MrRadar

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by MrRadar 2y ago
It's too bad the Mozilla Gfx blog is dead, I liked reading their updates on the graphics rendering subsystem: https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Almost every company making EVs these days has truck or SUV models planned if they do not already have them for sale. Even the most recent round of US subsidies for electric vehicles favors trucks and SUVs over cars by having a signficiantl
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Most people should be doing most of their charging at home. As someone pointed out downthread, level 1 (120V/15A) charging should be sufficient to cover most people's daily driving needs as long as they can keep the vehicle plugge
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by MrRadar 3y ago
> light-duty vehicles are unpopular I think by "light duty vehicle" the OP meant ordinary passenger vehicles. Under US law, essentially every vehicle with four or more wheels, under 10,000 lbs gross weight and no more than 10 p
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Verbal contracts are still contracts. The previous management was acting on behalf of a company, so they created the liability for the company. When you acquire a company you acquire all the liabilities and assets of that company, you don&#
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Also, as someone who wrote code that had to support C89-only compilers as recently as 5 years ago, I noticed immediately that this code mixes code and variable declarations which strictly C89 compatible compilers will barf on. That said, th
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by MrRadar 3y ago
If it is genuinely too complex ISPs could always take the approach of making the advertised price tax/fee-inclusive, like T-Mobile did.
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Large broadband providers in the US are allergic to policy and price transparency. They preposterously told the FCC they would not be able to list taxes and fees on proposed consumer broadband labels![1][2] [1] https://www.fcc.go
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by MrRadar 3y ago
I'd recommend buying a phone from Tracfone (or one of their sub-brands) with a bundled year of service, and then unlocking it after 60 days. They frequently have sales of those bundles for $100 or even less. You should be able to take
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Because cellular standards up to 3G were designed to support circuit-switched voice lines, i.e. you would get a dedicated slice of network resources for your call. That meant the voice interface had to be built into the base standard just l
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by MrRadar 3y ago
New T-Mobile SIMs haven't been able to work in 2G phones for a bit now. If you have an older SIM that's still active you can use it in a 2G phone but they don't want new customers using non-VoLTE devices on their network. The
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by MrRadar 3y ago
There's no reason to file it in Texas except to get it in the 5th circuit: > A Nevada corporation, whose HQ is in California, sues a DC entity and Maryland resident in … Texas. > This is like a 1L law school nightmare hypo. http
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Do not miss his 9-part series on the history of Windows through the 16-bit era: https://www.filfre.net/2018/06/doing-windows-part-1-ms-dos-a... It's one of the best pieces of technology history writing I&#x27
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Low income individuals spend a far greater share of their income on goods that would be subject to VAT than high-income individuals. Eliminating income tax would shift the burden of paying for government even more to the people who can leas
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by MrRadar 3y ago
> One institutional trader told The Wall Street Journal that his company has conducted fire drills to withdraw its assets from Binance quickly in the event of a meltdown. If you think a crypto exchange you're doing business with is
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by MrRadar 3y ago
"Enshittification" is not a hard word. It's describes itself: "En-" to make, "shit" bad, "-ification" the process of; in sum the process of making something bad. I think everyone understands that
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by MrRadar 3y ago
I've read about some Native American tribes using Plus Codes as street addresses for homes on their reservations for the purpose of issuing IDs so their residents can vote.[0] They had not previously numbered their homes and the bureau
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Assuming "daily driver" requires a modern web browser running modern web productivity apps I'd put the minimum at a Core 2 Duo with 4 GB memory. It wouldn't exactly be snappy but with a bit of patience you shouldn't
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Don't miss his recent series "The Secret Life of Components" on YouTube giving advice for makers on what components work well for DIY based on his lifetime of building stuff. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=
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by MrRadar 3y ago
In addition, you offset the electricity used to refine the oil into gasoline/diesel which I saw a study once that said it could get us 25% of the way to making up the increased electricity demand from EVs.
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by MrRadar 3y ago
A large part of it is that heat pumps only within the past decade became efficient enough to install in northern US climates, where temperatures are below freezing 4+ months of the year. It's relatively easy to design an air-source hea
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Some broadcast TV stations in my area have audio-only subchannels. Unfortunately they're not worth listening to (they're Christian talk stations) but it's neat to see.
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by MrRadar 3y ago
The sound quality of "HD Radio" sucks. It's like listening to 96 kbps MP3s off Napster back in the day. Also, cheap FM radios still don't support it because 1) it's a US-specific technology and 2) iBiquity charges (
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by MrRadar 3y ago
Indeed. The US "HD Radio" system has AM support in addition to FM and on AM it can broadcast up to 60 kbps (though most stations chose a 40 kbps mode with additional error correction to improve reception)[1]. Digital Radio Mondial
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by MrRadar 3y ago
> Fast forward to the first emergency that actually needs this and you're gonna see a bunch of asphyxiation deaths from people running their cars in the garage to listen to the last AM radio they have. In almost every car you can ru
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by MrRadar 3y ago
I believe the issue is more that the increasing amount of EM noise in the AM band from electric auto components (particularly EV power inverters) means they would have to invest more engineering in to filtering that noise out.
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by MrRadar 3y ago
> I assume AM broadcasts can cover significantly larger areas than FM. Yes, depending on the broadcast power AM radio signals can be picked up from farther away than FM. At night, depending on atmospheric conditions, AM signals can be re
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by MrRadar 3y ago
I would like to see this, and I would also like to see an expansion of the FM band (with support for it in cars also mandated). Low-VHF TV channels 4-6 are adjacent to the existing FM band and are not really suitable for digital TV broadcas
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by MrRadar 3y ago
The last update on 20021 was from April 2021 when Jon announced it was delayed (with no specific information on when it would be ready): https://www.reddit.com/r/Jon_Bois/comments/mwmo0i/programmin...
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by MrRadar 3y ago
User-Agent strings are still useful for identifying non-browser user agents but I agree that given the privacy issues they present all browsers should adopt a single standard UA string (one each for desktop and mobile). (Did you know that C

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