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How common is your un-named city? <10k pop, combination of economic opportunity and still affordable (after wfh tech crowd moved in) for someone starting out earning $40/hr to afford a house and family.


Well this is the internet, so I'm not going to voluntarily dox myself :) As to your question, I'm not sure how common it is. There's another city about 30 minutes from me that has _almost_ the same scenario, it's just housing is more expensive because it's closer to a major city.


How can it be that a LTE smartphone, costing ~$100 and doing all the things a smart phone can do, and being designed to connect to a cell network via a tower a few miles away, can somehow also function as the pizza sized $500 Starlink dish?


It doesn’t. The throughput here is multiple orders of magnitude lower than what you get from Starlink


I keep coming back to the comments waiting to see how many orders of magnitude lower. 1 Mbps would be quite different than 10 kbps. Is this for facetime while camping, or send an SOS if your car breaks down in the backroads?


It's much closer to the SOS. They start with text messaging, which is much easier because it's low bandwidth and tolerant of delays. Voice can also be done at low bandwidth but its a bit harder to ensure things sound smooth. And then data, but I think this will only ever be low bandwidth like internet browsing, not tiktok or facetime. There's probably a reason they aren't boasting about the bandwidth they can achieve...


It will start of with text messaged only. That should give you an idea about the throughput.


It uses a different transceiver on the satellite which is broadcasting a ~standard LTE signal, at a miniscule data rate


If you had even the slightest clue about what you're pretending to know about, you would realize this $7500 is about the farthest thing possible from the only time the government pays for a benefit that doesn't benefit everyone.

It's just straight up amusing how much you lose your mind over like absolute economic trivialities, because evil renewable energy is a symbol of the liberals.


>amusing how much you lose your mind over like absolute economic trivialities... If you had even the slightest clue about what you're pretending to know about

i didn't lose my mind, all of you have. i just "pointed out"

in terms of "the slightest clue about what you're pretending to know about", i was raised from the crib as a good liberal and socialist, i understand the perspective intimately, then I studied economics at MIT and realized I didn't need to change my morals/sensibilities at all, the free market achieves what socialism is trying to achieve, and then I studied more economics in grad school at MIT... please, tell me your background, and like you suggest, no "pretending to know about"...


What a feat! There's at least 3 pages of google search results for the nearly same thing. The "prompt" I used in google.com is:

site:github.com map comparison

I guess the difference, is that my way uses dramatically less time and resources, but requires directly acknowledging the original coders instead of relying on the plagiarism-ish capabilities of reguritating something through an LLM.


But creating things for which there are many existing, documented examples is what LLMs do best. Without this use case it's almost like they don't provide any value at all.


Everything you can think of right now has already been made in one form or another and hence learnt by LLMs, do you agree?

Or

Can you come up easily with many things that LLMs have no clue of and hence will fail?


"causes heat"

Heat is the transfer of energy due to a temperature differential. I think you may want to review the highschool physics textbook.


Even under your pedantic definition, the above commentator is still correct


Sigh... I'm not giving a physics lecture. Just speaking casually. The neutron energy imparts kinetic energy to particles which can be harvested in a well engineered system


no, that is work.

you may want to review the second law of thermodynamics


I never took high school physics so I asked my best friend what you're talking about and he (ChatGPT) said

> CtrlAltmanDel nitpicks anon291’s use of "causes heat," arguing that heat is energy transfer due to temperature differences. This critique feels overly pedantic, as "heat" is commonly used to describe energy released in fusion (even if "thermal energy" might be more precise).

I don't know if I should trust the machine god or the snarky commenter with a vapid one liner here. You're both very confident.


> I don't know if I should trust the machine god or the snarky commenter

Neither of these are worthy of your trust. Even if they had agreed.


What an irrationally angry sentiment. Praytell, what "demographic" would this be?


'Busybodies'



That’ll do triangles but not crossbracing. X’s not λ‘s


Use 2 of the 'Adjustable Angle Hinge' to make a single diagonal across the rectangle.

At the midsection of the diagonal, install an 'Adjustable 180 degree' along with two more of the adjustable angles in each corner.

Would that approximate it? Sorry I'm not better at ascii art.

https://makerpipe.com/collections/modular-pipe-fittings/prod...


I am just wrong due to incomplete info. The page I originally clicked on only had about half of the full catalog on it, and the way it was constructed I presumed it to be exhaustive.

There’s a 180° adjustable fitting that does exactly what I described, as a sibling to the link you provided.


Elon is missing a huge opportunity by not hiring his flight attendants from this website. Wouldn't have to buy any horses and probably wouldn't even have to ask.


regular version, recent revision. disabling wifi is a checkbox on the phone app not """extensive conversion is only for very capable hackers and has been done by only three people on our planet"""


English is not my native language, you might have taken me too literally. You have to be a very capable hacker to modify all the different Starlink firmware of all the chips involved. There are dozens of reasons to do that, unrelated from disabling WiFi.

And no, a GUI check box has little relation to what the hardware actually does.


> There are dozens of reasons to do that, unrelated from disabling WiFi.

You're moving goal posts now. If the stock firmware/software now allows disabling Wi-Fi, you don't need to hack the hardware.

And if you can't trust the stock firmware, i.e. you have reason to assume that it's actively malicious (e.g. by turning the Wi-Fi back on randomly), how can you trust the hardware? Who's to say that it doesn't, e.g., have an undocumented transponder feature that replies to a specific type of interrogation?


You measure and reverse engineer. That is what hackers should do.

>You're moving goal posts now.

I'd say you where interpreting my comments on hacking too narrowly.


Extravagant.


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