Readit NewsM_bara commented on I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me marcusolang.substack.com/... · Posted by u/florian_s
M_bara commented on How can traditional British TV survive the US streaming giants bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/asplake
I’d pay more for bbc content than i do for Netflix or prime. It’s typically very good content that is strongly geo locked behind iplayer and you have to play whack a mole to get it…
M_bara commented on First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Hopefully this ship of fools runs aground before it kills its whole crew with the first, inevitable, leak.
If you think this is bad, then the chemicals used in rocketry - read the book ignition [1] - will have you whimpering in a corner. As with any system, risks can be identified and controlled and operationalised - Gasoline has its risks, so does Chlorine trifluoride [2]. Yet both are wildly different and are used in day to day operations.
1. https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine_trifluoride
M_bara commented on First ammonia-fueled ship hits a snag spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia... · Posted by u/pseudolus
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
Obviously it doesn't, but government officials everywhere are technically inept by default. It's a FUD.
Precisely,Safaricom also alleged that they would allow for illegal connections… perhaps they meant connections that we can’t easily wiretap on behalf of the government. Interestingly, during the protests a few months ago, the government severely throttled all external connections by putting a few interfaces down at the fibre sea landing points. Only Starlink users were getting good connectivity. A lot of folks migrated at that point.
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
M_bara commented on Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity restofworld.org/2024/star... · Posted by u/impish9208
Same thing in Kenya. A 150km radius around Nairobi is maxed out. I have a fishy kit that can’t join due to capacity issues. In fact, the advent of Starlink - which had acquired 0.5% of the entire market - has rattled the existing players so much that, 1. They’ve doubled available bandwidth for residential plans without increasing cost. Safaricom went way overboard and 5x-ed plans. So if you were on 40mbit for $40 USD, you’d get 200mbit for the same cost. 2. They are all writing letters to the fcc equivalent crying about GSM spectrum interference (duh…) and predatory pricing [1]. I’m all for more competition! I’m only considering moving to Starlink due to frequent fibre cuts.
1. https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/technology/...
M_bara commented on Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
The awful thing about OpenSCAD is that what one can model in 3D is limited by one's ability to mathematically stretch, rotate, and/or arrange spheres, cylinders, and cubes in 3D.
For folks who want "real" (read mutable in normal terms of scope) variables there is a Python-enabled fork (which should become part of the main release presently:
https://pythonscad.org/