Hacker News: inemesitaffia

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:02:05 +0000

Please talk to your criminal defense lawyer.

This is nonsense.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

inemesitaffia — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:19:43 +0000

ROW?

New comment by inemesitaffia in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

inemesitaffia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:29:10 +0000

Transsion

New comment by inemesitaffia in "After 16 years and $8B, the military's new GPS software still doesn't work"

inemesitaffia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:21:25 +0000

This is a ground component of GPS that assists in getting better fixed and works if GPS is lost.

It's like GPS next but the "next" part isn't working.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink satellite breaks apart into "objects"; SpaceX confirms "anomaly""

inemesitaffia — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:18:04 +0000

Private companies have done it pretty much forever.

Whether it's by themselves or as government contractors.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:41:15 +0000

You can just tell the person the final interview will be in person, then don't bother to do it.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

inemesitaffia — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:25:46 +0000

Starlink has been known to carry traffic over lasers from Southern Africa to Europe and from New Zealand to Eastern USA. During the power outage in Spain/Portugal they proactively moved traffic to the UK

Local failures don't matter unless your country doesn't allow landing user traffic in other countries (Indonesia, Bangladesh)

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

inemesitaffia — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:05:21 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrey_Satellite_Technology

You can clearly see the tech had an older history at SpaceX pre acquisition

2004

I believe they also signed up a teledesic exec Larry Williams around the same time

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

inemesitaffia — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:01:24 +0000

People like to brag

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

inemesitaffia — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:00:07 +0000

Starlink failed it's Delta Demo.

The article is online.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

inemesitaffia — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:58:32 +0000

Starlink costs around the same as business mobile Internet.

Or see T-Mobile away

New comment by inemesitaffia in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

inemesitaffia — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:03:09 +0000

Who is this supposed to help

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:25:49 +0000

Might be shared infrastructure

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:23:07 +0000

Unifi has Starlink integrations in the beta software. Don't know if it's been made final

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:16:30 +0000

See the power outage in Iberia as a counterpoint.

Also when there's a fiber cut, it usually takes out everyone since there are frequently shared conduits or poles.

Everyone reverting to mobile usually takes everyone out.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

inemesitaffia — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:09:29 +0000

If the hotspot is sourced from the phone, the phone tells the carrier

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

inemesitaffia — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:08:05 +0000

The usage is in Ukraine

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

inemesitaffia — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:06:37 +0000

So, you disagree with the paper and think what the Pentagon did with Anthropic is right.

New comment by inemesitaffia in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

inemesitaffia — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:56:42 +0000

I'm betting on every single implementation costing $10B minimum

New comment by inemesitaffia in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

inemesitaffia — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:07:47 +0000

The point is whatever group controls the money controls the power.

Also, only the domain is shorter