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Is that a limitation of the antenna? I though QuadRF uses SDR so can see many frequencies, not just the wifi things like ESPARGOS [0]

From documentation, QuadRF: Operating frequency range of 4.9 - 6.0 GHz (C-Band).

0. https://espargos.net/

Maintenance isn't cost-free. As an example, the operating system and other software dependencies of the game depends will eventually be depreciated and not supported.

If a security vulnerability is discovered in software still available from company servers but the teams that built it have moved on, what is the company's liability for recomposing teams in order to make a fix that does not negatively affect other aspects of the software?

This isn't surprising given how different businesses may value a payment against an ongoing obligation to customers. @patio11 had a good podcast about this "Cash received is not revenue earned" last April.

  What the GoDaddy CEO said in many interviews and investor presentations is: 
  "Look, since we're not going out of business, and since the cost of serving 
  domain names is essentially the same whether we're serving a million of them 
  versus a hundred million of them, you should really treat this as a 
  cash-and-carry business. So all of the money that comes in this year is our 
  revenue, regardless of this massive balance sheet item that says deferred 
  revenue." What sophisticated investors looking at GoDaddy said was, "Well, 
  no. You do have to still keep running the business. And so from my 
  perspective, it looks like GoDaddy is incredibly levered. You've got so much 
  debt on the books. The debt isn't to a bank or to a private credit fund–it's 
  just to your customers. But oh goodness, is there a lot of debt. And since 
  that debt must get satisfied before US equity holders get the residual value 
  of the company, we are not willing to extend equity investment at the 
  valuation you think you're worth."
  

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/cash-received...

Using the infinitive rather than gerund form of a verb to reference a an instance is a common pattern. "I went for a walk," instead of "I was walking."

I think it is interesting to attempt understanding people's choices to shorten "spend" rather than "spending," or to use something longer like "methodology" rather than "method" when they describe the method not a study of methods.

That makes more sense. How could a library or a bookshop in a location legally offer books that are banned in that location?

Isn’t that already the case, yet some amount of store theft still occurs?

It could be there is a base rate of people who don’t know yet and thus a natural rate would be higher if remote locking wasn’t a thing.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

I think that "en-GB" is not sufficiently descriptive. There are 160 dialects of English [0]. Within the island of Great Britain there are three historic countries with distinctive usages of language: England, Wales, and Scotland. There might be more mutual unintelligibility within GB than across North America.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dialects_of_English

> German portmanteau word "Zensurheberrecht" ("Zensur": censorship; "Urheberrecht": the related concept to copyright in German law)

The recent podcast about Machiavelli by Dwarkesh had an interesting part about how the Catholic Inquisition, printmakers and authors collaborated in censorship to establish an early version of copyright. Link to the specific section:

https://youtu.be/U1FrhkLQnCI?t=6644

This brings to mind the wonderful Econtalk episode about Bruno Leoni [0]. The beginning of the podcast describes his untimely passing, which almost seems a Cohen brothers movie plot.

  So, we pore over Supreme Court cases on the First Amendment, for example, to 
  try to interpret what tests we will use to determine whether something is 
  going to be unconstitutional law. Leoni didn't want that. He argued that--and 
  again, he was proud of the Roman law contribution. He said that the Roman 
  jurist was a sort of scientist: that the object of his research was a 
  solution to cases that citizens submitted to him for study. So, an 
  industrialist or a scientist might look to a physicist to engineer a 
  technical problem. So, private Roman law was something to be described or 
  discovered, not something to be enacted. So, over time, these principles 
  emerge.

0. https://www.econtalk.org/the-underrated-bruno-leoni-with-mic...

As I understand it, the dynamics are similar to generic drugs where there is a large capital hurdle to new production facilities and a likelihood that prices will soon drop to a point that a new facility will lose money.

https://www.asianometry.com/p/the-semiconductor-bust-still-c...

My response was to your thesis: "whenever I see announcements about OCR it feels like this should be a solved problem if it’s been accomplished at the scale of USPS for many years." I think the USPS has "solved" much of the problem by getting the most prolific generators of mail to conform with more basic tech than OCR, the bar code.

Much commercial mail (including first class non-junk mail) is physically presorted and bundled as it is dropped with USPS and has a bar code that states the routing needed. Stuff that has had OCR performed by computer or human gets a little sticker near the bottom with the barcode.

The barcode is applied by the sender; the Postal Service required use of the Intelligent Mail barcode to qualify for automation prices beginning January 28, 2013. Use of the barcode provides increased overall efficiency, including improved deliverability, and new services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_Mail_barcode

How is my French descent real life human name at all relevant?

Yeah, I've gotten it from people with minds like your's for a long time, continually since grade school. Your comment illuminates more about you and your fellow noticers than me.

From what I recall (the article is register-walled now), the document had twitter handles and public statements. Did the article specify they gathered nonpublic information?

Ok, name the ethic or ethics being violated by the behavior described in the article.

> Do you think they keep dossiers on everyone who complains about concession prices?

That would be not unexpected. How else would an organization be able to tell the difference between someone who makes frequent and spurious complaints from a genuine feedback? [0]

0. https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/01/th...

> I'm excited that EVs get to avoid CAFE standards, so we get to have small vehicles again.

