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I guess they didn't perform a basic web search:

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2014/09/izat-location-tech...

https://investor.qualcomm.com/news-events/press-releases/det...

Whew! For others - search "Eucalyptus" and "Portugal" for more info on why planting these in non-native habitat is incredibly destructive.

please tell me this is a joke...

It's unfortunate, because there are some improvements like WSA (Windows Subsystem for Android) [1] that I think are a big step in the right direction. The problem is the OS is becoming user-hostile in order to squeeze every last penny out of users. On a paid product (when there are an entire universe of free software), what is the point of paying for ads?

[1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/android/wsa/

I am not upgrading from Windows 10. These newer releases are turning the OS into an ad-serving platform, which is unfortunate because the user is essentially paying for the OS. Microsoft is trying to have its cake and eat it too.

If I'm paying for the product, I don't expect to be flooded with ads.

Did you know there are 5 desal plants currently operating in California, with more in the permitting pipeline? 10,000x more capacity is not feasible and more importantly not going to solve this problem. Catalina Island now uses desalination which is the clearest and most obvious win for desalination.

The unsolved problems: energy, money, and brine discharge. Desalination is energy intensive. And with the highest energy costs in the nation, SoCal is in a really tough spot to use large amounts of energy on water. The subsidized water from the Colorado river is too cheap not to use.

Reservoirs: similar problem of money. The state has already dammed up all the cheapest and most obvious terrain in California. It gets more expensive to dam up new areas. Did you know there is another large reservoir in NorCal being planned that's almost a decade into funding/planning (Sites)? It's not directly on a river so will require active pumping. 2 more (Pacheco & Los Vaqueros) are being expanded in the near future from the same pile of money paying for the new reservoir. [1]

What California needs is rethinking existing potable water use and combine with smart rain capture. San Diego Airport in recent years has installed large capture cisterns for a parking lot that will offset its largest water use - HVAC for the airport. They've even piloted the capture of condensate from the land-based AC that is brought out to planes on the ground during turnaround. [2]

[1] https://cwc.ca.gov/Water-Storage

[2] https://municipalwaterleader.com/storm-water-capture-and-reu...

you either go up (expensive) or wide (less economical, lower energy yield)

Love this! Is there a non-paywall link?

I believe the current IRS restriction on the plans themselves is 15% deferral of paychecks, unfortunately. Sounds like a sweet deal you had!

Many plans I've participated in cap contributions well before the theoretical 25k limit. Current employer has a very interesting plan that leaves much of the limits up to you which is a double edged sword. If you can figure out how to model the limit, you can make informed decisions when the price falls but for the average employee it's complicated and can cap their contributions way too early.

To effectively figure out the 25k limit you need a history of prior contributions to know how much limit is left in each tax/calendar year.

Having a lookback increases the upside massively. It's almost an entirely different investment product versus the vanilla - take an X% discount every couple months.

I think the thinking of the prior poster here is

1) it's not just you, it's your partner too. So that's two seats x # flights/yr.

2) with the extra seat miles you are occupying, airlines can sustain their existing routes/itineraries or expand them if they're at capacity.

At a larger scope it can be viewed as: will the airline fly more flights with its existing fleet? Will the airline buy more aircraft to fly more flights? If yes to either, then your argument breaks down.

Keep in mind that the large employers pay Equifax and give them your pay data.

Equifax/TWN has a brilliant business model that should be illegal. Get paid to collect data, then resell it.

A few data points as the picture is murky and mixed:

The wider "grid" is managed by CAISO - the independent system operator.

LA's utility is municipally run, in contrast to the big 3 IOUs in the state - PGE, SDGE, SCE.

SDGE had a 50 year exclusive franchise agreement with the city of San Diego that recently renewed under slightly different terms. Notably, and I'm paraphrasing: the city has the option after 10 years to terminate under certain conditions. [1]

Enron lobbied for, contributed to, and profited off of utility deregulation over 20 years ago. [2]

[1] https://www.kpbs.org/news/midday-edition/2020/07/27/sdges-50...

[2] https://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/lesson-enron-el...

If it's anything like readline/Emacs, then:

^ = Control

~ = Escape

This was an explicit goal of housing policy in the US 100 years ago. Read any text from that time period and you will see that housing was viewed as an investment and the foundation of wealth. Policy was therefore supportive of this view.

