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by ta1243 2y ago
I had a puncture in a hire car a couple of years ago and was distressed to find they no longer bother with spare tyres - at least in the UK. Not sure if this is some money saving escapade, or if it's because most drivers no longer know
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by ta1243 2y ago
AM radio then. If you want internet, get a starlink.
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by ta1243 2y ago
It's been estimated by card companies that these are higher.
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by ta1243 2y ago
If you tie yourself to a specific politician, especially in a massively polarised environment, you're going to alienate many people, and it's hardly like Musk wasn't controversial before twitter and his swing to MAGA.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Depends on your peer You and your nearest 400 neighbours plug into a non-blocking 1g port network. Find you can do 1g to your neighbours But you need a 400g uplink (and remember to account for resilience), so you go into a switch with 40 40
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by ta1243 2y ago
I was disappointed that your friend wasn't assuming skinny dipping to be honest Personally I hate swimming wearing clothes, feels so unnatural, and then you're dripping wet when you get out
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by ta1243 2y ago
Even if you had a dedicated fibre back to a 1G port on a switch in a data centre, there's going to be bottle necks at some point. Sure they could ensure that 48 port switch you're connected to has no contention, but non-blocking n
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by ta1243 2y ago
So run the fibre on the power line
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by ta1243 2y ago
Solar is far cheaper than that in my location - especially if you put the panels up yourself, and storing 100 gallons of gas (400 litres) to run for 3 weeks is far more expensive.
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by ta1243 2y ago
One wonders how we ran electricity out everywhere. Running a fibre is about the same cost as running a power cable.
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by ta1243 2y ago
And how much contention is on that fibre? At a typical residential contention of 50:1 that's 350mbit At a really good residential rate of 10:1 that's still 70mbit
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by ta1243 2y ago
If I fully decked my roof out I can generate a good 20kWp I'm assuming OP isn't actually serving out of home (starlink won't help with it's CG-Nat), so it's not like they're running 5kW of servers. 10kWh a day
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by ta1243 2y ago
Sure. It's still there though, 65 years later. The US will go where it pleases and do what it wants, just like the great European empires of the 17th through 19th centuries. Sure it's Amazon and Google rather than an East India Co
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by ta1243 2y ago
At what point does sea level rise remove a countries EEZ claim. Seems that it's a real issue -- https://www.reuters.com/investigations/sinking-tuvalu-fights...
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by ta1243 2y ago
Mauritius isn't China today. In 99 years time it could be part of a China. Or a future country that is more powerful than China.
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by ta1243 2y ago
This is an increasing problem throughout the west. I was listening to a UK ex-politician (Phillip Hammond), who was the Chancellor and Foreign Secretary in the past. His view, which I broadly agree with, is that the membership of a party (T
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by ta1243 2y ago
You may be a progressive liberal aged 20, but with your views not even changing you will be a moderate conservative aged 60. Even if you become more liberal as time passes, no doubt your historical comments will show you up to "be cons
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by ta1243 2y ago
Back in the 80s kids were left for hours in front of a TV watching cartoons. I suspect this was the case even earlier that that too.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Not a technical problem. The technical solution is 4g. It's a financial consideration - mobile companies charge what they think people will pay. You can't have a technical solution to that.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Extremely rare I use public wifi - there's a couple of places where phone signal doesn't work and I want/need some internet (underground, planes, actually on board the trains, some cafes etc), but at major stations? It's
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by ta1243 2y ago
Ad revenue is peanuts - 10% of the total cost according to the report the advertising industry points to If I buy an ad-laden device for $500 I should be able to buy a non-ad-laden device for $550. [0] https://investors.vizio.com
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by ta1243 2y ago
How would you respond to > Is a personal attack on any group really needed, especially here on HN?
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by ta1243 2y ago
Double dipping with adverts is the way. Amazon, Spotify, dropped them all after they started pushing adverts as well as getting their monthly cost. It's not new -- cable/sky TV was exactly the same (although sky one was the other
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by ta1243 2y ago
My c. 2022 LG in the UK had something I would describe as ads - don't remember what exactly, but it was the tipping point that got me to get install a pihole
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by ta1243 2y ago
With 2014 code
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by ta1243 2y ago
1425 came out in 2014. "I'll need a research team and 5 years" In 2020 The BBC had this blog about cameras detecting not just "is it a bird or superman", but what types of birds https://www.bbc.co.uk&#x2F
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by ta1243 2y ago
OMG?
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by ta1243 2y ago
And webpages always sound authoritative even when they're wrong.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I wanted to know when the clocks went back in the US and UK earlier. --------- when do clocks go back uk and us ChatGPT said: In 2024, clocks go back on Sunday, October 27th in the UK and most of Europe, marking the end of Daylight Saving T
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by ta1243 2y ago
So no different to searching online and finding some random page then. In my experience chatgpt is usually far more accurate, and as it gets right to the point you have far more time to understand if the answer is reasonable

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