I'm intrigued how he will store 600,000 kcals of food for the 2500 hours+ on that board. And Water... Any help from a helicopter will be a bit disingenuous.
Fresh water will presumably be reverse-osmosis energy-recovery desalination. These are normal on sailboats nowadays and often driven off a small PV array like shown on the pictures of the paddleboard.
Regards food, the paddleboard looks about the same size as people who have previously rowed across the Atlantic solo.
This is like those articles on 10-bit colour where they show you "how vibrant and rich" the higher bit depth is, but you're reading it on the same old 8-bit-per-channel monitor.
This is what I love about Hacker News. There is an article, and there are reasoned objections to it in the comments, which means I can make a bit more of an informed opinion myself. Thanks all!
At the risk of getting bashed, isn't 'pinging a Microsoft server' what happens every time I clone, push, or pull from GitHub? There might be be bigger issues to deal with than apt repositories if you don't want to ping a Microsoft server.
If you pull from a github server, you do so by choice. If you add Microsoft's repo to your apt sources, you do so by the choice. The problem is that the repo was added silently and without giving you a choice.
I suppose I get that, but surely that is happening all over the web all the time? I don't really have a choice about what is being pinged just by going to the Reddit site that mentions the issue (unless I use pi-hole, er...).
