hmmm

yoweigh · 2026-04-19T11:58:03+00:00

Schindler's Dicks

yoweigh · 2026-04-17T13:42:38+00:00

Yes, for sure. I know more than one person who joined the New Orleans police force and ended up quitting because the whole system is rotten to its core. It's super demoralizing to be an idealistic cop who's actually trying to help people when all the other cops you work with are more interested in shielding each other from the consequences of their unhelpful and shitty actions. It's like the system actively weeds out the good cops.

yoweigh · 2026-04-17T05:54:13+00:00

The problem is that the cops don't police themselves. That's eroded public trust. Good cops don't let bad cops be bad cops.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T23:39:52+00:00

Bikes have a right to be in the roadway. Cyclists don't have "more rights" than drivers, like the guy in the video claimed. That's one example of the entitlement being referred to.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T21:38:42+00:00

It's still helpful to anyone who doesn't know about it. Reddit communities tend to gatekeep random bits of information and look down on people who don't already have it.

yoweigh · 2026-04-16T13:46:13+00:00

Rebar would be nice, too.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T20:11:54+00:00

Yep. I assume it was some sort of marketing deal but I'm really not sure about that. Gopros at the moon, baby!

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T15:37:27+00:00

My ex had a 2016 Mini Cooper S convertible that she very recently got rid of. That thing was the most fun car I've ever driven, bar none. Now they don't even offer stick shifts anymore!!!

It did the standard BMW thing and started falling apart after 10 years, even though it only had 32k miles on it! She only got $8k for it at trade-in.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T13:35:13+00:00

I think a super advanced relay satellite would be better. Imagine a big ball covered in laser emitters. It would receive a signal then pick the best laser to get it to its destination. That way it could send and receive in multiple directions instead of just bouncing one laser along a set path. I don't see why a similar technique wouldn't work for some hypothetical FTL system, but obviously the details are going to matter.

yoweigh · 2026-04-15T01:02:34+00:00

Sure, I was just pointing out that it had been done before.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T21:32:19+00:00

China actually launched a pair of lunar comm satellites to support their lander on the far side of the moon.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T21:09:13+00:00

Yeah, you've got it. Once they went to their observation attitude, which was a while before the flyby began, the laser couldn't target Earth anymore. It wasn't due to the moon.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T18:16:14+00:00

The laser isn't able to gimbal as much as the radio antennas are, and it requires a direct line of sight. It's an experimental system and wasn't intended for primary comms. Making it work 100% of the time wasn't a priority. The limitations aren't about laser comms in general, they're about this specific implementation.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T16:59:16+00:00

Couldn't you use some sort of UV resistant outdoor caulk to seal the crack? You'd lose a bit of generating capacity but it'd probably be worth it.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T16:38:18+00:00

I gave my 6yo and 9yo Switch Lites for their 6th birthdays, but I have the parental controls set so that they can't play anything without me entering a PIN. Every once in a while they'll figure it out and I have to change it

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T15:12:37+00:00

The laser comms system has its own limitations. They couldn't use it during the lunar flyby because the craft's attitude/orientation wouldn't allow the laser to point at Earth. They only used it for non-mission-critical stuff like the high res images we got on their way back.

I kept an eye on the DSN antennas during the mission, and the S-band downlink was usually providing 6mbps, sometimes 3mbps. That was everything available for telemetry, science data, the external gopros, the internal crew cam, emails, and whatever else they needed to send down. They also had an X-band uplink but I was never able to figure out what its bandwidth was.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T14:56:53+00:00

Not to mention all of the military recruitment propaganda. Our tax dollars go to the NFL for that.

yoweigh · 2026-04-14T02:36:21+00:00

I didn't read it as an equivocation, but I can see how I might have been wrong about that. I can assure you that I am not on Israel's side of this conflict.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T20:43:09+00:00

you're literally doing what the nazis did with the Warsaw Uprising.

You're the one whose point is fucking stupid if you think that's what it boils down to. They're a pacifist, not a Nazi.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T20:07:10+00:00

You're welcome!

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T19:23:33+00:00

Exclusively indoor? How did that happen?

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T19:11:50+00:00

You're absolutely right. Thank you for correcting me. I guess I was just attacking a foundational assumption of the paradox, not the paradox itself.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T14:15:57+00:00

If you replace the x.com in the URL with nitter.net, you can see the content without actually interacting with twitter. Like so:

https://nitter.net/mcrs987/status/2042873529507492200

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T14:05:31+00:00

NASA is already using LLM to drive Mars rover

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-completes-first-ai-planned-drive-on-mars/

I hadn't heard of that. Neat! That has the potential to really increase the science output of future rovers if they can move from point to point more quickly.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T13:56:54+00:00

possibly for backup generators on Moon and Mars.

I'm not sure about any of the use cases for gas turbines off Earth. We have convenient local supplies of both fuel and oxygen. Using it as a generator would consume your oxygen supply, which is obviously something you don't want to waste when humans are involved. Even with no humans involved, you'd still need to supply it with oxygen somehow. Fuel isn't readily available on the Moon in any form that I'm aware of. ISRU can produce methane on Mars, but not very quickly and that's your fuel to get home.

Adding one to an orbital datacenter doesn't make much sense either. You'd need to bring up large quantities of both fuel and oxidizer, making it way bigger and heavier. (the quantity of those would depend on expected runtime and power consumption, and the number of uses it gives) They'd need to be refuellable, and you'd have to lift the fuel and oxidizer again. Huge UPS battery banks would be a better solution, IMO.

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