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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Do you have a source for that? Because everything I read says that they do not pay licensing fees to Apple and Google.
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Sure, in principle, but that takes effort and special equipment to set up. The point is that GPIB makes it easy (trivial, actually) with nothing more than the cables you normally use to connect instruments to get very low and predictable l
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
> What am I missing? Not much, but consider latency: You can use the Group Execute Trigger (GET) to simultaneously trigger multiple instruments with both very low latency and very low latency dispersion. Think, easy-to-use sub-microseco
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Am I wrong in understanding that each physical device supports only a single GPIB device at a time? The enumeration and discovery scheme is certainly novel, but one device per hardware would seem to prevent using some of GPIB’s advanced fe
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
That includes government-run utilities, like LADWP, Silicon Valley Power, and SMUD, which have much lower rates than private utilities (And, no, the rate difference is not made up by taxpayer subsidies. They’re just run more efficiently).
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
So PG&E already has something like this. It’s called either E-1 or TOU-C, depending on whether time-of-use billing applies. The price for the baseline tier is higher than you’d expect, though.
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
> Doesn’t remove the need for nat - my wired IsP might be able to bgp with me, but my backup 5g won’t, and when I want to choose which to send my traffic through with PBR that means natting. Yes, it does. You just have each of your route
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
In many states in the United States it is illegal to buy a car directly from the manufacturer or from a dealer owned by the manufacturer. In all states it is illegal for a manufacturer with an existing independent dealer network (which is
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Yea… you can actually fit two adult-sized road bicycles, without removing the wheels or disassembling them in any way, in the back of an F-150 cab! And still have more room for stuff in the back of the cab before you even start talking ab
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Yes, but you have to go to the FordPro site to find it: https://www.fordpro.com/en-us/fleet-vehicles/all/?vehicle=F-... . Has vinyl manual seats, rubber floor, etc. You can only get the Lightning from the fac
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Pick your poison: * no gas * no oil changes * no annual emissions testing (if they do that in Oz) * more than 1 second faster 0-60/0-100 * twice the towing capacity * semi-automated trailer connecting (maneuvering the truck to the trai
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
> Does the Democratic coalition work without pro-corporate liberals on board? Maybe not, but, then again, it might not work with them on board, either. The problem is that the Hastings-Klein branch of the Democratic party is incompa
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
Have they sued Nintendo, Sony or XBox yet?
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
LOL. Developer mode is side loading now. For those who didn’t click the link, Xbox allows you to either load your own software or load software you buy from the Xbox store. Not both.
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by labcomputer 9mo ago
There already exist purpose-built chargers for electric ships. See, for example, https://www.stemmann.com/en/products/charging_systems/ferryc... To support a 48 hour recharge of the battery hypothesized upth
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> I’ve only asked a small number of contractors, but every one I’ve asked wished they could buy a smaller, lower, practical work truck with decent capacity And if you ask Reddit, everyone says they want to buy a brown NA station wagon
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
I have no info on Tesla batteries. But, just as a point of reference, you can now buy knock-down 48V battery "kits" from China for under $90/kWh. They include everything you need: case, cells, BMS, circuit breaker/isol
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
The app notes and data sheets of related parts suggest that the target application is large conversion ratios, where the duty cycle in an inductive converter is close to 0 (or 1). That forces tradeoffs, like a lower switching frequency (low
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
I expect less than 10. Once you drive an EV, every big noisy diesel feels impotent and gutless. Kind of like a small yappy dog that’s all bark and no bite. There’s just nothing like the zero-lag gut-punching acceleration of an EV.
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
Slow moving traffic at one intersection and free flowing traffic at another could easily account for a 10x ratio of particulate pollution, especially in European capitals where diesels are prevalent. But a 10x ratio on the same road is al
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> And why is this a good thing? Ok, well, I personally really like driving a car with zero tailpipe emissions, and the cleaner air that comes from it (Tesla). I think it’s awesome having a little rectangle in my pocket that sends text
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
Meanwhile, back here in reality… Failed startups don’t have value left at the end. They go until they run out of money. Then they liquidate the office furniture to make the last payroll. Sometimes they don’t wrap up early enough and the
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
Yes, it did[1]! Because they rather quickly discovered that you can’t build complex things without it. Which brings us back round to the original point! [1] But… they did make a go of it without property before discovering that it wouldn’t
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
For the Russian invasion of Ukraine, that may have had more to do with Ukraine’s budget and economy of the time: Ukraine had a massive trade deficit with Russia in the 2000’s and early 2010’s, and the government was running a huge deficit.
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> Also, socialist states with advanced economies built airplanes, hydroelectric dams and all kinds of complex things. Yes, by having property … owned by the state!
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> but you don't prove that it's impossible for any other system of ownership or of mediating access to resources/"things" to allow that. You can’t prove a negative, so the onus is actually on you to show an examp
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
You aren’t thinking this through. If a startup defaults, it is because they have no money left (which is because they do not have a viable business yet). So there is nothing of value to repossess. This is the same reason the bank asks for
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> Why should they get ownership of the business? When you get a mortgage for your house, the bank doesn’t permanently own part of your house after you pay it off. Because the VCs are funding the startup on extremely favorable terms? If t
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> Unions can't defeat the forces of supply and demand Oh, but they do! A core part of most union contracts is figuring out how to limit the number of people eligible to be hired. That’s why “union shops” exist. Or: why (in the enter
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by labcomputer 10mo ago
> IPv6 without a NAT exposes information about different devices inside the private network. In practice this has not been true for over 20 years. IPv6 devices on SLAAC networks (which is to say, almost all of them) regularly rotate thei

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