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> It seems VDSL2 can achieve maximum throughput at run lengths under 1000ft from the DSLAM, and maximum performance degrades after that over distance. That sounds sufficient for most of the people complaining of slow access right now in the US

I would guess that this isn't right, but honestly I don't have the data either. My rough guess would be that only around 5-15% of people have <1000' of copper to their DSLAM, and I from what I've experienced with other technologies the speeds degrade very quickly after the max length, and only even work up to the max length in absolutely ideal scenarios. What I've seen of current copper infrastructure in the U.S. is pretty bad - lots of hand twisted copper lines with the ends exposed and rusting out, for example - that kind of thing would add the equivalent of at least several hundred feet of additional cable, and is very difficult to fix en-masse.

Honestly my gut feeling is that you pretty much have to run new cables to something like 80% of the U.S. to get good Internet service everywhere, and obviously if you're running new cables you should just run fiber. Looking at the cost of that compared to launching satellites - and accounting for the additional benefits of the satellites, like connectivity in extremely remote places and on the ocean - I'm not sure the satellites don't come out ahead.

EDIT TO ADD: A comparison point on the 1000 feet number is that this is in the same ballpark as how close a 5G tower needs to be to get real 5G service to your home or your cell phone. Current 4G towers are nowhere near that dense, and it's going to take huge amounts of money to get them that dense, even in the most densely populated areas.
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There is a set capacity for these satellites, they can accomodate X number of users per satellite which would be a region (I'm making an educated guess) about the size of New Jersey. I think the size is larger than that which means fewer users but I'm trying to ballpark during my lunch break.

So if they expect to have 10,000 users (again ballpark) in New Jersey, but they instead get 40,000 they'll increase their costs. If they get 1000 users in say Wyoming, then maybe the costs in Wyoming will be lower.

The issue is they have a world wide capacity of 10,000 users at 11 MBs over the size of New Jersey. Again, I haven't run these numbers but these are the kinds of calculations GEO sats make to set prices for say, airplanes traveling from US -> Europe. The difference is that GEO targets specific areas more rather than blanketing the entire earth due to them being stationary.

The benefit of Starlink is that it'll have approximately equal signal all over the earth. So if you're in a city it can cover the same number of people per mile as it can in the middle of the ocean.
Probably not a good idea to store superglue and cotton together.

Combustion probably unlikely, but non-zero chance.
Well, I mean, it has 1Mb of RAM.
time and time again, whenever I start a new project, Django has always been my go-to choice after analyzing the alternatives. I've worked on large scale, mono-repo, billion users to side projects over the weekend, Django really stay true to the batteries included philosphy.
TIL that pressing "down" makes the dinosaur duck.
I'm guessing that our hypothetical student must or might take a college-level Biology course as part of their undergrad degree, and that exposure might cause them to change their mind about their chosen field.

I also don't know how easy it is to get into the same college at 20 that one would have gotten into at 18. If at 18 they got accepted to a school that cost 100K/year (as the parent comment suggests) then they may find that school closed to them 2 years later.
Keurig does actively hinder doesn't it? Don't they have some kind of DRM/capsule authentication?
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Obviously Tesla is getting a much larger bang for their R+D buck.

Citation needed. What has Tesla been able to accomplish with its inhouse R&D that nobody else has? Other than battery design (using cells developed and manufactured by Panasonic), pretty much everything Tesla does is subpar compared to automobile industry standards.
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it's always been great
You might enjoy Julian Barbour's theory of timeless physics, as described in his book "the End of Time".
As a Trump supporter, I agree with everything you wrote except the part where you call Trump a tyrant.

The US shouldn't be the world's babysitter. Countries need to work together and not look to a single country for leadership.
I think you're priviledging microstates. There are plenty of entropy decreases that are possible without the ice cube reforming. They're (extremely) unlikely of course, but somewhat less unlikely than the new, singular microstate you're asserting is somehow "less of a coincidence". It's vastly more likely (for example) that 1% of the particle velocities reverse than all of them doing so, and that could (depending ...) still lead to a decrease in the entropy of the system (but not a reformed ice cube).

