We might be hitting noise floors near physical limits, but there's plenty of room for innovation -- interfaces, processing, integration, etc. But little incentive for this to happen with so much concentration in the marketplace.

> And prices remain pretty low,

If you want a 12-ENOB 2.5GSPS DAC, you're paying hundreds of dollars; this isn't *extremely* high end, either. Prices haven't really been falling on the high end for several years.

> Monolithic Power Systems

They don't make any "high-spec" SKUs and it would be quite a lift for them to try to enter this market; they top out at 1 *MSPS* don't they? There's a lot of black magic to make it work.

First, we're down in the weeds down here. I replied to someone who said "SF median teacher salaries are between 100k and 150k" and "and that doesn’t even account for benefits", providing a source that shows mid-career teachers make $98k on average *including benefits*. So that was pretty much fail.

> And this doesn’t change the easily verified overall fact that the median teacher salary in virtually every state exceeds the states’ overall median salary

Given that all of the teachers have above-median education, it would be rather extraordinary if this *weren't* true.

On the other hand, teachers have above-median levels of education, too.

> and that doesn’t even account for benefits,

Actually, your source does account for benefits. It says mid-career teachers in San Francisco Unified make $98k in total compensation counting benefits. And, of course, mid-career is not median; a whole lot of teachers wash out of the profession early.

The irony here is -- on a properly designed exam the median student should be getting a 50-60 raw point score out of 100. This is what gives you the greatest statistical power to distinguish student performance. Then, a "C" at 41/100 is not unreasonable and entering it as 0.30 + sqrt(score) * 0.70 in the gradebook makes a lot of sense.

But this doesn't mean taking existing exams where students show mastery at 85-95% and then accepting 41% as a C.

Common core 8 (for 8th grade) includes most of what would be in an Algebra I class (functions, systems, radicals, polynomials with emphasis on quadratics) and a lot of what would be in more applied-style geometry classes.

The minimum graduation requirements in California for high school requires 2 classes beyond 8th grade math, including something at or above Algebra I.

"On-level" math is Algebra I in 9th, after a lot of similar course work in 7th and 8th. This is about the same as 50 years ago. The big change is that a lot of students get through calculus in high school, which was rarer long ago.

A lot of the "new new math", "Singapore" math focuses on exploration and argument, which is an improvement. Perhaps too much: a certain amount of rote is needed to not mentally context switch too much.

Can't rule out getting hit hard from another person/getting trampled, either.

And the cities, etc, that they work with almost certainly required a large certificate of insurance for the event-- so there is at least some money around to pay claims.

There's no reason in the "laws of physics" that latency has to be bad. The satellite are at 340km. So the path from you, to the satellite back down to a ground station might be 340 * 2 * sqrt2 = 961km, or 3.2ms.

Increased use of routing on the satellites could push this 3.2ms always in a useful direction, and distant sites could be reached at a lower latency than terrestrial networks.

The big limitation in latency right now is the handling of the shared medium and the need for terminals to take turns. But that's not intrinsic to the medium.

But keep in mind there's the middle ground of fixed wireless.

Current fixed wireless systems aren't always great, but they should offer greater spectral efficiency due to much lower path loss.

My brother is a dedicated astrophotographer. A really big proportion of his pictures now have streaks. The one's we've investigated have been mostly Starlink.

Kids kidnapped at age 8 or under stop trying to return home pretty quickly, coming to accept stories for their new living situation and losing details of their old one.

And memories are malleable. I have few memories before age 8, and the ones I do have e.g. older and more familiar versions of my parents copy-and-pasted in. I am often surprised looking at old photos.

The 16/16 Pro is basically the same size as previous generations. Just the screen has made it even closer to the edge.

Things have gotten a bit longer compared to the 6S, though.

> I don't think I've heard of a single scenario where the parts weren't available for EV repair. This is not a logistics problem, it's a design problem.

e.g. https://www.carscoops.com/2023...

Problems during scale up are intrinsic: building the service network early is too expensive, and there's competition for parts between repairs and growing manufacturing. But Tesla has really failed to ramp service capabilities and inventories of repair parts.

There's some fundamentally increased cost structure to repairing EVs. But I think a big part of what we're seeing is immature infrastructure, logistics, and too much of a monopoly on repair by manufacturers.

> Seriously, who takes an Xbox or playstation on holiday with them?

Most people who travel with a console are either military, military contractors, or people who make a habit of getting into 1-3 month consulting engagements in the private sector. College students often fit into the category, too. It's a use case that's important to a few percent of users. Of course, it's not as important as fitting into a small entertainment center, which greatly increases the appeal to 30%+ of people.

> Get a life.

Don't be a dick.

> And no, you cant use the kids an excuse, they're quite happy on touch devices'

Think a little before you comment. There's other reasons than the one you reflexively reached for.

> with (apparently) a single power source

Many (most?) ULT biomedical freezers have dual redundant cooling. A likely cause for the alarms and being slightly warmer than the setpoint was the failure of one of the 2 cooling loops.