Starlink uses phased arrays pointed at the ground but lasers between satellites. So it wouldn’t be impossible to spin one around and have it bounce traffic to earth through the swarm pointing down.
But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.
> folks packing it in because of AI probably were not difference makers before AI
Anecdotal but I’ve been seeing a lot of the opposite. Some of those leaning in strongly are being propped up by the tools. Holding onto them like a lifeboat when they would have fallen off earlier.
I really like the sentiment and will quote this in the future! My own thoughts line up a bit closer to the article though, with this quote being a good summary of it:
> The 1% utility AI has is overshadowed by the overwhelming mediocracy it regurgitates.
I really had thought (with no research) the correlation between mental health and glp1 effectiveness went the other way around. Thank you for this check-your-biases moment, you probably just saved me a ton of embarrassment down the line, if these drugs ever enter my life.
I don’t think there is remotely enough data on the subject to make any confident statements either way yet.
I think the only very confident thing I can say after watching and helping dozens of folks get started on these drugs is that everyone’s biology is vastly different.
I have friends who have lost close to a hundred pounds on the starting doses of their chosen GLP-1. I have other friends who barely lost anything after a year at max dose. Some of these people in both groups are highly motivated to lose weight and some are simply taking the drug as a magic fix and expending zero other effort into changing their lives. Some have very difficult mental issues and relationships with food, some have very few hangups on the subject.
I have never been able to predict with high confidence how any particular person is going to react to taking them. By and large the results are close to magical for the majority of folks, and there may be some correlation with folks who combine the drug with other lifestyle changes - but those are just general averages I see and certainly not scientific.
don't thinkpads from the similar time go for the same amount of money? seems like an alright price for a machine of that vintage, although thinkpad is obviously superior here since it would always be able to run linux or windows (well that one is not guaranteed) without much, if any, trouble
I do this too but on a laptop. It is more beneficial to use paper but I don’t want readers to think it isn’t incredibly important even without the gear. Like how good running shoes are not important to start running.
Different people engage in different ways. I think OP is telling us what got them over that initial habit adoption hurdle. Sometimes spending money on something makes you use it.
My example case is I paid for a year of gym membership up front so I could feel the total I'd spent more tangibly. That got me to go regularly, even if I was just showing up to recovery stretching at first. Now I enjoy going and I look forward to it, and I didn't need a PT to motivate me this time.
I was honestly just thinking the same thing. Like...damn, why is OP advertising such expensive gear to people who might want to just try something?
You can do exactly the same thing with a mead spiral bound and a ticonderoga pencil...
Or text notes on an existing device
Or audio notes on an existing device
Or for the price OP is advertising, get a whole drawing tablet to plug in
Or for the price OP is advertising, get a used android tablet
There are both cheaper options and, to me, better options that are also cheaper as they offer search, cross linking, algorithmic analysis (what have I been writing about lately, what have I stopped writing about), and easy duplication so that I don't lose my notes.
Personally, I use an obisidan vault in a cloud folder...easy duplication on any device, easy review, easy search, easy cross reference...
To do what I do on with my notes with a pen and paper, I'd be spending half of my time indexing and notating rather than producing results driven by the notes...which, I guess is valid if the entire goal is spending time with your notes, but I just personally feel like I've got to get something out of the process other than staring at shit I used to think about.
For instance, on paper, I'd have to underline or otherwise mark key words and maintain a live index in order to find: what's been worrying me lately, what was that dream that one night, what's my second most common topic of thought...and a million other things. Whereas in reviewing my obsidian vault all of those things are at most 30 seconds away, and I didn't have to do any work on top of writing the notes to get that functionality.
I know there is a lot of value in these indexes but I’ve never actually reviewed anything except sometimes the previous day. For me, this is more about taking a moment to check up on myself and the writing is a means to an end rather than a meaningful output.
I put a coffee machine right next to my bed to reduce those pre-coffee clock cycles as much as possible. I’ve found it more helpful than expected to have something close that’s more tempting than the phone.
Doom had the benefit of an OS that included a lot of low-level bits like a net stack. This doesn’t! That 800kB includes everything it would need from an OS too.
Maybe you’re misremembering or referring to Doom (2016). The original Doom was developed for DOS and id had to build a lot of its own network stack. BSD style socket based networking wasn’t a given in DOS.
But these satellites are very close to earth compared to the moon. It wouldn’t only save 0.3% transmit power vs just sending right to the surface. It’s very unlikely the consumer antennas could manage hitting an earth satellite from the moon.
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