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How do you shield a radio receiver from electromagnetic disturbances on the antenna?

Depends how you feel about electromagnetism? Do electromagnetic waves moving through space induce voltage on a conductor?

If yes, a sufficiently powerful solar storm could easily destroy electrical transmission lines, fry every inductive motor on the planet and (if strong enough) permanently disable every consumer grade radio in existence.

The western world would have a very bad time.

How is a solar storm a species level threat? Life does just fine without electricity.

The "double-tap" issue of both a defective keyboard, and a laptop design that had the keyboard physically fused to the case had to be expensive even for Apple.

My experience was a 2017 model developing keyboard issues after ~2.5 years, The repair took a less than 48 hours from drop off to return and it appeared the device went from MN to Texas and back in that time. Additionally since the repair required an entirely new laptop I got a fresh case and battery with zero cycles.

No apple care, no repair fee. It's hard to imagine a scenario where these repairs didn't obliterate the profit from an entire generation of macbooks.

Apple makes a shitty keyboard and it's the best thing to ever happen to Fedex?

A big turning point for me with Elon was actually listening to him talk. In countless interviews he's asked some variation of the question "how do you do it all" and every single time it's the most obvious softball question begging for an answer that praises all the amazing and dedicated engineers that worked on these products and every single time his answer is is some variation of "I'm just that amazing" -- "I only sleep 4 hours a night" -- "I work really hard"

Elon is a litmus test for nerds. You can tell a lot about an engineer by when they decide(d) Elon is a clown. No doubts the insanity started long before the cave diver defamation incident (although this was the turning point for me personally as well)

If you're a techie that is still holding onto Elon as a hero, good businessman or otherwise decent human being after the Twitter fiasco I'm not sure there is much left to save (or the horse incident, or the time he had secret children with an employee, and the time he stole Grimes' eggs to have a child with a surrogate, and the time he.... )

Gasoline fires are different than a battery fire. Battery fires are class 2 or self oxidizing. They require substantially more resources to mitigate. A gasoline fire can be extinguished with traditional fire fighting methods. Battery fires basically need to be babysat for a day while they cook off.

As if EVs needed more negative externalities

The primitive selection looks rather informed with the hindsight of NSA compromising the security of NIST curves

Peer review before the white paper was published? I'd be fascinated to learn more about any such conversations.

Satoshi is (so far)

North Korea seems to have been weaponizing it more aggressively than anyone at this point.

Yes, but implementation errors-- not fundamental flaws in the theory or underlying mathematics.

It's not a statement about such things being impossible, just unlikely to come from a single individual working in complete isolation up until the bitcion whitepaper release.

Additionally this alone would be merely peculiar on it's own, coupled with the lack of retrospective investigations uncovering -anything at all- significant about the person moves it to suspicious. Adding in the subject matter of cryptography + pseudo anonymous money and it strains credulity not to consider

Putting a pair of sandbags in the back-end of an unloaded rear wheel drive pickup is not the same thing as driving a 9000 lb sedan.

>That would be a large steady state heat loss!

Yes it is. I don't have a large dataset of exact temp conditions and charging curves (Elon certainly does though, someone go ask him!) I can tell you if the outdoor temps are below 15F a standard outlet has negative net energy input.

A heat pump solution would certainly be more efficient, knowing Tesla I can only assume it's peltier junctions.

All the hype about the efficiency of an EV goes out the window when it's blowing 16kwh+ a day just keeping the battery above freezing.

If it's cold enough a Tesla plugged into 120v/20a charging circuit will actually lose voltage over time. It's consuming over 2000 watts just to keep the battery at an acceptable temp for the chemistry to function.

The weight of the battery pack is great for traction in warm / dry conditions, but when driving on ice that weight is just momentum sending you sliding into snow banks.

After a bumper or body panel gets ripped off during the inevitable extraction from above mentioned snow bank, expect to wait 6-9 months for the most basic of body work.

The self driving is an absolute clown show in anything but perfect conditions (mounting evidence it sucks in perfect conditions too~)

Nothing in the world excites me more than expensive nerd toys with electric power trains, but as a Minnesota native I'll take a $900 rolling trash can beater car over a top of the line Tesla six months out of the year. There is a very valuable lesson in observing the legacy auto industry existing in Michigan where the winters get very cold and cars need to perform with snow or ice on the roads. Meanwhile Tesla mostly engineers their cars to be good at driving from LA to SF and back.

Only lick the boot, don't swallow it whole.

Sure, and plenty of innocent people rot in jail for months before their trial because they can't afford the cash bail.

That Americans are at all proud of such a system is disgusting.

A stunning indictment of the American penal system delivered as some sort of flex?

For rich and connected people convicted of white collar crimes it's very common. It's also common for upper class criminals to arrange the terms of their own work release-- where they are employed by a company they own and are free 12+ hours a day, only returning to custody to sleep. (Epstein did this with his first conviction)

For the rest of the population without money, power or connections accused of drug crimes or petty theft it's typical that you will be arrested and placed in jail immediately and will be in custody until you are convicted / sentenced at which point you will go directly to prison.

For whatever it's worth, the federal authorities have very little budget/mandate to prosecute darknet drug distribution offenses. They go after the darknet markets themselves, money laundering / sanctions avoidance and maybe firearms.

Meanwhile the local authorities don't know what most of those words mean.

You forgot roadster 2.0 and the mannequin robot

No no, those apps are for investing not gambling.

If you believe that I have some oceanfront property in Iowa you could buy

The professor is an employee. The student is the customer. Name one other industry where customers pay 5 or 6 figures to be treated this poorly.

When we do it: Realpolitik

When they do it: Gangsters

In this case it took both the one employee out of 20k+ getting tricked and the entire (supposedly world class) engineering org that allowed admin authentication credentials to get hardcoded into a globally accessible power shell script exposed on the intranet.

Unverified clickbait gets more engagement. Almost by definition you get engagement from the people who identify with the unverified clickbait because it reinforces their world-view, and engagement from the people who recognize it as unverified clickbait because it challenges their world-view.

>Facebook coded a rule that

All algorithms are coded rules, the idea of using an algorithm to somehow launder responsibility in tech companies is ridiculous.

Before companies had algorithms they had heuristics, nobody would (successfully) deflect blame for the actions of the organization by saying "the heuristic did this!"

>the corporate culture that made the company successful will slowly fracture as all the new hires never get exposed to it.

What about all the companies that have this happen to them without any remote workers to blame it on?

2 years I think? But there was more pressure being applied in the media. I remember multiple articles like this one (0) that circulated at the time.

[0]https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is...

Paying protection to the mob is a good idea in general. Even if you're generally careful, you never know when a leg will break because of something that was your fault.

disclaimer: I have applecare+ on an m1 pro