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I think we're slowly, slowly coming around to the idea of domestic DC distribution. The vast majority of consumer electronics would be perfectly happy to consume 12v. It's cheaper, safer, more efficient. Less design work and certification on inbuilt AC adapters.

I think it's highly unlikely we'll see mass scale retrofits, but if enough momentum builds up, I can see it as a great bonus feature for new builds.

I got lucky with my house and every room has a dedicated phone line meeting at a distribution panel (a couple of 2x4s with screw terminals) built in the 50s. I'm in the process of converting it to light duty DC power. The wiring is only good for an amp or two, but at 48v that's still significant power transmission.

5G and 4G are not terms applied to WiFi. We have 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax and WiFi6/7

WiFi operates in the 2.4, 5, 6GHz bands, but those frequency bands are not used to differentiate WiFi standards because you can mix and match WiFi 6/7 on all three bands.

There are also more WiFi bands below 2.4 and above 6GHz, but they're not common worldwide.

The advantage is you don't need very valuable people who have been training their whole life. Even if the machine is only half as good as the empire's best archer, you can have as many as you want as quickly as you like, and they still perform better than grabbing some rando off the street and slapping a bow in his hand.

There's throwing mud and then there's pointing out the mud already flung all over the walls

"I sure hope corporations will keep on capitulating and eroding everyone's freedom because I don't want to think for myself"

Very enlightened and useful comment, thank you for your participation.

Sounds exactly like every 19 year old programmer. I'd describe myself at 19 in exactly the same way

Yes. That tends to happen when you don't increase the minimum wage for multiple decades.

If Motorola have a problem with it, they obviously aren't the right partner for Graphene.

Graphene obviously won't want to partner with a company that immediately bends over backwards for this kind of puritanical nonsense.

You made the first unsubstantiated claim

> thus maximising your support costs

Yes

Paris has a population of 2 million people, a good chunk of whom are not native to France.

It's safe to assume you'll encounter a very wide variety of people speaking many different languages.

"Make America Great Again" is propaganda and you're analyzing it as if it were a truthful mission statement.

Or more aptly, you're commenting on the title instead of reading TFA.

MAGA does not mean what you think it means for the people who actually live here.

Yeah, back when I was in school it was a cat and mouse game of finding a new proxy every week when the last one got blocked. The minute someone found a new one, it was everywhere.

I decided to sidestep the whole game and run my own proxy at home. I didn't have enough bandwidth for multiple users, so it was just me. I don't think IT ever caught on.

No. Not in any way, no.

Learning is a physical process in which neurons form new connections to one another. It has nothing to do with DNA.

This is like measuring LLM performance based on CPU microcode size. Completely nonsense.

Yes, it is. When you reply to an IP address, you don't magically punch a hole through the entire network to the user's physical location.

You send a packet to your ISP with an address on top. That packet physically travels to your nearest exchange and then the network figures out how to route it to the recipient's real location.

In addition, the recipient's IP address tells you nothing about who or where they are. It's fundamentally un-knowable from the sender's perspective, no matter what the UK wants you to think. IP addresses are not evidence of physical location.

When you receive a packet, there is no way to know where in the world it came from or where it wants to go. It's just a number. You can make guesses but it's still just reading tea leaves.

To believe that IP geolocation is in any way reliable is a gross misunderstanding of TCP/IP and networks in general.

Because that's how all engines and libraries work? Even ones you write yourself still catch you out now and then.

The user mails you a box with a note that says "1kg of 4chan packets pls", and a prepaid return label to an address local to you. You put the packets in the box and kick it down the street to its "destination". Job done as far as you know.

The place you sent the box then repacks it and mails it to the UK. Somehow the UK thinks that you and only you have broken the law.

Your mistake is taking Google's argument at face value. Protecting users is an outright lie, this is purely about control.

Google doesn't give one single shit if users download malware from the Play Store, but hypothetical malware from third party sources is so much worse that we need to ruin the whole OS? That doesn't pass the sniff test.

Google wants to make sure you can only download malware from developers who give google a cut. They want to control the OS and remove user choice. That's all it is. That's what it's always been about.

"Protecting users" is a pretense and nothing more. Google does not care at all about user safety. They aren't even capable of caring at this point. There are far, far cheaper and more effective ways to actually protect users, and google isn't doing any of them.

Don't all comments start out with one vote?

For me the joy comes from the understanding that the answer to "Is xyz possible?" is always, always "yes". It might be difficult, expensive, or take a long time, but my stance as an engineer is that anything is possible.

Hyperbole, yes, many things are in fact, not possible. But most people have the size of the two categories confused. The number of things that are categorically impossible is less than a rounding error compared to how many things are possible.

The joy and wonder of being an engineer is in taking problems deemed "impossible" and creating possibilities. It's in extracting a solution from infinite possibilities and redefining what possible even is.

Don't post AI generated comments.

No, Microsoft bailed pretty early. Apple gave it one shot and gave up.

The entire VR/AR industry sort of crumpled up and died while metaverse was still burning a billion dollars a day.

I worked in a VR startup at the time. Nobody could find a customer and all the competing startups slowly bled to death (including mine). Everyone was really holding their breath that Apple Vision would bring some life back to the industry, but once it became clear that it was a flop, everyone gave up.

Don't spew BS unless you're willing to back it up.

My new job has some kind of insurance add-on which is an entire company of people with the express purpose of negotiating with your primary insurance to get specialty medication paid for.

Sticker price on my partner's medication is $10k/mo. Insurance alone refused to pay anything. This third party negotiator managed to get insurance to pay some, the manufacturer to discount it, and a "copay card" with several thousand dollars preloaded appeared to pay the rest.

We ended up paying zero out of pocket for the medication but it took two weeks of thrice-daily phone calls with various entities.

The very notion that an entire company can exist and sustain itself solely on negotiating with your insurance provider on your behalf is utter insanity. I've heard horror stories about communist bureaucracy from Soviet-occupied European countries, but I don't think even the USSR can compete with the modern American healthcare bureaucracy. It's outrageous and unconscionable.

I spun up a VM on my proxmox server and loaded HAOS. Job done. The only added steps involved giving the HAOS IP to my reverse proxy, now it's reachable from the outside net.

That's about as easy as it gets.

Why do you feel it's your business to demand the details of a private citizen's health?

You might have the next one hit wonder country song on your hands.

Truck broke? Higher RAM prices.

Wife left you? Higher RAM prices.

RAM truck? Buddy you better get ready. Higher RAM prices.

This. Buoyancy is related to volume. Reduce the gas volume, increase its (relative) density, bouyancy goes down, ship goes down.

Same way submarines adjust dive depth without dumping air overboard.

Remove AI from the statement and ask again.

Does the work you do provide more or less value to the company than your salary? Where does the difference go? If your killer feature closes a $5M deal, who gets that money?

We live as capitalist serfs. Someone else gets all the value you create, and you should be grateful for the peanuts they toss back to you.

Because tenants are not scarce. If you cut your prices, you lose $200/mo forever. If you simply follow the maximum market price and wait, someone will fill your room eventually and you have them locked into a higher rate forever.

Competition doesn't work for necessities. Someone will rent your room at any price because it's necessary for survival. One of the major crises of our time is the fact that there are more people who need housing than there are rooms to rent to them.

Why don't landlords undercut one another? They literally don't have to. The only outcome is less profit. You'll find a tenant eventually, at any price. Getting tenants in rooms a few months earlier at the cost of lower rent means you make less money, and are less competitive as a business.