I don't see evidence for EVs stimulating small vehicle production (but it would be awesome if it were the case). The one smaller vehicle bright spot is perhaps Tesla's Cybercab, which is compared to the Honda Civic, which itself has grown very large over the years. In order to get to that size the passenger mass capacity of the Cybercab is roughly 2/3 of the Civic. [0]

0. https://insideevs.com/news/798790/tesla-cybercab-specs/

The USPS Remote Encoding Center in Salt Lake City examined 841,260,847 images of poorly written addresses in fiscal year 2025. [0]

Unfortunately the page does not have a base rate--the total number of mail pieces that were not prepared for automated processing. Total first class mail, which includes a lot of bills prepared for automation was 25.7 billion [1]. If 10% of that are non-automated, then .8 / 2.57 = .31 or a third of mail not prepared for automation is handled by "employees look at the image and type in address information"

0. https://facts.usps.com/remote-encoding-center-rec-decipherin...

1. https://about.usps.com/what/financials/10k-reports/fy2025.pd...

> As pointed in another post by John Gruber, Apple kept selling the trash can Mac Pro for a very high price for years without any updates. So it can certainly afford to bear this pain for a couple of more months and bundle all the price hikes together.

It seems unlikely that Apple created a rainy day fund from offering an legacy product at niche prices almost a decade ago. Equally unlikely that Apple will continue to sell at a loss today out of a traditional disregard for decreasing component costs.

> The DMN seems to fall into a similar area as meditation

I'm curious about the relationship between mind wandering as exploration leading to insight and mind wandering as rumination. It seems like DMN is more associated with the latter. Its association with meditation likely comes from studies like the below.

Meditation leads to reduced default mode network activity beyond an active task

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4529365/

> Are they claiming that electrophoretic materials (meaning the panels) can actually switch (meaning move pigments) faster than say x.y micrometers per second?

No, I think the claim is that the controllers are slower that what the panels can theoretically support.

It isn't clear to me that eink's underlying display technology isn't good at the interactive computing use case so much as the implementations aren't optimized for it. There could be a position where more power than an eink reader is used but still far less than traditional active displays since unchanged pixels aren't driven.

Wow, I'm glad to see that person is getting some more recognition for this work.

A claim in the video that I can't verify but makes economic/logistic sense is that the speed problem isn't the panels but the controllers. The current crop of controllers are optimized for low power, which fits the e-reader use case but that is not optimal for the interactive use case.

> scrape pricing data for used cars

Time was you could get lovely json feeds from every site by iterating the inspector curl statement. Now-a-days you can't even use Selenium without Cloudflare getting grouchy. Last fall had to make my spreadsheet like a cave-person control c, control v. It wouldn't be so bad if the dealer aggregators' coverage was xor, but you have to dedupe listings. Then there is the whole online salespeople who don't show up at the dealership.

> removing code

Cue link to Negative 2,000 LoC [0]:

  He recently was working on optimizing Quickdraw's region calculation 
  machinery, and had completely rewritten the region engine using a simpler, 
  more general algorithm which, after some tweaking, made region operations 
  almost six times faster. As a by-product, the rewrite also saved around 2,000 
  lines of code.
  
  He was just putting the finishing touches on the optimization when it was 
  time to fill out the management form for the first time. When he got to the 
  lines of code part, he thought about it for a second, and then wrote in the 
  number: -2000.

0. https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html

It is on my to-read list, but be sure to take some claims of common mycorrhizal networks (aka "wood wide web") with a grain of salt. A later review paper [0] found that evidence for some claims is weak.

0. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01986-1

Yes, there is something about the photos totally reminds me of recent photos from Pyongyang. True atrocities like the Holodomor aside, I'm sympathetic to the idea that the bright capital sucking rural resources and capricious political crime enforcement isn't much different from the previous czarist regime. The way the political messaging is so much louder than any private activity (like advertising) says a lot about how weak and insecure the government thought itself.

While the article focuses on Moscow, the online collection is worth checking out. I'm especially interested in the "ancient burial markers near the village of Ust-byur" which seems to be Khakassia in plains that resemble West Texas.

https://manhoffarchive.org/on-the-road

Edit: Ust-byur is within 300mi of Denisova Cave!

It does arrow left/right or a/d for tiller and arrow up/down or w/s for sail trim. If you can manage using wasd, then r will [un]furl sails. I haven't figured out the cannon button yet if there is one.

Edit: r for [un]furl sails [0], also <shift> apparently fires

0. https://tinywind.io/wiki/briefing#sailing-the-ship

  It unveils the stark contrast between the carefully constructed façade 
  presented by the Soviet authorities and the harsh realities experienced by 
  ordinary citizens.
  

I guess without examples of the "carefully constructed façade" its difficult to understand if there is a contrast. To me, the photos just look like ordinary 1950s street scenes. Waiting at Walgreens the other day I spent the time examining the store's decorative antique photos; aside from differences in culture and subject area, so many details of vehicles, building construction, clothing styles are remarkably similar.

Reading this line in Lopp's article: "FCC even asks whether providers should consult lists of terrorists, terrorist organizations, and “criminal persons” maintained by law enforcement entities," brings to mind McKenzie's work describing the outsourced role of NGO's in vetting banking customers.

https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/nonprofit-indicted-ba...

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/splc-financia...

https://www.complexsystemspodcast.com/episodes/defendant-cen...

In this case a broader reading is an exhortation to guard against intellectual hubris. Through its various trials NASA seems like a good organization for learning from error and not accepting easy answers (except when they have to terrible results), and in this siloxane story I'm glad to see evidence of institutional curiosity that I could not have drempt up.