> Yes it's not fair that third world countries are being asked to not do what first world countries did to become wealthy but the thing is, global warming doesn't care about fair.

It's the third world countries that don't care about being asked to do things the hard and expensive way, so they're not going to. Never mind that they couldn't in the first place. The factor of climate falls out of the equation as irrelevant. I contend that no human being is realistically making personal decisions based on the potential impacts of climate change beyond how it affects their present, ongoing relationships with other people. When the only people who can afford to care about those things are bathing in gobs of sweet, cheap energy? Well.. have fun arguing amongst yourselves.

Please stop with the extravagance; you're gonna make me want to attend a Climate Summit.

I don't think the world economic equivalent of a Mario Kart blue shell is gonna work. It doesn't help the stragglers; it just hurts the leaders; there is no alignment.

I have supported a good number of employees over the years living or traveling in remote areas of all types. I have done enough of this that I have experience with pretty much every access technology there is: Dialup, frame relay, ISDN, SONET, ethernet, DOCSIS, every flavor of DSL including specialty long reach stuff and dry loop DSL. Cell networks everything from WAP to UWB; satellite ive done evertyhing from 2400bps Iridium, BGAN, Hughes, Viasat, Starlink.

Starlink and cell networks are the same thing from a network access and architecture perspective. They have the same issues and technical concerns around scaling wireless capacity. If cell networks qualify, Starlink qualifies, QED.

From my experience I can say that none of the technologies have ever been able to adequately solve the problem of affordable rural broadband. But I can say that of all of these, Starlink is the only one that has ever successfully supported a remote employee to everyone's satisfaction at work. The FCC is certainly right to be skeptical of Starlink's ability to scale, but I agree that I'm at an absolute loss to understand the justification for the double standard. If you put all the providers and technologies through the same thought experiment, not only should none of them ever get any money, the entire concept of subsidizing rural broadband won't ever work.

Either the FCC should cut Starlink back in or they should eliminate the program entirely. I could advocate equally for both approaches and quite honestly after having watched so many false starts in this space over the last 30 years, I personally favor giving the whole fucking thing the axe.

I have an older model of the zenbook duo, but the question is still applicable. Simply put, you don't put it on your lap and work; that is a ridiculous question. It's not what this hardware is designed for, and it's not a valid criticism to make against it. If you want to put it on your lap and work, buy one of the models from ASUS or any other manufacturer that are designed for it. I personally recommend the 13" M2 Macbook Air.

The dark humor in all of this is that they were actually providing the service. Back in the day, you could just mug 5000 people a month without having to give them anything! I guess there is competition in this space. Hopefully they will be gearing up for a Series A real soon.

At the end of the day, there simply isn't a bulletproof safeguard against someone knowing your security credentials, whatever they may be. For that, 23andMe is absolutely standing on solid ground. They are quite correct that each and every user that reused a known compromised credential is to blame.

OTOH I also run a site with a large userbase and know that there is absolutely no way that something like this could completely go unnoticed as it unfolded. What % of 23andMe's users actually even log in regularly? I'd guess maybe a couple of percent if they are lucky. And suddenly a full half of your users decide to start logging in... and authentication failures for nonexistent accounts go absolutely through the roof -- these things did absolutely happen and someone did absolutely see them happening inside that business.

Image data is almost always manipulated or preprocessed in a way that would break this kind of watermarking.

For instance, most images are scaled to a fixed size before they are used for model training; I highly doubt that these techniques can survive a bicubic resample. If your eye can see it, you can train on it; that's about all there is to it.

Just an FYI for those who think this is new; it's not. Lightning iPhones also support USB ethernet adapters either through Apple's camera kit cable or through 3rd party devices purpose made (and also sold directly by Apple)

Everyone's in here all excited about this, but in reality here's what will change. Spoiler: It's worse!

Old: File -> Print -> Vendor Dialog Box -> Vendor Driver -> Spooler -> Printer

New: File -> Print -> Microsoft Dialog Box -> Spooler -> Vendor app that emulates a printer and runs all the time -> Printer that has no functionality without vendor app

Yeah, can't wait.

Once they have decided that supply chain efficiencies make it less expensive to standardize an optional upgrade part is the point at which they should have taken the W for themselves and their customers. Instead some executive fuckface decided that the customers shouldn't see the benefit. Seems they forgot that other automakers also know how to buy rolls of resistive heat tape and relays. Long time followers of the company are unlikely to be surprised though.

BMW used to actually be the 'driver's car' their marketing espouses, but they started to turn that tide HARD about 2001/2, right around the time that Chris Bangle started systematically destroying their design language. Today they basically exist as a luxury brand to cater to the Chinese market with their overhuge kidney grilles and //M badge on everything.

BMW died 20 years ago; it's a walking corpse today.

Ah yes, capitalism had to invent just-in-time manufacturing before they were finally able to achieve Soviet levels of consumer product shortages! Still waiting on those Raspberry Pis and STM32s, yall.

> Isn't capitalism efficient?

I get where you are going, but I don't really have any desire to go there with you. I'm well entrenched in the "consumers are too stupid to own half of the shit they buy" camp. In a perfect version of capitalism, awful customer hostile products would be fiercely punished in the market. People content to eat shit sandwiches all the time are breaking the contract.

I'm not justifying it, I'm just saying its supported. The 3kw is a continuous supply number; it's not derated like you would a residential breaker. Anyway charging v2v is really for an emergency situation, so I don't really see how any of the stuff you said really matters in the first place. If you are dead in your tesla in the middle of a -9F winter day and a guy comes up in an electric hummer, the correct move is to get in the hummer and GTFO, not try to charge your freaking car, jesus.

Most of the use cases for v2g don't really involve drawing massive amounts of power from the vehicle battery for long periods of time. If you want to have a solar system and have storage for use overnight on a regular basis, you'll want something better suited to do that, like a big LiFePO4 pack. Likewise you won't want to be juicing your car to 100% every day so you can run your AC overnight and still leave with 80% SOC in the morning -- v2g is simply not well suited for storage/arbitrage applications.

By contrast, v2g applications are more geared to things like emergency power, or handling demand spikes in a solar power system. Although you hear a lot of discussion about the future of grid-scale v2g applications, the fact is that is simply never going to happen. Consumers aren't going to attach their car batteries to the grid for the benefit of anyone but themselves, for exactly the reasons you have already given.

Also keep in mind that the power demands of a household are really quite modest when compared to the power demands of a EV driving around. I haven't tried to assess the economics, but my hypothesis is that the increased very shallow cycling caused by the average V2g application isn't prematurely destroying batteries and probably isn't impacting battery lifetime all that much. Lithium batteries like to do work; they just don't like being really full or really empty.