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by bcrl 2y ago
Poor repairability is definitely a Telsa issue, and Rivian, and other EVs. Eventually manufacturers will get their acts together, but that's not the state of the world today. Supposedly BYD's modular batteries are better, but th
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by bcrl 2y ago
The other reasons are: power, power, power. FPGAs use orders of magnitude more power to accomplish the same task as an ASIC since you're doing lookups of bits in SRAM tables instead of directly implementing the logic functions using t
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by bcrl 2y ago
ADSL does not depend on shielding of copper. It uses Discrete Multi Tone modulation which modulates many subcarriers to be able to compensate for channel distortion as the characteristics of each phone line are rather different in the freq
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by bcrl 3y ago
When has big tech had a good history of proactive compliance?
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by bcrl 3y ago
In Young Drivers we were taught to choose positions at the intersection which offer an escape route (or to make space by leaving space), and to monitor our rear view mirrors as part of our scanning the intersection and to use the route when
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by bcrl 3y ago
Getting downvoted for an on-topic relevant comment is pretty disappointing. The fact of the matter is that there are still small internet providers around that care about the privacy of their customers. Furthermore, anyone who thinks they
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by bcrl 3y ago
The rate of cosmic rays impacting hardware should be extremely low, unless there's some kind of environmental factor (like being at a very high altitude). Or maybe there was a special train going by as in: https://www.jakep
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by bcrl 3y ago
That kind of rate smells like a hardware bug. Insufficient decoupling caps maybe?
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by bcrl 3y ago
That's not universally true. The ISP I run doesn't futz with DNS, and using our DNS servers is beneficial as it shaves about 10-20ms RTT off many DNS requests since our DNS servers are local with forwarders in the city that most
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by bcrl 3y ago
Why does an init replacement even need a compression library built into it? At some point the bloat is more risk than feature.
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by bcrl 3y ago
HAM would have worked even better if it had been in the intended hue-saturation-value (HSV) colour space as Jay Miner originally intended. Sadly, HSV support was dropped, but due to schedule constraints, there wasn't enough time to re
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by bcrl 3y ago
I did something similar in a messaging application... We had a data structure consisting of several tables describing various message queues in 4GB of persistent storage. The initialization of those tables was quite regular, as they were
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by bcrl 3y ago
Not a surprise. Their history predicted this: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2019/07/...
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by bcrl 3y ago
D-Link has an exceptionally poor security history. Back in 2019 they had a settlement with the FTC regarding security issues in their routers and cameras. Sadly, people don't recognize that D-Link devices should never be exposed to t
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by bcrl 3y ago
It's more that emissions regulations permit larger vehicles to emit more. Rather than improve efficiency of vehicles, it's cheaper to produce bigger trucks and cars.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Once you start swapping batteries, aluminium-air batteries become a real option. There was a demo 10 years ago showing a 1000 mile range using such a battery. Alcoa and Phinergy did such a demo - see https://eepower.com/n
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by bcrl 3y ago
Notifications on iOS are awful. I really want certain kinds of notifications (specifically calendar appointments) to bug me until I acknowledge them. Instead, they trigger once, and if I happen to be off in deep concentration on a progr
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by bcrl 3y ago
Take it from the airline industry: assigning blame is not a good way to improve safety. It's always a confluence of factors that leads to an accident. Change any single factor and the accident probably wouldn't occur. Moreover,
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by bcrl 3y ago
Good point. The Amiga did the same thing in the Amiga 500 and 2000. The Amiga 1000 would have if the operating system had been more stable at time of release. It also saved a significant chunk of RAM as the 1.x releases of AmigaOS used 2
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by bcrl 3y ago
The worst part of the P4 was when it went off into la-la land for 4000 cycles of replay. Did you issue a locked instruction? 4000 cycle penalty. Use rep ; movs? 4000 cycle penalty. Some weird internal condition with a misaligned store?
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by bcrl 3y ago
It makes one wonder if it would be in the public interest for there to be a legal requirement of generative AI providers to log what they have generated and make it searchable, along the lines of lawful access to telecommunications records.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Your faith in dealerships is unreasonably high. Based on my experiences maintaining a fleet of trucks for my company in addition to my personal vehicles, there are most certainly dealerships / mechanics that are incompetent and unable
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by bcrl 3y ago
In my experience, 10G wavelengths are cheaper than 2Gbps EVCs.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Dealerships are like any other business: some of them are incompetent at certain tasks. My entire point is that if one dealer is not doing a good job, then go to someone else that is willing to try to do a better job.
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by bcrl 3y ago
Dealers are known for being expensive. Furthermore, $60k is mostly a "go away" price from the dealer signalling that they don't have the skills and don't want to take on the risk on learning the skills needed to make th
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by bcrl 3y ago
The Ionic 5 has a quite modular battery array that looks far more repairable than other electric cars. Have a look at a teardown over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PASNQU5RSw
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by bcrl 3y ago
Proof of work needs to be outlawed. Externalities will be the death of us.
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by bcrl 3y ago
The A3000 wasn't really much of a revision. True, it had a hack that made it possible for the CPU to access chip memory 32 bits at a time, but the chipset remained using a 16 bit data bus for all accesses. When running in the 640 pix
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by bcrl 3y ago
Here in Ontario we are similarly bent over the barrel by Hydro One. The key to operating a regulated monopoly is to inflate your expenses so that the regulator has no choice but to approve the increase the rate you charge. Hydro One accom
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by bcrl 3y ago
This looks like the kind of subtle change that will lead to unexpected security issues.

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