I don't see how a long term entropy decrease that does not follow the time reversal route could be easier to form predictions in. There are many possible higher entropy states for the water than the water sitting in the glass, and if the universe enjoyed random entropy decreases, I see no reason why it would tend to pick certain macrostates over others.
Profound and enlightening, thanks!
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It isn't really as bad as it looks. A lot of it is just aggravating people to make them more likely to actually go out and vote.

I've lived in the USA for over half a century. I have never seen a single person denied a vote, not even once. I have white friends, black friends, friends of all kinds. I have never had one of my friends or family 'disenfranchised'.
I wonder how this affects repairability and insurance costs? Steel is seemingly repair able by bending and welding, I can't imagine stamped aluminum let alone cast is ever repairable? Doesn't that make insurance insanely expensive?
It is all about feedback cycle. You want a fast process to tell you if $thing worked.

Unit tests are that are fast, a dev environment with your running service that can be edited/updated quickly, acceptance tests that run automatically before merging to master, structured logging and log analysis tooling like splunk, and metrics emitted/collected. I need to be able to update a line of code and get feedback on that update in a few seconds (or faster, thank you IDE). Add onto that a great deploy story (solid ci/cd), alerts, historic metrics to compare to, etc. These are things that are mostly independent of the language you are in, and the tooling for the language is super important too. Self documenting method signatures in the form of static typing is huge for me. I can't stand when I find myself in python or perl and don't know what the incoming variable is - I'm stuck putting some logging or a break point to see what kinds of data are coming into that function.
My 2020 Model Y cost less to insure than my 2018 Honda Odyssey.
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Honestly, one of the barriers to my moving to a more rural area and working remotely was broadband access, but Starlink could very well solve that problem...
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What was that about a 300-pound combat robot?
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I already have the "Always show full URLs", so you know what I prefer, but isn't this the same or similar to Safari's default behavior for a while? I don't hear anyone still complaining about that.
Charity Navigator information is tricky with Mozilla since it's only dealing with the Foundation, a pile of just $20 million in revenue in the last year they're covering there (closer to $30 million for the most recent available year), less than half of which was donations ("Licensing Royalties" is where the majority of the other revenue comes from... it looks like the Corporation pays the Foundation to license the Firefox trademarks and things like that, and that's basically half the Foundation's income).

The Corporation, though it's a subsidiary, takes in several hundred million a year, the lion's share being from revenue for selecting Firefox's default search engine.

Note that despite CEO Mitchell Baker's couple-million salary which has been much-bandied-about lately, Charity Navigator lists the top compensated director as Mark Surman at ~$200K. Baker runs the Corporation and chairs the board of the Foundation, but is paid only by the Corporation. The realities of Mozilla's existence don't really map cleanly to what gets reported on a Form 990 and shown by Charity Navigator.

So it's a little tough to get an accurate view of Mozilla's finances through Charity Navigator's usual information: there's lots of room for things to kind of shift around: for the Corporation to pay the Foundation for things and vice-versa.
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> The 300 lb combat robot in the trunk

Please explain?
I think OP was referring to "fireworks stored next to ammonium nitrate." Fireworks are stupidly hazardous and should never be stored around high explosives. If the sparks had hit only the ammonium nitrate (because the fireworks had been properly disposed of or at least stored in a reasonable configuration), there's a good chance the fire would not have started.
Wikipedia model goes beyond being a wiki. Wikipedia does not pay for content on itself. So they have no direct vested interest in the content.

That is not the model of MDN, it seems.
Have you tried ROCM (AMD's OSS OpenCL implementation)? It works well for my AMD on Ubuntu.
I mean say it's $4/gal or $8/gal even. It doesn't change his point.
"I am not responsible!"

