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> Signal level and coupling are separate things.

sure, but the part is called a level shifter. MAX9406 DisplayPort to DVI™/HDMI Level Shifter

https://www.analog.com/en/products/max9406.html

> the adapter itself is completely passive

I think it was not completely passive, but simple level conversion; DisplayPort is AC-coupled signal, HDMI is DC-coupled.

> As of January 2024, we are extending our security update support for Samsung Galaxy devices by up to 7 years, to help our users enjoy the latest Galaxy experiences longer and securely. 1

> 1 Availability and timing of Android OS upgrades and security updates may vary by market, network provider and/or model.

note that it says "up to 7 years" and may vary by market. and has only been in effect for 15 months so there isnt a track record to say it will actually happen.

the re-definition seems fairly early in COVID (May 2020) rather than "In the middle of Covid" and appears to only drop savings deposits. [1]

> Before May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts); (2) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000) less individual retirement account (IRA) and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (3) balances in retail money market funds (MMFs) less IRA and Keogh balances at MMFs.

> Beginning May 2020, M2 consists of M1 plus (1) small-denomination time deposits (time deposits in amounts of less than $100,000) less IRA and Keogh balances at depository institutions; and (2) balances in retail MMFs less IRA and Keogh balances at MMFs. Seasonally adjusted M2 is constructed by summing savings deposits (before May 2020), small-denomination time deposits, and retail MMFs, each seasonally adjusted separately, and adding this result to seasonally adjusted M1.

isn't it more accurate to point to M1 which increased substantially?

Name Jan 2021 Dec 2020 Jan 2020 Units

M1 18,063.1 17,803.0 3,977.6 Billions of Dollars

M2 19,335.0 19,110.3 15,401.3 Billions of Dollars

M1 was also re-defined to move savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts) from M2 to M1.

> Before May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other checkable deposits (OCDs), consisting of negotiable order of withdrawal, or NOW, and automatic transfer service, or ATS, accounts at depository institutions, share draft accounts at credit unions, and demand deposits at thrift institutions.

> Beginning May 2020, M1 consists of (1) currency outside the U.S. Treasury, Federal Reserve Banks, and the vaults of depository institutions; (2) demand deposits at commercial banks (excluding those amounts held by depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign banks and official institutions) less cash items in the process of collection and Federal Reserve float; and (3) other liquid deposits, consisting of OCDs and savings deposits (including money market deposit accounts). Seasonally adjusted M1 is constructed by summing currency, demand deposits, and OCDs (before May 2020) or other liquid deposits (beginning May 2020), each seasonally adjusted separately.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M1SL

> This statement is literally false if you include november.

look at other states, they also had a decline in fast food employment from October 2024 to November 2024. E.G. Nebraska had a 0.62% decline and California had a 0.29% decline.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/seriesBeta/SMU31000007072259001S...

> Their own choice of a time interval to look at (Apr - Oct) looks cherry picked. If you include the next month, it goes from a +1000 job gain to -1200 loss.

I didn't check all states, but most show a decline in fast food employment from Oct to Nov 2024, based on "All Employees: Leisure and Hospitality: Limited-Service Restaurants and Other Eating Places in X" data from St Louis Fed.

Nevada Oct 2024: 65.424 Nov: 65.192 0.35% decline

California Oct 2024: 740.069 Nov: 737.886 0.29% decline

Utah Oct 2024: 69.571 Nov: 69.406 0.23% decline

Nebraska Oct 2024: 37.732 Nov: 37.4999 0.61% decline

> FDA spending has gone up every year for the last 30 years, growing from under a billion to over 6 billion.

doesn't seem like it based on the FDA Fact Sheets. where are you seeing the annual increases?

