On Pixel phones, Power + Volume Up retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".

Not on my Pixel phone, that just sets it to vibrate instead of ring. Holding down the power button retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".

On my 9 you get a setting to choose if holding Power gets you the power menu or activates the assistant (I think it defaulted to assistant? I have it set to the power menu because I don't really ever use the assistant.)

Yes, that was the default for me, but I changed it in settings.

Trees?

All house and senate GOP members voted "no" on ACA. Obamacare is a lot of things, but a "GOP healthcare plan" isn't one of those things.

Strangely it actually was based on the GOPs 'Romneycare' that was promoted by The Heritage Foundation.

Qft. Many of the provisions in ACA are direct GOP asks from the bipartisan negotiations around it... before the party decided to unanimously vote against it at the 11th hour.

This is exactly what I was referring to. And I pointed that out to contrast with something more leftist, like government single payer.

The author lists Starlink at 100mb/s down but I'm consistently getting around 400mb/s these days with the high performance dish and a commitment of gigabit speeds next year. He's got options.

Starlink would have be double natted and I couldn't run my server cluster nor my vpn. And it would have high latency.

FedEx

Which is particularly effective in this day and age when many businesses don’t handle a lot of incoming physics mail —- send a FedEx to a particular individual at a particular location and it is not like they have a ‘mailroom’ that handles this routinely, it is a non-routine event that somebody shows up at the front desk to deliver something and inherently memorable.

Teslas always want the road to be as bright as possible for their self driving tech to work well.

Many spammers will strip the +xxxx out of the emails anyway to not reveal the source of their data so it doesn't matter too much really.

Airlines would pay them all personally if they were permitted.

Looks like they restored service.

The solar flares in the 11-year cycle are at their peak activity.

There will be random outages for any space based equipment for awhile. =3

Solar flares are not anywhere near their peak. The NOAA indicates the peak activity was actually in August 2024 with a total of ~245 "flux units". Activity for this month is predicted to be only around 167 units, so almost a full third down from the peak. Total numbers of sunspots is also down dramatically from their peak in August 2024.

See the graphs of https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/solar-cycle-progression for more info.

Because the supply of academics have outpaced demand.

I’d say that it is precisely because of superficial demand by bureaucracy that academic output has become superficial.

The demand for novel knowledge is always high. It is the supply that is short.

That’s why we hang around on HN hoping for something novel of true interest. You get a good find every once in a long while.