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https://www.engadget.com/2016-09-11-california-pc-energy-sta... https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-computer-efficienc... https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/cec-energy-effici
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On the Hotel California Effect If it's expensive to move data out of AWS, it's not just about making it hard for customers to leave AWS. It means that any third-party service that wants to sell to AWS customers must also use AWS.
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> So if they just deliver 100/100 within a year or two, this is an epic win It's unlikely that they (Starlink or someone else) will offer symmetrical speeds. It's not that they're looking to be mean to you. It's
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Starlink isn't driving the telecoms to install wireless. The telecoms were already planning this before Starlink. T-Mobile Home Internet is already available to 30M households in the US (out of around 130M households so around 20-25% o
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One of the things I've wondered is why people don't create small-mesh networks off their cable internet? For example, if I'm living in a relatively small apartment with nearby neighbors, why not get one of those WiFi mesh rou
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The problem with GitHub Copilot is that you never quite know where the suggestion comes from. As the article notes, longer and more complex blocks of code are most likely copyrightable. > GitHub reports that Copilot is mostly producing b
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It's very unlikely to be faster internet (compared to what is generally available in urban/suburban America). Ultimately, we're using radio similar to any 4G or 5G connection. There are some differences, but they probably wor
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To expand on this a bit, if you want leverage over companies like MasterCard, Visa, and American Express, it definitely helps to have the data in your jurisdiction. As you noted, they will shut off mobile internet to support the state. If V
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> We're feeling pretty good right now because it's the summer. But come winter, if we still have a significant percentage of the population that is unvaccinated, we're going to see this virus surge again Does anyone have m
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Mind if I ask why you're moving away from Zoho? I've been debating moving my email to Zoho since they offer a cheap $12/year plan. I might just move everything to iCloud+ when they start supporting custom domains this fall si
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On your site ( https://reacher.email ) it shows "Open-Source" next to the MIT logo. To any reasonable person, that means "it's licensed under the MIT license". Instead, it's licensed under the AGPL. I
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> eating animals will eventually be considered immoral. This is an extreme stance at the moment (hello PETA) There are a lot more vegetarians and vegans than just PETA. It looks like around 5% of the US and hitting 10% in many countries
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This isn't a silly question, but I think it has a lot of answers. It's bad for cyclists because the self-driving robots are probably buggy. Having a buggy vehicle hit you from behind and push you into a truck driving in traffic th
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I think if the author of it were here, he'd say that this is a proof-of-concept that he was working on to play around with NativeAOT and Crossgen 2 so that he could see what could be achieved with them. Sometimes things get posted to H
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> what's so good about C# nowadays? For me, it basically has all the advantages of Kotlin over Java. ASP.NET is also a lot better than any Java web framework I've tried. It doesn't really have new concepts, but everything
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Yep! It's one of the things that's nice about the .NET ecosystem. We didn't have to wait for self-contained executables and got them back in 2018 (even if it wasn't perfect, it worked well enough) and they refined it as
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It is different. .NET Core will create a self-contained executable which can have AOT compilation (or not), but which will include the byte code so that it can be JIT-optimized at runtime. This is about creating a binary that is small and u
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Yes, .NET Core can now create self-contained executables. Microsoft and others have been enhancing this since it was introduced in .NET Core 2.1. I've been enjoying the way that .NET has been evolving in pragmatic ways. The initial imp
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I'm a little shocked that this is getting so much traction here. The site (81m-dot-org) seems to be a right-wing "the election was stolen from Trump" site. Their "about" page says: It is true that Biden won the mos
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> The major issue I have with the Android ecosystem is support is stupidly short I got a Motorola One Ace 5G and I'm still waiting for Android 11 (they promise one OS update beyond what it ships with). It's annoying that I don&
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For those of us who don't know as much, could you elaborate? I know "CC" is Creative Commons, but I don't know what FZ-AT-UT-W2 are. From the link (which can be hard to grok for people like me who are unfamiliar with Wik
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I don't think they're trying to pull a fast one on consumers, but I think that when you set a warranty you're doing it based on probabilities. Let's make a hypothetical example. I'm selling an SSD and I say, "i
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I think there are two answers to this. First, I think the "incentive" would be "not getting kicked out of trading blocks and having punitive tariffs". Large countries can impose their will on smaller ones to an extent. I
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A piece of feedback: it would be nice to know what the price is on your site. You say "We make money by charging you a monthly subscription," but there's no pricing.
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Most people don't actually have a phone company for "broadband". Right now, "broadband" is defined as at least 25Mbps down and DSL often tops out at 3-7Mbps. While 25Mbps will fit a few HD streams and might (5 by
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Home internet is a new business. T-Mobile already covers 30M households for home internet (around 20-25% of US households, https://www.t-mobile.com/isp ). Verizon has a more limited LTE home internet program. T-Mobile is cu
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Yes! T-Mobile is aiming to have 7-8M home broadband customers in 2025. Their home broadband business is relatively small right now, but it should be expanding fast. To put that in perspective, Verizon Fios only serves around 5M customers.
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I know that a lot of people's reaction to this might be, "screw Facebook", but the ramification might be "entrench Facebook such that no one can compete with them." If the Irish data regulator enforces the provisio
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To echo this a bit: exchanges were cut off from using USD. I'd recommend reading https://www.kalzumeus.com/2019/10/28/tether-and-bitfinex/ (Tether: The Story So Far; by Patrick McKenzie aka patio11)
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It's very unlikely given the difference in mobile performance, but it might mean that Samsung is going to seriously invest in ARM performance going forward. The latest Samsung mobile processor (Exynos 2100) hits 956 single-core and 3,1

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