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Linux had speaker [0] support since longer than I can remember. Reading the headline I was expecting something about software using it to create less low quality output. But it seems it is about modifying the "modern" audio output to work around limitations of laptop speakers.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_speaker

I doubt standardization for anything consumer-related is going to make a return unless enforced by regulators.

Standardization still works between companies (e.g., interfaces between parts for computers, that are put together by computer-manufacturers), but not where there is no advantage for any company.

A bit of plastic for an over-priced OEM infotainment module is more useful than being able to switch suppliers for radios easily.

> Cars are required to be online for an emergency call in case of accident.

No. They are not required to "be" online but just capable to connect if/when an accident occurs.

That these modules that can connect are abused to always be connected is an invention of the manufacturers.

Not theft of the part but of the vehicle, i.e., the fuel pump is part of the immobilizer. The programmer will only work if the manufacturer central system agrees, and it wont if the vehicle was reported as stolen.

> This is just natural selection in action: only people who are good at slotting into bureaucracy and being well-behaved cogs in the wheel will thrive in this environment, and other types of humans will die out.

It would require that slotting into bureaucracy increases the ability and opportunity to procreate for the individual over not slotting into bureaucracy. I doubt that is the case. Strong adherence to a bureaucratic lifestyle significantly reduces the number of offsprings compared to a more chaotic way of living.

> Very common, and you can't ever mess up freeing memory.

Except that where misra is applied, there often is no dynamic allocation at all.

Not every picture with text is a meme. To become a meme it requires a certain level of distribution.

The real ones are difficult to spot and may completely be lost among the wannabe-meme-pictures.

> People kicking up a fuss is the default situation because of conflicting interests between different states.

In some cases less between the states and more between gonvernment and people. The european parliament is elected by the people. But many important matters are defined by the comission consisting of representatives of the member states governments.

Of course the different governments are also elected. But as part of the comission they can act against the will of the people and later blame the EU.

The person to fly in case of an emergency will require the same kind of currency as a person flying all the time. The person flying all the time will be much more capable than the person watching the plane fly, and acquiring experience only in specific training.

Or at least take responsibility for what they help to publish. Preventing delivery of malware, ensuring that each ad can be traced to someone responsible, ... like newspapers.

> That is a position that only the privileged can take. There are a lot of people who are happy to pay for services with personal info rather than cash because they have to save what little of the latter they have to pay for things like food and shelter.

What's the value of a persons data if that person cannot afford any of the products which are advertised using that data? On the other hand, persons on a limited budget are sometimes most happy to spend money unwisely.

Most modern products seem to have planned end dates.

I agree with you.

Just the use of "scaling" seemed a bit too narrow.

Produce x pieces and earn y. Produce 1000 times x pieces and earn 1000 times y. That's scaling in the traditional sense. "Everything" (+/-) scales.

Produce once at fixed cost and earn infinite - that's something beyond just scaling. Maybe leverage? If it would provide the same quality and lower prices it would be good for society. If prices stay high and there is an indirect cost in degraded quality for the sake of huge gains something might not be right.

The amount of human workers to process the requests definitively must scale with the requests.

What may be desirable is cases where cost does not scale with revenue. But that should be no guarantee for long-term gains, because it provides room for competition that could make a cheaper offer at the same internal cost.

One step further: Powerpoint. Sooner or later the diagrams will usually be needed in a presentation. Having them in a presentable format saves another step, and is a constant reminder to produce something worth presenting.

Those diagrams that don't end up in presentations will be write-only anyway, and could be in any random format. No-one is going to read them.

It is required in the EU. The mobile device only connects to the network in case of a crash. Of course, manufactures having to add a mobile device prefer to keep it connected continuously to use it for other things than required.

From that same link:

"After six learning sessions, everyone in the video watching and type-writing group had learned the Arabic alphabet and could identify each of its 28 letters. However, people in the handwriting group—who used pen and paper to write each letter during their learning sessions—gained the same level of proficiency after just two learning sessions."

Replace handwriting with any other activity. It is probably the same. Doing something helps learning faster than just watching.

Why are the air quality measurement devices located on the roof (pictures in tge article)? Fresh air is up there, but what people breathe is air closer to the surface.

Those few "next to noone" are just only almost everyone in general aviation in Europe.

How about jail time?

Github can show a list of unresolved comments, and with a single click jump to the location in the state of the specific commit the comment was written at. No need to cycle though commits / state at each commit without comments.

If an author is unable to produce readable commits on the branch of a PR the author is likely not able to produce readable change-sets either.

To review I like branches. Bad commits are not pleasant to look at, but they carry information, too, e.g., revealing the need for discussion. It's a bit like asynchronous pairing.

I don't think looking at the code on a website is sufficient as review in many cases, so I typically have a copy of the branch anyway. If any feature is needed, it is the possibiliy to comment on unchanged lines.

It probably depends on the scope. If the reviewer works on a more abstract level and can rely on authors to get the details right, maybe github is not ideal. Where the reviewer is almost as deeply involved as the author, a branch works nicely.

The ipad operating range ends at 35C. That's ok for airliners, but in smaller aircraft with bubble or no canopies where the device can be exposed to sunlight, the temperature can exceed the limit.

For those use-cases alternatives to foreflight are probably good enough.

For cases where it matters and must be foreflight the price of the device (even apple taxed) doesn't matter at all compared to other cost.

I would like to see ads. Last time I saw some they were at least intersting (nothing to buy tomorrow, but good to know).

But with the risks involved (malicious ads and being tracked), everything is blocked. It is "risk blocking" not "ad blocking". Not seing ads is just a side-effect.

A newspaper will refuse to print unacceptable ads. Some ad-tech will deliver anything. Some websites use ads from ad-tech that delivers anything.

Maybe there is a niche market opportunity for a guaranteed-safe-notracking ad-tech company to reach the target demographic of people blocking ads to reduce risk and avoid tracking. It would require cooperation with ad-blockers to provide a switch to drop to risk-blocking though.

> [...] that the whole thing is just a tax-funded wealth redistribution program [...]

Aren't they paid by the passenger fee?

Access log disabled?

> Kinda but also true that most long pieces have one or two movements that are the popular ones and you have to wait till you get to it.

Is it by design? Was the composer aware that a certain part would end up being that one exceptionally popular one?

The probabiliy that a part not at the beginning is (becomes) popular is higher than for the part at the beginning, because there's more parts not at the beginning than the one at the beginning.

With traditional products there were three kind of parties involved: Producer, dealer, and consumer. Renting was a concept between the latter two. At an increased logistic effort between them (returning the product, more but smaller payments) the number of products bought from the producer is reduced.

With dealers included, exhaustion occured between producer and dealer. With dealers removed and products rented exhaustion no longer occurs at all.

That's a significant change, much more so than removing dealers or a switch to renting alone.

Producers retain full control, and individual consumers lack the negotiation power dealers had, which is an issue if there is no eqivalent alternative product from a different producer.

For an application that is limited to stadardize services doip will only matter for future EVs. Anything with ICE will continue to provide data on CAN.

That limit is efficient for measuring and selling glasses.

As a life-long user, glasses with an error of 0.5 are unacceptable for me. That's the amount of change over years when it is time to get new ones.

Not all deviations are measurement errors. There are potential variable conditions of the eye (e.g., spasm of accommodation and sugar level). An online solution that can consider them properly is definitively worth a patent.