VegaLyrae

If trans people die after being denied by the sexologist, then the safety is illusory.

We cannot exist when we are merely tolerated.

Some of the states actually do give a fuck about us and it's important to call that out along with the states that want us dead.

Yes her map is good, I just wish it didn't show "states with a possibility in 2 years" in such a dark red color as it is misleading when compared to like... Actual bad states.

Yeah I'm only really familiar with Quebec

So Canadá is going to let trans people get treatment with informed consent model, right?

Right?

Some of our states are really good for trans people. A map of which regions yo avoid would be far more helpful than a blanket warning.

Who could have guessed that may-issue permits could be (gasp) abused!

I thought the police would be even and fair in their determination of who should get one, just like they are in all their other activities.

I am an engineer that has worked in the space industry my entire career, and here are my thoughts:

GOES and METEOR weather satellites transmit images publicly that are NOT real time, but are downlinked, processed, and uplinked for public broadcast. This is pretty simple and saves a lot of processing power on the spacecraft side. That's important because the biggest constraints on spacecraft processing are: power budget, radiation hardiness, and thermal.

I was able to find an image of the actual satellite in assembly. From this we can guess that there is probably not more than a square meter of solar on-board, so we can give it a round 1300W of power. I couldn't find any orbital parameters(If Gunter doesn't have it, who does?), but given it's main task is as an imager, we can assume LEO, and so this 1300W isn't going to be constant since the spacecraft will most likely be eclipsed part of the time.

Generous 1000W average solar flux, generous 25% panel efficiency, 250W/h.

So lets look at rad hard processors. They have to be either shielded or run multiple and do voting, though even that isn't fully acceptable as some SEU (single event upset) can cause permanent damage and leave you down a voting member. The latest and greatest RAD5545 advertises 5.6 giga-operations per second (GOPS) at 20 watts, so if we assume (artlessly, and likely incorrectly) a linear power usage, the 80 TOPS of the WJ-1A should need some 280kW. So we know they aren't using a typical rad-hard CPU topology for their AI models. I see that Corel/Google advertise 2 TOPS per watt on their edge TPUs (Tensor Processing Unit).

So assume a large ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) at the same efficiency of 2TOPS/W, with 4x multiples for voting and we get a far more reasonable 160W. Still a LOT of power on orbit for such a small spacecraft, but actually possible.

So for thermal limits, do they run the TPU only on the dark side in place of their on-board heater? The have some white panels that might be radiators, but it's hard to say.

Hard to say from these fluff articles. I really want to hear:

• What's the efficiency on the TPU?
• How did they make it rad-hard, and how long do they expect it to last?
• What models do they run on the edge?
• What is their downlink budget? Can they pull full imagery if they want it or are they limited to ML analysis only?

I expect to see more ML in space, but to be honest I did not expect it to be in such a small form factor.

Honestly thank god, because if being easy to steal was something you could sue for, every bicycle company about to go out of business.

Agreed, but some people really do think that lawyers personally take every position they argue.

It's good to drop a reminder that it's "nothing personal" lol

I do like the steam in bag option, but otherwise find rice cooker to be my normal steamer.

Try ovening some leftovers and you'll feel like iron chef.

The worst part is how confusing it was for older people, who were worried the whole app was going to not work.

Signal was upset that "oh well some people can't figure out what's SMS and what's encrypted", but that was kind of... good? You could give parents, grandparents, etc an SMS app that was easy as the old one, and secure with the right people.

Don't get me started on the chat color fiasco. No signal, I SHOULD NOT CHANGE COLOR. I assign colors to people to distinguish them, I don't change who I am based on who I talk to.

Robot vacuums are something non-tech people love, then they use the app and they don't love it anymore haha.

Shout out to Valetudo, which saved the day on our chinese roombas.

I am not quite happy with how the current iteration of the documentation no longer supports DIYing the firmware, it is actually still possible and you don't have to use dustbuilder.