I mean I don’t specifically know how much over capacity they are adding specifically so they can serve urban areas, but I do know that they are trying to reach the specifications set out by the FCC so that they can be considered broadband for rural applications. To qualify for that you need 100/20 down/up with latency requirements.

What I do know though is that they even with their full network, they aren’t reaching that in all rural areas yet, only some (I vaguely recall something like 40-60% have met it?), so it’s not like the existing network is over capacity specifically for urban right now, they still have more work to do on rural.

Edit: I think my 40-60 number is also about a year old, so its probably a little higher now.

Ya, that would get costs down further if they were able to amortize it over a larger quantity.

We could also get them pretty far out with starship refuelling, but refuelling a starship back to full capacity to then go somewhere would raise the cost a lot. But imagine a 7x 8m folded hexagon one sent out into deep space. That would be super expensive though, we wouldn’t get a lot of those haha.

This is all a massive big IF though. Starship being fully reusable like they think is still very far from a given, so none of this might come true in our lifetimes.

Oh, I wasn’t thinking swarms the same way these million sats will be, I was thinking just using the whole payload diameter of around 9m for the lens/mirror (minus any housing) but they could potentially just buy the whole starship and be cheaper than past options and that is the housing.

James Webb cost billions because of it’s complexity and launch costs, none of which is needed when there’s 9meters to work with without any complexity at all.

If you wanted, you could make a super crazy expensive satellite that worked just like James Webb and have a massive mirror as well, but that’s a bit different than my large quantity of cheaper telecopes in space. I wonder how big you could get the mirror if you did it James Webb style in starship.

While this very well might fuck up land-based stuff looking at space, people are often overlooking what this would mean to stellar photography from space.

If they can truly launch these million data center sats profitably, that means starship works. That means payload to space is relatively cheap.

That means we could also send large quantities of large telescopes into space on the cheap, and avoid the crazy expensive cant fail telescopes because the cost to get them up there isnt prohibitive and a technical failure in the telescope isnt a disaster.

Things very well might change, but it will also open up possibilities in the same area.

Space is very big. A million is nothing in the grand scheme of things like launching at a specific point.

You realize to reach rural / ocean areas and have continuous service, they do typically at some point fly over urban areas.

There are lots of pockets of rural all over the place and if you want to get it all, you’ll end up with a global service where you have bandwidth to serve urban areas.

Edit: they also serve air traffic where ground service isnt available.

How many R’s are in strawberry?

every 6 hours.

like, not a crash just the battery died and they decided not to break the glass on their fancy car?

I posted this when Youtube was doing it by ‘mistake’ too…

If you are paying to not receive ads, and you receive an ad by mistake, they should pay you whatever they earned on the ad. Now… I doubt they’ll actually pay you dollars, but lets say at minimum 1 day of free extended service per ad, but if they earn more than 1 days worth via the ad, then it should be whatever that is.

“You get used to it. I don’t even see the code. All I see is blonde, brunette, redhead”

Alas, we’ll stop seeing that.

Holy shit you weren’t kidding

Over the past few months, our former payment provider Nexi S.p.A. (“Nexi”) requested access to private data, which we understood to be specifically the usernames and passwords of our supporters. We have refused this request. All our attempts to clarify Nexi’s request, or to understand how their need for such information was necessary and legal, were met with what we consider to be vague and unsatisfactory explanations relating to a general need for risk analysis.

. However, all of his emails sound like the most heavily sanitized corpo-marketing-speak.

I know exactly what you’re talking about. I sometimes use AI to help get a 2nd opinion on what I’ve written myself if its for my business, and there’s a lot of personalization and human touch in how I write things, especially when writing a blog post or an email to a customer I’m not entirely sure about.

The AI is good for finding areas that might be a little long, or maybe you say something twice and it isn’t needed, or you’ve made a really long run on sentence… but if you were to just take the AI’s suggestions at face value and use them, it completely de-perosnalizes it and makes it all trash.

I have to give it explicit instructions nowadays not to do that, and how I’m only looking for minor things to touch up.

Im convinced that the CEOs use it to write some emails or brainstorm ideas and suddenly they think it can do everything, so they fire everyone and then everything falls apart because it cant do what they think it can.

Theyre going to really struggle if they ever wanted to make an iPhone app with that policy lol.

Seriously?!?! 😲

Who are we kidding that number is outdated at this point. Probably 40% now given the increase in ridiculous bugs.

Checks and balances?

Do you mean check marks on my balance sheet for each billion dollar row?

Soon your OS will get into a never ending loop with the browser and the website.

You could plug the bluetti into wall power and while there is wall power it runs off that like a UPS.

That setup I believe would also use solar while it was producing, but the moment solar was gone it’d switch to the house power.

If the overall load is more than house power can give via an outlet (you could add a beefier outlet if the bluetti supports higher inputs) it’d start draining the battery.

I dont know if bluettis software says use solar / battery only until battery is 10% kinda thing so this might not be optimized to use solar properly.

Edit: just realized someone else was the one who mentioned bluetti, and not OP, but this is doable with other systems too.