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This one may be $5 billion, but the next one will probably be (made up number) $3 billion, and the next one $1 billion

Part of the point of these projects in particular is to get the machine spinning. Once it's running you start getting some of the economies of scale

The plateau doesn't have to be perfectly flat, but it's not a straight line upward anymore either (kind of like our work on transistors, where we've kind of hit the bounds of speed in clock cycles but are improving on miniaturization and power efficiency)

Not that they've hit it but that they are approaching it. The time to panic and steer the narrative is before you hit the iceberg, not after

Another piece of evidence on the pile that the sudden panic and desire to "slow down" is because they're hitting the plateau on capability

Which, honestly, is fine. A lot of juice to squeeze in efficiency and even if models got zero more capable, making the capability that is already here cheaper is a huge win for everyone (except Nvidia)

it depends on how the regulations are written. not every single cost gets to go into the guaranteed return on equity. Probably plenty of examples where it is, but also there are definitely a lot of examples where that's not true. Given how militant most utilities are at preventing theft, either parent comment OP is just being cynical or there is something very off about the situation there vs. most places

every step in the chain loses power. You lose power just in the power lines. Every trip through a transformer adds some more loss

Reducing the number of transformers, raising the high side of system voltage, and increasing conductor sizes are all ways to reduce the transmission losses. of course each of those requires investments so that's why it can be variable and also something to brag about

I mean this is the case universally, even if the losses aren't in a specific line item the cost of generating that power has to be covered overall

There's usually an incentive to solve this though because this shrinkage, in retail terms, would be handled at the cost of power generated (without any profit margin) whereas if it was sold to a paying customer it'd have a margin built in. If the Greek utilities are allowed to make a profit on that losses line item, that is insane

The Government has full time lawyers on salary, they generally don't pay by the hour for things like that

But, he didn't dispute it at the time indicating the meeting of the minds was for the 4 year, not 4 quarter, schedule. Now, is that iron clad? no, but it goes to show this is not nearly open and shut because it's more "deliberately" wrong than a misplaced decimal

Maybe I'm missing something but there seems to be a gap between "figure out the REAL hostname" and "we no longer have to worry about the stream never showing up on YouTube"

I think it was, because that serves as the cautionary tale that tv/movies are determined not to repeat (illustrated early by their refusal to get into bed with Apple as much as the music labels did)

The consumer isn't the side that got screwed in the music industry, the screws got put to the artists in that industry instead

>We are back to cable pricing

People expecting that the content companies were going to just accept lower revenue forever and not eventually get back to cable pricing were fooling themselves

In fact, the content companies are planning on making more money than they did under cable because since they're selling direct to the consumer, there's no DirecTV/Comcast/Charter middleman taking a slice anymore

Of course they'll sell through those intermediaries and take a cut but it will be much less than the cable companies were getting before, and will just go into the marketing cost bucket

It matters in that it's impossible to reliably and efficiently coordinate routes across that many agencies. Even if a rider can go from South San Jose to Oakland to Petaluma in a single trip on a single fare transferring as they go, okay it's an optimal payment experience but the routing and interlocking between systems surely isn't

Which is a problem in and of itself, at least theoretically. I don't live in SF, but I do live in a highly balkanized area (Atlanta) where the proliferation of local governments is a weight around the neck of the region overall

It's the case for most government jobs (which in the US most education roles are for government institutions--whether it be traditional K-12 schools or universities). The law in most states and at the federal level require opening jobs to the general public to prevent favoritism, encourage diversity, discourage corruption, etc. It usually just results in having a job posting that is filled before it's posted as they will have an internal candidate, and the rest is for show

Source of truth from this one is I've worked in public higher ed in two states in the US and gone through this process personally

> So you should apply to old job postings?

Yes. I recently got a job (IT infrastructure engineer with a non-tech company) on a posting that was 6 months old. they had filled it, and at the same time got approval for a second headcount so they never pulled it down

> The program applies to all 27 San Francisco Bay Area transit agencies that accept contactless Visa tap-to-pay.

Probably has something to do with that. Why on Earth are there 27 different transit agencies in the Bay Area? Probably should be a single digit, no?

There are a lot of smaller providers that will eschew some features, require a fairly limited integration surface (was the case with a lot of things with Slack integration before Teams' COVID explosion, for instance) to keep their support and development costs down

The best estimates I could find have TS at a 1-2% market share. And that was my point: You suggested "well if Tailscale can get away with not supporting SAML, anyone can!" and I think that's wrong. 98% of the market already is buying Tailscale's competitors, they can hardly do worse

I'm sure they can juice that a good deal more, but eventually they'll have to start picking off features that they have been avoiding to this point. Will that be SAML? Maybe not, most companies are on Entra ID which supports OIDC. The real tell will be when Tailscale either goes public or sells to private equity. When their backs are to the wall and they need to squeeze out another percent or two in growth and they have a big customer that must have SAML, then they'll do it

> Tailscale is like the sine qua non of modern enterprise products, and I believe it's OIDC-only.

I think you're drastically overstating Tailscale's share and ubiquity in the market. Maybe it's heavily represented in tech companies or those in The Valley but among rank and file normal companies not dominated by developers, they've never heard of Tailscale

Would it be detectable to some goon at the border? Probably not. They'd put in the sanitized password, see nothing, and let the person go. If it gets seized and an FBI or CIA analyst gets ahold of it, then yeah the smart guys are going to see it but you'd be in that situation anyway, so why not have an out that may avoid it?

all of our police are essentially paramilitary now. There's nothing special about ICE or CBP other than they're federal rather than local. Even local cops have become hyper-militarized and think they're patrolling the streets of Fallujah

Not for this they can't. They can seize your belongings but they can't detain you for something that isn't a crime and they cannot prevent you from entering the country if you're a citizen. You have an absolute right per Supreme Court rulings to enter the country unconditionally as a citizen

It will, one day, be changed to 200 miles (or more) on a whim

You can pre-clear US customs and immigration in a number of Canadian airports, including Halifax

Did you get their permission before running this test?

This is what I don't understand. I'll be the first to stand up and say there's a lot about IPv6 I don't know, but why can't/doesn't the router learn how to talk to the host when the host sends that outbound packet?

I'm guessing it's one of those completely over-engineered bits about IPv6 that is that way just because they wanted to engineer in so much complexity almost for the sake of it

So much for owning the entire software stack top to bottom. Guess the 20% of people who don't care if a vehicle has CarPlay/Android Auto aren't enough to sustain new car sales

We don't even do it that way with people

> but if we only check the correctness at the end, then isn't it possible that it already collided with an obstacle?

You would put the check before it actually does the thing. It's at the "end" of the process of figuring out what it wants to do, not the end of fulfilling the request or prompt