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New comment by tfyoung in "Starship V3"

tfyoung — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:43:17 +0000

Looking after the humanity we already have?

New comment by tfyoung in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

tfyoung — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:15:30 +0000

You know what makes bike lanes more appealing and safer (amongst other things)? Not being next to speeding cars.

New comment by tfyoung in "Cubans rendered powerless as outages persist and tensions with US escalate"

tfyoung — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 01:32:54 +0000

> Corn kind of reproduces itself every year (If you don't get the GMO kind), so you only need natural resources to continue to grow it right? Water, sunlight and labor?

At industrial scale, it has a huge petro-chemical fertiliser input.

New comment by tfyoung in "Steam Frame"

tfyoung — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:28:45 +0000

There's always going to be a computer in it to drive it. It's just a matter of how generalised it is and how much weight/power consumption it's adding.

New comment by tfyoung in "Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC"

tfyoung — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 00:55:25 +0000

Yeah exactly. With realtime, a dropped packet is often too old by the time it's re-transmitted. It's actually harmful to wait for it when you'd rather just skip it and move on and stay as close to realtime as possible. It's a very different usecase from most uses.

I do wish QUIC allowed carrying streams that were useful for realtime in conjunction with allowing reliable streams. Using MPEG-TS over SRT to have it just spam metadata to handle the unreliableness is janky. It would be far nicer to have a reliable stream for metadata, then an unreliable one for realtime streaming.

New comment by tfyoung in "Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers"

tfyoung — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 02:38:35 +0000

A one-off consultation prior to his road racing career to see if he the right kind of fitness for road. I don't think the association should be used to tarnish Cadel without further evidence.

New comment by tfyoung in "Police-issued "courtesy cards" help friends and family out of minor infractions"

tfyoung — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 03:35:44 +0000

That seems like it would end up with police being incentivised to turn a blind eye to those who can afford expensive lawyers more than they already do?