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by pbmonster 7mo ago
The court awarded $10M in punitive damages in addition to the $13M in compensatory damages. So the options are basically "Huy Fong's lawyers are criminally incompetent" or "Huy Fong absolutely screwed over their supplier
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
It's the greed. Apple only makes around 8% of revenue through hardware sales of all Macs combined. "Services" (App Store, iCloud, Music, TV+, ect.) make more than 3x more revenue. Then, profit margin on services is again 3x h
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
> my understanding is that Asahi has issues with: * USB-C Displays * Thunderbolt / USB4 * Touch ID Valid. USB-C displays are on the horizon, the rest will take significant time (and might never materialize, it's difficult to r
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
> Gemini was also unable to find the .dev, even in "Research Mode." Unsurprisingly, right? Gemini just uses the same back end as Google itself, which - according to OP - doesn't list his site on page 1, not page 2 and not
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
Why would you want to do that? Do you like the hardware that much, and also that much more than just an M2 (soon M3) running Asahi? Linux in a VM would work with the usual caveats. Periphery like the built-in webcam most likely won't w
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
Interesting article, but I wonder why the journalists didn't go all the way. Sure, Meta isn't going to comment when you ask them what data they have. But this is in the EU, just hit them with a Subject Access Request under GDPR. W
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
> The apps don't just do that though; they call into and use an awful lot of the system APIs for user tracking / semi-native experience / biometrics and probably a whole host of other things. Its the incompatibility in the
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
And they don't want to, because that experiment ran for around 20 years and resoundingly failed. Turns out it's really hard to stop the bottom quintile of users from entering all their credentials into just about any website that
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
That's the limit for continuous rated power. The motor's frequently have 600W-750W of peak power output, and can legally use this much for short amounts of time (usually seconds, like accelerating from a stop; but often also for g
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
No, what the modders do is just disable the velocity dependent power limit on the standard e-bike power controllers. The easiest/hackiest way to do that is to install a pulse rate divider on the tachometer cables - bike goes 30mph, con
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
> Many e-bikes don't have torque sensors and instead use a cheap rotation sensor so the motor engages almost randomly at certain points in pedal rotation when moving at slow speed. Today, those are mostly limited to Walmart-tier qua
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
Those are legal, at least in the EU. It's called "push support" or "walk assist", my bike engages it when I long-press the down button. It's purpose is to help you push the heavy e-bike up ramps and hills, but
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
If you want to compete with LIDAR, you need high resolution 4D (range, velocity, azimuth, and height) RADAR. Those are usually phased arrays with expensive phase sensitive electronics, and behind that a chip that can do a lot of Fourier tra
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Pro/Enterprise Version?
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Your Windows 11 experience strongly, strongly depends on where you are. Are you inside the EU? 90% of the crap people complain about is simply illegal and you don't see any of it.
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
disposable e-cig cartridge batteries are a disgrace and should be illegal, but that's not hindering grid scale battery build out. First of all, the resources those tiny batteries use are less than a drop in the bucket of what we ideall
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Yeah, absolutely no way to bring down power prices when compared to China. They installed over 400 GW (peak) of new renewable capacity in 2025 and show no signs of intending to stop. But still, it's possible that a smaller, dirtier bui
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Batteries are an even bigger deal. You can completely stop building single stage peaker gas turbines when it gets economical to just drop a 2GW / 1 GWh battery pack next to every gas plant. When demand spikes, you just discharge the ba
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
No, using another ID has a much higher barrier: more likely to get caught (it's the same ID, after all - tokens might (or should) be better anonymized so services don't build user profiles just using the age tokens), more likely t
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
How difficult would it be to add further anonymization? Let's say I want to prevent the bike shop from building a usage profile on the basis of the age check (e.g. because I'm buying booze). Would I just need to get more chains fr
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
What's stopping kids from all using the token of that one older brother?
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Just as an example: I learn languages using Anki, and I always do it the same way: I use decks that * exclusively quiz entire sentences * introduce around 500 new words (a nice mix of nouns, verbs and adjectives) * use a wide variety of gra
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
> Many of my colleagues cracked 100k€ this year without being AT and having crazy high position ratings. And for each of those guys there's 2 people working for 48k and happy about it. They've been at the same shop for 15 years
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Yes, medicine pays better, median is around 100k but with significant back loading towards the second half of the career. Finance can be (much) better, but feels like far fewer jobs, especially outside Frankfurt. I'm not sure finding a
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by pbmonster 8mo ago
Even more interesting is if a thinking LLM would come up with tricks mitigating its own known limits - like listing animals in alphabetical order, or launching a shell/interpreter with a list that contains previous answers (which it th
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by pbmonster 9mo ago
> The problem is that european politicians don't want to kill the tech $$$. They just want to bring the revenue home. They don't understand that they will never make EU big tech and that their only feasible path forward to get
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by pbmonster 9mo ago
Sounds like you have a music discovery process in nicotine? Can you elaborate on how you find new things to listen to? Just my looking at what individual other users listen to? Music discovery is the one thing I cannot drop Spotify for. I w
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by pbmonster 9mo ago
PipePipe and Revanced both do both perfectly.
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by pbmonster 9mo ago
A YouTube client that can't AdBlock and SponsorBlock automatically is strictly worse.
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by pbmonster 9mo ago
Dota 2 is a real time strategy game with an arguably more complex micro game (but a far simpler macro game than AoE2, but that's far easier for an AI to master), and OpenAI Five completely destroyed the reigning champions. In 2019. Per

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