insaneirish

> Because in the real world burning plastic for energy reduces CO2 emissions.

Compared to what? Over what period? Consider this at the extremes. Instead of investing in any photovoltaic, 100% of PV demand should be shifted to burning landfilled plastics. Would you argue that makes sense?

> That should say "reducing carbon emissions", not adding. Burning plastic for energy is a net reduction in CO2 emission.

Not sure I understand that math. You have plastic. You burn it. That is a net increase in atmospheric CO2.

The other option is you bury it, which sounds horrible, but at least doesn't increase atmospheric CO2.

The problem is you're going to say that instead of burning the plastic, we burn something else. But maybe we don't do that, either?

Citation needed?

> It links up addresses to host names so that you don’t have to remember ip addresses of servers.

Um.

One thing I’ve been curious about but have never dug into deeply enough to understand is what constitutes an “address” on a cargo line.

As an example, in the US, large lumberyards often sit on a rail line to receive deliveries. Often that lumber comes a long way… for instance from the Pacific Northwest to the east coast.

Maybe if I look at this project a bit I’ll understand how you slap a “To:” address on such a rail car.

> Why do you say that?

Mainly because Apple's custom silicon could not even be prototyped in a small scale facility. It'd likely be in Taiwan.

> But there are multiple reports, some from Apple employees, that refer to it as a being some sort of small scale, "skunkworks" silicon fab.

I apologize if I missed them. Please highlight. Curious of the credentials of the folks reporting such a thing, as well.

Let's go with "definitely not", given the amount of other things that could be within a 7 mile radius of your location.

The blog paints this as some secret lair of nefarious experiments. It actually refers to the facility as a "Secret Silicon Fab" which is quite the logical leap. I would suspect they're etching PCBs, perhaps? One thing is for sure, it's not a silicon fab.

I'm sorry, but if you're going to come with grandiose claims, your foundation should be solid and not hypothetical.

Bingo.

> Just accept that they got busted messing up and move on. Don't try to play it off and minimize stuff.

I'm actually not minimizing it. I'm simply pointing out that if this is the industry at its best, then yeesh, what is it at its worst?

> He took the Earthrise photo, which Nature photographer Galen Rowell described as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise

Heh. I'd never read/heard that quote before. But no one's photos have touched me more than Galen Rowell's, so it bears an incredible amount of weight to read.

Thank you for sharing it.

Fun idea!

Honest feedback:

- Downloaded it on Mac and ran it

- Immediately on guard due to the non-native GUI

- Try to make a connection and get the following:

java.io.IOException: Unable to launch terminal Kitty: Process returned exit code 1: Unable to find application named 'kitty.app'

I don't know what Kitty is. I probably don't want Kitty. I'll probably go do something else now.

Hopefully others are able to hit the ground running and enjoy it more quickly.

Saw this recently. If I had to guess, this is a (heavily marked up) rebadging of a Midea or Gree [1] unit with some software around it.

Nothing wrong with Midea or Gree, though they tend to be considered to be second-tier to Mitsubishi and Fujitsu, but the markup seems quite a bit for a marginally (debatable) better appearance.

[1]: When you see a mini-split, if it's not Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, or Daikin, it's likely made by Midea or Gree.

> How is something that is twice as expensive as the competition not a luxury device?

You can buy a version of <insert product here> from Walmart at 1/2 price of a "normal" retailer. Does that mean every "normal" retailer is actually a luxury goods dealer?

Is my diner a luxury restaurant because a burger costs twice as much as McDonald's?

Stop the silliness.

> I actually rejected a job offer when heard I will be given a macbook pro.

Probably best for you both.

Here's a fun one. I'm involved in maintaining the audio system for an auditorium used by a non-profit. After a flood and remodel, including replacing some audio components (like microphones), it was observed that the microphone on the main podium always had a 60 Hz hum. The hum depended on where the microphone was facing. Sometimes it was there, sometimes it was not.

Being a non-profit facility, there are no fancy DSPs to notch out the hum or anything like that, so more creative solutions were investigated. It was determined through dumb experimentation that orienting an identical microphone 180 degrees to the one with the hum and setting the gain similarly would nearly eliminate the hum.

Eventually, the working theory became that a relatively new large pad transformer installed across the street was being picked up by the microphones. Orienting one microphone 180 degrees from the other caused the hum to be picked up out of phase from the main, and thus could be mixed in to cancel out the main mic hum.

