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by bcrl 1y ago
You may need a third access point in the middle of the house then which would enable you to further reduce tx power on the access points while maintaining good reception of client transmissions by the APs, as clients won't roam unless
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by bcrl 1y ago
Every doubling of the channel width costs roughly 3dB. Shannon's law strikes again!
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by bcrl 1y ago
DECT phones run on the 1.9 GHz spectrum which doesn't get absorbed by water like 2.4 GHz, and will penetrate through many other materials far better than higher frequencies. Most people place wifi repeaters incorrectly, or invest in cr
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by bcrl 1y ago
The biggest obstacle to AGI is data. Take the knowledge the average human has about integrating visual information with texture of an object. Nearly every adult can take a quick glance around a room and have a good idea what it will feel l
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by bcrl 1y ago
Modern engineering exists because of the people that were maimed or died to give us the knowledge that lets us live the way we do today.
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by bcrl 1y ago
Licensing takes many forms. Some are onerous, some are not. Working At Heights training takes 0.5-1 day of training every 3 years where I live, and it's mandated because it saves lives. Yes, it's a form of licensing, but it&#x2
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by bcrl 1y ago
Ethics is applicable to many situations outside of life critical systems. Engineers take ethics very seriously because it is important, and I think it is important for software developers as well. The first time I worked closely with a Pr
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by bcrl 1y ago
This is why I think that we're getting to the point where software developers need to be trained in ethics and licensed in the same way as professional engineers are around the world. The people building the tools need to be held acco
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by bcrl 1y ago
Directional drilling is not a panacea. There are still places where the terrain is too rocky and aerial construction is the only way to control costs.
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by bcrl 1y ago
People still think they own cars, and that they should be allowed to repair them without the blessing of the manufacturer. They don't expect to be banned from using their car because someone decided that using the DMCA to pervert the
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by bcrl 1y ago
The number of transistors per unit area is still increasing, it's just a little slower than it was and more expensive than it was. And there are innovations that will continue the scaling that Moore's law predicts. Take die stack
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by bcrl 1y ago
Just because a bubble pops on the economic front doesn't mean the sector goes away. Pets.com went bust a mere 10 months after going public, yet we're buying all kinds of products online in 2025 that we weren't in 2000. A bu
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by bcrl 1y ago
Damn, that must be why they keep making it harder and harder for independently run mailing lists to deliver to gmail users.
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by bcrl 1y ago
This! The cost of training models inevitably goes down over time as FLOPS/$ and PB/$ increases relentlessly thanks to the exponential gains of Moore's law. Eventually we will end up with laptops and phones being Good Enough
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by bcrl 1y ago
Move fast and break things doesn't work when safety is involved. Did a properly trained and licensed Professional Engineer review the design of Amazon's drones, their safety features and protocols before they got approval to fly
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by bcrl 1y ago
I fail to understand why anyone would believe that it's possible to create a system that remains secure when an attacker has physical access to the hardware. It's the security version of snake oil. All the ever increasing comple
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by bcrl 1y ago
By that line of reasoning, no feature could ever be merged in a filesystem. You simply cannot prove complex code has no bugs. Testing increases confidence that code may be stable, but that isn't a certainty as there's no guarant
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by bcrl 1y ago
Until Intel spins out their fabs into a separate entity, I don't think there is sufficient internal motivation to focus on the culture changes required to win and keep foundry customers. The rot of being a virtual monopoly for so long
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by bcrl 1y ago
Some of us are still using mutt!
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by bcrl 1y ago
Because distributions don't ship Kent's kernel tree, and they're not going to. Distributions like Fedora ship as close to mainline as possible these days because of the pain experienced from shipping a heavily patched kernel
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by bcrl 1y ago
Experimental does not mean "should be blocked from receiving timely updates" last I checked.
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by bcrl 1y ago
You have made a huge assumption that I have a steady income. I do not. I am currently in the middle of a fight with pole owners trying to get my company to survive having been denied timely access to poles for fully engineered permits. L
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by bcrl 1y ago
That's not something I can agree with. Take image generation trained on a bunch of copyrighted photographs and artwork. What is the intent behind creating such a tool? Yes, there is a stage where the software developer is building the
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by bcrl 1y ago
No, it is not. bcachefs needs to have all the code for error recover in the kernel as it needs to be available when a storage device fails in any of a myriad of ways. Maintaining a piece of code that needs to run in both user space and the
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by bcrl 1y ago
As I pointed out elsewhere, there was another -rc release put out shortly after that effectively added back in a feature that was removed 10 releases back. Granted, it was only a small thing, but it shows that there is nuance in applicatio
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by bcrl 1y ago
Filesystems like ext2/3/4 have their recovery tools in userland. Most of the recovery features in bcachefs are in the kernel. As a result, it is inevitable that at some point there was and will be a need to push a new feature in
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by bcrl 1y ago
This is the world that software developers are building. At what point do they become accountable for the resulting mess?
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by bcrl 1y ago
A feature that was put in place to allow users encountering the bug to recover their data. It's not as black and white as you are portraying.
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by bcrl 1y ago
That's why mosh exists, as it is purpose built for terminals over high latency / high packet loss links.
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by bcrl 1y ago
I feel like we lost the battle for any semblance of hope in matters of security when the URL bar blurred everything into search. There is simply no way to ensure that the browser does what one expects anymore.

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