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once you got to the angles where walls joins, you would be able to zip along the intersections at great speed in ways that defy conventional physics.

Hyperspace lanes!

If you are in the US, you probably already know about Mike Patey but I'll share this here anyway. He has a track record of building something custom pretty much every year. I believe he is trying to build a community around a similar idea, but also catering for more mainstream GA too.

He's actually building out an aviation park to promote the community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IenxeMl2nkw

I was curious, so I just checked on one of our customers (I work at a small MSP in the UK) by way of comparison and we have on chugging along happily at more than double those numbers on a $288 Linode dedicated CPU instance. And we're only on that size for ease of disk space handling as the database is several hundred GB. CPU is basically at zero, it's the disk IO that actually gets you on some of these busier databases (from my experience).

RDS is extremely expensive. All managed databases are.

That said, it's a trade off of convenience and being in the AWS bubble, and weighing up the pros/cons of separating out services. Data Transfer is another thing to consider too of course. Sticking your database elsewhere might cost more in egress traffic communicating with it from your other AWS infrastructure. If you're all in on other AWS services, sometimes the RDS price is just worth it when it comes to the total price. Sound like this might be the case for your setup.

I hope you do manage to work things out. The service you have is great.

PS - Side note on RDS sizing. You might already know but sometimes it's worth increasing the storage size on gp3 type storage above 400GB (if you haven't already) as you get 12,000 IOPS baseline against 500MiB/s throughput[0] when you have that much storage. That's 4 times the below 400GB baseline performance but you only pay for the additional storage cost. It can make a difference if you're IOPS constrained or trying to deal with bursty traffic but want to use the smallest instance size possible otherwise to save costs.

[0]https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_...

And you have Cunninghammed me :-)

Some Nalgene's are polycarbonate, like those commonly drunk from. But not all, some are HDPE[0,1,2].

Some are Polypropylene co-polymer[3] but those are more for specialist things I guess.

[0] https://ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/ultralite-1-litre-wide-m... [1] https://www.cotswoldoutdoor.com/p/nalgene-hdpe-125ml-wide-mo... [2] https://www.elitemountainsupplies.co.uk/camping-trekking-c4/... [3] https://www.thelabwarehouse.com/products/bottle-nalgene-ppco...

Maybe not so weird if gravity isn't the curvature of spacetime but a symptom of there being either more or less of it, and mass creates spacetime.

Replace the highly curved spacetime region close to a blackhole with the idea that huge amount of spacetime is being created by the mass of the blackhole, so there is more spacetime near the blackhole.

The more spacetime being created and 'flowing outwards' away from the mass, the faster the apparent 'velocity' of an object through that region of spacetime ner the blackhole (and have this work out that the spacial component handles the physical motion and time slows down to compensate - just like it does in highly curved spacetime), and consequently the slower it moves relative to an external observer.

Areas further from mass see much more 'dilute' spacetime (whatever the heck that means) and travel with relative slower spacial velocity but faster in time, so it appears to be travelling faster up. This would be doubly obvious at the scale of galaxies.

I think this ridiculousness would rely on the relativity of simultaneity in rather a large way!

The other interesting thing is, if mass does create spacetime then pockets of mass like galaxies should move away from each other faster and faster as they make more of it in between themselves.

(NOTE - this is just a silly thought experiment, don't take it seriously)

There are many variables. Visual acuity, how well your eyes can adapt to low light, colour sensitivity, light pollution and cloud cover are just a few. Even standing next to each other two people can have different experiences thanks to those variables.

I am very fortunate to have excellent visual acuity, low light sensitivity and am extremely sensitive to colour/different shades or tones. There are test you can do online for this if you have a well calibrated screen. I also used to be a photographer and worked for years in low light settings documenting events. So I have put that good fortune in the genetic lottery to good use!

So for me, I absolutely saw the full colour display very strongly. I could see variations in colour throughout the height of the column and i could easily make out the striations between the different filaments. I could also easily see the curve of the bands across the northern sky. The colours to me were as obvious as the orange of light pollution you might see from a nearby town. I could see the low level patches of cloud silhouetted against the green and the huge bands of red/pinky red towering up into space.

What I will say though is that even looking at my phone was enough to dull the experience. And minimally strong light in the eye instantly desaturated the colours of the aurora and took a minute or two to recover. So you really do need dark places, dark skies and to really let your eyes full adjust to their maximum possible sensitivity.

I very much enjoy the diplomatic phrasing of this statement :-)

Migrating to a host that doesn’t support IPv6 when it’s important to you seems…like a bad decision.

