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jeffbee··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
I'm pro-information and believe generally that anti-data-center activists are chasing a Glonzo on par with anti-5G electrosensitives. That said given the tide of opinion I'm overjoyed that Trump and his allies want to step into the fusilade to defend the unpopular.
jeffbee··on 118M Queries per Second on Neki
That's roughly 250x more than it would cost to perform this stunt using on-demand Cloud Bigtable, if my math checks out (~1150 nodes @ 85¢/hour for 1h).
jeffbee··on 118M Queries per Second on Neki
The fact that you can just pay to scale out point reads is not news to anyone.
jeffbee··on Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
What that rider is demonstrating is maximum lactate clearance after a long aerobic warm-up. This has nothing to do with the pathways by which high intensity intervals are thought to be beneficial.
jeffbee··on Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
You should consult your doctor if your 5-second power isn't a lot more than your 30-second power. Your instant power relies on intramuscular ATP then switches to anaerobic fast glycolysis, which is itself only good for a few tens of seconds at most. After that aerobic dominates. Untrained subjects riding 30s intervals every 5 minutes are necessarily experiencing an aerobic workout and that's why I'm surprised by this definition.
jeffbee··on Exercise intensity is associated with cardiometabolic health
It's interesting that they characterize a 30-second cycling effort as "all-out" when any cyclist knows it's impossible to go "all-out" for that long. You can go really all-out for a few seconds before your whole metabolic process needs to switch modes. A 30-second effort has to be paced. "All-out" intervals are very effective but for me they mean 4 seconds out of every 30 seconds.
jeffbee··on Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Oh really you are out here telling us that working on defense is not a unique sin of the software industry?
jeffbee··on Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)
Tech workers on the way to work: I wonder why this tram stop is called "Lockheed-Martin". I guess we'll never know!
jeffbee··on The first drink-driving conviction may have happened in London
Defensive alcoholics are a great accompaniment to yesterday's reflexive hatred of self-driving cars. Human drivers are really showing their whole selves this week.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Good take.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Hi. This position is utterly idiotic, even if you were just trying to steel-man it. If a self-driving car can "cause" accidents by yielding to crosswalks then the only sensible course of action is to immediately ban human drivers in cities, starting this morning, zero exceptions, no tolerance.
jeffbee··on The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021
Apple TV and YT Premium are also bundled with other Apple/Google products and the marginal cost maybe be nothing or deeply discounted.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
I love this conversation as the death spasm of driver culture. On the one hand, a lot of hard data. On the other hand, myths.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Confirmed: you don't understand this subject. Any readers who find themselves needing to stop a modern car in an emergency are advised to stand on the brake pedal with maximum force while the computer sorts the situation out.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
I see. But Waymo investments are also vanishingly small compared to PT OpEx. If you for some reason could tap all of the Waymo money, operations and R&D and all of the rest of it, you could fund WMATA and that's it. Americans spend 100x more just on motor fuels than Waymo spends on itself. If you wanted to raise a similar amount of money you would need a mere 5¢ incremental gas tax. Private Americans furthermore spend $1 trillion every year just replacing and fixing their cars. You could double the public transit subsidy across the nation with a 5% car tax.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
You are suggesting that we should attribute a fraction of the costs of our road building and/or maintenance under autonomous vehicle development? If so, what fraction are you proposing?
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
This is the perfect expression of chronic windshield brain. If you are driving anywhere near the limits of dynamic stability on a public road, then you are already driving dangerously. Also, computerized stability control works better than 99.99% of human drivers.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
Waymo is already self-insured so if they have an advantage it's already on their balance sheet. In California nobody is going to get a discount for having ADAS software because we encoded into the state law in the 1980s, part of a long magical thinking campaign by boomers, that insurance companies can't use that type of thing to set prices.
jeffbee··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
AVs and public transportation are not comparable. The cumulative lifetime investment in Waymo would not fund even half a year of capital expenses for the New York MTA, for example.
jeffbee··on GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea
Yeah if GN wants to keep my attention on this topic they need to edit out all the stuff about normal Wi-Fi stack behaviors and normal local device discovery behaviors. They didn't need to pad their feature-length video with these non-issues.
jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
> Why would anyone technical ever connect a TV to the internet in the first place?

You must be...

> I must be fundamentally disconnected from how consumers think about technology.'

Right.

jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Did you mean pre-webOS? As far as I know LG TVs have never run Android.
jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
A pretty silly thing to ask. I can control my LG OLED TV from the YouTube and YouTube Music apps on my phone, as well as other apps, but the way that works is the apps hand off the stream parameters to the TV, they don't actually proxy the stream to the TV, which would have all kinds of drawbacks. The TV also comes out of the box or within 1 click of having the apps of popular services like Prime Video, Netflix, Apple TV+, Hulu, HBO/Max, Peacock, etc etc all of them they're just lightweight javascript applications.
jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
It's a shame that the only critical evaluation of the OP is buried this far down the page, under all the "this is basically the Stasi" fluff. I wish there was something richer than up/down voting to indicate posts that contribute to the debate.
jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
The tradeoff is picture quality. Those panels are dumb and also bad. That's one of the main problems with the marketplace. The best displays are tied to some shady practices like the one in the OP.
jeffbee··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Of what? This can only be evaluated in the context of wherever you live. In most of America recording sounds "in public" is a broadly protected activity because that's what "in public" means. You can only get in trouble for this if you violate another person's reasonable expectation of privacy.
jeffbee··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
They pay in plain old money, too. On the market your counterparty will be a criminal who is trying to scam you every step of the way.
jeffbee··on Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer
They are both using the same physical layer, but the ANT+ protocol scheme is more amenable to ultra-low-power implementations than BLE is. The European belief that my wheel rotation sensor needs privacy through encryption has effectively outlawed the low-power attributes of ANT+ for future hardware.
jeffbee··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
An "independent" in America is a person who greatly desires everything Trump is doing but realizes that makes them a bad person and therefore refuses to admit it.
jeffbee··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Implying that it's always been this way is part of the reason we are now here. For my entire life, bad faith commentators insinuated that the federal government was rife with corruption. When under Democratic control, of course. The time that Al Gore made one long-distance telephone call from his official desk, using his own personal calling card, birthed over 200 New York Times articles, 30 of them on the front page. We just had to get to the bottom of all that corruption!
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