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by bcrl 4y ago
Clearly you have never seen a phone line fried by a direct lightning strike before: the cable vaporizes and blows up the ground over top of it. Direct strikes are rare enough that most people will never see them. On overhead lines the neu
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by bcrl 4y ago
Decentralized also means no centralized rules of law. I'm not sure we want the wealthy crypto whales running around enforcing their own idea of what laws should be. Sounds like a path towards crypto cartels acting like the drug carte
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's almost as if you want to remove externalities from the food supply chain...
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by bcrl 4y ago
I like to scribble down notes during meetings or calls, but not for the purpose of looking at them in the future. Instead, the act of writing them down on paper helps me remember the content far better than if it's just something audi
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by bcrl 4y ago
It keeps expanding due to changing weather patterns. I've already had 3 ticks on me in the past couple of weeks here in eastern Ontario from as little as walking in a ditch for 30 seconds (the dangers of being in telecom). It wasn&#x
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by bcrl 4y ago
I don't think the main battery pack needs to be swappable, but there needs to be a common standard for a secondary battery pack (like boosting a car to start it today). There's lots of space in the frunk of an electric car for th
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by bcrl 4y ago
At least the ongoing creation of new superfund sites is no longer business as usual for semiconductor firms.
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by bcrl 4y ago
The older I get, the more errors my typing contains versus the mental stream of consciousness I intended to type.
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by bcrl 4y ago
That kinda like the Gnome developers and their search for the Aunt Tilly approved Linux desktop. Screw your existing userbase that was making use of those "legacy" features, go after the one that is perpetually right around the c
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by bcrl 4y ago
Or maybe the EVs currently on the market have not yet reached the level of range needed for use-cases that fossil fuel car drivers currently expect. There is virtually no downside to building EVs with longer range if cost can be reduced su
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by bcrl 4y ago
This is what makes an electric can untenable for my use-case. I can end up having to drive 400-500 km in a day to go for site visits and other tasks. I'm rather baffled that there don't seem to be any easy battery swap options f
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by bcrl 4y ago
3 mile island fucked up big time on American soil, and they didn't exactly come clean during the course of the meltdown as to what local residents were being exposed to. For profit operators still have incentive to cover up accidents
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by bcrl 4y ago
I am shocked and dismayed that a team of software developers would be willing to implement this kind of feature. The following poem comes to mind: First they came for the Communists And I did not speak out Because I was not a
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by bcrl 4y ago
That reminds me of NetWare's job execution tool that worked on MS-DOS way back in the late 1980s. Back when we had a shiny new 386 in my uncle's office, we would use it to submit large compile jobs to the unfathomably fast 386.
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's perfectly possible to do FTTH builds for 30-40 homes at a cost of $30-40k. Just make sure you know what you're doing and avoid getting fleeced by engineering consulting firms and high margin construction companies.
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by bcrl 4y ago
In the real world someone has to program the self driving system to make the decision about how to react. That is, there is a software team somewhere that is going to have to decide what behaviour to program into the system for the trolley
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's pretty sad that people put that much money into towers when the cost of hooking a home up to fibre (even rural) is in the $1800-2500 ballpark.
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by bcrl 4y ago
I didn't want to put up a 100+ foot tower, so I started a rural FTTH ISP instead and ran my own fibre rather than pay the existing local WISP to give me crappy 5-10Mbps service. Still, there are lots of cottages and other rural homes w
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by bcrl 4y ago
At least I can get service from the other providers. 2+ years on the waiting list and addresses in my area are now targeted for 2023.
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by bcrl 4y ago
One NYT subscription is not sufficient. There's no way I'm sticking to a single news source, and I'd bet a lot of other people feel the same way.
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by bcrl 4y ago
It's not $20 per year. It's $20 per year x 50 news sites = $1000 per year.
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by bcrl 4y ago
My issue with online news sites is that there are too many of them, and the internet generally doesn't result in me sticking to any reasonable subset to make a subscription worthwile. Give me a micropayment mechanism built into my web
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by bcrl 4y ago
Leading edge processes are not where the shortage exists -- it's trailing process nodes that are used heavily for support chips and automotive. Support chips like voltage regulators sure as hell don't need a 5nm or 7nm process, b
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by bcrl 4y ago
Somebody didn't read Flash Boys... This is exactly what the big banks and high frequency traders were doing to their own customers.
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by bcrl 4y ago
But look at why this has occurred. In 2000 there was still such a thing as journalistic integrity, in large part due to the fact that journalism was still well funded locally (both in newspapers and in television), although newspapers we
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by bcrl 4y ago
This. I appreciate discussions across the aisle, as it's the only way that we, as a society, can solve the problems facing the world today. But when basic facts get thrown out the window and politicians can no longer distinguish betw
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by bcrl 4y ago
There are a lot of sources of anti-science information that shouldn't be trusted, along with organizations that promote specific misinformation (not disinformation) for profit without disclosing their financial interests. Remember tha
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by bcrl 4y ago
No. I listen to music via headphones while falling asleep, and require my phone to charge at the same time. The dongles available are complete garbage: they only work with the connectors in certain orientations and sometimes just don&#x27
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by bcrl 4y ago
I predict more inflation to come.... Mostly because there are so many stimulus dollars from governments still sloshing about in the world. It will be very interesting to see what happens to the semiconductor industry when the new fabs bui
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by bcrl 4y ago
None of us do, but we're stubborn enough to try.

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