If roll thrusters fired because the star tracker drifted and if the heater was still off, then an explosion would destroy Voyager 1.

That is some high stakes remote maintenance. I don’t want to imaging the stress for everybody involved. The relief when they finally got a signal two days later confirming the craft was still in obe piece and the heater was on must have been immense. I get stressed enough waiting minutes for a remote server to come back up.

DSN Canberra upgrade will cause loss of comms until Feb 2026

Oh great, another stressful wait!

Add on the climb of bitcoin and thats pretty much it.

Split the difference, it’s octal.

On the assumption that the rate doesn’t change over that period, yes, the price will halve in just over 11 years.

You can validate that by 0.94^11=0.5062982072, where 0.94 is the ratio of the price that’s left after one year. Raising that to the power of eleven gives 0.506, or just over half, as the ratio of the price remaining after eleven years.

You can get the exact time needed by dividing the log of the ratio you’re looking for by the log of the ratio per year, so: ln(0.5)/ln(0.96)=11.2023055836, so the cost will halve in 11.2 years.

They seem to have completely lost sight of the fact that a phone is a tool. I don’t want ‘springy’ animations when I tap a button, I want my tool to do what I intend. I don’t want notifications that ‘subtly’ stretch when I dismiss a different notification, I want the dismissed notification to go away and the others to close up around it.

What I do want is a phone that works securely, quickly, efficiently, doesn’t waste battery on nonsense, and doesn’t distract me from what I’m doing. I guess we get ‘pretty’ geegaws instead.

Would it though? Would it really? Couldn’t we just let trump have it as it is and see what happened? It’s bound to be ok, isn’t it?

Not a particularly good one…

Your points are well made. I was just considering the passage as quoted, rather than in a larger context. As a response to Social Darwinism, and a demonstration of cooperative behaviours, it makes a lot more sense. I may have to add some of his writings to my reading list, although, as you can probably judge from the time it’s taken me to reply, I don’t seem to have much spare time right now!

Cats’ social behaviour, when there’s no resource shortage, is fascinating. They seem to go from hissing, growling and general agression at a new member to head rubs and purring remarkably quickly, although when food gets short all bets are off again. Dropping the agression is beneficial to the individual, as they’re less likely to be injured, and coincidentally helps the group. Cats are an unusual species in that they naturally form social groups where rest, but have individual teritories where they hunt. If you haven’t seen it before, you might enjoy a documentary series called ‘The secret life of cats’ by the BBC. They monitor various groups of cats to see how they interact and go about their lives.

Aha! That makes sense. Thanks again for a handy tool.

Thanks for making it, it’s a really handy tool for understanding who’s responding to posts.

One post I can’t get the votes for is: https://lemm.ee/post/24727759 I’m guessing that’s because the community is on a different server, but I can’t see an obvious way to get a link to the comment on it’s home server when I’m browsing mine. It would be great if there’s a way to resolve the correct server via the API, or at least report why it couldn’t get the votes.

Whilst you’re right about privacy not being binary and the need to create your own threat model, the problem is that all the different parties that collect your data trade it, so if you leave one avenue open, the others that you tried to block are likely to get your data anyway. Whether this fits your personal threat model is probably an individual decision.

You only have to fake your own death once, you have to go to work every day. The choice seems obvious now that I think about it…

It sucks that we need such an extensive amount of work put in to make devices private

The issue is that, short of the extremes suggested in places like privacyguides, you’re not really making the device private. You could argue that you’re making it more private, but the counter-argument is that you’re still leaking so much data that you haven’t significantly improved your situation.

Doing something probably is better than doing nothing, but it’s not going to satisfy those who seek actual privacy. If you’ve got a particular leak that you’re worried about it’s definitely worth looking to address it though.

We would be overrun by frogs…

The username associated with every vote, up or down, is available through the ActivityPub API. If your instance doesn’t show them (and I believe lemmy instances don’t by default) some helpful soul has built a tool to view them. Sometimes it fails for reasons unknown, but it lets you see who’s up or down voted a particular post or comment. I believe nom-lemmy interfaces like kbin also show you that information.

Fair point, I wasn’t sure it was the equals, hence my initial question. Drawing boxes with the box drawing characters does make a lot more sense.

The #define = line would mean the = would be effectively removed, rendering the for a syntax error. That is, assuming it is an equals sign they’ve redefined, and not similar looking character.

Have they #defined out the equals symbol? I don’t think that for loop is going to compile.

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Does that mean Stamets was the child all along?

If your doctor manages that, you are definitely ending up as the subject of a paper in a prestigious journal.