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by ixfo 5y ago
To be fair, I'd imagine that the air turbulence should keep the solar panel reasonably clear...
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by ixfo 5y ago
Generally cameras are reasonably rad-hard because the pixel size dictates a lot of the wiring size (and puts a lower bound on the process size). 3.5um pixels don't play well with 5nm features. Bigger features are generally more resista
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by ixfo 5y ago
The big problem I had with the remote was elderly users. Picking up an object should not have side-effects.
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by ixfo 5y ago
No Ethernet port on a desktop is just insane. I can see the sense in saying "your dock is Thunderbolt and Ethernet goes on the dock" for laptops, but on a dekstop?
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by ixfo 5y ago
More than allowed - in the EU at least, telecoms (wireline at least) is heavily regulated, and monopoly infrastructure providers (i.e. wire owners) are required to provide wholesale services and operate on those services for their own retai
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by ixfo 5y ago
Keep the relevant enforcement agencies fed and watered for starters, and the rest goes to govt as a contribution towards the usual things that taxes pay for.
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by ixfo 5y ago
Matrix.
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by ixfo 6y ago
They're still managing to ship to the UK. You lose all the consumer protection (thanks, Conservative party!) and have to pay VAT and import dues (thanks, Conservative party!) but they're managing. They're still a fab company.
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by ixfo 6y ago
Not OP, but there are plenty of examples out there: https://www.astrobin.com/search/?q=starlink
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by ixfo 6y ago
This is an excellent summary of a lot of the kickback and risk for Elon. I think if Elon had gone to, say, the UN and tried to start a discussion about this stuff more generally to establish some ground rules for SpaceX and others, it would
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by ixfo 6y ago
Agreed. I do know that ISO and at least two national standards bodies I work with basically do charge on a cost-covering basis (which is why pricing is largely tied to tiers of page count, which is a reasonable proxy in most cases to effort
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by ixfo 6y ago
It really should be that way - i.e. we agree that standards are a net good (and I don't think anyone would argue otherwise) for industry and society, so make them free at the point of use and fund their development through government.
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by ixfo 6y ago
This is really where OLED is the right answer, I think. On smaller devices it's more or less entirely replaced 7-segs and similar displays. High contrast, high legibility, high resolution, but high cost. But if you're considering
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by ixfo 6y ago
Your shadowing comment depends heavily on location. In large portions (and heavily populated bits at that) of the world they'll be visible all night for 1/3 to 1/2 of the year.
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by ixfo 6y ago
Sure those big routers are costly but they're maybe the cost of a dozen satellites and serve half the total constellation size. Buried infrastructure has a 20-30 year guaranteed lifespan if built with fibre. Routers tend to last 10 yea
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by ixfo 6y ago
10,000 * 20Gbps = 200Tbps, and that all assumes that the traffic is going in and out directly from customer to internet with none of that capacity used for anything else like groundstation-to-groundstation hops or anything like that. You&#x
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by ixfo 6y ago
It's a little different with videos and audio, though. People place much more trust in them, for now at least, and people do generally still trust photos more than text, so there is a wider challenge as we become more able to suborn hi
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by ixfo 6y ago
The threat model for prevention of censoring Signal was originally developed around China, Best Korea, etc. The original reasoning why WhatsApp used the same crypto/messaging format as Signal was in large part (aside from it being Good
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by ixfo 6y ago
We had a veto, rarely used, if we didn't like anything. We were very poor in effectively making use of the powers we had within the EU. Of course, now we have none of them, so the EU can do what it likes without worrying about us or ou
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by ixfo 6y ago
Given Intel has stated now they'll consider outsourced fabs, it'd be a pretty sound bet.
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by ixfo 6y ago
Sort of. There are transports that make Tor traffic look identical to generic HTTPS traffic etc. So you can filter based on endpoints, but that's hard to do for unlisted bridges and the like. In terms of exits, most countries prefer no
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by ixfo 6y ago
In this case the pool boils off slowly enough from thermal load to let decay heat reduce to the point where air cooling is adequate. So it remains passively safe unless there is a sudden loss of water from the pool. Engineering a very res
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by ixfo 6y ago
And clearing - i.e. what happens to match people to the vacant spaces left by those who didn't make the offer target - is almost 100% interview based, usually by phone and on results day.
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by ixfo 6y ago
It will likely be point to point optical networking (Ethernet/OTN) on these links. Once you get to the last mile, PON (probably GPON for now; XGS-PON is starting to come down in cost now, but is still probably 2x GPON generally). Point
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by ixfo 6y ago
As someone who has been a customer once and a near-customer another time (both times on fixed line and wireless network tech), Nokia has fantastic, properly brilliant hardware, and middling software (though moving in the right direction - t
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by ixfo 6y ago
Definitely not working ones. As someone who ran an AM+FM station for 5 or so years not that long ago, 99% of listeners were FM, with very few AM listeners. In another life I did work on broadcast censorship circumvention into places like Ch
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by ixfo 6y ago
Worth mentioning in the UK things are still DAB and there is no plan to migrate to DAB+.
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by ixfo 6y ago
Set anti-mass spectrometers to 105%.
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by ixfo 6y ago
I think it can, just not so often - there's a lot of empowered indies out there. ZA/UM and Disco Elysium springs to mind.
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by ixfo 6y ago
It's gotten better - I'm dual-running Riot/Matrix and Signal. Cross-signing has fixed the main issues affecting encrypted chat usability but there's still plenty of UI improvements to make.

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