lightedman

"But no such cheaper options exist"

Untrue, at Sunspark we sold to both individuals and companies. If you can install the stuff yourself, buying it direct from the manufacturer is ungodly cheap (~330w panels at $80 a piece when I worked there almost decade ago.)

Sure you can. Code is code. I took a machine without brush cleaning for transfer sheets and hand-tapped, mounted motors and controllers and brush assemblies, ran the connections into the PLC, install and connect the power relays, reflashed the PLC firmware with custom code, BAM it works.

As long as you have room in memory, you can add functionality.

"The PLC is fixed hardware, you can't simply patch that."

Oh yes you can patch it - that's how I got the 20 year old laminator working where I work. If the hardware is still good you can absolutely change firmware if you have the PLC control software (like RockWell ControlFlash) or know how to manipulate the ladder logic directly.

"Of course it can't do anything useful for the amount of power that it consumes"

Until about the top-end of the 3000 RTX series released, the GTX 1080 was still king of raster performance.

I'm playing modern games like Marvel Rivals at 1440p no problem. Risk of Rain 2 4k no problem. STALKER 2 1080p no problem. It even runs most of my VR games perfectly fine, with me only needing to switch to my RTX 5060 machine for Into the Radius 2.

Even today, it is a very capable card, despite the power draw.

This was a solved problem long ago - page/text the person responsible for that facility. If Fac. Man. is too lazy to properly-staff critical things, they deserve every pain they encounter.

All of this remote crap is meant to try to eliminate a physical presence on-site, which is stupid because when things eventually break, a physical presence is required on-site anyways.

One of my jobs in aerospace is systems reliability - an unstaffed system is not a reliable one.

Epoxy is useless, we have materials to dissolve cured epoxies for rework in aerospace.

Man can make it, man can break it.

Ledger provides a 'Genuine Check' mechanism to determine the authenticity of the device; however, it explicitly warns that it cannot detect added implants when the device's original Secure Element remains intact.

And as this workaround leaves the original Secure Element intact, good luck detecting the supply chain attack.

"Nope. I watch a lotta youtube on a PC, FF runs vids like crap because Google changes something, and FF struggls to play well unlike Chrome or Edge."

You must have a hardware problem, as I'm playing 4K videos on a 1st-gen Ryzen and GTX 1080 using Firefox and I've never had a single issue since I got the machine, around the 4th week the processor was available to purchase.

Not me, because Apple still disallows direct competition with their other 'apps/features' like Compass.

Of all the things to put on a network, this ranks as one of the dumbest, ever. You don't need control of the unit done over a network, just the data on whether it is working or not. Anything else is simply asking for someone else to come along and break your stuff.

To boot, refrigeration has been wholly automatic for decades. It literally runs itself. It doesn't need any network connectivity other than to say "I work" and "I'm broken" and that's it. Allowing control commands to be sent over the network is, yet again, just asking for trouble.

I see this as a good thing, QGIS is already a bit of a mess to begin with (seriously, what mapping program starts you off without a base map? Even Google Earth gives you a starting globe to lay your info upon) and could really use the bandwidth to focus their attention on making things actually make sense rather than goofing off with AI-'assisted' coding where the 'programmer' doesn't even know how things work.

"How does your pinky naturally rest on Control?"

30 years of WASD gaming will do that.

I'm still using DOS to control a galvo-steered LASER animation system from 30 years ago. 133MHz Pentium, non-MMX, 16MB RAM, 16MB Voodoo3.

"The US for instance can ignore the Geneva Conventions willy-nilly"

In many cases this is simply because we did not sign and ratify parts of the convention updates, thus we are not a signatory to those statutes. No way to truly punish those that aren't willing participants, except to make them unwilling participants.

Yea my Thinkpad 11e is still going and running software. That's 12 years old, now.

"Nobody in GitHub Trust & Safety is sat there watching HN"

Please, any competent software dev business has eyes on this page on an hourly basis.

