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New comment by jxcl in "Starfront Observatories"

jxcl — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 14:10:07 +0000

Besides that, even if you are pointed at the same thing, you might disagree on or have different needs for gain, exposure time, and filters. GP’s comment is hilariously confident yet ignorant.

New comment by jxcl in "This Month in Ladybird February 2025"

jxcl — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:46:56 +0000

Is there an RSS feed for this newsletter? The RSS link at the bottom of the site leads to the same thing as the News button on the top, which was last updated in Oct 24 and doesn't have these updates included.

New comment by jxcl in "Forget ChatGPT: why researchers now run small AIs on their laptops"

jxcl — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:09:45 +0000

This has inspired me.

I do a lot of stargazing and have experimented with voice memos for recording my observations. The problem of course is later going back and listening to the voice memo and getting organized information out of what essentially turns into me rambling to myself.

I'm going to try to use whisper + AI to transcribe my voice memos into structured notes.

New comment by jxcl in "I wag, therefore I am: the philosophy of dogs"

jxcl — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 21:09:22 +0000

In the US, wilderness area is a specific legal term[1], which have very restrictive rules about what visitors are allowed to do. Very specifically, dogs are _not_ allowed off-leash in wilderness areas, because they can disturb the local wildlife, and the stated goal of wilderness areas is to protect the local wildlife to the highest extent possible.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilderness#United_States

New comment by jxcl in "FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations"

jxcl — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 01:36:41 +0000

I'm currently on the free trial of Capture One Pro. It's a $300 license for the current version, which gets updates for a year. It's super pricey but it's the only program I've found that plays well on Mac, has the features I want and is intuitive to use.

New comment by jxcl in "Bank scammers using genuine push notifications to trick their victims"

jxcl — Fri, 03 May 2024 14:04:40 +0000

Financial institutions in the US do this constantly. They call you, and then they ask you for stuff like the last four of your SSN and what loans you might have with them to prove that they're speaking to the right person. They act surprised when you don't want to answer because they called you.

New comment by jxcl in "Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles"

jxcl — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:18:32 +0000

This so far is the biggest sting to current Tesla owners. A lot of the stupid stuff it was kind of possible to ignore because it didn't affect the ownership directly, but this is insane.

Superchargers have been the greatest competitive advantage of Tesla for as long as the company existed. They've been so great at keeping them reliably operating , drastically easing range anxiety for Tesla owners. With this layoff I expect the Supercharger network to become just like the rest of them: broken over 50% of the time.

One of the exciting things about the broad switch to NACS in the US was that other fast charger networks were going to have to compete with Tesla's network, which might have brought the level of reliability and ease of use up dramatically. Instead, we're going to have zero reliable fast charging networks.

I think this broadly dooms the EV movement in the US. I need to sell my Tesla and I guess get a PEHV or something.

New comment by jxcl in "FDA says 1 in 5 samples of pasteurized milk had bird flu virus fragments"

jxcl — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 15:00:25 +0000

> Health officials maintain — and experts agree — that pasteurized milk is safe to drink. The FDA detected small pieces of the virus in milk, not live, infectious virus.

> “Right now, all indication is that pasteurization is effective,” said Dr. Andrew Bowman, a veterinary epidemiologist at Ohio State University.

New comment by jxcl in "How to fix America's aviation system (2023)"

jxcl — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:01:41 +0000

The federal government is not beholden to federal employment laws, ironically

New comment by jxcl in "Travelling with Tailscale"

jxcl — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:04:16 +0000

My credit union seems to blanket ban European IP addresses. You basically get an nginx 403 page if you try to access their site from anywhere that isn’t the US. It’s dumb but I like their other services so I make due with a vpn when I’m in Europe

New comment by jxcl in "MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter (2015)"

jxcl — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:27:07 +0000

> You won’t notice anything unless they fail in an unsafe way. Unlikely, but possible.

Which, in the worst case, will start a fire that will burn down your house. It's not worth the risk of using cheap chargers; buy from a reputable brand

New comment by jxcl in "A Git client for simultaneous branches on top of your existing workflow"

jxcl — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 16:09:54 +0000

It depends on the kinds of changes you mean. The kinds of local changes I have are just env variables that allow the software to run locally a little bit differently than in the production environment. I'm able to do this by using a .env file and a library for my languages of choice that read a .env file if it's there, but use defaults that make sense for prod when it's not there. Then the .env file is gitignored so it doesn't make its way over to the production environment.

Each developer can modify their .env however they want without having to make any changes visible to git.

New comment by jxcl in "OpenScope Air Traffic Control Simulator"

jxcl — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:41:55 +0000

I had a fun 30 minutes with this but I cannot get the route or reroute commands to work at all. I have the map set to show the nav points but no matter how I tell them to route between nav points I always get "that route is invalid"

New comment by jxcl in "Why are Teslas' batteries dying in the cold?"

jxcl — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:59:47 +0000

The latest Tesla heat pumps can extract heat from the air to heat the battery and cabin down to -10C. Past that, they have to use resistive heating which is much less efficient. I would say that’s where the “cold” line begins, and of course the colder it is the more battery you have to waste. Last weekend I took a 3 hour round trip (starting with 90% charge) in -30C and had to charge only for 5 minutes to complete the trip.

New comment by jxcl in "Why are Teslas' batteries dying in the cold?"

jxcl — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 16:53:27 +0000

I agree that it’s pretty intuitive if you’re used to it, but we also all know how users won’t read basically any text pit in front of them. If you know where the supercharger station is in your neighborhood you might drive there without navigating, and when you get there you immediately start browsing your phone and don’t see anything your car puts in front of your face.

Tesla is still the simplest EV to fast charge but there’s still a lot people have to learn about EVs to get the most out of them

New comment by jxcl in "Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm"

jxcl — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 15:19:47 +0000

Public key authentication, with your private keys in your .ssh folder and your public key in the server’s .ssh/authorized_keys file

New comment by jxcl in "Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading"

jxcl — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:17:38 +0000

Yeah, I was looking at the histograms too, having trouble comparing them and thinking they were a strange choice for showing differences.

New comment by jxcl in "The extremely large telescope will transform astronomy"

jxcl — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 09:27:04 +0000

Tom Scott has a great video about why the ELT is already likely the largest telescope that will ever be built https://youtu.be/QqRREz0iBes?si=tC3Py0W6vqXbZAbq

New comment by jxcl in "Apple M1 Pro Beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools"

jxcl — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:00:52 +0000

If you look at the specs of the regular, Pro and Max chips on the M1 and M3 generations, it's easier to see M1 Pro as a sort of "Max Lite" chip. You got identical CPU core counts on both the Pro and Max variants in the M1 and M2 generations, but that's no longer true with the M3.

Apple seems to have realized that people with only CPU heavy workloads won't buy the Max variant, so it seems to me they've weakened the Pro line on the M3 to push more people toward the Max.

New comment by jxcl in "YOYOZO: How I made a Playdate game in 39 KiB"

jxcl — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:36:18 +0000

It's also not clear if they're actually in stock. "Shipping Late 2023" it says.