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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

No one "shatters," "breaks," or otherwise ~~surpasses~~ violates the diffraction limit. Rather, you operate in such a way that the diffraction limit does not apply.

This is not to take away from these accomplishments at all! All manner of super resolution techniques are fantastic, but they're not violating the diffraction limit; they are violating the assumptions that go into the diffraction limit, or they are using a different definition of resolution (which is completely valid), or both.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would probably add "transmit power" in there somewhere, but I guess if you're assuming regulatory limits then it's not a big variable.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Global Outbreak World Response Outreach Network, perhaps?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 2 weeks ago

Every so often there's a post on Lemmy about how you should stick it to your landlord and put grease down the drain.

This is why that's a bad idea, and it sucks for everyone, not just your landlord.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Not sure how serious your comment is, but I could certainly imagine Microsoft introducing new dependencies/hooks/all-executables-must-support-copilot, etc., that break compatibility faster than Wine can keep up. Glad to hear that's not the case!

For old stuff though...yeah, I'd hope it's not moving backwards :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

As they say, it costs a lot to be poor.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Huh. I was expecting the comments to be a little more of the Fuck Cars crowd.

In my city there was a whole kerfuffle because people were fined for parking in their own driveway due to it not actually being a driveway, as there was no garage, despite having a curb cut. It sounds like this sort of thing has been changed under the new mayor.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Parent didn't say develop, they said use. 80 acres of forest can be used as open space and not developed at all.

I think the spirit of parent comment was that if you have 80 acres of forest, but you live somewhere else and never set foot in it...well, maybe that land could be better used/enjoyed.

If you live on/near it, and enjoy it for some purpose other than strictly as an investment, that seems like you're utilizing it.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

200MWh is about 1/100 of Little Boy, the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Compressed air can get out all at once given the right circumstances.

Storing energy in a way that can go boom is something I'd be a little scared of, were I a nearby resident. I'm sure thermal batteries can have gnarly failure mechanisms but I would way rather live near one of those than a giant compressed air cylinder.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe not a service in the typical sense, but setting up your router+server to route your home network traffic through a VPN is a fun project.

My router (MikroTik) supports WireGuard, so I can use it with Mullvad for the whole house---but wg is demanding and it's a slow router, so while it can NAT at ~1Gbps, it can't do WireGuard at more than ~90Mbps. So, I set up WireGuard/Mullvad on a little SBC with a fast processor, and have my router use that instead. Using policy based routing and/or mangling, I can have different VLANs/subnets/individual hosts selectively routed through the VPN.

It's a fun exercise, not sure I implemented it in a smart way, but it works :)

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

In a VHCOL area, $100k with one child is extremely tough/you're likely dipping into savings. Our daycare alone is over $40k/yr per kid, and only $5k ($7500 next year) is fully tax exempt.

Median 2 bedroom in my area is over $50k/yr.

$100k doesn't cut it. "Just move to a cheaper area" is IMHO not a proper response to this---anyone who works in my city should be able to afford to raise a family here, with a high quality of life/standard of living, but that's not really the case.

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