[–] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Unlike traditional satellite internet, which uses geostationary satellites that cover a large area but are necessarily high above the earth and can result in latencies of a second or more, starlink and the like use a mesh of moving Low Earth Orbit satellites. They’re much closer to the ground and as a result cover a smaller area but have substantially lower latency (in the 10s of ms).

It’s still no fibre optic connection, but it’s way better than your average DSL or copper cable internet. Its biggest advantage is that it works outside of big urban areas, though.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Every time she says she didn't sleep well, I apologise for snoring just in case.

    Every time I'm awake in the night and she's snoring, I just try and ignore it.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Bear in mind that they're not all 80, though. The youngest boomers are 61, and it's not a stretch that they waited until early 30s to have kids, nor that their kids are waiting (or in fact that they chose not to have kids).

    But it just goes to show that n=1 is a terrible sample size.

    Agreed.

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    Another Saturday pick-up. I was lucky enough to see Bratmobile when they played in Exeter, UK, in July 1993. I'd never heard of them before, but they blew me away with their energy. I had their Peel Session CD (recorded around the same time) for a lot of years, but this was the first time I'd seen the album.

    According to Discogs, this is a 2024 re-press, limited to 500 copies.

     
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    TIL (via wordlebot) that the database contains some words which aren't possible solutions. My 5 yellows guess was one of those, because I was just spamming permutations of the letters. Not sure why I didn't see the solution before that.

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