dominicdoty

Shameless plug for my own project with a similar bent - write your own lunar lander autopilot in browser

lunar.unnecessarymodification.com

I think the counter to this would be that if you focused on the "listen to a song I want right away" problem - you would have invented Spotify. From a business perspective inventing Spotify is probably better than inventing bittorrent. Elegant solutions are lovely, but often miss the problem people wanted to solve. Sometimes a useful product is built on top of an elegant solution e.g. WireGuard vs Tailscale. Seems similar to academic research vs engineering. Both useful, different goals/outcomes.

Because the steering ratio is variable, the movement shown in the video is about the equivalent of two full turns of a normal steering wheel. I tend to agree with the parent, it'd be hard for a human to equal this performance.

The "95% reduction in the last 100 years" feels like a misguided argument since our improved abilities to handle weather events will not hold if the weather patterns we've gotten so good at handling, change. If you exceed design conditions, your 95% reduction can quickly turn into a Texas blackout.

I agree that optimism is critical to keep moving forward. However I do disagree with your implication that young people believe that we cannot handle nature and the climate. The view I (anecdotally) encounter most is not the belief that we are incapable of handling it, but that we will refuse to handle it till it's too late.

Couldn't cloudflare show a page to the next handful of http requests from an IP informing the user that "something on your network is participating in DDoS attacks".

All the big providers could do this, just inject a little turnstile like page in front of the next cloudflare site you visit.

I would love to know if there's a compromised device on my network, and I don't have any real monitoring set up to detect it.

It's not a full solution, but at least informing users there is a problem is a good start.

From an engineering perspective life is an incredibly sensitive rube goldberg machine.

We have yet to find another world that has the right combination of googly eyes and string and tape to sustain relatively stable complex life. We struggle to understand the far reaching effects that even simple changes have on our planets systems and ecosystems. We have evidence of the system throwing itself so far out of whack that huge portions of life have died off.

While I broadly agree with this, you have to be careful you don't slide too far into this mindset. Vacations become hard to justify if you view them as both the price of the vacation+lost income opportunity. It's easy to find yourself in a place where it's hard to justify doing anything but working.

A fair point, but even then 150 is probably on the high end. I commute 60 miles a day and made it through the first ~2 months using only a level 1 home charger (standard wall outlet). My total charge trended down through the week, and then made up for it on the weekend.

~10 hours of level 1 charging gives me about 50-60 miles. Slightly limiting for my commute, but all in all, not impossible to work around.