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Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 94

Latency is about a 1/10th of a second if it is a geo stationary satellite, and much lower if it is in a lower orbit.
I suggest to put a half assed complicated request into what ever AI you are using and cout: 21, 22, 23 until the first result pops up.

An additional 1/10th of a second, you won't notice.

Comment Re:If they are thermally efficient enough (Score 1) 94

Meteor smacks are rare.

The oldest currently operating satellite that can still transmit a communication signal is AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7).
While it is an amateur radio satellite rather than a commercial television broadcasting satellite, it remains the absolute oldest active piece of communications hardware in space.

That satellite is only a small amateur radio "relay", it is operational since 52 years, on solar power.

Comment Re:Singapore pilots dating service (Score 1) 188

Yeah, and what exactly did I said wrong?

Most flight attendents are not competing about the two (male?) pilots.

What would be the point of that?

If they are female: they have a BF at the destination and at the departure port ... or they only have one.

Don't play stupid.

A flight from Bangkok (BKK) to Frankfurt (FRA) is about 12h.

There is a 36h mandatory sleep over period before the return flight.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 1) 188

I am entitled to call "nonsense", to what ever I consider to be nonsense.

For example: 3) I have seen several studies that indicate most abusers come from entitled families and were not themselves abused as a child.
That is nonsense. I suggest to google a bit around. Basically every abuser (does not necessarily mean sexual) was abused as child.

Comment America.gov is a DOGE Scam (Score 4, Interesting) 115

This "new" site is part of a larger effort by that slob to kneecap or compromise US government Web sites, and steal your personal data.

I first read about the effort here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedreydossier.substac...

Yesterday, she took a look under the hood of America.gov, and yes, it's as bad as everything else the DOGE vandals have been doing: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedreydossier.substac...

Up until this point, government Web sites were designed, built, and maintained by the agencies responsible for that government service. For example, if you wanted to apply for or renew your passport, you would go to state.gov, which is run by the US Department of State, which is responsible for processing applications for and issuing passports. No other department has lawful jurisdiction over passports.

From the point of view of the law, that's still true. But the slob, without anyone's permission, kluged together passports.gov. This site was built and is run by the White House's "National Design Studio," completely outside the law and without any independent oversight. The State Department was not consulted and has nothing to do with it. Further, the site is filled with third-party trackers, analytics, and some custom code that copies every page you view, including form contents, to an unknown third party.

Oh, and the guy leading the National Design Studio and in charge of building these fake sites? He's Joe Gebbia -- cofounder of Airbnb. Read both articles for more details.

In short, you should treat America.gov as a malware site and stay well away from it. Under no circumstances should you feed it any of your personal information.

Comment Re:Not enough (Score 3, Insightful) 188

I think most people writing nonsense like you simply do not grasp the way other people think.

My EX GF in Thailand, is a sibling of 14 kids. Three died in childhood. She is the youngest. If Ginness book would have been around her birth time, her mother would be noted. She gave birth at age 66 or so. My EX is ten years younger than her youngest brother. Six siblings died in young adulthood, and now 4 are left.

(Mostly) EVERYONE in that family has only ONE child. Some have two, because they divorced and remarried and got a second.

No sane person wants more than one or two kids. It is a complete no brainer for a Thai that, 3 is maximum and 1 is optimum.

I have NO CHILDREN, because my childhood was absolutely ABUSE miserable. And I was afraid I make my kids miserable, too. Because: ABUSE is TRANSMITTED!

Modern Thai in general do not have more than one kid. And that has nothing to do with "cost" but how we call it today: life work balance.

If I have a 8 year old kid, traveling the world is easy. If a second one pops up, I am blocked 6 years to have my own life. Most people do not pick that option.

In most countries pre natal care: is cost free!

Comment Re: Good riddance (Score 1) 151

You do not know anything about agile.

As everything you claim about it: is factually wrong.

If you ever did "an agile project", then it was not an agile project, but a project with the stamp agile on it.

It can not be so hard to grasp how agile projects (are supposed to) work. And then compare what you actually did with what you were supposed to do.

Endless meetings? Not agile ...
Bugs ... ? Not agile ...
Deploying not working code? Not agile ...
No architecture? Not agile ...

And so on.

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