Am I the only person on the planet who still opens the garage door with, you know, my hands? Is that completely crazy? Am *I* crazy?
Around my neighborhood almost no one parks in the garage (they park in their driveway, or the street). The garage is where you store stuff (and you rarely open the garage door).
I thought the garage was where people put their guest bedroom.
> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.
Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.
Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.
What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.
Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.
It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.
Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.
That was the only pad Russia had which has the infrastructure necessary to launch humans into space
Not entirely correct. It is the only *active* pad with that infrastructure. There are decommissioned pads that have been used for manned missions in the past. What state they are currently in is an unknown, but it has been speculated that equipment could be salvaged from them to repair the damaged pad.
> They don't do backups at those outfits?
We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.
Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.
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Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."
Russia doesn't have the ability for manned spaceflight. ergo they don't have cosmonauts any more.
Tell that to the folks on ISS who ride back and forth on Soyuz all the time. A couple of people went up to ISS from Russia just one week ago.
To be fair, at the moment, future ISS launches from Russia won't be possible because of some launch pad damage incurred by a recent launch, but Russia still has the capability of launching crewed rockets into space from other pads. They just can't send any to ISS right now because its orbital inclination is incompatible with the locations of those other pads while staying within the fuel capacity limits of their rockets.
Cars have been getting shittier for decades now. You never noticed because American marketing convinced Americans that 100K miles on any car engine is dangerously out of fashion.
What are you talking about? On average, engines last 150k to 200k miles in the U.S., complete with CAFE standards.
And the main goal of the current CAFE standards was to push hybrids and electric vehicles. Manufacturers rigging the game by trying to make pure ICE cars with ridiculous mileage is an unanticipated negative side effect, mostly because the folks coming up with the rules did not expect automakers to be so stupid that they would do something like that.
Steve Lehto has a good video about this.
In Michigan the Lemon Law applies to problems that 'reduce the value to the consumer'.
Some people are attempting to return their cars over these popup ads. IIRC it was GM that was much more aggressive but I might have that detail wrong.
When I purchased my latest car, which has this crazy 1 year 10K recommended oil change interval (OCI) while using 0w20 oil, I searched and found online manuals from various other countries. In countries where OCI/emissions are not regulated (various former Soviet republics), the car manual states to use 10w30 oil and 5K OCI recommended for the same car.
For the most part, oil change schedules are set so that car dealers can make money off of mandatory service so that you keep your warranty. In reality, if you periodically change your filter, use a filter with a smaller pore size, and use synthetic oil, there's at least potentially no need to change the oil at all, at least within the typical lifetime of a passenger car.
A (proper) truck GPS will avoid roads that would be unsuitable for trucks, but would be fine for a regular car. This could inconvenience you at times.
0W-20 runs in the American motor in order to barely eek out another 1MPG to barely meet the CAFE standards necessary to ship product. 5W-30 runs in the EU motor because it’s the best viscosity for the damn engine. Which they determined long ago with engineering and testing, both in lab and real world results.
Now pull those engines apart after 100K miles and see why we need to get rid of CAFE bullshit. The American environment isn’t being “saved” by forcing Americans to replace their disposable cars before the fucking loan is even fully paid.
The problem is not the CAFE standards per se. The problem is that they are trying to meet them by playing tricks instead of with actual design changes. And even though they come with thinner engine oil, 90% of people will put standard oil into the cars at the first change. So they get higher MPG for the first 5,000 miles, and then the same as they did before the CAFE standards.
I suppose that in theory, you could argue that the standards are flawed for not requiring normal oil weights during testing, but that's about it.
The correct way to hit the MPG targets is to use more electric drive trains. If you make your cars hybrids, you can improve the efficiency of the electric drive train and find ways to engineer the vehicles to weigh less by using more modern materials, and you won't have to work too hard to hit the standards.
Better yet, push actual EVs, which typically have an eMPG of 100+. If just one-third of your vehicles get 130 eMPG and the rest get 30 MPG, you're averaging about 53 MPG already.
Subaru do a lot of things well - they're masters of all-wheel drive - but this is nuts.
I bought a VW Taos earlier this year with the usual trial subscription to Sirius XM. I was going to pull the plug when it expired but Sirius XM offered me a steep discount if I re-upped, so I did. They did it so readily that I wonder how many people are paying full price...
The bulk of my listening is two channels, Hits One and The Pulse.
...laura
No, it is "end to end" encryption exactly as they claimed - one of those ends is their datacenter where the data is processed.
As per the description from the linked blog:
"End-to-end encryption", or E2EE, is a method of securing data that ensures only the sender and their chosen recipient are able to view it.
The "chosen recipient" is Kohler's datacenter, so it's behaving exactly as claimed. The application functions by processing the data on their servers, which is also why a monthly fee is charged to provide the service.
You could theoretically avoid this by transmitting the data directly between the camera and your device, and doing the processing on your device, although that might not be practical
There are many much worse examples where data is routed through hosted servers unnecessarily, typically as a kludge to get around NAT restrictions.
This pattern keeps re-emerging.
Online payment systems want your bank login details.
Facebook was infamous for scraping your IMAP account for contact information.
etc.
The implications for security are so severe I wouldn't mind if this were illegal, but certainly it should be legal for banks or cell providers to terminate online accounts of people who share their credentials, no matter if - or especially if - they are with other large corporations. How many times has T-Mobile been hacked in the past two years?
If an account holder wanted to download a data export and upload that to another provider I don't really care so much. It's the near mandatory sharing of credentials that is just such a terrible habit to normalize.
And yes, greybeards, we know you've never heard of apartment rental agencies only accepting Venmo for rent.
> So you can drive it but you cannot look at it?
Is there a difference between riding on a rocket and giving Russia the technical knowledge to build a thousand of them?
Personally I think Russia could figure it out if they wanted to but that's not why the rules are in place.
> Was he just being a rocket geek?
90% likely but the 10% difference is why there are rules that cannot be broken.
He signed up for obeying the rules, so it was a dumb move.
Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs. -- N. Alexander.