I'm hearing this a lot from multiple so called "leaders".
I looked at this work and since it's AGPL licensed I went away.

https://www.bitcat.cc/webapp/awesome-qr is a great alternative.
I feel like I'm missing a lot of context to why, where, and when this is being written.

USA Bike Shops are flat out of inventory, both high end (Rocky Mountain Bikes, Santa Cruz, etc), mid-range (Specialized, etc), and even Walmart/Academy Sports/etc are flat out of low-end inventory.
I have to lose at least 30 pounds before my bike's weight is my biggest problem.
Protocol hiding was recently fixed, via the "Always show full URLs" option. The default is still an inconsistent mess, but checking this option makes the URL bar so much better than it's been in years.
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Maybe don't use an account created less than 12 months ago to raise suspicions on another account for being created less than 12 months ago.
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There's a lot of immunocompromised and obese students and a lot of senior professors and staff.
So basically you didn't look at the link, because the castings -which, again, are new- are part of the safety cell. They are not the rear extruded rails.

If you had specified an adhesive when you first wrote the comment, sorry- I managed to not see it. I don't know of any "steel reinforced epoxy" besides JB weld (which generally should not be used on anything bigger than a lawnmower), but it and actual 3M vehicle adhesives[1] are a full 10x weaker in shear and 15-20x weaker in tension that plain boring 6061.

[1]: https://multimedia.3m.com/mws/media/1467016O/07333-irsa-tech...
This is a glaring connection I rarely see people make.

In fact, I've been banging on about it for 15 or so years, and, I kid you not, you're the first person I've seen being this up.

Strange!

Unusual cross section of knowledge: I studied nutritional medicine in a formal capacity for four years 2000 through 2003 inclusive, and I'm also a welder by trade.
Trying to picture a whole unibody being cast was difficult. Turns out its a "small" sub-assembly.

Curios -- could the whole body be cast?
I disagree that people even care if they are employees or contractors of Apple. There are way too many questions here:

1. Was this really only a problem of accidentally captured audio?
2. Why did this "improve voice recognition for Siri" program ever feel it was in scope to use any recordings accidentally captured?
3. Why weren't better controls in place on something so personal from a company that specifically markets a strong stance on privacy?
4. Does turning off "hey Siri" actually prevent ambient audio from ever arriving on Apple's servers?
5. Why can't they implement specific consent per recording rather than just do a stupid blanket "some of your captured conversations may be used to improve..."
6. What laws are needed to better protect consumers?
Currently I'm on https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=24161699&goto=item%3Fp...

Is that optimal?

Safari hides it on desktop now. Like I said I didn't want to admit it at first, but it's better.

It would certainly be noticeable on mobile if they word wrapped the entire URL so you could see it.
This was my first thought exactly. A welder's sparks is how it happened, but not why it happened.

Why was 2700 lbs of ammonium nitrate stored there?
Why for so long?
Why was that ship offered to dock their originally?
Why was the door broken requiring welding?
Why were fireworks stored right near ammonium nitrate?
Why were fireworks stored there at all regardless of the ammonium nitrate?
Why didn't the longshoreman unload it from the ship?
> […] how do you create a logo without knowing for certain what the words will say? […] brute force: you just design all the logos you can think of, based on whatever public information you can gather.
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Linseed oil is just flaxseed oil, and I've found that the latter term is used in cooking contexts, whereas linseed oil is a term used in various industries that use industrial grade flaxseed oil.

I make this distinction because when I went to buy "linseed oil" to cook with on Amazon a while back, it brought me to various linseed oils that were not meant for human consumption.
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Does this make a case for pro-Federal-Government? What would a libertarian say about how a society would prevent these types of accidents?
Personally I store them in a fireproof container meant to store ashes and inside that they are in ziplock bags. After I am done using them I burn them to get rid of them. Helps that I don’t need stuff like that often.
If you're trading internationally, and have to denominate on a given currency, would you use the one backed by China, or the one backed by the US? Would you use a new currency with nothing yet denominated in it, or the one in which trillions of assets are denominated into? The one backed by a legal system that in the end is a reflection of the whims of a single ruling, communist party with an inaccessible and arbitrary hierarchy, or the one backed by the, yes, imperfect, but still pretty much free and open legal system?

