It would've been a huge liability for Mozilla. An employer is not allowed to discriminate on sexuality. Fire any LGBTQ employee, and there's now a decent chance that Mozilla will now have to prove in court that it…
One of them is a worker drone with very little power, the other is the company's founder and CEO who is openly telling people that he believes a decent chunk of his employees don't deserve basic human rights. Quite a…
It can be done, but it would requires additional equipment. Batteries are traditionally grid-following, so they'll just follow whatever frequency the grid is already running on. The frequency itself is then provided by…
Yup! Some breaker trips, and a 500MW plant goes offline. How much battery storage do you need to compensate? 500MW. The fact that it stores 500MWh and therefore only lasts an hour comes afterwards, that is plenty of…
Trust but verify. You wouldn't drive your car into a lake just because your satnav tells you to, would you? As we also know from the aviation industry, controllers are human and therefore will make mistakes. A…
Whose negligence, though? "The system" isn't just the LZB equipment - the train dispatcher is just another cog inside the same system, and should be expected to occasionally fail just like every mechanical part. This…
> When union negotiations fail You don't want trains to collide because sick people are forced to work when they shouldn't and realistically can't. > when it's too cold You don't want trains to derail due to rails…
And what are you going to do, pull the emergency brake "because an app told me to"?
US rail is an embarrassment. Giant chunks of it lack basic safety features like crossing gates; there are 4.6 derailments per day; it is considered normal to have trains slow down to near walking pace due to poor track…
PDF.js, for example. It's what Firefox uses, and most websites with integrated on-page PDF viewing functionality.
Wikipedia isn't a database. There shouldn't be a Wikipedia page about every single grain of sand, and neither should there be one about every single person. If you aren't notable enough to have a bunch of journalists…
Pretty much, yes. Is it why JLCPCB has a bunch of "standard parts" which are always already present on the assembly machine, and charges a $3/part loading fee for the stuff which isn't.
Through-hole can be done fully automated, for a decent chunk of the parts. The problem is that the automation is quite a bit more involved to set up, and might even need adjustments to the board design to work smoothly.…
If the wage difference is what is stopping you, then you aren't really trying to compete. There will always be a shithole country with dirt-cheap wages where companies can get stuff made with virtually-unlimited manual…
Yeah, because the demand for parts in the US is a rounding error! Build that fab in the US and 95% of its output will need to be shipped to China, because that's where all the mass manufacturing happens.
Because the US doesn't have the supply lines for that. You simply can't compete with a Shenzhen where there are a dozen PCB factories and a warehouse for virtually every part you can imagine within a 30-minute drive. In…
In China, it mostly isn't already. JLCPCB is so cheap because everything is standardized and automated. Their tooling analyzes your input, gives a big fat warning if it spots something it knows it can't manufacture, and…
The space-based data centers will serve the exploit via the InterPlanetary File System.
Some thin clients boot from PXE so they can forego local storage completely. Being able to update the entire fleet and completely prevent any kind of local changes with a simple reboot is a gamechanger for…
Send an ICMP packet while it is booting from PXE. So you need to 1) Have a server which boots from PXE, 2) Have it do PXE on the same interface used for connections to the internet, 3) Lack a firewall filtering out…
But that's not quite the the right comparison, is it? Systemd doesn't just replace 1000 lines of Sysvinit. Those "millions of lines" also replace the thousands of hundred-line poorly-vetted Bash scripts you need, plus…
Solar panels still work just fine when it is cloudy, just with a lower output. And usually when it is cloudy it also tends to be a bit windy, so solar and wind nicely complement each other. Heavy clouds and zero wind,…
> I would much rather pay to keep a pedo in jail then risk any child is hurt. One slight problem with that argument: if the punishment for child abuse is life in prison, and the punishment for murder is also life in…
On the other hand: if you steal a pair of shoes, and the police find them back in your home, they don't get to burn down your house after your conviction. Given how much of our lives happens on smartphones these days,…
Money can only be spent once. Similarly, a construction crew can only be at one construction site at a time. Investing in building new nuclear power plants will slow down construction of solar.
