acheron9383

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by acheron9383 1y ago
Man that is a lot of computer to put into that product for as little money as possible. I'm not intending to excuse the products with likely bad firmware causing most of these issues, especially Ethernet PHYs. Though, in my profession
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by acheron9383 1y ago
When you design electronics you have to produce millions of, it takes a couple of dev 'spins' and usually a couple of prod 'spins' to get to the mass market board. Usually the PMs, EEs, MEs and SWEs get together and spec
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by acheron9383 1y ago
I mean the EEs / MEs can certainly turn out a board and housing in under 6 months, certainly on a yearly cycle. Though for the current automakers, they don't have a team for this so it would take them probably 3 iterations to get
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by acheron9383 1y ago
As someone who works professionally on embedded software devices that update over the internet, car companies are stuck not because they can't get software talent, but because they have no ability to actually build the electronics alon
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by acheron9383 3y ago
It is likely that Rogers agrees to pay Starlink a fee when Starlink acts as a roaming provider for one of their customers, where Starlink has slow and limited speeds but universal coverage. The industry has similar arrangements with roaming
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by acheron9383 3y ago
The satellite emulates a cell tower, just one that is hundreds of miles away and moving very fast. So some tricks with the timing will need to happen since LTE expects the tower to be close and not moving. How big a cell is depends on how p
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by acheron9383 3y ago
Starlink already does this today for Indonesia, they provide backhaul for remote cell towers for Telkomsat. https://voi.id/en/technology/178276
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by acheron9383 5y ago
Honestly, to just get moving, installing Doom emacs and selecting evil mode during setup. The basic keybinds are all Vim then, works great for me with minimal headache.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Seems like begging the question, they assume it is a CCP honeypot and then push the false dichotomy with the voice back end? *edit s/video/voice/
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by acheron9383 6y ago
It seems like, if you wanted to help stop the wealthy from ducking paying taxes, one should just stop providing a special long term capitol gains tax and tax capitol gains the same as income. It simplifies the tax code, stops punishing wor
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by acheron9383 6y ago
I see the resale value of the recycling as subsidizing the cost of the recycling service. We pay for,(or your taxes do, depends on where you live) trash/recycling because then someone comes on regular intervals to take it. Part of that
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by acheron9383 6y ago
For sure, the FDA employs pharmaceutical engineers to regulate the companies. The FAA employs pilots and aviation engineers. Do we have a corollary for software? Sort of, in specific domains, but not really.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Well, people expect a company to not try to ride the high horse down the low road. I don't personally think Mozilla has really done anything bad, I get it, they are a real company, with real employees who work for a living. Sometimes t
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by acheron9383 6y ago
The metaphor seems apt to me, if anything, we should have and do have a much greater interest in regulation of automotive products, which themselves are absurdly complex. How is a regulator to know about various emissions, chances of explos
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by acheron9383 6y ago
In my opinion, a big thing many developers forget, especially those that are obsessed with design patterns and code rules, is that simple machines to solve complex problems are actually harder to design than convoluted ones. Leave a designe
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Eh, eye of the beholder. The stronger type system and more verbose syntax certainly makes the code look different. In a way though, it makes the code much more readable. To pick on Python, the Rust code is a lot more _specific_ in what it i
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by acheron9383 6y ago
The actual modem that talks to the sats is in the antennas you mount on the roof. They are calling that the "terminal"
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Unclear until the pricing comes out, they may just include it for free when you buy internet service. But ISPs generally need to package at least something to serve Wifi for customers that don't already have their own Access Point, loo
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by acheron9383 6y ago
I'd bet this is the box you place inside your house to serve Wifi, and run ethernet up to the roof to connect to the modem/antenna on the roof, hence this being essentially a bog standard AC Wifi Router.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Yes, it is pretty standard to package an access point in with the modem. No idea if they will just include the router in the internet price, or rent it monthly on top of standard charge like how some ISPs do it.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Second this whole thing. Wasn't a runner growing up, recently ran a marathon which was fun, now I am back to just running 5 miles for regular exercise. Honestly got into it as a mental break after work, took to listening to podcasts a
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by acheron9383 6y ago
It really is impressive how many taps it takes me to do anything in MFP. Why are there so many damn menus, I just want to input calories and see a counter. It is so overly complex I just switched back to a legal pad and doing the math by ha
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by acheron9383 6y ago
That is a solid point, at the end of the day, programming languages and frameworks are just tools we use to build a product that has some use to someone (Be that monetary value or art or whatever). At work, it is almost always better to ju
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by acheron9383 6y ago
It is interesting that streaming content economically is pretty hard at scale. That was a big moat for Netflix for a long time, but every year it gets filled in a little more as other companies figure it out.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
While I don't disagree with the California law, it is reasonable for a company to hold copyright over it's materials and products. I'm not sure a California state law can just hand wave away a federal statue and break the cop
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Exactly, and then it is up to your defense attorney to somehow dispute that the AI just made up a face, that just happens to look like yours, and then explain it to 12 laymen who likely know nothing of how ML or computers work. The company
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Contrarian almost seems too vague a term. In conversations I've run into people assuming a wide variety of roles. One is the polite interviewer who presses gently at the weak points of someone's statement, usually this person exte
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by acheron9383 6y ago
YouTube is the place my father always talks about to get quick guides on repair work from. It's absurd the depth of knowledge YouTube can contain.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
You may not like it, but this is what peak tech looks like.
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by acheron9383 6y ago
Yeah, the key is the Amazon still _makes money_ on the services it provides, it just spends it all on some project. Contrast that with even Uber which has some very unhealthy indicators even in mature offerings. It is actually kind of amazi

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