frezik

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For steaks, they're excellent. About the only thing I haven't been able to do over a good steakhouse restaurant is an extremely crisply outer layer. There's some techniques there that I haven't learned yet that might fix that. Everything else about the juiciness and taste is easily the same or better.

You're basically taking all the art of out it that you would have to learn to become a top steak grill master, and replacing it with precision.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

Usually, if it needs cloud hosting, it's because they're collecting your data. That presumably is a revenue stream for them.

I have one of these, and I haven't touched the app. Works perfectly fine without it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 15 points 3 months ago

Bring with it a big expansion in the number of federal judges. They already have an overloaded case schedule. The Supremes have made this worse in their ruling against Chevron Deference, as every regulation a corp doesn't like can now be challenged. One of the reasons judges have let these clauses go through is because it relieves the case burden on them.

Something like quadrupling the size was justified even before Chevron went down or we talk about things that would bring even more cases.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Some electric trolleys aren't long enough to do that.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The best use of a battery on a train is a small one to handle junctions. You disconnect from the wire at the end of one set, go through the junction, and then reconnect at the other side. Saves a lot of ugly spaghetti wiring.

Otherwise, no, just use wires.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Uncompressed 4k stream @ 30fps and 24bpp would be 5.7 GB/s. The top regular SD card speed, UHS-III, maxes at 0.6 GB/s. SD Express, where a PCIe lane is added, goes to 3.9 GB/s.

So, yeah, going to need at least some compression. Good news is that just a little compression can go a long way.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 3 months ago

Them and the military. There's only one other major airplane military contractor, Lockheed, and then a couple of smaller companies.

The 6th gen fighter program, Next Generation Air Dominance, is supposed to be a family of planes where one human plane controls a small squadron of drones of various models. The Air Force gave contracts for two of those drones to some of the smaller companies beside Boeing and Lockheed. They tend not to come right out and say these things, but a good guess as to why is that they don't want to have those two be the only options.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 3 months ago

If I get to use them consecutively, I'm good for a few lifetimes.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 11 points 3 months ago

Right, you guys keep on penning that really long suicide letter.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 3 months ago

Still works better for traveling. Hotel smart TVs are even worse than the home models, but if you have an open HDMI port on it and can work out the wifi, you're in business.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I want the answer to be a federated system, like YaCy. Which I tried to set up, and its results make AltaVista look good. Maybe good enough for a corporate intranet, but not the internet at large.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

"It shrank in the closet."

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