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Comment Re:Anyone still using IPv4 (Score 2) 50

Is the network equivalent of still using floppy disks and deserves to be ripped off. Don't say but my legacy devices as Windows NT from 30 years ago had an ipv6 driver.

I know, screw all those backwater companies that haven't made their sites available over IPv6, like, you know, amazon.com, github.com, and... slashdot.org.

Comment Re:maybe no thing at all (Score 2, Insightful) 88

One thing to know about EVs in particular is that faster charges are more efficient, because the battery needs to be heated for optimal charging, and there's a fixed amount of power that gets used to keep it warm. This is why already-slow L1 charging can be useless in cold weather, because most of the power coming from a 120V AC outlet is going to the battery heater, not the batteries themselves. On an L2 charger, this can use as much as 3-4A overhead depending on the weather, a good chunk of your total draw if you're charging at lower amperages. On a DC supercharger, that overhead is a rounding error.

Comment Diminishing returns (Score 3, Insightful) 64

The analyst's comment tracks - we're reaching the point where incremental increases in bandwidth really don't affect most consumer use cases. The only time I really notice the my phone being on 5G vs my home Wifi is when I'm downloading a large app or OS update. Virtually every other operation - streaming, Facetime, etc, is a identical experience to me. I see this as a bigger boon to the industry than users.

Comment Nothing else speeds up though? (Score 2) 34

So I keep hearing the accidental-speeding-up story about the invaders, but the hole in that story is that during gameplay, it's *only* the invaders that speed up - the player, laser shots (both from the player and the invaders), the flying saucer, and everything else stay the same speed. Was it just the invader animation logic that was slowed down the more of them there were?

Comment Re:Of course not, for 100 reasons, why.... (Score 1) 216

True this. Allowing alternate ARM-based OSes to dual-boot would be no different from the current Boot Camp system, and there are ARM builds for Windows and Linux, as well as other more exotic OSes (FreeBSD et al).

Me, I'm mainly worried about x86 VM performance on an ARM Macbook - I do a lot of feature testing on my Macbook with virtualized network appliances and simulated network labs, all of which are x86_64 based. If that performance goes through the floor, I'm going to have no choice but to switch to a Linux PC for this.

Comment Re:So right after their value gets depressed? (Score 1) 117

I'm wondering if there had been negotiations that had previously fallen apart over the price. After the DDoS caused Dyn's customers to flee in droves (my own employer included), suddenly Oracle's last best offer became much more appealing. Something very similar happened at a company I used to work for - we had been talking to a potential acquisition but we were still far apart on price. That company's largest customer files Chapter 11, and *bam* they called back and agreed to our last offer within days. Deal announced within a week of that filing.

Comment Re:Yeah, sure (Score 5, Informative) 104

I know Dana Lewis, so I can probably tell you (the AC, not the reply) more about this system than the article does. There are safeguards around "use all its insulin at once" in the pump controller itself, that the OpenAPS system *cannot* override. The OpenAPS system effectively automates the "pushing the button" actions on the pump that are normally done manually by the patient who is reading his/her glucose meter and doing some fairly complicated math in his/her head to figure out the proper dose. It's an API client, nothing more.

The pump itself has safeguards against overdosing, either via manual control or APS control. And if there's a failure of the OpenAPS system, it simply reverts to manual control, which patients have been doing for years.

Comment Single line of code? (Score 4, Insightful) 618

I *highly* doubt it was a single line of code. To toggle the car's "EPA Cheat" mode, maybe, but by all accounts, the system used a variety of inputs to detect artificial driving conditions (including, apparently, barometer data), as well as needing code to define what engine parameters to change once the mode was entered.

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