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by db48x 1y ago
Eh. What they really show is a tech demo. It has simple houses and stores instead of a single apartment building with both in them because it needs to test the path finding and traffic simulation. It also needs to test the agent simulation,
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, but the API is primitive and limited. The browser puts it in CLIPBOARD, but then the user pastes from PRIMARY and gets something they didn’t expect. And the author of the web page probably included some event handler(s) that breaks th
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by db48x 1y ago
This is almost never true in practice in the US.
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by db48x 1y ago
You could play Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic, which has no zones at all. And apparently you start with apartment blocks, not single–family housing. And if you want sidewalks, you have to place them. All of them, individually. I hav
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by db48x 1y ago
No, for a gaming computer what we need is the motherboard and gpu to be side by side. That way the heat sinks for the CPU and GPU have similar amounts of space available. For other use cases like GPU servers it is better to have many GPUs f
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by db48x 1y ago
No, a hotel manager isn’t going to want your antenna on their roof. From their perspective it’s unnecessary and weird and therefore out of the question. BT sells internet service, transit, and buried cables. You want to do what the hotel di
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by db48x 1y ago
True :) But if you’ve only ever read about BGP and this is your first time putting it into practice, an exchange seems like the easier way to gain the practice. Most of them have simple rules that you can read in advance, and often your fir
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by db48x 1y ago
It does seem easiest to start with an IX, where you can follow the published rules to join the IX and connection your network to it’s without bothering every other member.
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by db48x 1y ago
It's worth discussing, but do it elsewhere. Use a different forum, one where it is on topic.
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by db48x 1y ago
Because it’s off topic. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > What to Submit > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to
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by db48x 1y ago
It depends on the pest. Some of them are easier to eliminate than others. With screwworm flies the only offense we have is to raise them by the billions, sterilize them with radiation, chill them down, and then drop them out of airplanes. F
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by db48x 1y ago
The “cure” is an unceasing war. Then COVID hit and the war ceased for a few months.
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by db48x 1y ago
It is really ridiculous how fast our connections are these days, when you stop and actually think about it. Also pretty ridiculous how slow they used to be!
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by db48x 1y ago
> The definition also says "originate and receive" so you need to look at both upload and download bandwidth. Yes, I agree that a symmetric definition would be better. The definition we have is pretty good though. The 20Mbps of
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by db48x 1y ago
Ok, apparently the USDA also provides their own separate grants for broadband deployment. How are their weird rules relevant to this discussion of the FCC’s grants program?
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by db48x 1y ago
Again, this is irrelevant to the conversation we were having about price competition. Competition solves the problem of high prices automatically. > The US is massive and full of sparsely populated rural areas, all of which will ignored
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by db48x 1y ago
Never.
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, the breakup of AT&T was stupid. Even worse, it just allowed all of the baby bells to be bought up one by one by a really badly run Canadian company. Now rather a lot of that money started leaving the country and being gobbled up in
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by db48x 1y ago
Irrelevant. Competition fixes everything, and local monopolies prevent that competition.
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by db48x 1y ago
They don’t have to take that long. Seriously, when you build years and years of government reviews and challenges and approvals into the process of awarding funds you have only yourself to blame when the government works for four years and
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by db48x 1y ago
Jon Stewart has a good point there as well, saying “the Democrats think it can’t solve anything unless is solves everything”. Over the last decade or so they’ve weighed everything down with stupidity. Ezra has specific examples; that’s a re
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by db48x 1y ago
Yea, Sonic.net is amazing. I definitely recommend them if you are in their service area. Sadly they have been really slow to expand their fiber service, probably because they started in San Francisco, home of the NIMBY. Ziply Fiber is anoth
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by db48x 1y ago
No, I completely disagree. Remember that the whole point is to define the _minimum_ level of service at which people can reliably access “advanced telecommunications capability”. Here’s the definition: > The term ‘advanced telecommunicat
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by db48x 1y ago
> The 1000/500Mbps definition that Carr's FCC is trying to eliminate was a long term goal, something that the US should strive for eventually, and therefore federal funding should preferentially go to solutions that can or coul
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by db48x 1y ago
Of course you want it to be faster rather than slower. But waiting an hour to play your new game is not a handicap. Not compared to dialup, where that same download would take more than 80 days, if it finishes successfully at all: $ u
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by db48x 1y ago
I disagree. I would argue that most people just don’t produce enough data to have a huge need for faster uploads. You would have to produce more than 200 gigabytes of data per day before your backups would take longer than a day to finish:
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by db48x 1y ago
Sure, but remember that the disk bandwidth is the _uncompressed_ data. By definition it’ll be at least 2× larger than the compressed data you downloaded, if not more. Steam downloads are commonly disk or cpu limited on 1Gbps connections.
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by db48x 1y ago
I agree that it would be really nice if it were symmetric. But remember, the definition is for a service that isn’t handicapping people, not for what would be nice to have. Maybe in 10 years we can make it symmetric.
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by db48x 1y ago
That used to be the case, but it isn’t any more. Check out the new broadband map: < https://broadbandmap.fcc.gov/home >; it goes by exact addresses rather than census districts or whatever it used to be. The definition
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by db48x 1y ago
Actually it’s mostly because we’ve spent the last few decades turning math into compression. Starting with MP3s in 1991 there’s a whole history of amazing improvements to audio and video codecs. We’ve made extremely rapid progress even thou

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