It would've been a huge liability for Mozilla. An employer is not allowed to discriminate on sexuality. Fire any LGBTQ employee, and there's now a decent chance that Mozilla will now have to prove in court that it…
One of them is a worker drone with very little power, the other is the company's founder and CEO who is openly telling people that he believes a decent chunk of his employees don't deserve basic human rights. Quite a…
It can be done, but it would requires additional equipment. Batteries are traditionally grid-following, so they'll just follow whatever frequency the grid is already running on. The frequency itself is then provided by…
Yup! Some breaker trips, and a 500MW plant goes offline. How much battery storage do you need to compensate? 500MW. The fact that it stores 500MWh and therefore only lasts an hour comes afterwards, that is plenty of…
Trust but verify. You wouldn't drive your car into a lake just because your satnav tells you to, would you? As we also know from the aviation industry, controllers are human and therefore will make mistakes. A…
Whose negligence, though? "The system" isn't just the LZB equipment - the train dispatcher is just another cog inside the same system, and should be expected to occasionally fail just like every mechanical part. This…
> When union negotiations fail You don't want trains to collide because sick people are forced to work when they shouldn't and realistically can't. > when it's too cold You don't want trains to derail due to rails…
And what are you going to do, pull the emergency brake "because an app told me to"?
US rail is an embarrassment. Giant chunks of it lack basic safety features like crossing gates; there are 4.6 derailments per day; it is considered normal to have trains slow down to near walking pace due to poor track…
PDF.js, for example. It's what Firefox uses, and most websites with integrated on-page PDF viewing functionality.
Wikipedia isn't a database. There shouldn't be a Wikipedia page about every single grain of sand, and neither should there be one about every single person. If you aren't notable enough to have a bunch of journalists…
Pretty much, yes. Is it why JLCPCB has a bunch of "standard parts" which are always already present on the assembly machine, and charges a $3/part loading fee for the stuff which isn't.
Through-hole can be done fully automated, for a decent chunk of the parts. The problem is that the automation is quite a bit more involved to set up, and might even need adjustments to the board design to work smoothly.…
If the wage difference is what is stopping you, then you aren't really trying to compete. There will always be a shithole country with dirt-cheap wages where companies can get stuff made with virtually-unlimited manual…
Yeah, because the demand for parts in the US is a rounding error! Build that fab in the US and 95% of its output will need to be shipped to China, because that's where all the mass manufacturing happens.
Because the US doesn't have the supply lines for that. You simply can't compete with a Shenzhen where there are a dozen PCB factories and a warehouse for virtually every part you can imagine within a 30-minute drive. In…
In China, it mostly isn't already. JLCPCB is so cheap because everything is standardized and automated. Their tooling analyzes your input, gives a big fat warning if it spots something it knows it can't manufacture, and…
The space-based data centers will serve the exploit via the InterPlanetary File System.
Some thin clients boot from PXE so they can forego local storage completely. Being able to update the entire fleet and completely prevent any kind of local changes with a simple reboot is a gamechanger for…
Send an ICMP packet while it is booting from PXE. So you need to 1) Have a server which boots from PXE, 2) Have it do PXE on the same interface used for connections to the internet, 3) Lack a firewall filtering out…
But that's not quite the the right comparison, is it? Systemd doesn't just replace 1000 lines of Sysvinit. Those "millions of lines" also replace the thousands of hundred-line poorly-vetted Bash scripts you need, plus…
Solar panels still work just fine when it is cloudy, just with a lower output. And usually when it is cloudy it also tends to be a bit windy, so solar and wind nicely complement each other. Heavy clouds and zero wind,…
> I would much rather pay to keep a pedo in jail then risk any child is hurt. One slight problem with that argument: if the punishment for child abuse is life in prison, and the punishment for murder is also life in…
On the other hand: if you steal a pair of shoes, and the police find them back in your home, they don't get to burn down your house after your conviction. Given how much of our lives happens on smartphones these days,…
Money can only be spent once. Similarly, a construction crew can only be at one construction site at a time. Investing in building new nuclear power plants will slow down construction of solar.