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Comment · 27 days ago
Reminded me of John C Dvorak, same generation, had a heart attack in April then died in July...
Comment · 1 month ago
Having gone through this process what surprised me was that they were advising along brand lines: “Brooks are sturdy, ASICS are narrow shoes, Hoka have thick soles and a lot of bounce”. They didn’t have differentiation within a same brand.
Comment · 1 month ago
Already a reality in mainland China, which is a country with very little street crime, grafitti, vandalism etc.
Comment · 2 months ago
This was done for mostly ideological reasons, "green transition" and such. The Dutch economy was dependent on natural gas sales for funding parts of the welfare state. They became a net importer of natural gas and then Ukraine and Iran made the gas prices spike. So the Dutch government is now struggling to fill the natural gas store for household heating and cooking applications for the coming winter season, while also incurring these high costs. The impact hasn't fully played out or understood.
Comment · 3 months ago
Works for me, Firefox 152.0.4 on macOS 27 beta3.
Comment · 6 months ago
I don't agree with "the west forgot how to make things", it moved supply chains for cheap consumer goods to asia, but in the B2B space a lot of things are manufactured in Europe: companies like Bosch, Volkswagen, ASML, Alstom and Airbus are cranking out extremely complicated machines that last many years in demanding environments. It's just a different level of value-add vs. low cost electronics (for instance).
Comment · 6 months ago
Well, these numbers are averages between people living until old age (65+ years) and high infant mortality. I don't think most people keeled over when they reach 25 years...
Comment · 7 months ago
Office for Mac 2008, when they shifted to a new codebase, was pretty good for a while, just slooooow.
Comment · 8 months ago
Airline-like comfort, and airplane-like noise. It's surprising how much noisier the Shanghai Maglev gets once you approach 400kph.
Comment · 8 months ago
Comment · 8 months ago
Mediatek is a taiwanese company and the Dimensity 7100 platform includes the cellular stack.
Comment · 8 months ago
This explains a lot, American microwaves have these settings for different types of food etc, it seems most people throw something in and just 'nuke it'. European microwave ovens on the other hand, have a setting for different wattages (90W up to 720W 'Max' in my case), which, combined with instructions in the recipe or on the box, provide the right setting for this particular food.
Comment · 8 months ago
Sure, however as explained further in this thread the BFI approach is new as opposed to the courser Zigbee RSSI-based approaches of Hue MotionAware.
Comment · 8 months ago
Thank you for adding this context of this particular research, I do see that it relies on MU-MIMO information, which does rely on more powerful WiFi infrastructure than the basic ESP32's I am referring to.
Comment · 8 months ago

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