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From the hardware side, extremely precise. Most discussions assume the sweet spot for ISAC is in "Frequency Range 3" (7 - 24 GHz, decent penetration and range, very good resolution…

It's a drop in a bucket. Global warming is due to ~5e18 Wh of excess heating. A nuke dumping 5e12 Wh of additional heat into water makes no difference at all.

The article poses the question "What do you want your phone/computer to do that it can’t", and suggests that there really is nothing left - software is done, all remaining problems…

> the issue is that when a phone is unlocked, they can just plug in a USB device and scrape everything off it That's useless if the backup account and the main account use differen…

> Basically, I am never confident I am editing OSM correctly. This is the case for the majority of users. The rules are complex and not always obvious or clearly defined. The world…

> It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps No way they are doing this deliberately globally. My city has a lot of …

The thing lacking even more is a good search engine. Doesn't matter how complete the database is when search keeps missing text appearing verbatim in a label.

You can edit existing trails, but directly adding new ones is not intended. What you can do is create a GPS track, and then upload it with a note describing the problem. I use the …

> it was originally alternate firmware for the Linksys WRT54G router from 25 years ago There's a couple of fun examples like that. xda-developers is named after the O2 xda, a smart…

> we'll ditch phones altogether in 10 years when smart glasses will replace them instead. Billions are spend right now to make sure the glasses also run Android or iOS. So far, Goo…

There's much to criticize about the dev, but there's really no way to make it significantly easier. Most robovac companies just don't want you to flash the firmware. The dev oppose…

Reminds me of a fix I wrote a decade ago. My Laptop would sometimes start emitting a high frequency whine when on battery. I figured out it only happened when the CPU went into per…

Not really. Can't really map a touchpad as an analog stick. Can't map a gyro as a joystick. Can't take XBox rumble and map it to the Steam Controllers haptic feedback. Can you hack…

> Many hardware platforms that have TPM, have it connected via a low-bandwidth LPC bus which would have nowhere near enough bandwidth for demand decryption/encryption of memory pag…

> You have to store the encryption key in CPU registers and ensure it's not saved to RAM during task switching or power suspend operations. Interesting insight. Any reason why the …

This might make sense once SteamBox is a large percentage of Linux Desktop installs. Right now, it would be insanity. Just the situation with running SteamOS on hardware with NVIDI…

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The idea is deleting the friction brakes entirely, saving costs, maintenance and weight. And 400kW isn't really all that much for a sports car. I remember 911 ads from the '80s tha…

Very funny idea. That basically means a carbureted gas engine, or a direct injection diesel with a mechanical governor and mechanically timed injection pumps - can't run a direct i…

There's an efficiency sweet spot where hardware that people have anyway gets a higher percentage of load. MacBooks have a lot of memory and a lot of FLOPs. They mostly sit unused a…

> why not build panels anywhere? Because there's better alternatives same places. Norway has legendary well-suited topography for hydro power (>90% of electricity), and it's reliab…

Of course. My agentic coding containers can only access the internet through a proxy, and I use whitelists to limit from where they can send/receive data. It's annoying in the begi…

> The defining element of a LAN party, however, is the social factor. Playing a game with others in the same physical space, sometimes huddled side-by-side on the same large table,…