"The FY 2025 Budget provides a $7.2 billion total program funding level for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. This includes an overall increase of 7.4 percent or $495 million over the FY 2023 funding level" [1]

"The FY 2024 budget provides a $7.2 billion total program level for FDA. " [2]

"The FY 2023 budget provides an $8.4 billion total program level for FDA." [3]

[1] https://www.fda.gov/media/176923/download

[2] https://www.fda.gov/media/166050/download

[3] https://www.fda.gov/media/157193/download

> BMWs arent that common in real america.

can you clarify where "real america" is? are places like Spartanburg, SC or Tuscaloosa, AL "real america" because you can commonly find BMWs and Mercedes in these areas.

lumber future prices are up over the last few months. currently 593, was 493 in July.

https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/commodities/lbr

well, she said it in a Ted talk in 2018. https://www.ted.com/talks/gwynne_shotwell_spacex_s_plan_to_f... at 14:42.

starting at 16:37:

CA: So you really believe this is going to be deployed at some point in our amazing future. When?

GS: Within a decade, for sure.

CA: And this is Gwynne time or Elon time?

GS: That's Gwynne time. I'm sure Elon will want us to go faster.

>> consumer products don't disclose the basics of how they work to their customers

> Yes they do. User manuals just don't make for very good marketing.

user manuals tell you how to do something, not how it works. E.G. a motherboard user manual tells you how to enter BIOS Setup, not how secure boot works; where to set USB power output in system power states, not what the power states are and how they transition.

https://www.asus.com/us/supportonly/a320m-c/helpdesk_manual/

seems they are legislating less and less by the Congress.

The list of acts of the 115th United States Congress includes all Acts of Congress and ratified treaties by the 115th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2017, and ended on January 3, 2019. The 115th Congress enacted 442 statutes and ratified 6 treaties.

The 116th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2019, and ended on January 3, 2021, enacted 344 public laws and zero private laws

The 117th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2021, and ended on January 3, 2023, enacted 362 public laws and 3 private laws.

The 118th United States Congress, which began on January 3, 2023, and will end on January 3, 2025, has enacted 65 public laws and zero private laws

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_115th_Unit...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_116th_Unit...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_117th_Unit...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acts_of_the_118th_Unit...

> this thing currently runs for $359 and has 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and a CPU that benchmarks slightly faster than the M2:

I'm seeing significant differences in the performance between Acer Aspire A315 to M2 Macbook Air; the Acer is ~33% of the M2 for 50% the price.

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/5942766?baselin...

I see California collected 69.3B & 65.5B in 2021 & 2020 respectively [1] and Texas collected 73.5B & 70.5B in 2021 & 2020 respectively [2]. This leads to more like $1732 for California & 2450 for Texas which is ~40% higher per capita in 2021.

[1] https://bythenumbers.sco.ca.gov/Raw-Data/Property-Tax-Raw-Da...

[2] https://comptroller.texas.gov/taxes/property-tax/docs/96-172...

the first iPhone (2007) cost $499 and the second iPhone, iPhone 3g (2008), cost $199. while the 3g support and App Store helped, I think the much lower price led to volume increase from 1.39M to 11.63M YoY.

https://www.globaldata.com/data-insights/technology--media-a...

as the press release says PAM3 sends 3 bits in 2 bit times whereas NRZ would require 3 bit times to send 3 bits. that, coupled with the increased WCK for shorter bit times, suggests latency shouldn't necessarily increase.

I assume by "the ridiculously complicated PAM3 encoding/decoding" you are referring to section 2.9.3,

"The total burst transfer payload per channel is encoded using 23 x 11b7S and 1 x 3b2S for the data, 6 x 3b2S for the CRC and 1 x 2b1S for the SEV/PSN, it adds up to the 176 PAM3 symbols that can be allocated for a 16 burst over 11 data lines."

that does seem complicated using 3 (11b7s, 3b2s, 2b1s) different modulation schemes in 1 burst.

it is a phone number, Empire Carpets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwJQQux0TF0

> Not to mention the 10 year Federal forgiveness for working in a qualified institution (aka nonprofit hospital/academic)

Public Service Loan Forgiveness requires 10 years of making student loan payments.

> Some states offer free tuition if you promise to work in that state for a few years after.

for example, the Georgia program offers up to $25k per year for up to 4 years max [1]. It requires application and takes into account health outcomes, specialty, debt, etc so it seems its not automatic acceptance. With an average medical school debt of over $200k this is not free tuition.

