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Consumers care about a lot of things besides that, it's just that (as you mention) those are the two most legible things to consumers.

Your specific example of cars is, IMO, not correct: Honda, for years, could charge a premium on their new cars due to a reputation for reliability increasing resale values.

For less expensive things, how much time should I spend researching quality USB-C to HDMI dongles? It's plausible that the chip in the $5 on amazon WOPEIME (or whatever) branded dongle is the same as the in the $25 Belkin one.

For intermediate things, time-pressure might matter. If my clothes washer were to fail today, I'm doing laundry by hand until I can get a new one in my house, so I'm probably playing quality roulette with several hundred dollars of my money at Best Buy.

If you think about The Event you can figure it out. (Don't think about The Event).

The DOD effectively can't "just mandate" things and it's because of politics (which is a superset of corruption and incompetence).

There's a very small number of major contractors and if you pick one of their APIs as the new standard, then you disadvantage all the others.

If you pick a greenfield project, then it will take a long time, and once you are done everybody will claim that they can't use it (see e.g. Ada; quick version they started working on a mandate for a programming language in 1975, mandated Ada in 1991 and by 1996 removed the Ada mandate).

I wear a silicone wedding band. The "durable memento" went missing when I took it off at the gym. My wife bought me a new gold band for our 15th anniversary and it lives in my jewelry box, since I don't want to lose it.

It depends on if you want to answer the question "Is Valve charging us more" or "Are we paying more"

Taxes aren't included in the US prices; I'd have to pay 1138USD for the 256GB model, which is 1593AUD, so it's only a 16AUD premium over where I live.

Android phones with unlocked bootloaders are awkward, but doable. It would be somewhat un-Valve-like if they lock the bootloader.

I have not tried them; I thought that was clear from my wording.

Thinking AI is an existential threat to humanity because it will take over the world and thinking AI is a non-existential threat because it makes disinformation and hacking easier are not even remotely the same thing.

It's about as much of a common thread as comparing Shohei Ohtani to a loan-shark's enforcer because they both swing bats at things.

My impression is that it does, but I daily-drive an Android phone, so maybe someone else here can comment?

XMPP is more reliable than Signal on iOS. My wife regularly doesn't get Signal notifications for messages that I sent when she was in a marginal service until hours later when she opens the Signal app to send me something.

On Android, I've never had any connection issues with either Signal or XMPP, so I would say that this problem is solved.

How ergonomic are the modern AVIF encoders? I like libjxl (and cjpegli) because they are really good at generating reasonably compact, high-quality images.

For every other image encoder I used I couldn't find one setting that would make compact, high-quality images across the gamut of inputs (e.g. things like comics that have extremely visible high-frequency content would look terrible at quality settings that looked good for many photographs).

You can also defend it against tarnishment. They can argue that IKEA appearing in a violent video game has negative associations with their trademarks.

> And just Tesla set to a high power mode, if when starting to drive it you do max acceleration for 1-2 minute you drain a significant portion of your battery very quickly.

An airplane under typical operation has a much narrower ranges of power than a Tesla in high power mode. Takeoff power is a low single-digit multiple of cruise power. For my math earlier I used a 3:1 ratio. A Model S Plaid is more like 50:1, or 30:1 for the "regular" Model S.

> The overall point that Im trying to make is that slight battery specific energy density improvements don't matter when compared against the power losses which are proportional to square root of the current.

You've completely missed making that point, since I still haven't seen an argument so far that the current must be very high.

No reasonable person would have been confused into thinking it was an official IKEA game; IANAL, but it seems unlikely to me that IKEA would have ultimately prevailed in court, though a simple change to the color of the logo would probably have been helpful to the devs of the game.

Technically, no. However there are metamaterials in which certain wavelengths exhibit a negative index of refraction, which cause light to behave in some ways similarly to if it were moving faster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative-index_metamaterial

Not all filesystems support swap files.

You don't need to be merging multiple source pins into fewer output pins; it's very normal for multiple ground pins to appear on an output connector, and for the 12V GPU and motherboard pins you see multiple output pins at 12V as well.

Couldn't you still fry a PSU if the cable assumed multiple common pins to the PSU, but the PSU had different voltages across those connectors?

double-sided velcro holds less well and is more likely to stick to things. Just toss a pair of diags in your box if you are worried about getting the zip ties off.

I seriously doubt that I'll ever need the 3 floppy-drive cables or 10 IDE cables that I have.

E-mail is far worse; my wife asked me if an e-mail was a scam and it took me several minutes to figure out how to show the e-mail of the sender in her e-mail client. It was clearly a hacked hotmail account after doing so, but her e-mail client proudly showed it as "$COMPANY_NAME Support"

I'll have to rewatch Princess Mononoke; I haven't seen it since it was in the theater in the US. I remember not liking it as much as the other Miyazaki I've seen, but I'm a different person today.

What are the other 4 movies you own?

That's funny because (living in the US) I've noticed that many printers default to A4. Maybe 20 years ago, one printer at work would think A4 paper was loaded in it after every power-failure and we'd have to go through the menu and change it, or it would require you to clear a warning before it would print anything sized for US letter.

Good to know; I missed that when looking for players. Probably because if you search the App Store for "jellyfin" on TvOS, it doesn't find SenPlayer

None of this affects the cell current though.

If your motors draw W Watts at peak, and you have N cells at V volts then the peak per-cell current will be (approximately -- there are internal losses) W/(NV) regardless of the geometry of your stacks.

If N is small, your designs may be restricted, but I'll hazard a guess that N will be large for a 30 passenger plane capable of 2 hour flights (e.g. a Tesla model 3 is almost 3000 cells; 31s96p).

That's nice; my first impressions of D2 were much worse than they should have been since the default layout engine is pretty terrible for some types of graphs; ELK is a big improvement, and when I tried TALA it was sometimes a big improvement over ELK.

I never purchased TALA though because I don't use D2 at work, and the costs of buying TALA were above my "fun money" amount.

FWIW, Moonfin and Infuse both work flawlessly on an AppleTV.

I also remember Google TV working fine, but it seemed like ads got added to another part of the UI every month so I got sick of it.

Roku only supports text subtitles, so if you have picture subtitles (like a DVD or bluray), then you'll need to burn them in if you want to play on Roku.