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Comment It sure is (Score 1) 6

I got my card back in the summer and have been taking out videos almost every Saturday. Not the crappy Transformers, MCU/Marvel, Fast and Furious, but high quality ones such as A Private War or The King's Speech. Yes, all three John Wick movies have been in there along with Mr. Robot, but it's a good way to find a movie which is a bit out of the ordinary compared to all the dreck out there.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 73

You're also somehow oblivious to the fact that the dish is always actively aiming its antenna to track the satellite. And somehow you're expecting adjacent satellites to get a good enough signal to do anything at all with, especially when the adjacent satellites aren't even making the same Doppler adjustments.

The Starlink Dish isn't moving. It's an active array and it's completely possible for that to either "point" in two directions simultaneously or to time switch so that it measures first one satellite then moves to the other.

Comment Re: Of course it does (Score 1) 73

what gives you the idea that a method of getting your own fix, from the ground, will surely work from space?

a) The fact that Starlink controls the software on the terminals and is allowed to send the location from the terminal to their system.

b) The fact that Starlink clearly states that they know, and need to know, your exact terminal location in order to allow handovers to happen correctly.

Comment Re:Move fast, break (crash) things (Score 3, Interesting) 66

You say "China" but this is a private Chinese company. "China", as in the Chinese government, does have its own space programme that, like NASA, works with commercial partners. They are looking to put people on the moon around 2030, and on track to do it, but this company is working on low cost to Earth orbit payloads.

Comment I'm sure someone cares but (Score 0) 45

I really don't want this "feature". What I want is for existing features to work correctly.

For example, automated subtitling. For some reason the subtitles sometimes just stop coming for a while, then you get half a minute's subtitles all at once so you have to pause to read them. I've been watching foreign content lately and I depend on this functionality to understand what's happening, and it often just doesn't work right.

If Google could just pull their head out of their ass long enough to make their service work correctly and wouldn't bundle shit I don't want with it and overcharge, I would pay for a subscription to Youtube. But I absolutely will not give them money while they are proving that they don't give a single solitary fuck about their software actually working.

Comment Re: everything is dangerous (Score 1) 178

What if you got professional help and got over your paranoid delusions that Trump is going to do anything besides enforce existing laws and clean up the Biden autopen mess?

Ha, yeah. Is that why so many of Trump's actions have been invalidated by the courts with many more to come?

As for the "autopen mess", way to believe in one of Trump's many manufactured problems. A president using an autopen is completely normal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . But then if I recall correctly you think an entire community of Hattian immigrants out eating everyone's pets is a believable thing so I'm pretty sure you'll just believe anything a right wing talking head tells you to think.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 178

In another article, I saw a suggestion that scientists were trying the opposite: injecting vaccines with a tattoo gun. The whole point of that is that the immune system is very active just below the skin, while deep in the muscle tissue you are too far behind the defenses.

Not with a tattoo gun, but yes, microneedle delivery is a new experimental way to deliver vaccines. It's less like a tattoo gun and more like a nicotine patch or a bandaid, though.

Comment Re:Just shoddy... (Score 1) 88

something about 'AI' seems to have caused people who should have known better to just ignore precautions

The cynic in me wants to say that they see "intelligence" and go "great, it has something I don't, let's just 100% trust it".

The social critic in me wants to say that it's due to the gigantic hype about AI and how it'll revolutionize everything, replace everyone and solve all problems.

And the tech/security guy in me wants to say "doh, people do dumb shit. What else is new?"

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