[1] https://healthcareworkforce.georgia.gov/loan-repayment-schol...

2019 15" Macbook Pro with i9-9980HK has 1383/6280 Geekbench score. [1] generic user submitted Intel Core i9-9980HK has 1421/6269 Geekbench score. [2] a <3% difference doesn't seem like Apple sandbagging with anemic cooling.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-15-inch-mid-2...

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-9980h...

I see 23.350M in 9/2023 quarter and 24.318M in 12/2022 quarter. that seems revenue slightly down on a quarterly basis on increasing units shipped.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/financials?p=TSLA

while the LG Prada phone was announced (though not for US) about a month before iPhone [1], it was not available until after the iPhone announce so it not like it was a known item at that point. However, it was available (not in US) [2] a few months before iPhone was available so maybe there were people that used LG Prada then iPhone so a touchscreen phone was not completely novel.

however, the LG Prada was >$800 at launch so it seems that the impression was fairly limited to people who would spend $800 then $600 a few months later in 2007.

additionally, while the LG Prada had a touchscreen it wasnt really a smart phone. there was no full keyboard, texting and contact entry was with T9 [3].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20070108070435/http://www.lge.co...

[2] https://macdailynews.com/2007/01/19/lg_unveils_iphone_like_p...

[3] https://www.gsmarena.com/lg_ke850_prada-review-145p2.php

I believe it was Android Inc. that Google purchased. Danger was a previous company founded by Andy Rubin and others.

https://web.archive.org/web/20110205190729/http://www.busine...

currently on penninsula it is significantly more expensive than that.

Foster City Odyssey Preschool for toddlers is $2100 for school day, plus $500 extended day until 6pm.

https://www.odysseypreschool.com/foster-city-admissions

Pennisula Jewish is $3125 for toddlers until 5:30pm

https://pjcc.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/PJCC-Preschool-R...

> I think someday it would be amazing to have 1500W to 3000W kettles simply being powered by Type C, and other home appliances too.

seems like Ki [1] is more the way to go for appliances. just a few hotspots around the kitchen for the kettle or pot.

[1] https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/standards/ki-cordles...

back in April, Google announced cancellation of several home products. dont know if they sent an email but they have a blog post.

> starting April 8, 2024 support will stop for Nest Secure

> stop support for Dropcam starting April 8, 2024.

> we will officially end Works with Nest as of September 29, 2023.

https://www.googlenestcommunity.com/t5/Blog/An-update-for-ou...

> As I write this note, the common stock of a no-longer-functionally-bankrupt-but-now-formally-bankrupt Bed Bath & Beyond trades at $0.17 per share.

in the 4 months since May 16, BBBY has lost another 50% and closed a $0.08 today.

> According to the UMass scholars, the “corrected” number is positive 2.2 percent—which means GDP still grows, even when debt levels are very high.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-04-18/faq-reinh...

and from the rebuttal:

> The authors show our accidental omission has a fairly marginal effect on the 0-90% buckets in figure 2. However, it leads to a notable change in the average growth rate for the over 90% debt group.

if you want details, you can read the Senate report about Russian Efforts Against Election Infrastructure [1], Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities [5], and everything in-between.

you may find such things as "The Russian govemment directed extensive activity, beginning in at least 2014 and carrying into at least 2017, against U.S. election infrastructure' at the state and local level." and "The Committee found that the Russian government engaged in an aggressive, multi-faceted effort to influence, or attempt to influence, the outcome of the 2016 presidential election."

[1] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

[5] https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

not a lot of details in this but I'm curious how the AC-coupled USB-C interface works with the DC-coupled HDMI. typically there would be a DP-to-HDMI convertor in the cable plug and just use DP alt-mode but this specifically says:

"This allows native HDMI features and capabilities to be utilized in a source device and to be directly connected to any HDMI display. Other Alt Mode solutions do not enable HDMI-specific features and also require converters and connector adapters to connect to HDMI-enabled displays. A simple HDMI to USB Type-C cable can be used to connect USB Type-C devices to native HDMI displays."

Merriam-Webster has it as a less common spelling.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flunkie