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by avianlyric 7mo ago
> Bridges are partly a design problem but mainly a build problem. I think this vastly underestimates how much of the build problem is actually a design problem. If you want to build a bridge, the fact one already exists nearby covering a
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by avianlyric 7mo ago
> I mean, how many lights and how many refrigerators could one house possibly have? Once-upon-a-time a "bright" bulb consumed 80W of power. Today we achieve the same light output with 8W of LEDs, and order of magnitude decrease
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by avianlyric 7mo ago
Until recently total electrical power consumption in developed nations has been practically stalled for decades, despite continued growth in economic output, and greater demand for electricity consuming devices. Mostly because as the usage
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by avianlyric 7mo ago
You also have the problem that if the both the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything, and the ultimate question to life the universe and everything, are know at the same time in the same universe. The universe is spontaneously
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
Oh no somebody told China about the future. That’s why they sell everyone cheap PV panels, and are now building out the equivalent of the entire UKs existing solar and wind capacity every year. Plus they’re getting faster. In 20 years time
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
How is coal cheaper and easier than buying and deploying solar panels and batteries. Both of which require basically zero additional infrastructure to deploy. Last I checked mining and transporting coal required quite a lot of heavy industr
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
Yes, many of which are expected to never actually be used. Accidental result of how China does its provence based infra funding. Right now China is building out more solar and wind per year than than the entire total deployed solar and wind
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
The large iPad Pros have the advantage of using OLED displays rather than an LCD. Give the iPad screen an automatic power advantage because all of the light generated by the screen is emitted at the user, unlike an LCD where a substantial c
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
It basically is an iPhone or iPad, but with a keyboard. It’s really only the display that’s gonna consume significantly more power than its iPhone/iPad equivalent.
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
> You are in a great place in your life, if your most significant problem is caused by not liking a stupid meme and a breakfast photo your friends posted on a random Tuesday... Or you’re in a terrible place in your life, and the small en
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
There’s nothing inherently deadly about AC nor anything inherently safe about DC. If there’s enough voltage available to drive current through your body, then electricity is deadly regardless of if it’s AC or DC. In general AC tends to be a
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
> Because mastercard/visa don't personally bear any risk they are very happy to process refunds and chargebacks in the customer's favor. That’s not how chargebacks and refunds work. Mastercard and Visa are not involved in
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
Mastercard and Visa also use immediate settlement models and basically always have done. The settlement buffer between end parties is created entirely by entities that are all basically banks. There’s nothing special about Mastercard and Vi
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
> Chip and pin and NFC transitions took off much quicker outside the US because merchants generally owned more of the chargeback risk than in the US, and therefore were willing to update their POS equipment accordingly. Not really. The r
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by avianlyric 8mo ago
None of what you’ve mentioned has anything to do with Visa and Mastercard. Visa and Mastercard are just payment networks, their whole business is literally just transporting transaction information from payment terminals to banks and paymen
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by avianlyric 9mo ago
Because you may already have robust and sensible gRPC infrastructure setup and working, and setting up the correct HTTP infrastructure to take advantage of all the benefits that plain old HTTP provides may not be worth it. If moving big fil
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Not quite in the same league as IS, Al-Qaeda etc etc. Used to be a organisation had to murder and terrorise an entire population, or fly planes into city centres. Apparently our standards have dropped so low that spray painting a couple of
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
A number of parts of the underground already have platform edge doors, and train stopping locations are tightly controlled regardless of the presence of platform edge doors.
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> so I wonder if the tube stuff is just a weak public cover for the military/civil emergency applications that make the technology actually interesting. The project is quite explicitly a defence project. IanVisits is just a transpor
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
The accumulation might be from the integration, but the error is clearly from the accelerometers. Smaller error means smaller accumulated error, which means your magic box is usefully accurate for longer.
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
100%, but smoke screen is over selling it. From the article > The project is being carried out in collaboration with Transport for London, QinetiQ, PA Consulting, Imperial College London and University of Sussex. QinetiQ is a UK weapons
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
> I would wager that actually this is probably just a way of funnelling money into research around quantum rather than genuinely trying to solve this specific problem. You’re absolutely correct, from the government’s perspective the inte
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
That is an unusual luxury, especially mobile providers still using IPv4. Mobile providers have been the first and most aggressive to migrate to IPv6. Probably helped along by the cost and difficulty of running CGNATs when your network clien
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Using a normal ISP issued router, wouldn’t make a lick of difference if it was IPv4 with a NAT or IPv6 without a NAT. They’re all configured out-of-the-box with a default deny firewall. I’m not actually aware of any residential grade router
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
You literally can. You can just use local link addresses, IPv6 routers are guarantee not to forward those packets out of the network, or forward traffic into the network addresses to one of those IPs. Devices within the network can all stil
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
The early teens didn’t have huge proliferation of ISPs using CGNATs. These days ISP can’t get hold of new IPv4 blocks, and increasingly don’t provide public IP addresses to residential routers, not without having to pay extra for that lowly
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
No the author is highlighting the fact that the aspect ratio a video is stored in doesn’t always match the aspect ratio a video is displayed in. So simply calculating the aspect ratio based on the number of horizontal and vertical pixels gi
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Where else are they going to come from? They’re all basic elements, either you separate them from air, or you have to go through an energy intensive process to liberate them from various chemicals they’ve been compounded into. But guess wha
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
There is an effective duopoly in the smartphone OS market. iOS and Android, that’s what’s makes Apple a gatekeeper. Duopolies are just as dangerous as monopolies. Basically anything where there is a dozen or so competitors tends to be dange
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by avianlyric 10mo ago
Most people also complain about how pharmaceuticals are greedy corporations that seek to exploit monopoly status for profits above human health. Hardly a good example of a well functioning market.

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