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> This is exactly why everything like Disney has moved upmarket, with pricing rising far above inflation.

Also the logic of what Broadcom/Avago did with VMware: only chase the whales.

> Yeah as long as you ignore the engine (ECU/PCM/TCUs) in cars in the 80s, they're quite simple.

Alec of Technology Connections just posted a video on this:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KoeY54M5VA

> Plenty of people in Seattle just run the charging cable from the house across the sidewalk with one of those little ramps over it.

That only works if you park your car on the same side of the street as your house: that is not true in my case. That charging cable would be running across the road itself.

Our utility poles are also on people's property, so the charging cable would lay across the sidewalk.

> The people that complain about 'free parking' conveniently forget that land owners pay property taxes, vehicle and fuel taxes, and other taxes which go to maintaining the public roads. So it's not free.

A common resource that is unmetered just ends up being abused. There's lots of data on this, e.g.:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_High_Cost_of_Free_Parking

And I'm not sure if the various taxes that are paid actually cover the costs of all the roads (never mind the externalities causing climate change). Certainly there is a lot of public utility to paved roads/highways such that some level of 'subsidy' is probably warranted, but I think that congestion pricing needs to be done a lot more too:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congestion_pricing

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46218725

Stable marriage algorithm or stable matching algorithm?

> In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Gale–Shapley algorithm (also known as the deferred acceptance algorithm,[1] propose-and-reject algorithm,[2] or Boston Pool algorithm[1]) is an algorithm for finding a solution to the stable matching problem.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale–Shapley_algorithm

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable_matching_problem

> Parking permits are generally hilariously cheap compared to the market value of the land they reserve.

The "reserved" land is a street: what else is it going to be used for except transportation?

The house I'm in was built before cars were even invented (1890s) and there were streets then, but even as early as 1907 cars were being used (there are photographs of my neighbourhood with them).

I pay an annual fee for a street parking permit.

> Unless you live in bumfuck nowhere with expensive electricity, zero solar power and a daily 5 hour commute, an EV will likely work just fine for you.

Or do not have a garage, driveway, nor any other parking spot besides on the street, so can't charge at home.

> Yes, but it wouldn't necessarily be easy to use or consumer friendly. The ideal solution would have the baby with their back facing front, and the attached carrier facing inwards towards the seat.

There is an existing international standard (ISO 13216) for child safety seats in cars:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isofix

It could be added to airplanes seats.

> Establishing the authenticity is the tricky part, and most encrypted communications protocols offload that to the user in some way

This statement is mostly true for computers, but a human can look at a (e.g.) Twitter post and know that the account belongs to someone and copy-paste the key in the post, or via an e-mail that has crossed the Internet in a matter that they're confident has not been fiddled with. A computer (process) just has a string of bits that have come in via a socket: it has no other context and so a bunch of infrastructure has to be tapped into (as you listed).

> "Well a wave hit it"

I'm assuming this is a reference to the classic Clarke and Dawe skit:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_and_Dawe

> Has hardware-offload (for AES et al) got faster still, or that keeping CPU busy in the data path for 100gbps workloads is not ideal, or something else?

What is referred to by the term "hardware-offload"? For NICs:

> ConnectX NICs offload and accelerate encryption/decryption at speeds up to 400Gb/s.

* https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet-adapters/

There have been MACsec implementations at 800Gb/s for several years:

* https://www.rambus.com/blogs/rambus-launches-800g-macsec-mul...

* https://semiengineering.com/the-evolution-of-ethernet-to-800...

And 1.6T/3.2T as well:

* https://www.rambus.com/security/protocol-engines/macsec-ip-3...

> How can Alice and Bob exchange their public keys securely? Not with Wireguard, because they'd need to already know each other's public keys for that! So they need to use some other secure mechanism as a bootstrap. Hence, out of band distribution.

I don't think this is quite equivalent: with public keys you 'just' have to establish authenticity, but with PSK you also have to worry about secrecy.

In someone ways it's similar to the PGP/GPG situation: initial secrecy is not the issue, trust is. If you trust someone's Twitter/Bluesky/Mastodon account, they could just the pubkey there; if you think e-mail is 'secure enough' to not be tampered with, they could e-mail you their pubkey. The threshold for 'PSK safety' is probably much higher.

I read "netmap" and thought it was the 'fast packet I/O' system:

* https://github.com/luigirizzo/netmap

* https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc12/technical-sessions/p...

* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=netmap&sektion=4

> So no, CANDU can’t stay online for decades without maintenance and instead have similar downtime issues.

There are several situations:

* refuelling occurs

* maintenance and/or inspection needs to happen

* refurbishment may be desired

Some of these things take downtime, some do not, depending on the design of the reactor and other factors. A blanket statement of "refuelling forces a downtime" is incorrect in many situations. Depending on the maintenance (or inspections) needed, this may or may not need downtime. Refurbishment generally means tearing things apart, so usually means downtime, but if a site has multiple reactors they can be done one at a time, e.g.:

* https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1006993/ontario-delivers-...

"France's largest electricity producer said the move was required to comply with environmental regulations."

