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Comment 15W TDP (Score 1) 70

Posting since it was only in the footnotes.

15W might be good for use cases where n1x0 are a bit slow.

I'd consider a mini pc with one of these for kiosk-type applications. I have an n100 platform that gets maxed out with about 8 4K streams running. Would be nice to bump those up to 12 streams without much more power.

The iGPU code for ffmpeg is pretty good.

Hopefully these move beyond laptops later in the year.

Comment Re:What stops IPv6 from being universal (Score 1) 63

Some colos don't even provide v6 yet.

Some ISP's still don't suport it.

Some classes of network gear only recently got hardware v6 support. Older gear still in service pushes v6 onto the CPU. Probably why those colos and ISP's don't support it.

And I still see important v6 fixes coming in hardware changelogs, mostly on the LAN management stacks (neighbor discovery, mDNS, etc.)

That said, the pieces are finally coming together in the past two years, roughly.

I would bet 2030* will see v6 at around 75% of traffic as that old gear is tricked out and the stacks wind up in maintenance mode.

At home I actually have more light bulbs on v6 than desktops, but that'll change when my switches get too old and tired. I could replace them all right now to change but there would be no benefit to me for dropping three to four grand. None of my home use cases would benefit.

* 2038 if the politicians do actually create a global depression which is looking increasingly likely

Comment "Connected"? (Score 1) 225

Does BYD make dumb cars or is that mandatory control-grid over there?

Also, how dare they not comply with a US control grid!

Excuse me while I go find a '77 Lincoln Town Car. But do make a dumb electric with a good cold-weather battery and let me know.

I've seen too much sausage being made to bet on cell service always existing .

Comment Re:Neat case report, probably cannot scale (Score 1) 21

Yes, but it could prove the genes that could eventually be targeted by a gene therapy. As a therapeutic it might work for eradication even if it's not integrated.

Then there was that Chinese guy who got arrested for creating engineered babies with the outside claim being he was introducing HIV resistance but everybody thinks he was trying to enhance intelligence. If both are true things could get interesting.

Comment Re:Cassesstts sounded way better most think (Score 1) 41

The metadata of later recordings show DAT as the source.

I guess technically they're audio and they're cassettes, but, yeah ... tech articles.

FWIW in the 80's I spent too much on audio gear and I would record a DDD CD onto an expensive metal cassette and my friends would gush at the clarity of CD. I would then push the power button on the CD changer.

Comment Re:Suggest people back up the archive (Score 1) 41

Perusing the top-viewed list there are very few bands most people have heard of. The local bands don't seem to do many covers.

As I a reference point I clicked through to an R.E.M. concert and listened to Orange Crush.

The guy doing the secondary vocals sounded tone deaf - way off on pitch, OK on tempo.

Not that RIAA has any sanity at all and they say Jack Vallenti was involves in killing JFK, but I wouldn't listen to that track again. The drummer was on-point, though. Sounded like Pearl heads from the 80's to me.

There should be about zero lost sales from this.

Comment Re:Wonder how much the kickback was (Score 1) 63

Just an agreement to only pass packets that are signed with a key issued by a biometric-identified account on a walled-garden closed-source platform with a key-escrow style TPM-like opaque crypto module.

When the time cones to flip that switch.

Google has been told to prevent people from installing their own software on Android. It's ramping up slowly but the control grid also requires that no open source phone platform can get transit.

Comment Percentage (Score 1) 152

Does Sony demand 100% of ticket sales for the first two weeks like LucasFilm was reported to do? Harry Potter via WB too IIRC and other big properties?

Without asking why these ads run and why a popcorn and soda is $11, nothing will change and more theaters will go under.

I just learned that my local theater now has free refills on both popcorn and soda . This is a good idea as the goal is to get the $11 and if materials cost is $0.50 or $2 that doesn't really matter vs. no sale.

FWIW that theater ran two trailers before Project Hail Mary and no other ads. One I forgot and Mortal Combat looks like the worst movie ever made.

Comment ONI (Score 2) 114

These projects are all run out of the Office of Naval Intelligence. Remember, they run the F-14 and F-18 program currently and just had a $250M stealth drone shot down over the Eastern Med.

Blue Book was the Air Force poking their node where it didn't belong.

Forming Space Force was an attempt to reconcile this spat.

But a lot of the research happens e.g. off the coast of Puerto Rico. That's where the biggest acknowledged Naval research station is located.

It's why they won't let Puerto Ricans become independent, but for goodness sake, repeal the Jones Act permanently to stop the economic suffering of these people. They're legally Americans and the DC regime has them under embargo and sanctions. It's infuriating.

Comment Re:Where is the evidence? (Score 2, Interesting) 114

Everybody who says this has never tried filming an aircraft at night with a cell phone. Try it!

NASA has some beautiful 40-inch lenses for filming rocket launches and aerospace tests.

And even those don't resolve much at night too far out. IIRC they weigh about 200 lbs (10 stone for the Europeans). So why doesn't NASA just use an iPhone?

And chemical rockets aren't even accused of using a plasma-envelope gravity drive like some experimental military craft. Even the B2 uses an electric field to minimize turbulent flow (Biefield-Brown -> BB -> B2) and that's 40 years old and public.

If any of these are correct a cell phone is the wrong tool for the job.

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