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The transcoding isn't just about bandwidth, it's about compatibility. I store most media in H.265 because that's the most space efficient, and most things can play it, but a decent…

> Honestly, at this point, having natural disasters with destruction and death is probably the only way to make people care We already have them. People just claim they're chance e…

At least for Waymo, the remote control is not nearly that direct. The human operators suggest a route through a confusing scene, but the self driving remains in control for executi…

Doesn't MTP require plugging in a USB cable? KDE Connect works wirelessly as long as your phone and computer are on the same network.

But then you risk tariff policy changing, and suddenly you're undercut by foreign factories again, and you lose all your investment in the American factory. It still needs certaint…

> I guess I was assuming almost $20k a year back then would have been livable back then, like it was for much of the US excluding a handful of cities like NYC or SF at the time. Yo…

They're a pharmacy, they get directly reimbursed by customer's drug insurance plans and only charge customers for the uninsured amount. They need to submit prescriptions to insuran…

> it won't (logistically can't) work when you have literally run out. While I believe you're correct for the iPhone, that it won't work, it's actually not as impossible as you sugg…

> Why are you including only US airlines for comparing a plane model's safety? That seems very convenient 737 MAXs are not identical worldwide. There's a number of optional add-ons…

> Chrome/Chromium was developed for quite a while using Webkit. Chromium was created in 2008 and only after Google had already captured a third of the browser market share (accordi…

The point is that they're not really comparable. Mint/Ubuntu/etc all ship the same Linux kernel, that's why they're called distros. They're different distributions (distros) of the…

The post says the phone was in airplane mode, and was found by chance as someone walked past it.

SpaceX has a median turnaround time between landing and re-launch of about 8 weeks, with some as low as 3 weeks. That includes time for returning the landing platform to port, unlo…

I'd start with https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page . There's a whole community of people writing little OSs, and many OS 101 articles as a result. VMs would be the most commo…

Meta and Google both have Canadian offices full of Canadian employees, so it's not like they have a purely virtual presence in Canada.

> Tesla has dealerships too right? Tesla has corporate owned stores, which are different from dealerships which are independent businesses. The staff there will help you order a ca…

There's space between "stops the spread" and "doesn't affect the spread" . Current vaccination levels are inadequate to stop the spread, but they do significantly reduce it.

Due to the current chip shortage they've moved to a vision-only system, as they had difficulty getting radar units in the quantity required. Until recently however, all Teslas had …

> There are numerous bodies of data supporting waning immunity at this point. Why that happens is less clear though. Is it a fault of mRNA tech itself? Or the dosing schedule? 21 d…

United frequent flyer status doesn't start til 25k/year, and top tier is over 100k/year. I don't think it's a typo for 20k. I hit 50k/year just going back and forth between SFO and…

I think if one is going to always use their phone, then they probably bought a Chromecast at 1/4 the price. Unless they have a really strong attachment to the Apple ecosystem.

That's less of a "FH can't be human-rated" and more of a "there's not point in human-rating FH right now". FH is heavily derived from the human-rated F9, but what capsule would fly…

That's why we run trials. Over 20,000 people got this vaccine months ago, and have been carefully followed since. If it was going to wipe out 20% of people one month after injectio…

The proprietary RF systems other manufacturers use aren't likely to be any more secure. They're just less analyzed. Keyless ignition is popular enough with consumers it's likely he…

90% of the time, I agree with you. Expensing nice restaurants I want to try is one of the best perks of business travel. The other 10% of the time, my flight got delayed and I arri…