I saw the headline and was wondering how Effective Rated Power could be dying, and why execs would care.

I'm a bit of a pizza snob myself, and I feel like I live in a pizza desert. I'm near DC, and there's a ton of pizza places. The problem? All of them are either crazy expensive, or they're trying to create a high-end type of feel for pizza.

But to me, and I suspect to a lot of others, pizza isn't a high-end food, it's a comfort food. I grew up in a rural area where there was a single local pizza place that had what I would describe as "generic New York style" pizza. To me, that is what pizza should be. I cannot get that kind of pizza here, and not for lack of trying, as I've tried a lot of pizza places.

Meanwhile, the big name chains don't have that feel either. Dominos is good, for example, but it's definitely something that doesn't scratch the pizza itch. I have to be in the mood for Dominos, not generically for pizza. Same for the other chains.

When I visit where I grew up, the pizza is always top notch, and quite a bit cheaper. My wife and I go out of our way to get it on many of our visits. But here? I end up on frozen pizza much of the time when I want pizza because it's cheaper and just as fast as delivery much of the time, and if you're picky, just as good as local delivery. (And my wife started making pizza, which is also really, really good.)

It wouldn't surprise me if things like this are driving down the interest in pizza. In chasing the top end, they're abandoning the much larger low end. At least, that's what it looks like to me.

It's only criminal if a crime is committed. Is there a law that makes accidental damage to a cable illegal, or is intent required? The article on the case makes it sound like the latter is covered by domestic Finnish law, and that the former are covered by a treaty and out of Finnish jurisdiction.

Right, but that's handled through civil court, not criminal court. You don't have to be guilty of a crime to be liable for damages.

I've always wondered if there might be a benefit to a full body scan along these lines not for its own sake, but for what it could tell me later in life when something actually is wrong. Does having a "before" image help to weed out things that were always there when trying to figure out what's newly wrong, or does it make it more likely miss something that started off small and wasn't impacting my health but now is?

Not that I'm actually planning to get one of these due in large part to the cost, but the engineer in me wonders if there's value to having a "before" picture to compare to the "after" picture later in life.

Dish didn't end up buying the Sprint 800 MHz spectrum. T-Mobile has instead arranged to sell it to Grain Management for cash plus Grain's 600 MHz spectrum.

https://www.t-mobile.com/news/...

So I'm not a good programmer. At all. I know just enough to be dangerous, and am significantly slower than someone who would know what they're doing.

I've been using LLMs (no such thing as AI!) to help me write code for the past two weeks or so. I've been wanting to do these tasks for years but it would have taken me days or weeks to get to a solution to any one of them. I have revolutionized several rote tasks that I did on a regular basis and will save myself tons of time in the future. And I'm still working on more of them.

The real trick is that you have to verify everything that comes out of it. It's never right the first time, even if you do a good job of describing what you want. I've had to tweak the code directly in some cases where it just won't get it right. And I've seen it get stuck in loops where it just breaks worse and worse. Then it's necessary to grab the last working version of the code, start a new chat, and paste it in with the latest request.

You can't just say "write code to do x." You have to have some idea of what it's doing and be able to thoroughly test it and validate its results. Do that and it can be useful.

When did Puerto Rico leave the US?

The requests were coming from dozens of different IPs, all within certain ranges. That's why I blocked the whole ranges.

My own web server suddenly had the load spike to 100 from its normal 5 or so and was having database errors due to too many connections. It turned out to be an AI crawler that wasn't identifying itself as a crawler and was hitting multiple times per second. I had to block several IP ranges to stop it.

The annoying part is that I don't even mind sharing my site's content with the world, including such crawlers; it's non-profit and I'm fine with it. Just don't destroy it for everyone in the process!

Reporting that if policy X is implemented it could have impact Y, and someone who backs policy X was just elected, doesn't seem like bias to me. It sounds like reporting the facts, as people so often claim they actually want.

Is it simply the appearance of the name of a politician that makes it biased? If so, how do you ever report on politicians or the impacts of policies they support?

This post is not accurate.

No, DRM isn't even an adopted standard for AM and FM by the FCC in the US. The FCC adopted IBOC ("HD Radio") for digital AM and FM in the US. There is no wholesale transition in the works for this, either.

I don't know where you got this from. Your link mentions the US only once, and it's a specific reference to DRM for HF only, not AM or FM.

It doesn't actually do much from a spectrum perspective. GSM uses really narrow carriers that T-Mobile has wedged into the guard bands between the wider LTE and 5G-NR carriers. So shutting it down won't actually recover much spectrum, but rather, will eliminate maintenance on older equipment.

Oh, where I grew up, the lines were at 24.0 kbps 15 years ago. They've gotten worse since then.

Most of the dial-up options are not really workable now either because the phone lines have degraded to the point of near-uselessness, or the ISPs have just turned off the dial-up gear.