azernik

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Comment · 20 days ago
Not my original joke:

The United States is a command economy, where the only command is "no".

Comment · 26 days ago
I tried from Israel and it did work. Might be EU only that's blocked?
Comment · 1 month ago
The key word is gradual. Population decline in Japan may be faster than is economically manageable, depending on whose projections you read.
Comment · 1 month ago
We all have to accept that people will look at perfectly innocuous, clear, well-written prose and assume that AI wrote it.
Comment · 1 month ago
That is an article saying that mesh networking frameworks exist. It does not support the GP claim of smart TVs creating mesh networks across different owners.
Comment · 1 month ago
Did you read the article, or just the headline?
Comment · 2 months ago
Being much closer to the receiver and tied into terrestrial power grids, ground-based beacons can transmit at higher powers than GNSS signals and be received at much higher powers.

Received GNSS power is on the order of -130dBm (10e-16 W) - you can jam that with a 1W terrestrial source for hundreds of meters around. Way more if you're willing to scale the power from car USB power levels to bigger grid-connected supplies.

LORAN, from my quick googling, looks to be about 6-7 orders of magnitude higher received power.

Comment · 2 months ago
He's always been pragmatic - it's just that Nvidia's behavior has AFAICT actually changed.
Comment · 2 months ago
The original you're riffing on is from the Declaration of Independence (a purely rhetorical document), not the Constitution of a decade later.
Comment · 2 months ago
No knowledge (insider or otherwise) is needed — could just be a bet, hedged against all the other bets a company AMD's size makes.
Comment · 3 months ago
It's about propping up the yen in foreign exchange terms, so the essential operation is buying yen with dollars to increase the price of the former in a standard microeconomics way.

US bonds happen to be the assumed-safe sink where central banks store their dollars for this eventuality.

Comment · 3 months ago
That's the license they sign with you, ie the legal commitment they make and powers they reserve.

Policy is the internal, non-binding decision they make about how they exercise those powers, which GP comment accurately described.

Comment · 3 months ago
Your second paragraph describes the approach in the blog post almost exactly.
Comment · 3 months ago
The recruiters who make these boneheaded mistakes are typically organizationally separate from the actual engineering group you'd be working in.
Comment · 4 months ago
Clock bias.

Because the clocks internal to GNSS receivers are not that accurate, if they're not at the "targeted" location they'll see that all satellites are off by a given time offset, and think that their clock is just off by that much.

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