This seems like the perfect opportunity to introduce those unfamiliar to Robert Elder. He makes cool YouTube[0] and blog content[1] and has a series on regular expressions[2] and does some quite deep dives into the differing behaviour of the different tools that implement the various versions.

His latest on the topic is cool too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7yUyyQA-Y

He's has quite a lot of content that HN folks might be interested in I think, like the reality and woes of consulting[3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@RobertElderSoftware

[1] https://blog.robertelder.org/

[2] https://blog.robertelder.org/regular-expressions/

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK87ktENPrI

It’s a shame this study appears to have been conducted so poorly, the topic is very interesting.

The study had people click on photos of where their interest would be if they were walking. They were not eye-tracked when actually walking. This is a significant difference. Particularly because at night your peripheral vision is much more acute at detecting shape/silhouette/tonal variation and in my experience also motion. The latter is very relevant for detecting threats.

I was poor growing up had to walk a lot, including at night. A lot of time was spent walking in not the best areas! Most of my teenage life seemed to be spent in the dark too, if I ever wanted to see friends! And then military service with endless night exercises. Add to that living in the UK with 17+ hours of darkness in the winter. I can definitely say that after decades of walking at night and many many thousands of miles (I have a nearly 200 already this year already) you learn there’s a certain way of ‘seeing’ without looking at something directly. So I very much question the claims of the study in so much as it states where your eyes actually look when walking in real world circumstances.

What I don’t doubt is that in general women have more to worry about and fear in public spaces, that their attention is drawn to different things than men in some circumstances and that there likely is a difference in scene scanning behaviour.

A proper study on this would be very interesting to see and might actually help better inform the design of public spaces for night time use.

Former military here…I only ever did this a few times in very specific circumstances. I wasn’t infantry but when exercising that role I did do this a couple of times when on sentry for a long time or when in an OP (observation post). This was rare and only on exercise, I never needed to do it ‘for real’.

The reason I did it is whilst lying down or in very confined/concealed area it’s easier to turn your wrist to see the time, which passes amazingly slowly in these situations. If you imagine you arm outstretched in front of you it’s a lot easier to see the watch face if it’s on the inside of the wrist as you have to turn your arm much less.

I’m not sure I am explaining it adequately, but it these circumstances it’s definitely easier.

At all other times and in my normal role I never did this.

Regarding light discipline, many brands make military versions that are much harder to accidentally press the backlight or in modern tomes allow you to turn off the heartrate monitor lights. Also, we would generally wear long sleeves which would cover a watch in most situations anyway, even in hot climates. There was a gradual mover to 3/4 length or turned up sleeves during my time, when watches would then often then get covered by tactical gloves or sometimes even dedicated covers made to conceal a watch.

The GP might be referring to how most of the non-hyperscalers like Linode or DigitalOcean or Vultr tie total monthly egress to instance size. IIRC they do allow overage charges at $x per GB but it quickly becomes more expensive to do it that way.

They are, at least on my car and many other here in Europe. Brake past a certain threshold of deceleration, and the brakes lights flash rapidly, indicating to motorists behind that rapid deceleration is occurring. I’m not sure what the threshold is.

This is utterly false for Amazon UK and disprovable by 2 minutes of searching. It’s somewhat incredible to me this claim has been made with a straight face to be honest.

USB Foot Pedal is just one random search that’ll show this.

Mens fleece hoodie, audio recorder, iphone case and electric blanket are full of random named crap.

The problem also extends past these random products and into the seller market too. Even if you search with brand names for a product you want it’ll often be sold by some random new seller preferentially selected due to price undercutting.

The whole platform is rotting from the inside out.

Yes I thought this too. Perhaps because it mirrored my experience of similar situations. I glad to see a comment like yours because it could mean we’re starting to recognise this condition in adult women a little more than we have been over the last few decades. That gives me hope! Not least because i have seen the horrible impact it can have if left untreated.

She doesn’t have a car or license. So living in the countryside in the UK is a non-starter. When you’re living life on hard mode already due to poverty and the pernicious destruction of control over your own time that that causes, trying to exist without personal transport and a child is impossible.

I know. I’ve experienced it first hand (as the kid).

To your point about deliberate choice: What I do recognise from the article, and it was clear before she mentioned it, were the signs and symptoms or untreated trauma and ADHD. The deleterious effect of those conditions on decision making often seem to us observers as ‘deliberate choices’. This can be very frustrating for those of us who would and do make different choices in similar situations.

The next sentence is:

Choosing to use the powers vested in you by the constituencies you serve, to deprive those same constituents of light, heating, food and home security is a wilful and deliberate act. And it has to stop.

It’s abundantly clear that the whole passage was speaking to Rees-Mogg, calling her out for her Marie Antoinette ‘let them eat potatoes’.

