cmbuck
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Comment · 2 months ago
I was pretty sure that the consumer AI Pro, AI Ultra, etc subscriptions have no relevance or impact to Antigravity quota, nor the policies on using data for model training. Do you have information to indicate otherwise?
Comment · 4 months ago
Yes it matters, because jus sanguinis is also a birthright and therefore "birthright citizenship" despite having no relevance to where you were born (jus soli)
Comment · 8 months ago
What do you mean by "they basically don't exist"? Solutions like the TI BQ25172 are designed exactly for this purpose.
Comment · 1 year ago
Assuming a 50kWh Tesla Model 3 charging via USB C PD 3.1 EPR 240W, it would take around ~104hrs (4.3 days) to increase battery SoC by 50%.
Comment · 2 years ago
This would be an interesting idea if you were able to solve the problem of inner layers. Currently to reverse engineer a board with more than 2 layers an x-ray machine is required to glean information about internal routing. Otherwise you're making inferences based on surface copper only.
Comment · 3 years ago
This guidance may help for sample collection, but wouldn't fully address the whole chain of custody. If the test equipment or handling tools/processes in the lab expose the samples to PFAS, then the test is botched. And this is challenging because PFAS are so prevalent and ubiquitous.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have a test available for PFAS levels. However I've previously been denied a test from the medical provider due to the issues I've outlined above. So I think it would be helpful to know if/how they have addressed this problem.
Comment · 3 years ago
I've previously been advised by my doctor that PFAS tests are of limited utility due to the lack of process controls which could introduce contamination. Given how novel this area of testing is and the prevalence of PFAS in all types of materials, you can't know whether any detection of PFAS in your blood sample is due to presence in your body or presence in the lab + testing equipment. How does your solution through Quest address this issue?
Comment · 3 years ago
Eagle is far from an industry standard. In fact I don't remember hearing about a single company who uses it. Perhaps some small companies preferred Eagle. In industry it is far more common to see hardware companies use Altium, OrCad, Cadence, or even Mentor Graphics. I've also heard of one company who uses KiCad.
One of the big drivers for which EDA tool suite hardware companies choose is integration/compatibility with their Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tools. My understanding is the bigger tools have better solutions for this than Eagle.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is not a new concern, hardware designers almost always have tradeoffs like this. Just because the interface is standardized doesn't mean the interchangeable modules are identical or without trade-offs.
Sure you can swap in a new NVMe module or SO-DIMM into a given device, and while it may still function, you may now have worse performance and/or worse battery life.
Despite having the same physical interface, each NVMe module has different electrical specifications.
Comment · 4 years ago
In the eyes of the decision makers, the loss of functionality you describe is a feature, not a bug. Making it harder for you to procure food "reduces waste".
It is the same line of thinking in which companies slash their call center staffing, add a recorded message about "unprecedented call volume", and then happily exclaim that since users have to sit on hold for hours, phone contacts have significantly decreased, thus "reducing waste" from an operational perspective.
Comment · 4 years ago
Globulation 2
https://globulation2.org/wiki/Main_Page
It's an RTS focused on macro instead of micro. It is cross platform and supports multiplayer! It's really simple in the sense that there are only three unit types, but the strategy is much more nuanced. One interesting dynamic I appreciate is that your unit limit is caused by the fact you have to be able to feed everyone, as opposed to some arbitrary max number the game picks for you or how many pylons you've built. (What do pylons do anyway?) The AI is challenging at harder levels and I still haven't mastered beating them regularly. I really enjoy this game
Comment · 4 years ago
I suspect the battery arrived in "cut-off" mode. This is a mode which reduces battery drain specifically during the period between manufacture and customer use. In this mode the battery pack control circuit (inside the battery pack) keeps the battery terminals disconnected (no voltage on the output) until it receives a signal from a control unit (or microcontroller) in the device. Once the charging cable is connected to the phone it powers on control unit which essentially turns the battery on, and it's normal operation from there.
Using battery cutoff mode reduces the discharge rate especially during shipping/logistics periods, where the battery may be in transit for mouths or sitting on a shelf for a long time.
If the battery Apple shipped was the same OEM part, they probably just ship all of them from the battery factory in cut off mode--no special process for the batteries allocated for these repair kits.
Comment · 5 years ago
Have any of you get tested for antibodies?
Comment · 5 years ago
I think this is the original recording of the school board in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3XaJHU7QlY
I also think this link is the original reporting: https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/19/entire-oakley-school-...