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by ipdashc 2y ago
I've always wondered how this actually works. Do you have to vaporize it first? How do you actually get titanium to become free-floating (?) ions?
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Yeah, I thought it was odd to call out Youtube, especially science videos in particular. To me it's always seemed Youtube is one part of the internet that has managed to maintain some decently sane bits among the brainrot. I'm not
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by ipdashc 2y ago
The custom domains can be a little silly, but for all the rest, why not? Logos (and the associated fancy name) are a lot more memorable than CVE-2025-XXXX. Demos are and were always appreciated. FAQs are a lot more digestible for the averag
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by ipdashc 2y ago
True! I like that idea.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Not sure I follow, unfortunately.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Even if the noise pollution can be solved (or, as others have said, just run it only over the ocean), I don't see how this thing wouldn't pump out an immense amount of CO2. It's definitely cool and would make flying nicer, bu
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> The 8KHz samples were encoded with relatively low encoding complexity PCM (G.711) at 8KHz. That gets to a 64kbps data channel rate. This was the standard for "toll quality" audio. Not 8kbps. I'm a moron, thanks. I think
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> A quick search says about 60%-80% of CPU energy is waste heat. That's an odd metric. Doesn't effectively all input energy leave the CPU as heat (ignoring reactive power and stuff like that)? Is there a theoretical minimum ene
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> Because at some point, someone decided that 8 kbps makes for an acceptable audio stream per subscriber. Has it not been like this for a very long time? I was under the impression that "voice frequency" being defined as up to
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by ipdashc 2y ago
The bizarre part is the first panel in the comic! I'm not sure where people get the idea that they need to fluff up their emails or publications. It exists, sure, I'm just saying I've never felt the need to do it, nor have I
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> Don’t react to the Airbnb and Uber: read the article to the end. Agreed, but it is IMO a flaw in the author's work that they chose to lead with Airbnb and Uber. You see this very often with criticisms of the tech industry, and whi
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> short story "Manna" that is very prescient and outlines a few possible alternative futures for the man kind. Unfortunately personally I'm not very optimistic about a "good" outcome. Yeah, it's a good story
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by ipdashc 2y ago
That makes sense! I've heard the telco/COCOT distinction before, but never summarized quite so succinctly.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
I feel silly asking, but what do you use 10gig for? That speed sounds insane; I get maybe 800mbps and I've basically never felt like the speed is too slow. Most consumer devices are still on gigabit Ethernet at the fastest, no - or am
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Notably, this is only guaranteed by law to work as of 2020 - see Kari's Law: https://www.911.gov/issues/legislation-and-policy/kari-s-law... It is, unfortunately, one of those rules that's written in blo
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Wild! I wonder if the line was shorting out and pulse-dialing random numbers, and it just happened to be 911 sometimes, but that's a total shot in the dark. (I vaguely thought payphones had some kind of special connection to the CO, no
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Also of note (most people know this, but might be worth sharing anyways) I believe emergency calls get special handling by the network, and can go over any tower, not just your carriers'. So if you're somewhere with no reception a
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Yeah, I have seen some pretty annoying ones (on the spaceX streams) where they really make the cheering too loud, and from these comments I expected similar, but that... Really wasn't that bad at all. Just someone being excited. C&#x27
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by ipdashc 2y ago
What I've always wondered was, how is it possible to do this process (or well, the less advanced version of it, for smaller/older chips) cheaply/at massive scale, for those ICs that cost a few cents in bulk? Like, scaling waf
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Thank you for putting it in words. I felt the same way, both about this and the writeup for their previous .mobi thing. Well explained with plenty of context, no buzzwords, light hearted and cool (while not trying too hard to make themselve
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Ironically for what seems to be an article about webpage performance, this site runs horribly on my phone (Android, Firefox) - something is broken with the scroll, it's choppy and unusable. Anyone else?
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> Am I the only one Nope, I've heard others mention it before as well. I subscribed to the newsletter at one point and I don't think I've gotten a single useful technical article (which is fair, that's not necessarily
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> 1988's The Way Things Work I'm so glad to see this book mentioned on here! It was my favorite as a kid and it still holds up today IMO. I have one of the newer editions at home and this comment reminded me to go page through
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Yeah, I also found that very ironic. And the amount of detail it goes into on spam and abuse detection systems before shamelessly telling you how to get around them. I kinda have to respect how blunt it is, honestly.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
This is... certainly something. There are some parts that are useful without seeming too scummy - the bits on tone and how to actually write a good email, for instance. But the bulk of this is just an outright guide on how to spam.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> There's a reason you don't see immigrants from all over the world coming to the US to open charging stations the way you saw them opening gas stations. As the other commenter said, AFAIK, the majority of a gas station's
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by ipdashc 2y ago
> Is the idea of living and moving around in a city full of autonomous vehicles actually appealing to anyone? I personally find the whole idea completely disgusting for a number of reasons. Assuming they're safe and cheaper than cur
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Super cool stuff. Thanks for the info.
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Interesting, the last one is pretty surprising. I kind of just assumed all airline booking systems (Expedia, Google Flights, Kayak, whatever) all used the same underlying service - maybe SABRE or something, but that's a total shot in t
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by ipdashc 2y ago
Yeah, I'm kind of surprised by all the uniform praise in the comments - NOT saying it's not a cool tool, it's definitely very impressive and the author's done a nice job, but I could never really see myself using this. M

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