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Yes, returning the money is a consequence of terminating the lease. That’s precisely what I said!

Yes, I am quite certain that the contract was quite explicit about the terms of cancellation. That’s certainly relevant, but we still had the opportunity to refuse to return the mo…

No, it's merely a separate decision. Given that they have decided to cancel the lease, for good reasons or bad, the question then is what they do with the lease payments. I am pret…

That’s a separate issue, and irrelevant to the issue of cancelling the lease early.

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It is super easy to overestimate the cooling problem, and to underestimate existing satellites. A Starlink v3 satellite that SpaceX already launches in large numbers has solar pane…

It’s practically zero, in fact.

This is a really good read. It clearly presents all of the overlapping problems, from the poor safety culture of the air traffic controllers to the pernicious meddling of Congress.…

They can define new syntax and special forms.

You’ve misunderstood. Nobody here has said that we shouldn’t try to improve the success rate, only that improving the success rate will make people try harder problems which worsen…

These are examples of ambitious drugs that wouldn’t have been attempted even a few decades earlier. But technology improved and the money was there so they tried anyway, and found …

That’s changing, maybe eventually even on real systems: https://blog.toast.cafe/posix2024-xcu#the-nuclear-option

Neat, I didn’t know that! Even cooler that they’ve started to change all the core utilities to error out instead of creating a file with a newline character in it.

> Or maybe you pipe into xargs and pray your filenames don’t have spaces… Always use -0. Most gnu utilities support it. It makes them put a null byte after every filename instead o…

I was trying to go to sleep when I got mine. It was certainly above the $16 threshold I had set!

Correct, they had so very few capital improvements back then. They leveraged the ones they had quite well, but they were just dirt poor. You yourself have luxuries that even the mo…

If you were smart about it then you wouldn’t go up in the mountains in the first place. To get the lowest possible latency you want a straight shot, so obviously you should just bo…

> Using changes in death rates to gauge the actual number of "lives saved" from preventable illness is going to be fraught with confounding factors. I agree but I was going for an …

You shouldn’t have secrets in your environment.

>The Lancet, looking at the impact U.S.A.I.D. had over the past twenty years —saving ninety-two million lives… If you look at a graph of the world–wide death rate over the last few…

Geography and property lines, twin banes of every infrastructure builder.

Often the bigger difference is just that fiber never goes in a straight line, even if it’s going to the right city. All that pesky geography gets in the way and makes the path long…

We should port it to Rust.

In theory you would be right. In practice you have to ask all of your competitors for permission to change anything, and all the old copper is still there. They never actually swap…

Ziply is a regional ISP. They serve the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Here’s a map showing their backbone links: https://ziplyfiber.com/~/media/Residential/modul…