It's never about the actual money. Or the technical aspect of it. It's about trust.
It makes a lot of sense to me in the realm of experimental and classified aircraft. Easier to leak junk designs and call sightings UFOs than keep things secret squirrel. According to the CIA half of the UFO sightings in the 50-60s were U-2s and SR-71s.[1] There's plenty more too, like the tacit Blue, RQ-3 Darkstar, FDL-5, and GD sneaky pete that sure look like "UFOs" to the untrained eye.

[1]https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a3995/4304207/
I had the same thought. A scene from the Simpsons.
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> I would prefer that their experience gaining would be faster, so it would cost me less money :)

Maybe your current strategy isn't working?
> has raised nearly £900,000

That's published yesterday, today as I write this it's:

£1,146,085

27 days to go
Perhaps they meant that heavy long-running calculations could be offloaded to a worker pool with a help of concurrent futures and run_in_executor()

- https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html

- https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-eventloop.html#asy...
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Very much so. The ZX Spectrum is how I started programming, like so many who grew up in the UK:

https://blog.steve.fi/how_i_started_programming.html

Hacking games for infinite lives lead me to Z80 assembly, which lead me to Intel assembly, which lead to a job, and here I am, 30 years later still working with computers.
Or the very recent fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard.
If Epic was fighting only for itself to get a special deal (which they are not), they would not have the moral high ground. But if they are fighting for a process change (which they are), then they absolutely have the moral argument on their side.

An App Store without competing stores and payment systems ultimately hurts the consumer, because Apple is not forced to compete on quality and price.

As someone who paid for and owns the hardware, I should not be in any way inconvenienced in my ability to choose what to install on it. Apple is only part of the equation of what makes the iPhone great. 3rd party apps are the other part, and today, is the more important part.
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Somehow, I think these kinds of "clever" QR codes would be less used. Most people aren't going to even notice that they are legit QR codes. QR codes are already underutilized enough, at least in western countries. Cool idea, though!
Yes.

All this beaming technology is available on earth (4g/5g) but we don't use it for our home internet... Why is that? Cost of bandwith per person to infrastructure.

If you're in Silicon Valley then you probably get GREAT cell service, why not use a hotspot as your internet. That signal to your phone is orders of magnitude cheaper than space based signal.
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So the guy who led the materials research that resulted in the infamous bending iPhone is Tesla's chief scientist on this project?

Not promising, though on the other hand cars are supposed to bend and flex in the event of an accident...
True, but their first customer is the U.S. Army which tells me this networks primary purpose is the same as the original intent of the internet itself. A mobile network that is available and reliable anywhere. Civilians usually get to do all the beta testing and provide feedback that improves the technology.

Also many of the places I have been looking at moving to don't even have POTS lines. This would fill the gap where POTS and VDSL is not available. I would certainly use VDSL if that were an option and use Starlink as a fallback in a very remote area.
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Ok, we've changed to that URL from https://github.com/servo/servo. Thanks!

+title changed from "Servo Parallel Browser Engine Project"
Isn't it funny how every. single. landscape photograph edited in Lightroom or Capture One has serious halos on the horizon and every contrasty transition?

Thanks to Filmic and the Tone EQ, we can actually edit landscapes without these issues.

