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thetinguy··on Air cargo is suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping
Anchorage is a common stop over location for both UPS[1] and FedEx[2].

[1] https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2019/12/06/ups-plans-ma...

[2] https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2019/08/15/fedex-ne...

thetinguy··on IBM achieves quantum computing breakthrough
Adafruit will probably have to sell cryogenic cooling equipment first.
thetinguy··on Ireland joins OECD International Tax agreement
State politics in the US is not based on how many people vote for or against something in a state. It’s based on how many legislative districts vote for or against something. The difference is important when you think about how legislative districts are drawn.
thetinguy··on Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
Yes but oled TVs don’t have the same spare pixels as the monitor.
thetinguy··on Samsung Foundry Forum announcements
There’s an lg oled soon to be released that “solves” the problem by basically underscanning and using the unlit pixels at the edges to allow for much more significant pixel shifts. It’s this one, but I can’t find the review. https://www.dpreview.com/news/0394947539/lg-new-32-4k-ultraf...
thetinguy··on New credit card rules in India: recurring card payments to be affected
Have you ever read a gym contract?
thetinguy··on Apple’s new Private Relay is leaking your original address through WebRTC
.Home.arpa not just .arpa
thetinguy··on Biogen used an FDA back channel to win approval of its Alzheimer’s drug
The nice thing is that you don’t have to trust them. The data is out there and you can read it for yourself.
thetinguy··on Instructions show how cops use GrayKey to brute force iPhones
No. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202303
thetinguy··on Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio
Apple Music files have DRM but iTunes purchases do not.
thetinguy··on Why are modern 50mm lenses so damned complicated?
Dpreview is owned by Amazon.
thetinguy··on Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months
Old processes don’t disappear when the cutting edge manufacturers switch to smaller features. A lot of jelly bean parts, like the kind that go into a car, are made with larger features that are easier to work with. I think manufacturing is a core competency for automakers. While there are significant differences between car making and chip making, I don’t think you should discount an automaker’s ability to manufacture things.
thetinguy··on MS Azure down: An emerging issue is being investigated
The major cloud providers all aim for 99.999% uptime. Keep in mind that 99.99% uptime means ~4 minutes of downtime a month. I think there are other reasons that banks may not want or have the ability to run their core services on the cloud.
thetinguy··on The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now
Can you add a usb 3 boot drive to your benchmarks?
thetinguy··on OctoPrint
Are you using an old raspberry pi? Going from the 3 to 4 helped loading time immensely. Although you still have to get a new board.
thetinguy··on Canadians derailed a train and drove it to City Hall for power after a ice storm
The linked video appears to show it driving under its own power
thetinguy··on Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online
Amazon.com and marketplace inventory commingle. Pickers don’t care which box seemingly identical products come from.
thetinguy··on Tell HN: A case of negative SEO I caught on my service and how I dealt with it
Dmca the registrar.
thetinguy··on Human-like neural network chess engine trained on lichess games
This probably breaks lichess cheat detection.
thetinguy··on Termux no longer updated on Google Play
I think 5 years of support is reasonable.
thetinguy··on PyPy Project looking for sponsorship to add support for Apple Silicon
Apple uses community tools internally for some things.
thetinguy··on Apple M1 – a seriously fast x86 competitor
Yes you run x86 apps but not x86_64 on Windows for ARM.
thetinguy··on Why Getting Paid for Your Data Is a Bad Deal
If only there was some way a collective could pool their power to negotiate better terms.
thetinguy··on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
They could implement UFS 2 if they wanted higher speed.
thetinguy··on I've now played with a Raspberry Pi 400 for a week and here are my conclusions
Drop the e and you have an MMC card.
thetinguy··on Coming soon: Google Fiber 2 Gig
IMHO google fiber is the reason isps in the us offer gigabit.
thetinguy··on Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast
Did you try asking the moderators to add it to the whitelist?
thetinguy··on USB-C was supposed to simplify our lives, but instead it’s a total mess
Nintendo is following the protocol. They’re using an officially supported alternate mode.
thetinguy··on ESP32 based old clock controller, with NTP sync
Synchronized wall clocks are a thing
thetinguy··on Apple’s dongle problem isn’t getting any better
New iPhones come with usb-c cables too.
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