mike901

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Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] mike901@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

It could send debris into a more elliptical orbit, but it wouldn't be possible for it to raise the entire orbit above LEO. The point of impact will remain in the orbital path and since the entire orbit is currently in LEO, there will be, by extension, some part of the new orbit still in LEO and therefore subject any debris to atmospheric capture.

SpaceX Satellites Are Ruining Observations With "Unintended" Radiation in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] mike901@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

Media doesn't care when SpaceX/Starlink fixes issues. They only care when problems are discovered, and act like it's some malevolent act rather than an unforeseen issue. The albedo problem is fixed on all new launches for quite some time and the sats only have a 5 year service life before deorbit so the problem ones will be cleared out in short order. I expect this frequency issue to get ironed out in a similar fashion.

SpaceX and SL have a very good track record so far of working with scientists and authorities on minimizing impact of their sat constellations. Mind you, I don't think this pure altruism, they just want to keep the government from locking down on them and jacking up costs.

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Deluge queue rotation: any way to force new torrents to stay seeding for X period of time to avoid HnRs? (beehaw.org)
 

Hi all,

I started using the queue in my deluge install with the automatic rotation, as seeding 1000+ torrents simultaneously was causing performance and network issues. My downloads and uploads are a lot more active now, but the big issue I'm encountering is I will accrue HnRs on certain trackers when a torrent it rotated out of seeding.

Is there a way to force new torrents to stay actively seeding for X period of time? Even better, a way to force it only on specific torrents?

I do have an idea in mind of how to accomplish this:

  • Set up a watch dir for torrents that need to seed for lets say, 2 weeks minimum

  • Have that watch dir add torrents with auto manage turned off and add a specific "force seed" tag or something to identify them.

  • Create a script that will query deluge for the force seeded torrents, and if they have been added more than two weeks ago, turn auto manage back on and remove the force seed tag

  • Run that script on a cronjob every night

I believe the above should work, but it does seem overly complex. Any ideas?

How frequently do you use profilers/debuggers at work? in c/programming@beehaw.org
[–] mike901@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

All the time. I deal with a lot C# code that makes and responds to HTTP API requests, and being able to check if requests and responses are properly formed without having to slap print statements everywhere is a godsend.

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] mike901@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I got one of the framework laptop over a year ago and it's been fantastic other than having a defective trackpad (which took all of 10 minutes to replace after receiving a free replacement part from their support team). I will even be able to upgrade to a newer mainboard with an AMD CPU from the current 11th gen intel later this year when the boards start shipping.

It really grinds my gears when companies claim that repairable devices aren't possible to make in modern form factors, especially when a rinky dink startup was able to do it.