This is cool, I'd say that the most common tool in this space is bgzip[1]. Have you thought about training a dictionary on the first few chunks of each file and embedding the dictionary in a skippable frame at the start? Likely makes less difference if your chunk size is 2MB, but at smaller chunk sizes that could have significant benefit.
How much power is the Pi port capable of delivering, or are you sending additional power to the PCIe adapter from somewhere else?
What SmartNIC are you using? Most SmartNICs that I'm aware of suck a decent amount of power, many more require significant external airflow. Are you using the Mikrotik active cooled one? https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_2xs_pcie
Because in most of the US, it is dramatically cheaper to charge an EV than fuel a similar gas vehicle.
These costs in this article are surprising to me, and very questionable without any actual numbers behind it. As a PHEV owner who can fuel with either gas or electricity, the 13c per kWh I pay is dramatically cheaper than gas at circa $3 a gallon, to drive any distance at all.
Confounding factors across the US may be that in some places using more electricity results in an increase in your marginal rate, in others it results in a decrease. Typically EV charging is not broken out as its own line item, so owners may not know exactly how many kWh their car is consuming. That doesn't change the fact that only a small number of places with very expensive electricity will have electric charging cost anywhere near gas.
Disease, disaster, war all cause significant inflation because they harm or destroy both things and productivity in the real world without destroying money.
If factories shut down and supply chains are disrupted and we only make half as many cars this year, how much would people be willing to pay for those cars? Much more.
I haven't measured, but I find it very likely that such a neglected corner of Java behaves just like it did many years ago. Finalizers were never a widely used feature of the Java language, and are now deprecated to be fully removed in the future: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3649089/how-to-handle-java...
Many states still only require $15,000 of liability coverage to drive, so there's going to be a lot more uninsured / underinsured motorist claims in the future.
The Rivian owners insurance will frequently end up paying out, via that underinsured motorist coverage.
Realistically, what happened is that Apple increased the maximum allowed size for apps delivered from the App Store. When you don't put limits in, nobody is going to choose to prioritize smaller app size. It's a bit of a tragedy of the commons.
I haven't seen much discussion about how AM gets used for local road condition or emergency communication. When you're driving and see a sign that says "TUNE TO 1610 AM" and the car has no AM receiver, what do you do?
This may be a shrinking niche, but it's potentially a last bastion of AM radio usefulness.
Economies of scale mean that it's frequently less expensive to manufacture only the top configuration with the most features, and then turn features off in software. Broadly, I think that price discrimination is good because it allows the cheaper version of things to exist and be sold at a lower profit margin than a company would otherwise be willing to sell for.
For example, the 2022 Ford Maverick XL was not available with cruise control, but it's only locked out in software. All cars have computer controlled throttles now, so cruise control is a software-only feature with no additional hardware.
Some other hardware that's commonly limited by software is CPUs, GPUs, and such. I had a triple core AMD CPU that I unlocked into a quad core, and an ATI GPU that I reflashed into a higher model. This has become less possible as manufacturers start using lasers to destroy parts of their own product instead, so that hackers can't re-enable disabled functionality.
If laws came around to prevent software from being used to limit hardware functionality, that's what we're going to start seeing: more money and effort spent to intentionally remove or destroy things from products. That sucks compared to just switching it off in software.