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by ianburrell 6mo ago
One reason is that there are a lot of similar words in the dictionary. It is easy to mishear the wrong location especially when they are close together. Some of the words are long and complicated. Another is that they are random which means
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by ianburrell 6mo ago
You don't want that. I was organizing my cables and noticed how much thicker the USB3 cables are than USB2. USB2 cables are cheaper than USB3 cables, the latter have gotten cheaper but still buy two USB2 for some USB3. USB3 cables are
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
What voltage do you use? Most DC stuff wants low voltage (5-48V), but appliances need higher voltage like AC-level to get enough power over existing wiring. The result is DC-DC converters every place that have transformers now. The gain fro
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
You can run 240V circuit to kitchen for kettle and put in NEMA 6 outlet. But few people care about fast boil and importing European kettle. Most people use the microwave or stovetop, and 120V kettles are fine in most cases. It will never be
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Prius had 0.91 kWh battery and the EV1 had 26.4 kWh with NiMH. The EV1 was expensive, $80k to produce in 1996 money. A large part of that had to be the battery.
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Voice communication has the advantage is that it can be used without taking off hands and attention off controls. Digital solution would require using device.
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
The initial segment in Central Valley has current date of 2032. It depends on if federal government restores funding or if California has to fund itself. Phase 1 from SF to LA is estimated for 2035-2040. They might do end-to-end service bef
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
My understanding is that home batteries are not UPSes, they don't go through the battery. They have a switch between power company, solar, or battery. I think that means would be exposed to surge from power company. You can install a w
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Starshield means multiple things, or really it is SpaceX business unit with military. Starshield is the name for US military buying Starlink service. It is also SpaceX building Starlink-based satellites for the military. This doesn't h
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Why would anyone buy that instead of Macbook Neo for $600? Macbook doesn't need a iPhone to use. If you are doing serious work, which are the people who want a dock, then you need the power of Macbook Air or Macbook Pro. For most peopl
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Imagine executive tapping their phone down on reader, and it pops up everything they were doing, and they get to keep using their phone. The first flaw in the idea is that computing is cheap. You can make a computer the size of a phone for
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
There isn't much demand for using phone as computer. If you are at home or work, you can buy a desktop computers for cheap. If you are traveling, you need to find a monitor and keyboard. You could carry small monitor and wireless keybo
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
There are lots of places that have IPv6-only networks and access IPv4 through NAT64. It makes sense for new company networks that can control what software gets installed. The main limitation is software that only supports IPv4. This would
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
36-bit is still too small for the future. We are at 30 billion connected devices. We will probably hit 64 billion in decade or two. The most likely alternative would have been 64-bit. That's big enough that could have worked for a long
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
There aren’t enough IPv4 addresses to give everyone one. That is why ISPs use CGNAT to hide multiple customers behind one IP address. Something that just uses IPv4 won’t work without making the extra layer visible. That may not have been ap
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
HVDC is more efficient than you think, 3.5% losses per 1000km. Which means intracontinental is obviously good, and intercontinental will work in some situations. Nuclear power is expensive, enough that “what about night” is solve by buildin
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Coal was abundant. British coal was mined out. The coal that is left isn’t economical to mine.
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
Hungary is a parliamentary republic, Orban is the Prime Minister. Turkey was parliamentary system until was changed in 2017 to presidential system with more power for Erdogan. I agree about parliamentary systems being better, but they are s
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
iCloud backups are encrypted, and can be end-to-end encrypted. Also, backups have nothing to do with the messages being end-to-end encrypted. Like if you don't use a passcode on the phone, the messages are still encrypted.
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
You can buy styluses for iPhone (or any smartphone) but they have round squishy tips for the capacitive touch screen. They aren't any better than a finger, probably cause the display is tuned for a finger. I only use mine when phone or
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by ianburrell 7mo ago
I think PayPal and Venmo will be just fine with FedNow. They will work the same but with faster transfers. They will be pseudo-banks with internal transfers, FedNow transfers to others, and instant transfers to bank accounts. They will be a
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
You could do it now with OpenID SSO that only takes passkeys. The downside is that losing the passkey would lose the account. The problem is that OpenID leaks the authenticating sites to authentication site. The problem is that lots of site
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
There aren't that many antipodes on land. It is mainly South America to Southeast and East Asia. With New Zealand to Spain. Chimborazo's antipode is Sumatra. That may be the best, unless there is peak in Indonesia that lines up wi
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
I have thought that could use Matter for time sync. It works with both Wifi and Thread. I don't think there is a time message. I also don't know if it has public broadcast since Thread needs pairing to work. The advantage is that
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
There was a change in the enforcement of antitrust law in the 1970s. Consumer welfare, which came to mean lower prices, is the standard. Effectively normal competition is fine and takes egregious behavior to be violation. It even assumes th
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
Storing passkeys in password managers is the best option. It isn't as secure as hardware tokens, but it solves the problem of managing multiple keys and losing the tokens. Passkeys are better passwords since not vulnerable to phishing,
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
Except that the editor doesn't focus on little things but the structure. It is the job of copy editor to correct all the grammar and bad writing. Copy editor can't be done by AI since it includes fixing logical errors and characte
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
I'm also in Portland. In the US, bus costs are dominated by labor. It makes sense to use full size buses if paying for driver. For main routes, more automated buses would be best option. But there are cross town routes that should be s
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
Automated taxis would still be stuck in traffic. Automation gets couple times in capacity, but the induced demand and extra cars looking for rides and parking will mean traffic. Automation makes public transit better. There will be automate
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by ianburrell 8mo ago
Starship is fueled with methane (natural gas) and liquid oxygen which aren't toxic. It does produce a lot of CO2 which is a problem with lots of flights.

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