It's time we revisited this now that the country looks very different.

- For one, there is a large trend towards urbanization which changes the makeup of the country.

- The 30 year fixed-rate mortgage and mortgage interest deduction (now capped, and less impactful given higher standard deduction amounts) have been a large contributor to housing values being distorted from normal market prices.

- Throw in low interest rates, widespread speculation, financialization of real estate (ABNB, loanmls.com, etc)

you end up with a human right being divvied up by institutions, speculators, and an aging wealthy populace that has no interest in sharing the pie.

plus you could blow past your monthly cap in a heartbeat at the data rates these days

To your last comment - the royalty on ASP is capped. Apple had argued in court over this with claims that shoving more storage into a phone led to more licensing fees which was not the case. I can't speak to whether the pricing on this dev kit would be below the cap or not, I forget the rough range of the caps (in the mid $100's if my memory serves me right)

Agree on the weird pricing strategy though. My take is that they're trying to milk the relationship because Windows is a relatively premium brand. Competing interests for sure that Windows is looking for a wider audience on the low end while Qualcomm wants the $$ from high end.

8 years? Try more like a decade.

https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2012/06/impressions-window...

This is a poor blanket statement. This is not true in California.

There were only 2 markets nationwide with retail rates lower than this [1] in Aug 2022.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/regions/midwest/data/AverageEnergyPrices...

Because had they only gone all the way closed-source they would've done better? This strikes me as an unserious comment. It's the largest company in the world primarily built around an open source ("source-available" to some) product.

found it here: https://github.com/jhamby/bashcpp

link to in-progress source?

I've been in your shoes and will suggest something different than the consensus here.

Instead of sitting around learning (taking online classes) actually DO something.

  - Create something with your own hands that gives you satisfaction.

  - Write a journal everyday to give yourself a sense of accomplishment.

  - Use those new EE skills to make a circuit that performs some small task to automate your daily life.

Sitting around and learning without applying the knowledge is a drain of your precious time.

Create, don't consume.

I don't always come to HN to find good pieces of creative writing, but every now and then there are nuggets like this that give me a big grin. Thank you for this.

Agreed it's a hefty amount. The second part of your statement is not entirely true.

SDGE charges over $1.50 from 4-6PM on FlexAlert days (like yesterday). They charge 4x normal rates from 2-6PM. From 2-4PM which is off-peak it will be over $1, and between 4-6PM it will be $1.60+ which is 4x the on-peak rate.

I have a similar one with slightly different output, however mine appends the top N stashes as well for additional context.

  # Branches
  2022-08-11 13:26:34 -0700 4 days ago    branch-1
  2022-07-13 07:49:36 -0700 5 weeks ago   branch-10
  2022-06-28 23:40:53 +0000 7 weeks ago   branch-8
  2022-06-28 22:47:31 +0000 7 weeks ago   main
  2022-06-28 19:24:10 +0000 7 weeks ago   branch-7
  # Stashes
  stash@{0}:Thu Aug 11 13:17:11 2022 -0700 WIP on branch-3: afa19e7444a Some changes based on morning sync
  stash@{1}:Tue Jul 26 13:25:37 2022 -0700 WIP on branch-5: bd6122e2dfa find() bugfix
  stash@{2}:Tue Jul 12 15:05:31 2022 -0700 WIP on branch-7: 1221d0640c5 linter

Code:

  recent() 
  { 
      echo -e "${PURPLE}# Branches${COLOR_END}";
      for k in $(git branch | perl -pe 's/^..(.*?)( ->.*)?$/\1/');
      do
          echo -e $(git show --pretty=format:"%Cgreen%ci %Cblue%cr%Creset " $k -- | head -n 1)\\\t$k;
      done | sort -r | head;
      _num_stashes=$(git stash list | wc -l | while read l; do echo "$l - 1"; done | bc);
      echo -e "${PURPLE}# Stashes${COLOR_END}";
      for i in $(seq 0 ${_num_stashes});
      do
          echo -en "${CYAN}stash@{${i}}:${GREEN}" && git show --format="%ad%Creset %s" stash@{$i} | head -n 1;
      done
  }

Yes, last I checked QTL's revenue was much lower yet profit higher than QCT.

Composting and rain water harvesting give you much of what you need. Not much is needed from far away.