BevsDad

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[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Well not the whole thing. Maybe a third of the questions or something like that.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Got 4% on my first (and only) calc midterm. I statistically should have gotten a better grade by randomly picking multiple choice questions and leaving everything else blank... Sadly it didn't provide anything to the rest of my class and I had actually studied for it.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol And here's me using two year old petg that was stored in open air on a boat without issues.

Maybe I just print slowly enough for that to be ok.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And the telsat constellation won't require thousands of satellites in orbit like starlink and others that will clog up the sky and pollute the atmosphere as they burn up and get relaunched. Less than 150 sats for telsat if I remember correctly.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I put my oven on low when making pancakes to keep them warm until I finish a batch. I guess there's nothing stopping me from adding empty plates in there before serving.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

But their boots barely last a single winter.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Yes! And no gears to worry about when you need to punch through a snow bank.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Hmm, looks like it's still running the locked US codebase but they were allowed to install their own electronic addons to it.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Didn't Israel get access to the code as part of their contract? Kinda wish we had asked for the same thing now...

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm the kind of person that needs a folding bike (travel by sailboat) but at 4300$ for a bike with basic components I'm not sold on this one.

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

I don't mind a bit more latency (should still be nicely below 100ms) but my use case is more related to mid-Atlantic mobile connectivity than remote region broadband.

Their planned implementation just seems much better than others with beam shaping, linked satellites and less than 200 satellites to maintain and replace.

Although you're not wrong about our telecom track record...

[–] BevsDad@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 months ago (10 children)

It'll be interesting to see what the Canadian telesat LEO system will be capable of. They're supposed to be launching satellites next year and are using a higher orbit so will need much fewer satellites than starlink.

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