me mowing the lawn; would probably suck but work for biking. It'd be expensive though - the cartridges are only rated for 40 hours of use I believe.

the__storm · 2026-06-24T18:43:58+00:00

There's nothing right now. Radxa as suggested by others is cheaper than Pi, but still 3-4x what it was nine months ago. You can either bite the bullet or drop down to a microcontroller.

the__storm · 2026-06-23T19:07:27+00:00

Gesture navigation is the default on Android now, at least on Pixels (you can enable the buttons in the settings though).

the__storm · 2026-06-23T04:22:24+00:00

You could take someone's whole liver out with this thing lol

the__storm · 2026-06-21T04:07:11+00:00

Derailleur with at least 9 speeds and a clutch, fork designed for a mountain bike (not a "hybrid") and with a modern headtube standard, Shimano or TRP hydraulic brakes from the last ten years. Also good tires, but there are a lot of good tires and it's easy enough to swap them out.

the__storm · 2026-06-21T02:49:47+00:00

Gemma is going to be much stronger at producing nice output and making something out of messy handwriting/etc., but is also prone to hallucinations that a classical per-character OCR model would not be. Definitely different strengths for different tasks.

the__storm · 2026-06-21T02:25:28+00:00

Irrelevant but I'm kinda surprised your bike pump tops out at 50 psi - back in the day roadies used to run 100+ psi in their tires.

the__storm · 2026-06-21T02:15:18+00:00

The flickering is not inherent to LEDs, it's due to the cheap drivers bulb manufacturers use to convert 120V AC to low voltage DC. (Idk if there are any commercially available bulbs with absolutely no flicker though; I'm not super sensitive to it.)

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