jaywcarman's comments

On: Where did all the starships go?

[jaywcarman]

> >Also, we've realized the scientific reality that traveling faster than light is likely impossible, and the vast distances to other habitable planets would mean tens of thousands of years of travel even with the most efficient technology. > >This makes for more epic story telling though. I've seen sci-fi stories span eons due to the vast distances limited by speed. Even at light speed it still takes a huge amount of time.

Here's one such example: [The Destination Star by Gregory Marlow](https://strangehorizons.com/wordpress/fiction/the-destinatio...)

[maximilianthe1 → jaywcarman]

Also great on the same topic - The Forever War by Joe Holdeman[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forever_War

[namanyayg → maximilianthe1]

This one messed me up. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one sitting.

I haven't read many military books, but to me this book is the perfect demonstration of the ultimate futility of war.

[dripdry45 → maximilianthe1]

Please don’t rest on Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time” trilogy

[greazy → jaywcarman]

That was fantastic thanks for sharing.

On: No as a Service

[jaywcarman]

10 requests per minute per IP is plenty enough to play around with and have a little fun. For anything more than that you could (should!) host it yourself.

[blahaj → jaywcarman]

So it is just purposefully made to be less useful? Is that part of the joke?

The rate limit still pretty surely isn't applied per IP.

On: Apple apologizes for iPad 'Crush' ad that 'missed the mark'

[jaywcarman]

> I am quite confident that a skilled musician with an iPad (or, even more obviously, an electric keyboard with a MIDI cable to the iPad) can create music that is indistinguishable from a human playing a piano. The synthesizer will be able to replicate the sound of the best concert grand in the best auditorium, direct to your studio headphones.

Perhaps this is true, but it is entirely limited to replicating a _recording_ of the instrument. An iPad cannot replicate (or even come close to) the sound of a human playing a piano that you hear in person.

On: Flipboard Begins to Federate

[jaywcarman]

I think Project Gemini fits this description: https://geminiprotocol.net/

On: Toward a more useful keyboard

[jaywcarman]

I've found the Leopold FC660C to be the ultimate keyboard:

- Topre silent switches

- Compact layout _with_ arrow keys

- There is a 3rd party (Hasu) replacement controller available to make it fully programmable

I've found custom layouts at the software level are practical only if you use a single computer. My FC660C with the Hasu controller has my custom keymaps defined in the keyboard itself - usable on any computer I plug into!

On: Remotely unlock/start/locate any remotely connected Honda/Nissan [resolved]

[jaywcarman]

I was intrigued by this statement and did some searching. Sure enough it does exist: https://www.compustar.com/blog/can-you-remote-start-a-manual...

> This is accomplished via clutch bypass, reservation mode, and built-in safety features.

I still would never want it... but it's an interesting system.

[itslennysfault → jaywcarman]

I had a manual Acura Integra when I was younger and I installed a remote start on it because shops refused to (because it's dangerous af).

Anyways, the clutch pedal simply presses a little button when it is all the way up. All I had to do is bridge the two wires going into that button and it would start without the clutch pressed.

Amazingly I only ever tried to remote start it while in gear once. It retries 3 times so it jumped forward 3 times. About a foot each time, but didn't hit anything thankfully.

I always wanted to add a sensor to the shifter so it'd only bypass the clutch sensor when in neutral, but I never got around to doing it.