Or sunsets without false-color rings around the sun. Or the majesty that is Color Zones...
I think they serve different purposes. Satellites serve areas where they can't run wires or it's insanely expensive for too few people. Think very rural areas and war torn areas. Imagine being able to get unblocked internet in China by using satellites? Or in Belarus. Or the middle of Amazon (rainforest)?
> when doing IO calls in Python so GIL is usually released so the kernel can already schedule another thread while waiting for IO

This is true, but scheduling another thread through the kernel can have higher overhead since it requires context switches. Running multiple threads also has other potential issues with lock contention; how problematic they are will depend on the use case.

The potential advantage of scheduling another thread is, of course, that it can do CPU bound work; but in Python, unfortunately, doing that means the GIL doesn't get released so that thread will prevent any further network I/O while it's running, the same as would happen in an async framework if a worker did a lot of CPU work. So Python doesn't really let you realize the advantages of threads in this context.
Energy density of 222 µWh cm−2

As a battery, this is not useful.

A standard brick is 2Kg, volume 1300 cm^2, or 0.0015 Kg/cm^2.
So that's 148,000 uWh/Kg, or 0.148 Wh/Kg.

That's not much. A lead-acid battery is 30 to 50 watt-hours / Kg. Existing ultracapacitors have an energy density of 5 to 10 watt-hours / Kg.
So this is about 1/200th the energy density of a lead-acid battery, or 1/33 of an ultracapacitor. Not bad for a first try. It may be possible to improve on the material. Get the surface to volume ratio up.

But as a capacitor, it's quite good. Use this technology to replace ordinary electrolytic capacitors in power supplies. Capacitors have been the weak point in power supplies for a century. As an ordinary capacitor, it's 1.60F/cm^2 at 1.2V. Farad, not uF. That's very good compared to ordinary electrolytics. The main problem is the low current - 0.5mA/cm^2. That has to be increased for this to be useful as a filter cap. That's mostly a connection problem - getting enough conductor near the capacitor component.
And they won't succeed, because currency is about trust, and dictatorships can't generate any of it long term.
sounds like a scout or a sapper?
This was a great reminder to secure objects and keep them in the trunk/boot whenever possible.
Apple makes exceptions for payment processing on apps already (for example Amazon Video).

I think Apple would have a lot more goodwill if they reduced their take. It's unlikelybanyone would sue over 10-15%.
Agreed, it feels like this was in response to something that I never read.
"Education is a common good, and a right to be enjoyed by all."

This is not a statement that accurately represents current American politics, and that is....

Astonishing.
Incompetence and corruption are often hand-in-hand. Corrupt governance often results in the appointment of (or support of in a corrupt-but-more-capitalist environment) sycophants who don't know anything about the thing they're in charge of. This leads to a degradation in the culture within whatever organization they're leading.

At first it's small, experienced engineers or safety officers and the like will start leaving. But there's enough left. But then the money for maintenance and training diminishes over time, likely to someone's private bank account. After even just a few short years of this you'll have an incompetent organization.

I've seen this play out, not just in governments, but in private enterprises as well. When you see a division's quality dropping, look to the top and see what they're doing and emphasizing and how they got that position.
Run Calibre on your desktop; sync the library up to a $5/month VM, and run ubooquity there. Or Calibre.
Modern auto-dark shields have periferal vision windows.

One of the most used brands around these parts is SpeedGlas by 3M

https://www.awsi.com.au/3m-speedglas-9100xxi-welding-helmet-...
The idea of choosing partners based on fitness is implemented in most GAs. It's called selection and a basic form looks like choosing two individuals for each parent and only breeding the fittest in each pair (tournament selection).

Many frameworks also include a "hall of fame" to avoid evolving away from a good point like you mentioned.
What is a good age for kids to learn coding?
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This will only help if the workers are separate processes. Thread workers will hold the GIL in Python and prevent network I/O while they are doing CPU bound tasks.
It’s better than the DSL AT&T provides in some parts of SF where “you’re too far from the CO, you’re maxed out at 12”.
If anything, I can imagine them ramping up prices in higher-density areas (where other more competitive broadband providers are available) to avoid oversubscription.