Ultimately the real solution was simply buying better microphones, but there was a period of some months while a microphone sat off stage, pointed backwards.

> In the case of blue pumped LEDs he's referring to bulbs that use a short wavelength LED in combination with phosphor that absorbs the light and reemits it at lower, and broader, wavelengths.

This was part of my suspicion, but I'm not familiar enough to know if that was correct.

> I get the impression the writer's opinions are extremely niche.

I'll be the first to say "citation needed" to what I'm about to say, but I feel like we went through a cycle of "the science is clear: blue light is bad for sleep!" to "actually a lot of that was not good science", so I'm unclear of where the consensus actually is (if I ignore this article).

I understand the issue at the heart, but this article does a horrible job of explaining any sort of practical realities of this new rule.

- "blue-pump" LEDs are not defined.

- Specific examples of things sold today that would not be allowed to be sold in the future would be helpful.

- A chart showing a 5000K bulb having what appears to be a spike in the blue spectrum greater than a 3000K bulb (though how could we be sure, since the axes aren't labeled) implies that certain color temperatures are worse, but is this always the case, or is it the consequence of a particular product sampled?

I'm walking away from this wondering if I won't be able to buy 3000K LEDs anymore, or if things like dim-to-warm will be banned. I hope not, but I just cannot tell from this woefully lacking write up.

> Teams will crater in popularity once it's no longer bundled with Office 365. Nobody uses Teams because it's good, they use it because it was free with stuff they already had.

And what if the unbundling doesn't affect the price? Don't confuse MSFT making mediocre products with them being commercially stupid.

And then there was one...

> Who would be stupid enough to commit a federal crime for $300?

Probably hundreds, if not thousands, of low level employees that work for carriers in retail positions.

Some computers that will exist in the future will be faster than some computers that exist today. Story at 11.

> -use tires from arbitrary manufacturers

Just like I can put cases from arbitrary manufacturers on my iPhone.

> -use oil from arbitrary manufacturers

Just like I can use chargers from arbitrary manufacturers.

> -drive to arbitrary locations

Visit arbitrary websites...

> -use a universal port to get error codes (OBD-II)

OBD-II is actually a good analogy because it exposes only a small set of standardized data, but the more interesting data (and ability to run diagnostics) is sometimes behind a manufacturer proprietary protocol and requires something more than just the standard OBD-II interface. Similarly Apple can choose what standard interfaces and protocols to implement and which proprietary ones they would like to create.

> why does it change when you add a cell radio?

Because that's what Apple chose to build and sell. You're free to build your own phone with your own feature set and sell that.

> Don't fall for Apple's marketing

Fortunately I'm capable of my own rational thought.

> imessage (the protocol) doesn't. iPhones should, because it's a common way for people to communicate.

iPhones are fully capable of transmitting images (and even other types of files--what an amazing world we live in). Feel free to install any of the numerous apps available that allow you to do this.

> It's an obvious abuse of their monopoly to suppress competition.

Apple has a monopoly on what, exactly?

Let me answer. Apple has a monopoly on iPhones.

Just like Chevy has a monopoly on Corvettes and Ford has a monopoly on Mustangs.

> Remember, this is all a very arbitrary restriction by Apple

What are they restricting? I am still unclear. Their choosing not to do something is not restricting anything.

> that lets them take advantage of their monopoly to suppress sales of competitive products.

And we're right again back to them having a monopoly on iPhones.

You're conflating things. What some people might want Apple to do is different from what Apple should be legally obligated to do.

If someone doesn't like the fact that the Messages app doesn't support <X>, they should not buy an iPhone then, if it's that important to them.

Pretty simple calculus. Apple made a choice, and then they can suffer the consequences of a lost sale because of that choice.

> So I think the specific answer to your question is "iMessage and its lack of support for <protocol (RCS?)>".

But there are other ways to send images or arbitrary files. Why does iMessage need to support it?

> Lack of iMessage support on Android.

Plenty of other ways to send images.

> By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.

So... what?

> Do you prefer not being able to send or recieve good quality images and videos to anyone using Android?

Bit confused by this. What prevents me from sending or receiving good quality images to/from Android users?

Or, they asked ATC if they had any idea what might be a smoother ride, and that's what ended up being suggested.

If you listen to ATC radio at all, it's a lot more anecdotal than you'd otherwise suspect, with private planes that fly higher sometimes reporting smoother air at higher flight levels.