My sister-in-law uses one... but she works for Samsung. There are some cool little use cases, but novelty is dominant.

For Apple, given the high cost of RAM and storage this is a great year to throw shit at the wall and see what sticks. Demand is going to be terrible no matter what they produce, so take some gambles and see if anything can carve a real niche (without losing margin).

All I can say is it is really hard to put the genie back in the bottle. The data and sources have not been treated as illegal to gather, so they WILL be used... by many different parties.

It is not something anybody who has been here a while would advocate for, but eliminating the problem and threat is a Herculean task.

[Sadly] I bought two more Sonos speakers yesterday. We have an obscene number of them because we love the "music everywhere". Our house is actually wired for speakers, but that ends up costing significantly more than Sonos just for the speakers and amps. The Play5 speakers were very good quality (and bricked with teh App 2.0 update). I'm not a big fan of them... but they fill the need for whole home audio significantly better than anything else on the market.

(And they were an IT nightmare, especially with Unifi equipment; they only use STP not any of the newer variants so you need to tune the system to their requirements rather than more standard needs.)

I think the Stickney Water Reclamation Plant should be renamed Lake Trump, as the largest pile of shit in the US.

There is a meaningful difference in that it is a secured boot option. Not sure what that means if your UEFI is compromised or if a virus is stored within other hardware, but it is something.

A lot of organizations need good "limp mode" strategies for when things go to shit. Ideally those allow you to use what systems are still unscathed rather than reverting to pen and paper. This can be one of those solutions for places that are invested in Citrix [still, for some reason], and is a little lower risk than telling everyone to reboot with the "emergency thumb drive".

There will need to be a lot of exceptions/exemptions, but the current condition is unsustainable. The protective relays are the main concern, so you should still be able to get "dumb" foreign equipment and add domestic protective relays.

I am curious how this all plays out; it is cash flow negative, capitalization negative, and at least on the surface unlikely to have a major change. But, scarcity is a business model so maybe that is the real answer. It seems much more likely than the step-change necessary for more advanced systems.

These "grid scale" batteries... don't scale. It is far more effective to push storage to the consumer (especially large consumers) for operation below 35kV, and ideally below 5kV. Otherwise you just end up with a more expensive grid with excess complexity that is difficult to model reliably.

I own a Tesla and am renting a car that only has CarPlay. It is miserable; maps are significantly worse, integration is half-assed and clunky. It is amazing to me that a Tesla going on 7 years old is so much better than a new Ford...

As for the cost premium, hard to see where vehicle RAM requirements will get close to $1k premium.

Is using BFI novel? I hadn't seen that before personally.

I doubt the 2,000 trainees (likely from a pool of 20,000 gamers) will result in more than 500 people that make it through two years.

The US has around 14,000 controllers so that puts them close to a nominal replacement rate. It is not a magic game changer, but if they do manage to retain more or expand the recruiting class size it will help over ~5 years.

This has been a slow moving train wreck for a year. Another year of production is fully sold out (likely the next 5). For someone to have not put plans in place last year to add capacity *somehow* is a market failure. The risk at current RAM prices is minimal, and dumping is impossible if inventory is sold out.

The key is to keep the additional capacity secret for as long as possible, until it is actually online.

No, that isn't what I am saying-- humans cannot accurately judge distance based on our "binocular" vision [at highway distances].

My point is that cameras can do better with strategic placement, without LIDAR. It will still have failure cases, but it can be pretty robust.

Humans don't have binocular vision at highway distances; the eyes are too close together. We use other visual cues to establish distance. A forward facing binocular vision system for a car would need cameras in each A-Pillar, or at least center and driver side with the wipers.

More importantly, cameras can be better because they can have real binocular vision, no blind spots, and plenty of redundancy. No, current systems don't have that, and I am happy my Tesla still has/uses ultrasonic sensors for better distance estimation close-in. Ultimately by the point cameras are completely useless, so are humans. Get off the road and wait for better conditions!