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New comment by user32489318 in "Germany suspends military approval for long stays abroad for men under 45"

user32489318 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:55:26 +0000

Ok Garry. Reference: (near-end) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IBsau5GlYcU&ra=m

New comment by user32489318 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

user32489318 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:30:29 +0000

A satellite of that magnitude can have many failure modes, onboard computer will do their best to de-orbit if it encounters unrecoverable failure: it can use thrusters, it can change attitude to increase surface area towards the sun or the atmosphere, rearrange solar panels etc etc. Assisted de-orbit it can be done very quickly. Unassisted de-orbit will take some time. This is a known and solved problem, we have been relying on this for many years. This is what you’re referring to with your links.

What I’m trying to communicate is that if s/c fails in a non-recoverable way, thruster stuck on, pierced propellant tank, adcs failing in a specific way (e.g. you can get unlucky and get particular bit-flipped that pass checksum etc etc), it is theoretically possible to end up in a non-recoverable state. For example: accelerate into an elliptical orbit or due to orbit perturbation catch-up with your neighbors (all of which will need to do orbital maneuvers and waste propellants). This stuff happens. I’m no longer in this field, but my team lost university satellite because of this. Everyone hopes for a nice decay orbit but it can get funky, and very very hard to model.

Lastly, there’re cases where satellites have been destroyed on purpose. Look up Chinese and Russian tests. The debris field produces for this is hard to model, it will propagate and react to solar winds, upper atmosphere disturbances, neighboring objects,.. Small particles pierce through everything. You will not see them, you will not be able to track them.

New comment by user32489318 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

user32489318 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:28:29 +0000

True, but at scale of 10k, chances of collision due to malfunction are not 0.

New comment by user32489318 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

user32489318 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:26:54 +0000

Imagine a threat actor blowing up one or two of them. Or malfunction leading to collision with a launcher. Or any satellite malfunction and failure to de-orbit in time.

Remember MAD, mutual assured distraction? Well we created another one for access to space

New comment by user32489318 in "Animation 10k Starlink Satellites"

user32489318 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 10:22:45 +0000

What I found so fascinating about starling is how easy it was for a single country, even a single company in this case, to pollute near-earth space.

I understand the mechanics of LEO, and the de-orbit mechanics put in place. But the world-wide impact, unknown side-effects on the upper layers of atmosphere on the re-entry of literally thousands of satellites within fairly short period of time?

New comment by user32489318 in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

user32489318 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:08:52 +0000

Which tool did you guys end up using?

New comment by user32489318 in "'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos"

user32489318 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:45:35 +0000

Not American here. Reading your guys replies it almost feels like you are rejecting the existence of Trump supporters or invalidating their stance. Doesn’t this enforce their argument and created this situation in th first place?

New comment by user32489318 in "Dutch experts warn US takeover of DigiD platform poses security risks"

user32489318 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:24:35 +0000

eHerkenning cost 100eur/user/year for the most basic functionality. That’s a significant amount to pay for by the government

New comment by user32489318 in "Our European search index goes live"

user32489318 — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 08:38:20 +0000

It’s great to have non-US alternatives, but when non-US alternatives become extreme self-centered as EU tends to be(come), I start questioning if this a solution I’m willing to adopt. Current direction “of protecting the children” will easily put a filter on what you will be allowed to see and find; censorship is just too easy to implement behind the closed doors

New comment by user32489318 in "The Worst Programmer I Know (2023)"

user32489318 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:27:37 +0000

Job happiness could be a great metric

New comment by user32489318 in "A.I. Is Making Sure You Pay for That Ding on Your Rental Car"

user32489318 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 08:11:32 +0000

IMO this is exactly how it works without the Ai already. I have had a pleasure of renting a plentitude of cars all over the world, and would say that in 10-15% cases there will be reason to withhold or try to withdraw money for “various car damages”, “traffic violations”, “empty gas tank”, .. It doesn’t matter if this is pre-war Ukraine, spain, turkey, small company, large corp,.. Now they just have a tool for that.

Psa: in most places they would try to scam you by removing a small piece of trim (under the rearview mirror, below bumper,..) and on your return claim it as a damage. That’s why you need to take a video and pics while taking the car. This trick saved me probably tens of thousands of dollars by now.

New comment by user32489318 in "Seven Engineers Suspended After $2.3M Bridge Includes 90-Degree Turn"

user32489318 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:20:22 +0000

You’re right but:

https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2024/07/09/new-ghent-motorway-b...

Belgium has run into the same problem and they went on with it

New comment by user32489318 in "I could not convince my k8s team to go AWS serverless"

user32489318 — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:56:57 +0000

“A is better than B”. B is “bad, bro!” based on vaguely relevant reasons, therefore “A is the best possible solution”.

New comment by user32489318 in "A.I. Is Starting to Wear Down Democracy"

user32489318 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 07:42:51 +0000

Ah yes, let’s the replace all ad-funded social media with state/gvn’t funded social media. That will be much better.

New comment by user32489318 in "That Dropped Call with Customer Service? It Was on Purpose"

user32489318 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 07:34:52 +0000

After each interaction with their reps, I’m inching close to start PleaseLetMomGo hosting just to fuck with them

New comment by user32489318 in "Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?"

user32489318 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:24:17 +0000

Help others that were in your situation

New comment by user32489318 in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?"

user32489318 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:29:26 +0000

I assume he built his system and then onboarded the company as a client to it. Possible issue here is the degree of separation. If he ever worked on the system before he resigned, or re-used some concepts of it, then I’m sure company would sue him and take the system for free.

I’ve considered doing similar for one corp I’ve once worked with. The corp used an obscure hybrid cloud solution, unfortunately, the cloud provider didn’t really understand the corps needs (governance,devex,monitoring) making it impossible to do anything basic without manual action from an administrator. Pretty solvable with a couple of APIs and a few dashboards

New comment by user32489318 in "Oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app"

user32489318 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 06:03:55 +0000

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New comment by user32489318 in "Enhancing MySQL: MySQL improvement project"

user32489318 — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:52:04 +0000

I guess he meant to create a view of a table with “where” conditions depend on your user privileges

New comment by user32489318 in "Mary Meeker's first Trends report since 2019, focused on AI"

user32489318 — Sat, 31 May 2025 05:54:33 +0000

Depends a lot on the investor expectations. If they think the opportunity for growth and market expansion is coming to its end, then they would force for higher returns.