notquiteright

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by notquiteright 3y ago
Because it’s not profitable to build fiber out to many places.
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by notquiteright 3y ago
We’re talking about you saying the FCC should define broadband as requiring gigabit upload speeds minimum.
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by notquiteright 3y ago
It’s not that easy. The federal government is in fact spending over $100 billion in the next decade laying fiber (and that’s only partial subsidies, so the total investment will be even higher) and it still won’t be enough to get fiber ever
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by notquiteright 3y ago
The point of this definition of broadband is to guide FCC subsidies. They’re saying 100/20 is goal for what everyone should have in every single home and business in the country, and that it’s so crucial that the taxpayer should pay fo
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by notquiteright 3y ago
Yet the US spends a greater amount EVERY year on building fiber into ever more remote areas (between FCC and NTIA programs, over $10 billion per year) than it has cost Starlink TOTAL to build a network that covers the entire country. Starli
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by notquiteright 3y ago
No, wrong level of abstraction. Why do manual memory management in a realm where it doesn’t really matter? In addition to the excessive amount of work (also why I wouldn’t choose Rust for the job), you’re opening yourself up to a whole clas
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by notquiteright 3y ago
I knew these were all ”I don’t know” edit: but yes, deceptive phrasing by the quiz author. If you don’t know that, then yeah, you’re probably not a great C programmer. Adjust your mental model: C is meant to be useful on a very wide variety
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by notquiteright 3y ago
It would have been great if they just made a perfect, de-googled version of Chrome with extra features. Instead, they violate your privacy more than Google ever dreamed.
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by notquiteright 3y ago
Using a decryption password on boot is less secure than TPM + measured boot/secure boot. Specifically, it’s vulnerable to a two-touch attack. In the first touch, the attacker replaces your bootloader with one that looks identical but s