Kirby64

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by Kirby64 7d ago
Not sure I'd agree that the Tesla estimate is accurate for the truly driverless versions they've started releasing in Austin. Maybe for the standard ones you can buy. There's reporting on the additional telematics packs that
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by Kirby64 7d ago
The retail price of the equivalent Samsung phone is $1900 (1899) - or $2100 for their 'Ultra' phone. Seems just in line to me.
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by Kirby64 7d ago
> So far Tesla is the only company remotely close to unsupervised self-driving that doesn't add $1000s to the BoM cost of the car. What makes you think it doesn't? All those cameras, the expensive chips and cooling for them, an
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by Kirby64 8d ago
Absolutely true. The other thing inflating the square footage is condos or other space-constrained floor plans tend to waste a lot of space on hallways and stairways. Since you count the square footage of hallways and stairways, a 3 story c
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by Kirby64 8d ago
Larger? No, not really. But there’s generally just an expectation that rooms are larger. Most bedrooms you expect to have king size beds for adults, for instance. Master bathrooms and closets also tend to be quite large. Americans just tend
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by Kirby64 8d ago
1400sqft is relatively small in the US for a house. Typical 3 bedroom house size is going to be a lot closer to 2000 sqft. The only way you would see new construction at 1400sqft is if it’s a condo or something.
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by Kirby64 13d ago
People trust DXOMark as a authority in comparing smartphone cameras? Also, even by your own source, Xiaomi is bested by the iPhone and Google Pixel. Motorolas flagship phones place much lower, and I don’t see any phone that costs $400 place
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by Kirby64 16d ago
Except it's got a mid-tier processor, and likely pretty under-performant cameras like most Motorola stuff? Compromises here.
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by Kirby64 16d ago
> I have an older M2 Mac mini that does the OCR and visual description of all my screenshots. Screenshots are stored on my NAS. Doesn't Apple do this already within it's OS all locally? It certainly does it for OCR and categori
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by Kirby64 22d ago
Better home inspections will remove breaker panel box or at very minimum use a thermal camera to check if the breakers are all reasonably warm. Usually both. But that still doesn’t really tell you much about whether something is done to cod
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by Kirby64 22d ago
> I know with electricity whether you do it per code or not a licensed electrician has to sign off before you can sell your house. at least i think that's how it is.. Where? No electrician is inspecting every house that goes up for
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
> What large parts of the world? The software development world and ecosystem. I’d say all of the US, major parts of Canada, and major parts of Europe constitute a large part of software developers.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
You can also get cheap devs in Central or South America or Eastern Europe too. Doesn’t make it untrue that large parts of the world have junior devs much more expensive than that.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
Fully loaded employee cost is typically around 2x their actual salary. Junior employees making only $60k/yr is absolutely nothing. It’s lowish even in most parts of the western world.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
> Maybe today By the time you could measure this, I suspect USB C will no longer be used. > Also, who tests the expensive testers? ;) Specialized metrology firms that cost more money than you can afford.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
But you can buy an EVSE capable of pulling 40 amps and plug it into a 20A rated receptacle. It will happily pull 40 amps until the breaker pops. Most EVSEs that are plug in have adapters to do explicitly this purpose.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
Why would speed capability be replaced with power capability? They are orthogonal capabilities intentionally so you don’t have to overbuild cables in either direction if you don’t intend to.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
How would better naming make things more clear when manufacturers don’t want to put labeling on cables, generally? Even if it was a USB-IF requirement, that doesn’t have any teeth. Ports tend to be decently well labeled, but you can only cr
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
> Can you imagine a what would have happened if the car charging infrastructure would have used your regular 120/230V plugs? They largely do. I’m not sure I understand your point? The amount of current pulled by the car in an EV is
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
Sometimes. They’re not required to be labeled, though. I would agree that the blue connector for USB3.0 is more common… but again it’s not universal and certainly not every device ever does this.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
USB2 has been backwards compatible from the beginning though. I can’t think of a time in the past… 15, maybe 20 years where a USB cable wasn’t capable of high speed, unless it didn’t have data lines at all. (And yes, I don’t need to look it
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
> Sure, 40gbps isn’t needed for all cables, but is some piddly 5gbps too much to ask? 5gbps means you add 8 additional wires to every cable, and also would require that both devices on each side implement 5gbps PHYs for their USB (if you
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
If you’re following USB-C standard, all cables with faster data than 480mbps and more power than 60W require an e marker, period. Whether devices will still function for USB3 without that marker… that’s another story and will depend on the
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
E markers are required for USB3, so that’s why. If you have a cable capable of 100 or 240W, they will also have a marker (it’s required), even if they only do USB2 speeds.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
USB-A has many variants and we don’t call it a different connector. Heck, USB-B and micro USB both have 3.0 variants that are physically different and we don’t call them something different either. I don’t see the problem here. This is just
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
It’ll never happen. Measuring to the proper Thunderbolt spec is only possible on literally the most cutting edge measurement equipment. Physics just won’t permit that being a gadget you can buy for $20 of whatever.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
Unless you want all cables to be thick, $60, and cap out at 1 meter long, this is not a reasonable standard. 480mbps USB-C is perfectly adequate for many applications. Likewise for 60W cables.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
480i? Nobody owns CRTs anymore, so interlaced content is inferior in many ways. 720p is already garbage for 2026. We shouldn’t be reducing resolution, if anything it should be going up.
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
The physical proximity of the TVS diode is relevant for protection purposes. By placing the TVS diode physically close to the USB port, it does a better job at protecting than if you placed it further away. That's because there's
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by Kirby64 1mo ago
> You're missing the whole point of IRAs. I think you're missing the point of IRAs too. The primary point of IRAs is that you can defer taxes from a time when you have high taxes (your working years), to a period of when you ca

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