This passage isn’t a generalism, is a specific response to the words of a former politician, a former Conservative MP and MEP for East Midlands.

To reduce the articles substance to a specially selected out of context quote such as OP highlighted seems disingenuous.

DigitalOcean blocks port 25 now anyway[0], since I think June this year, for all new accounts. So not really a viable option now. We have to relay email from our servers there. Bit annoying, and no support won't make an exception or turn it off after a bit of good behaviour.

[0] https://docs.digitalocean.com/support/why-is-smtp-blocked/

This opinion comes from a former pho photographer, one who desperately wanted to love Darktable...the shots are warranted in my opinion. Darktable is a complete car crash of poor usability and militant contrarianism on established user experience design.

It has so much promise but the 'lead by committee' approach just resulted in some kind of collective 'demand avoidance' from the devs who seem to revel in delivering an unusable product. And I mean unusable for those not willing to learn an entirely new paradigm of interacting with a piece of photographic software and dive into the docs for everything, including stuff as silly as a keyboard shortcut or move between modules.

I've yet to read all the Ansel blurb but I'm pretty sure this is from the guy who's made the most improvements to Darktable in recent releases. So it's incredibly exciting to see.

I doubt it'll get any DAM capability though, even for a fork that is asking too much :-)

EMF Camp[0] in the UK last year had a talk about this[1].

I attended in person. It was a fascinating intro to something I didn’t really understand existed.

EMF camp is something of a wonder in itself. If you can make it to the next one, go!

[0] https://www.emfcamp.org/ [1] https://youtu.be/e-qjLfnOrx8?feature=shared

I'm curious if there's another company in history that became so pervasive so quickly? Not just in terms of size, but in impact/reach?

I realise this question somewhat requires defining what Google is and it's current size and scale, which is quite the challenge.

To me Google seems uniquely impactful, uniquely quickly, but I'd love to learn of other comparable companies from history.

This link has a better written overview of the work:

https://english.m.tau.ac.il/green_hydrogen_2023

Fantastic summary and for those reading it who want a little additional social confirmation , I feel this summary is accurate.

The part about Linus appearance in the ‘what do we do now?’ video is on point too.

I would add that the general tone of the video is appropriate, but as LTT is wont to do, they contaminate their sincerity with repeated product placement, ‘in jokes’ and humour. The very root of this ‘drama’ appears to be LTT’s lack of understanding of their serious and influential position in the space they occupy. This video serves or additional evidence of that lack of understanding, but at least a desire to improve.

Regarding fusion - have you seen Helion’s approach? [0]

It seems their approach removes many of the issues with Tokamak or Laser Pulsed fusion.

It also reduces most of the feedstock issues with the two part fuel breeding approach.

Their approach seems easier to be optimistic about.

[0] https://youtu.be/_bDXXWQxK38

3 x HP t630 thin clients. Each with upgraded RAM and SSDs.

Each run proxmox, clustered together. Very cheap, low power and surprisingly not terrible. No fans so quiet too.

These aren't going to be good for Plex though. But the rest they'll do just fine.

For plex you probably want something like a NAS (bought or self made), with a good GPU for hardware transcoding. Note that doesn't necessarily mean separate GPU, I think you might be able to use quicksync on most Intel CPUs now.

I have a dedicated TrueNAS Scale box with something like 48TB of raw SSD storage running Emby in the official apps. And the stuff to populate said SSD storage with media. Bit overkill really, but fun.

Also have another big 32 thread AMD machine for 'work' home labbing - i.e. learning, tinkering and breaking stuff. It's separate from my personal cluster for security and for reasons of the personal stuff being a bit more important to me that it runs, hence the cluster and failover.

I think the article and this mishap is an example of the reason why - if you can't find a dropped and loose object in the cockpit then you can't fly the aircraft because it may move in flight to somewhere where it can interfere with the controls.

In writing this answer it struck me you might be reading AC as Air Conditioning, instead of AirCraft, which I suppose could have lead to your question asking about weight reduction.

It was an RAF Voyager (Airbus A-330) I think you are referring to and a DSLR camera (Nikon D5300) that became wedged as you say[0].

The item didn't get knocked loose, it was the plane automation that saved the flight. The auto-pilot self-corrected and levelled off when it detected prolonged dangerous pitch down input[1].

[0] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/service-inquiry-i... [1] Page 37 of https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...

Rather they released the f150 lightning :-)

Not that I have any justification for a pick up, but it does look like a great EV.

14th March 2018 "Read 'Yes Man' by Danny Boyle. Changes everything."

Hmm, Danny Wallace[0] perhaps?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Man_(book)

First line of paragraph 2: Linux kernel 6.1 through 6.4