I'm in aerospace and we're crawling on this site, all the way at the top levels.

AS9100 is based off of ISO9001. It doesn't fucking matter, the responsibility is on both parties.

Again, tell me you don't actually handle quality without directly saying so.

"Actually no, it's Lockheed's that should have had a test-suite and conformance-suite for it"

Tell me you don't run AS9100D quality inspections without saying so directly.

I work in aerospace.

Both parties fucked up.

Lockheed's job is to follow the customer's specifications.

NASA's job is to check to make sure what they paid for is what they received.

I do this every single day as a quality inspector here. I don't know why a bunch of highly-degreed engineers can't do a simple job that a person with oonly a GED does without fail.

"Its not expensive because its niche, its expensive because its hard."

I'd counter and suggest it is expensive because almost nobody gives a damn about the first 3 layers in the OSI model, and have pushed most security responsibility up to layers 4-7. That's roughly half of your attack surface still exposed.

"Theres 250+ of them in a string 1/4 mile long.... at 48 V/panel, you get to 12KV. "

And they're never installed in config chains that high voltage - cell spacing between cells is typically very low and only capable of withstanding ~5kV before internal arcing occurs.

Also, your typical 72-cell solar panel is only 32V.

"Thats already puting thousands of volts and hundreds or thousands of amps through the silicon."

In a typical string of solar panels design, you'll get tons of volts but not a lot in amps - current cell maximums top out at ~11A and the connective MC4 wiring can't handle too much more current than that, so what you end up with is like a 1,000V 10A string on one MPPT connection into the inverter.

Sounds like an unauthorized access of my computer - a fine of a dollar per byte, per person, should make Apple turn the hell around. 15 billion dollars times how many Apple users that have been wronged in this manner? Apple would be dead instantly.

It's true - every current cockup in our custom production system comes from Apple-using developers.

All of our Linux stuff is rock solid and is what we actually use to communicate with our satellites. We will explicitly avoid Microsoft and Apple here.

Please, I could just fill the gap with the same-colored solder mask, flatten it out, cure it, you'd never see the rework.

It is so trivial anyone that's ever done fingernail polish can do it. The process is roughly the same.

I'm hearing in other chats that this is actually a rehash of a nonsensical recycling attempt done a couple of years ago.

So I want to ask a question. What in this study would throw the HN people off as incorrect or raising a flag? Is terminology being used incorrectly? Is data vs shown photographs not quite matching up with what is being stated? I'm no battery expert, so I'm quite curious as to why I'm hearing that this is fake from people that work directly in the battery industry (and they're not big companies, most of them are individuals providing various services, some in recycling, some in custom manufacturing, some in installation.)

"It's not reasonable to expect thousands of existing games to port to ARM"

Realistically it is possible and not actually that difficult. The hardest part would be ensuring that specific code changes from older x86 code to modern ARM code actually translate over properly and perform as expected. The majority of work done there would have to be in the libraries that were used to build the game. For way older games, like the ones you'd run under DOS, it would be much easier, as most stuff was in ASM and C (you did have the occasional BASIC game or PASCAL game flying around which would likely need a little bit of extra work) so you'd just be doing direct translation of instructions.

Let's just use Flock cameras to track all top-level YC people, publish everything we possibly can. Absolutely and utterly eliminate their privacy until they learn to respect ours.

"Sounds like he is salty that somebody found an exploit using LLM that he found manually"

No, he's salty that this last remaining hypervisor exploit is going to get patched, causing his PS5 Linux project to get wholly-fucked as now there will be no (currently-known) way to sideload the OS. Reading comprehension is very important here.

The amount of "Do not put hands here" labels I've seen on lawnmowers would suggest that, yes, someone did sue and win (or at the least got a settlement) and thus the lawyers forced the companies to put disclaimers and warnings on the lawnmower, directly on the top of the deck in plain sight.