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Comment Re:Pointless (Score 1) 60

I think people forgot the entire point of the SIM card was so that you were not locked into a carrier. Once that sim card physically goes away, so does your ability to switch carriers and use cheaper sim's in countries you travel to.

That’s wrong. I know it’s wrong because I was able to add an eSIM to my iPhone 12 while travelling. The only downside for anything before the iPhone 14 is you can’t have two active eSIMs at the same time, but you can’t have the physical SIM and an eSIM active at the same time.

Some companies require you install an app to get the eSIM, while others it’s just via a QR code, if I remember rightly.

Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 201

If they were still using an open source version of Slashcode then we could contribute a fix, but they care more about milking the user base than making the basic fix. I appreciate not everyone knows Perl, but they didn't all die off with the dinosaurs.

Don't get me started with IPv6, but back then it was more a Perl being at an evolutionary road block.

Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 201

Thereâ(TM)s that and the fact that AI is acting as this generationâ(TM)s Industrial Revolution. If the government doesnâ(TM)t help manage this, then the cost to the nation will be bad. The problem is that itâ(TM)s current planning is only good for two tweats, while other nations try to consider a 10 year plan and manage accordingly.

Comment Re:no surprises there. (Score 0, Offtopic) 209

it's not even that - all things being equal, I'd still go to the US despite not agreeing with the political climate there. It's a big country with lots of amazing stuff to see.

What I hear people really worrying about is the draconian powers that TSA/immigration seem to have acquired, and truly mindbending stories like this or this.

Its also likely less of an issue if you aren't from one of the latin America ethnic groups?

Comment Re: right to repair should give the right to post (Score 1) 105

It should do, but DMCA is toxic enough to trump that and it isnâ(TM)t as if right to repair in the US is robust enough to clarify that need.

My pessimistic self also doubts the current administration would care enough to address this in a meaningful way.

Comment Re: Why would China complain? (Score 1) 153

Because they know how this works, so can use the same argument the US has been using against certain Chinese companies.

Like everything else this administration does, it is short sighted and self defeating. This can work for utilities serving local communities, but not for an international company that needs to demonstrate lack of government interference.

Comment Map Projections (Score 1) 259

The general flat map we use is simply the simplest projection to use without curves. It is true that it normalises distance of longitude at any latitude, in a way that make non-equatorial countries look larger. Which map is best really depends on the use and the Mercator projection probably isn't the best.

Looking at the articles, they are simply using a Tobler hyperelliptical or a Eckert IV projection.

More on map projections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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