“If you build it, they will come” refers to a homemade baseball field in a work of fiction. It’s not a valid argument for spending trillions of dollars to support demand that doesn’t exist just on the off chance that some day it might.

I think it takes more dedication than most possess to call it a hobby but I have no doubt that there are some who could rightly call it that

I would think dealing with radiaton would be the most difficult thing about massive amounts of electronics in space. That’s why a chip on a satellite is much more expensive than an equivalent chip that stays on Earth.

As ridiculous as that sounds, it is true

You don’t have to share every hobby. You just need to not shame each other for enjoying different things.

I’m mildly disappointed

I am curious if I’m on the list but not enough to find it and look. I guess I’ll never know

No

Nothing I’ve said should be interpreted as me advocating for a rule or enforcement standard of any kind. I’m talking about the way individuals think about this topic. You’re just as free to put your sweaty bare ass cheeks on the chair I’m about to sit on at the gym as I am to call you a disgusting asshole for doing so. I don’t get why you would want to though.

There’s a difference between being technically allowed to do something and that thing being a good idea to actually do. Society functions best when people make decisions with others in mind. Sure, you can make most decisions with the “fuck you, it’s not illegal” mindset but is a society where everyone lives that way the kind of place you want to live?

It’s not only beautiful people that dress this way and that’s part of the problem with voicing an opinion on this topic. When you say “people don’t need to be mostly naked in the gym” everyone pictures an attractive young woman wearing an outfit they don’t personally mind. What I’m saying applies to fat old men, young girls, middle aged housewives, basement dwelling dweebs, and all the other groups of people you may encounter at the gym. If an outfit isn’t cool for everyone to wear then it shouldn’t be cool for the attractive exhibitionist to wear either.

This is a dumb response to the issue but some people, both men and women, do show up to the gym in outfits that are viewed as inappropriate in a vast majority of other places. It’s not terribly difficult to keep your attention focused elsewhere but it is understandable that some want to be able to get in a work out without other people’s asses in their face on a constant basis.

I’m sure most of Lemmy will call that opinion prudish or something similar but everyone is entitled to their own thoughts on stuff like that. It’s true that fashion is a personal choice but I don’t see why you would want to do things you know will make others uncomfortable either.

Argentina’s goalie was da real MVP

I bet he was pretty annoyed watching Spain’s goalie win the “best goalkeeper” award with 0 blocked shots while he had 11. I guess that happens when your team registers 0 shot attempts for 90+ minutes.

You’re already paying for public schools. Might as well use them

Let the internet do what it does best, create all kinds of weird and unnecessary porn. That should do it.

Kind of but not as much as you might hope. Most of the time when telcos add more capacity to a fiber route they are either pulling more fiber through existing conduit or laying new ones along the same path. Being able to shoot farther is great if you’re building an entirely new route and can plan out your regen locations accordingly but not as helpful if you’re using the same huts on the side of road that were designed for shorter distances. They already have land and/or lease agreements, power, access, and all the other required infrastructure in place using shorter distance calculations. It would be expensive, and probably impossible in many cases, to set up new regen points along their existing routes.

Then there’s the added expense of testing, certifying, stocking, and training people how to use all this new gear, which probably has longer lead times to acquire. Add all that up and a 40% reach boost isn’t quite as enticing. That’s not to say it won’t be done in some cases. I believe some subsea cables use hollow core fiber and added reach in a situation like that is awesome. I just think most of them would rather invest in improving reach on the glass they already have in the ground than going with something like this.

That’s pretty cool, but it isn’t going to help AI data centers get bandwidth faster any time soon. Most fiber in the ground today, especially the kind of long haul fiber being discussed here, isn’t hollow core. Laying new fiber across the country is arguably just as difficult and expensive as building these AI data centers and it’s spread out over very long distances. It costs more than $1/ft to lay relatively cheap fiber in rural areas with no permitting fees and it only gets more expensive from there. Fiber builds between major US cities cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

Additionally, glass based fiber can do these same speeds and even higher today. Granted, this reach is about 40% longer on average at 200 km without a regen, but that doesn’t save network operators as much money as it sounds like it would. Not enough to justify overbuilding their entire network with hollow core fiber, that’s for sure.

Sure it is. There is a connection from the battery string to some kind of controller. If you disconnect that and reconnect it to one of a dozen generic controllers designed to work with battery strings from various manufacturers it will work just fine.

Worst case scenario you can bypass whichever circuit board is controlling that logic. It could be the inverter itself or some other board but either way the batteries themselves are fine. Inverters and control boats are relatively compared to the price of batteries.

No one needs to organize anything. Three dozen people could solve this problem without ever communicating with each other. Most of them would likely be in prison for life or dead afterwards but people give up their lives for way dumber reasons every day.

Of course, I’m included in the category of people not doing this, but that doesn’t change the simple truth of what I’m saying.

Why do you take cold showers in the winter? That seems like a poor personal choice if you don’t enjoy the cold