This is a policy decision, not a technical limitation. Palo Verde has been operating in the Arizona heat for forty years: nuclear can handle situations of low/high-temp water.

> Or summer when reactors have to be shut down because the rivers are too hot or running low.

Palo Verde is right next to the Sonoran Desert and has been running for forty years in Arizona heat:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_...

There's no technical reason why nuclear plants can't run in low/hot water situations.

> Yes, France is pretty much alone in making nuclear work. It's impressive. That said, it is alone.

Ontario, Canada may have something to say about that:

* https://www.ieso.ca/power-data?type=supply

> Nuclear power plants need to be taken offline for multiple weeks to months at a time for refueling

CANDU reactors, for one, can be (and are) refuelled live:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_refuelling

Every few decades they do need to be refurbished though.

> Generally speaking, workers want the business to work, i.e. to do the thing for which it was ostensibly created. (If they didn't want that, they would go work somewhere else.)

Or workers don't care where they work as long they get a pay cheque. If management wants to do stupid things sometimes it's not worth the fight as long as payroll is made.

What's always been a bit surprising to me is that the conductor Leopold Stokowski had enough 'cultural cachet' that there was some expectation that people watching the cartoon would recognize the reference to him ("Leopold!"):

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski#Hollywood_Bo...

Not sure that the general public would have any kind of awareness for conductors or anyone in the classical music world today: perhaps Yo-Yo Ma, and some years ago 'The Three Tenors' were a thing.

> There was a US lawsuit against them for their linear compressors: https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/consumer/fridge-failures-...

Out of all the fridges that LG sold, what percentage had issues? LG sells a lot of units, so even small percentages may end up with 'critical mass' of problems that gains wider awareness.

An article from an appliance retailer that has their own in-house service department, and so has statistics on repair rates of the various OEMs that they sell:

* https://blog.yaleappliance.com/lg-compressor-class-action-la...

Looking at service rates in total (for all issues), LG has the lowest number out of all the manufacturers they sell/service:

* https://blog.yaleappliance.com/the-best-counter-depth-refrig...

* https://blog.yaleappliance.com/most-reliable-counter-depth-f...

> Now, ask yourself if you want AI taking decisions around your life... it will pull numbers... someone will have a "goal" of 1000 "hits" and there you go

Before anyone does this please let me know beforehand so I can invest in paperclip factories…

> Frustrating when you want something with a verified source, for me it was Wireguard, and don't want to build it locally.

WG has MSI/EXE installers for Windows:

* https://download.wireguard.com/windows-client/

Not sure why they can't pave PKG/DMG files for macOS. As an open source example, MacPorts uses PKG:

* https://www.macports.org/install.php

On my work laptop I don't think I've installed anything from the Mac AppStore (Xcode is available from AppStore and (last I checked) as a downloadable XIP too.)

> The complaint here is about the tier pricing model, not the service

If you use more storage why shouldn't you pay more? A 1000 sq. ft. (100 sq.m.) apartment costs more than 500. Is there a cloud storage provider that does not charge per usage? E.g.,

* https://www.dropbox.com/plans

There are certainly service for more technically minded folks that calculate more granularly:

* https://www.tarsnap.com

* https://www.rsync.net/pricing.html

But a 'normie' may not appreciate a 'dynamic pricing' model, and may understand a fixed price system better.

> It is designed to entrap people who don't really think about their tech. […] So rather than transfer to some external storage, as they might not even have a working mental concept of a file system let alone a personal computer that isn't work issued anymore for that matter, they started having to buy bigger and bigger storage capacity iphones.

It is not "entrapping", it's providing a service.

My senior-aged mom does have the skill, nor the desire, to figure out local image storage/backup, and I have no interest in running self-hosted solution (even for myself). Apple providing iCloud for backups is not "entrapping" her.

> […] etc at the Internet bubble top then you would have missed out on huge gains since then.

Only if you never repurchased.

Or you could DCA out: have a standard policy that no single stock can be more that x% of your portfolio, and as any one gets above that limit you crystallize profits. It's no different than having a 60/40 portfolio and rebalancing your equities if they get >60%.

I lean more towards passive and (total) market index funds, and just riding the roller coaster, as anything else is fairly either impossible or too time consuming:

* https://ofdollarsanddata.com/even-god-couldnt-beat-dollar-co...

Howtown had a video on this a few weeks ago:

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvCgC1yA7_w

On the etymology of the name of the project, see Greek mythology:

> Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Ancient Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the gods. He is also widely considered the protector of human heralds, travelers, thieves,[2] merchants, and orators.[3][4] He is able to move quickly and freely between the worlds of the mortal and the divine aided by his winged sandals.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes

Rough Roman equivalent:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(mythology)

> After first boot, go through a long list of things to deactivate so that one can experience at least some feeling of agency and privacy when using your own hardware.

The difference is that you can actually not set these things up: with Windows you often have to choice. Macs allow you to not have an iCloud account and run just fine without them, whereas to avoid a Microsoft cloud account there are magic CLI incantations that have to be invoked. And once you say "no", Apple generally leaves you alone.

I don't mind a bit of 'upsell' or informing (new) users of available offerings, as long as I get a choice.