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  • When you throw something on earth and calculate it as a parabola, that's based on the approximation that the force of gravity is constant across the trajectory. It's actually a tiny bit weaker 20 feet up than at ground level, but the difference is so small that you can ignore it. The trajectory in a constant gravational field is parabolic.

    When something is high enough that you're doing orbital calculations, you have to take the inverse square law into account. The elliptical orbit is a consequence of the gravitational force being inversely proportional to the square of the distance. It doesn't apply if the force is constant.

    You can also say, look at a small segment of the pointy part of a very skinny ellipse, and it will look approximately like a parabola.

  • I think the stuff you're describing is outside the range where we internet randos can give any concrete help. You're doing the right thing in seeing professionals who have actual training in dealing with this stuff. I can only offer sympathy and best wishes.

    I find if I get agitated about something, I can often calm myself down with deep breathing. But I'm sure my experiences are less intense than yours to begin with, so I have no idea whether the same methods would work for you.

  • Tape is unfortunately uneconomical for regular people due to the drives costing so much, unless you get a used, older generation one.

    How many GB's do you mean? Maybe try some optical discs, BD-R at 25GB maybe.

    Otherwise just rent some online storage. Hetzner Storage Box is cheap and Storage Share is only slightly less cheap, and has lots of sharing features (it's really NextCloud).

  • The one time I tried streaming I just piped ffmpeg output through icecast and that worked, but it took some reading of the ffmpeg wiki to find the right options. You might even be able to point icecast to the folder directly without ffmpeg. I needed ffmpeg because it was transcoding from a webcam. On the playback side you'd again use ffmpeg to stream the icecast channel to your computer's hdmi output, and wire that to your TV. I'm still going with 10 line shell script, but maybe I'd use python to avoid too much shell cleverness.

    Added: maybe you don't even need icecast. Its purpose is to fan out a single input to multiple clients. You can even cascade them across a bunch of cheap VPS into a do-it-yourself youtube with 1000s of simultaneous viewers.

  • I wouldn't buy a Synology but either way I'd want a 5 or 6 bay for raid-6 with two parity drives. Going from 4 bay (raid 6 or 10) to 5 bay (raid 6) is 50% more user data for 25% more drives. I wouldn't do raid 5 with drives of this size.

  • Not that good a thing to be doing as each such project potentially balloons into drama, dealing with each new client and their often confused or inexperienced expectations will be its own hassle, etc. Working full time or having a few long term clients is a lot better, as is getting leads through people you know if you have some special expertise in something.

    I've heard people suggest looking for bug bounties. I haven't tried that myself so I'm just relaying the suggestion.

    Front-end web stuff is its own circle of hell but back-end is just like any other programming, so you could look for that.

    I mentioned the "freelancer" HN thread a while back, but it's mostly people looking for work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44434575

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