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icehawk··on The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop
People spent a whole decade complaining about the iPod dock -> Lightning change.

I'd wait to blame the EU also.

icehawk··on PS5 now costs less than 64GB of DDR5 memory. RAM jumps to $600 due to shortage
Never.

That's a an analogy-- a literary technique the writer is using, to show the correspondence between the price of a specific amount of DDR5 RAM to a fully integrated system, so the reader can follow the conclusions of their article easier.

icehawk··on We should all be using dependency cooldowns
Known vulnerabilities often get fixed sooner than seven days.

You will not know how long it takes to get a zero day fixed, because zero in "zero day" ends when the vendor is informed:

> "A zero day vulnerability refers to an exploitable bug in software that is unknown to the vendor."

icehawk··on We should all be using dependency cooldowns
> I upgrade all dependencies every time I deploy anything. If you don't, a zero day is going to bite you in the ass: that's the world we now live in.

I think you're using a different definition of zero day than what is standard. Any zero day vulnerability is not going to have a patch you can get with an update.

icehawk··on Virgin and Qantas to ban use of portable power banks after string of fires
Non-zero:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPS_Airlines_Flight_6

> The report indicated that the fire was caused by the autoignition of the contents of a cargo pallet that contained more than 81,000 lithium batteries and other combustible materials

icehawk··on The time has finally come for geothermal energy
From what I saw: In Spain, inverters are not allowed to provide voltage control, and what we saw in Spain, was a voltage spike that caused generators to drop offline, which then caused frequency issues.
icehawk··on I hate screenshots of text
I don't think either of those two are within the scope of Apple's OCR.

Different horses, then.

icehawk··on I hate screenshots of text
> Like other posters, I don't think Apple OCR is sufficient to make up for screenshotting. The biggest problem is search.

Both Spotlight and Photos will find text in screenshots.

icehawk··on A Fond Farewell
I'm sorry about your miss there.
icehawk··on A Fond Farewell
> If they aren't a thing, why are we talking about them?

Because someone decided to break convention and use one in a four-digit year.

icehawk··on Why "everyone dies" gets AGI all wrong
Sure! They can volunteer:

- Their skills.

- Their time.

- The required materials to properly perform the surgery.

They can't volunteer:

- The support staff around them required to do surgery.

- The space to do the surgery.

Surgery isn't a one-man show.

What did you mean by "Surely they could volunteer to do some charity surgery in their own time. They aren't slaves?"

icehawk··on Irssi: IRC client in a Docker image
The replies talking about portability are wild, my irssi instance started on a Pentium 90, and is running on an AMD EPYC the two commands it actually took were:

1) scp

2) dpkg --set-selections

icehawk··on Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data
> the problem is crappy SSDs (an age-old problem) that can't handle/brick under some workload presumably involving high write rates

which part of the article leads you to believe this?

icehawk··on VC-backed company just killed my EU trademark for a small OSS project
Just because one ignores something, does not mean they've let it go.
icehawk··on Battery charge limiter for Apple Silicon MacBook devices
If it didn't have to make the phone thicker, heavier, or less waterproof if implemented correctly why isn't it currently an option?
icehawk··on Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment
Its more complex to have a reversible heat pump, because in addition to the reversing valve, you also need two metering devices and a bypass for each of them.
icehawk··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
> Is that just your gut feel?

An LLM is a language model and the gestalt of human experience is not just language.

icehawk··on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken
I am really beginning to think that the Gell-Mann amnesia effect has a shining example in LLM usage.

Its obvious there's no intelligence behind it when you make it try to do something with data that gets parsed by a computer.

icehawk··on The leverage arbitrage: Why everything feels broken
Actually, when I read this, it was obvious that this issue was an us problem and not just a me problem.
icehawk··on So you think you've awoken ChatGPT
How often does ChatGPT get retrained? How often does a human brain get retrained?

There's a very material difference.

icehawk··on Killing the Mauna Loa observatory over irrefutable evidence of increasing CO2
It's really not. "[Mauna Loa Observatory] was founded on June 28, 1956, as part of the US Weather Bureau"

And if you look at the tick marks on the graph, it starts before 1960.

icehawk··on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling
The COP generally varies with Delta-T, a compressor-based heat pump's isn't any different. An AC unit is more efficient when it is cooler outside.

That said, 1.5C is tiny.

icehawk··on Astronomers race to study interstellar interloper
> often these long period comets will be on their first pass (sometimes only pass) through the solar system.

Only pass because of the eccentricity, or for some other reason?

icehawk··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
> To suggest that a world without YouTube (or a similar service) would look the same is ludicrous.

It could be ludicrous, if that argument were being made.

icehawk··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
People make the videos, and then sometimes youtube pays them for it.
icehawk··on YouTube's new anti-adblock measures
When was that? I'm genuinely asking, since I remember the breakdown from when I was recording TV to my computer and editing out the commercials, as 10 minutes of commercials and 20 minutes of TV show.
icehawk··on Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament
I don't think that's entirely it. A lot of the things I've been collecting in the hobby are just things that I had used a the time. I've got more weird variants of Mac SEs and Mac LCs which were things I had at home, or used at school, than the Quadras and Power Macs I dreamed of.
icehawk··on BGP handling bug causes widespread internet routing instability
As far as I'm aware "a session is configured as IBGP on one end and EBGP on the other end" isn't possible.

You can't configure it like that, most of the BGP implementations I'm familiar with automatically treat the a same-AS neighbor as iBGP and a different-AS neighbor as eBGP.

Juniper explicitly has 'internal' and 'external' neighbors, but you can't configure a different peer AS than your own on an internal neighbor or the same peer AS on an external neighbor.

BGP sessions also have the AS of the neighbor specified in the local config, and will not bring up the session if it's not what's configured.

icehawk··on The Newark airport crisis
...Until they switch to a bandwidth exhaustion attack.
icehawk··on The scientific “unit” we call the decibel
A 3 month old kid looks very different to a 3 year old kid.
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