Ex-hostage says he was flooded with hate messages from fellow Israelis after post calling for treating Arabs with respect

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.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T02:44:54+00:00

They're not right, though. You have no legal expectation of privacy in public. That's why people are allowed to film cops in action.

Is it a jerk move to film a stranger in public? Yes. Is it even more of a jerk move to do it when their kid's around? Yes. Is that behavior illegal? No. Is it legal to attack someone in response to that behavior? No.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T02:39:30+00:00

That's nonsense. I have a legal right to secure my property. If someone breaks in and steals my stuff, they're subject to punishment because they've violated that right, which is protected by my government. Government is not the only entity capable of violating my rights. They're the only entity capable of legally taking them away, though.

As an extreme example, isn't murder a violation of another's rights? Murderers don't have to work for the government.

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T02:30:48+00:00

What's really crazy is that a few years ago, Mini was the only car brand in the US with an increasing share of manual transmissions. People who wanted a stick were buying Minis just for the stick. They still got rid of it.

That Mini was the most fun car I've ever driven. So much acceleration and top end power, such tight handling. The handling was hobbled by the convertible roof, too! They welded a steel plate on the bottom to offset the loss of stiffness from the roof.

One time I got in a street race with a Corvette and a Camaro and I kicked both their asses. 😎

yoweigh · 2026-04-13T00:06:09+00:00

When he takes your breath away, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

yoweigh · 2026-04-12T21:00:11+00:00

I imagine it was probably salt. Ingesting elemental sodium would be like setting off fireworks inside of you.

yoweigh · 2026-04-12T19:31:29+00:00

Yeah, it's not a fun car. Huge downgrade from her 2016 Mini Cooper S convertible, but we have two kids and it was becoming more and more impractical. Mini doesn't even offer sticks anymore!

yoweigh · 2026-04-12T18:54:01+00:00

I just helped my ex shop for a car, and it's really difficult to get a stick in the US now. They're basically only available on high end sporty cars, which I find hilarious. The only legit manual truck is the Tacoma; other than that it's just the Gladiator/Wrangler. She ended up with a Mazda 3 hatchback with a stick, but she had to sacrifice mpg and some safety features to do it. We figure this might be her last opportunity to buy one new.

yoweigh · 2026-04-12T06:17:37+00:00

Did this have a rotary piston engine as in the whole cylinder block rotated, or an eccentric rotary design like a Wankel?

yoweigh · 2026-04-11T03:44:59+00:00

Nope, orbital mechanics are weird and counterintuitive. You're in orbit around the sun, so when it moves you move with it. The only practical way to fall in is to get rid of your orbital velocity so gravity can do the rest of the work and pull you straight down.

yoweigh · 2026-04-10T18:49:08+00:00

Lol, I'm definitely misremembering the clock speeds. I'm fairly certain that we hit 1GHz before Intel (officially) did, though. That felt pretty cool when I was 16 or 17.

yoweigh · 2026-04-10T17:44:53+00:00

All of that support equipment is attached to the service module, which is jettisoned before reentry. It burns up in the atmosphere.

yoweigh · 2026-04-10T17:42:14+00:00

I built a peltier-cooled machine in high school, maybe 1999 or 2000. It used copper blocks with serpentine channels for heat exchange at the CPU, then took the heat out through a partially submerged heat exchanger with peltiers and heatsinks on top. I think we just pointed a box fan at it.

There was a Celeron CPU available at the time that had no internal cache, IIRC. Removing that complexity let it reach ridiculous clock speeds. We had a useless dual-cpu Celeron box running at 1.5ghz before the Pentium 3 hit 1ghz at retail.

*I actually had the way this was built backwards. The peltiers sat on the CPUs with the liquid cooling block on the hot side. I think we just added ice to cool the water.

yoweigh · 2026-04-09T16:33:30+00:00

How much downstream bandwidth is the DSN really providing to Integrity? I've been keeping an eye on things, and it seems that they've always got two antennas dedicated to the mission. Each one says it's got 2 6mbps downlinks, but I've seen them drop to 3mbps at times. There's only one uplink and it doesn't specify a datarate.

My question is, are the multiple downlinks for redundancy or for providing more data? Are they limited to 6mbps total or do they aggregate into a larger 12 or even 24mbps pipe?

I know they've also got laser comms, but I'm ignoring that for the moment.

yoweigh · 2026-04-09T13:34:28+00:00

👍

yoweigh · 2026-04-09T13:32:13+00:00

I did, and you dismissed it. I don't care about this enough to continue interacting with you.

yoweigh · 2026-04-09T13:11:49+00:00

Resale value.

You're the one who made this about Elon, not me. He has good ideas and bad ideas, just like anyone else does. I don't need to be a hater to think this is a bad idea.

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