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> What dictates how much ass someone can eat?

90% perspiration, 10% inspiration.

> YOUR key is the paper wallet generated OFFLINE on a clean laptop that was never connected to web.

That sounds like your housekeeper's key...

> Google's organic search results are ranked by quality

What does this even mean? They're ranked by metrics that are assumed to be a proxy for quality, but (a) the accuracy of those proxies varies widely and (b) the ranks are relative; if a result is no longer in the response pool the fact that it would have been higher quality is invisible. Consider the year where anyone who's profile had been tagged as a software developer couldn't find any information on tost rings for sailplane towing because the "autocorrection" to toString was so strong that no mechanism besides logging out gave any relevant results; there's always crap like this going on.

Better screens. Significantly lighter weight. Same performance. Same battery life. Same keyboard feel. In what way are you worried about these "ruining" the streak?

> but it doesn't return better search results.

It doesn't /inherently/ return better search results, but Google is many years into an intensive project to make their search results so bad that even a magic eight ball, let alone a moderately advanced AI, can do better.

> i bet

What terms do you propose? What adjudication?

> What sort of jobs are memory bandwidth bound that people are running?

CFD, for me. Depends on how you segment the domain, but the speed hit can be significant.

Which is an especially interesting option given built-in RDMA support with reasonable performance, including fully-connected graphs up to 6 machines…

> Sigma developed a powerful autofocus actuator in which coils and magnets, as used in the HLA (High-response Linear Actuator), are arranged in a circle to match the shape of the lens barrel

"We had the genius idea of taking a linear actuator and wrapping it into a circle... let's call it a 'normal motor'!"

> with the extra space filled with batteries.

There’s plenty of laptops with 99.9 Wh batteries already… and more than that is challenging to travel with by air, restricting the market drastically.

Inductive coupling could work for both power and data, but probably not at high enough power levels to have LEDs per key if you want to go through 10+ keys in a row...

> I would have to pass data and power through 2 pins and do some interesting circuitry but this should be possible!

Look at the THVD8000 for some ideas here. Not a part I would directly recommend (size), but shows just how easy power+data over a single twisted pair is, with an oscillator on the send side to generate the data signal and an envelope detector on the receive side. You can get fancy here... but the magic is that you don't need to.

Sounds like someone needs to make an app that just prints out a calendar page or newspaper front page every morning to keep things flowing...

In 1974, soda prices spiked with a sugar shortage.

- They never came back down.

- Diet soda and seltzer prices spiked too.

> umpers

To "b" or not to "b". Apparently the latter.

Higher brightness and nano-texture make this a must-have for ForeFlight. Too bad it'll probably require a new yoke mount.

> models can’t phone home

Models with tool access (and internet-connected tools like curl) can, though… is this really a useful distinction?

Density is insanely highly correlated with the perception of premium quality. No one’s increasing the volume of premium devices beyond what’s needed to hold components.

https://loeffelholz-codex.org/en/codex/topics/thumbscrew.htm... seems to have a real sourced photo?

> People want to turn on a box and play a game.

This is why I've never gotten any of the more recent consoles (since the N64 or so)... many of my friends have them, and every time we try to turn them on to play a game they start updating and rebooting and updating... I can play games on my computer, which I have other incentives to keep up to date, so the maintenance time is amortized; just double click and it works.

> the less tech adjacent a company is, the worse their privacy record

How does this apply to the topic of this thread? Samsung is, if anything, much more tech-savvy (tech-adjacent?) than Meta. Meta just does some high-level software and runs a few servers to host it. Samsung, across the company, builds every level of the hardware and software stack from silicon to services.

I haven't watched the video (not my preferred medium), but I assume the point is that while the Dune (fictional) movie erases Islam, the Dune (fictional) book very much does not.

> What do you think is the quickest way to watch YouTube?

Shout "six seven" and look over the shoulder of the twelve-year-old who magically appears?

The one that uses a semi-permanent magnet for that mechanism? It's the only use I'm aware of a switchable permanent magnet (alnico and rare earth half-cylinders wrapped in a coil; pulsing the coil switches the alnico to be either parallel or anti-parallel with the neodymium, turning the whole assembly on or off) in a commercial product; I bought it just for that.

> What many people would want it just a complete block on select YouTube channels

This exists, doesn't it? "Block channel" (or rather, "Don't recommend channel") is probably the feature I use most... I must have thousands of thousands of channels on that list.

The alternative is "Not Interested", but at least on AppleTV you're forced to then choose either "I've already watched the video" or "I don't like the video", and I have literally no idea what to do with those choices. If I've already watched the video then the reason I'm saying I'm not interested is because I didn't like it, so both are true, but I can't select both; and if I just don't like the clickbait thumbnail or title I haven't watched it and I don't know if I like the video itself, so neither is true, but I can't select neither...

Every time I think about YouTube's interface it becomes more obvious it's made by people (?) who's brains just don't work like mine...

How do you anonymize and segment the cache to make this not leak PII? This seems prone to analysis showing that users who tend to take left branches in the user lookup trie (low alphabetic user names) also tend to render trees more than desert (so re-order the switch targets to optimize cache), suggesting that “Aaron” might live in Appalachia, not Arizona.

> With Ethernet when a node wants to transmit it just does so

Depends on the Ethernet variant. Older versions have collision detection as you describe. More recent versions are point-to-point full-duplex and thus collision free, with the outlier of 10base-T1S, which uses a virtual token ring for collision avoidance.

It'll still come in useful, conceptually, if you work with 10base-T1S (multi-drop automotive Ethernet) -- a 2019 standard -- which uses a virtual token ring to implement collision avoidance.

This seems like a reasonably high probability sequence of tokens, especially if the temperature is set to allow the first few to be generated. What’s the surprise?

> When I click an item on Amazon and it says "arrives by Tuesday" then 95/100 times it does.

This depends heavily on where you live. I recall it used to be true, but in the three places I've spent significant time since the pandemic, all three have been less than 50% on time -- and less than 75% even giving an extra day. Because there's apparently no consequences for the last-mile delivery contractors to claim a package is delivered and not actually take it out of the truck until the next week, your local contractor determines your experience.