the "25 Gbit" is top tier prodcut that while avablie in the US (sure not the whole country) it's not sometinhg the avg in both coutnries actully buy/use...
> why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price
also on prices the per 2023 (couldn't find any newer resoruces) [2] 100 Mbps in the US seems a bit cheaper in the US than swizerland (but the diffrnece is honestly neligable to begin with)
> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways.
form a quick serach, this seems to simply be not true, FTTP coverage is 50% in swizerland (comapred to 69% in europe) and 27% in rural areas (compared to 58% in rural europe) per 2024 [3]
> The United States prides itself on free markets
boradcam is one of the most regualted/restricted markets in teh U.S (for better or worse) so it really isn't really free market ...
Local governments grant the cable/telecom franchise and levy franchise fees up to 5% of gross revenue (Cable Act 1984, 47 U.S.C. §542). Entrants also need government-controlled pole and right-of-way access; pole/permit fights are what stalled Google Fiber. And ~16–17 states legally restrict or ban municipal broadband.
Section 301 China tariffs (10–25%) since 2018 (Trump) hit optical fiber, routers, and network electronics. Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Act (IIJA) also restriected using some certin chinesse technology when buidling internet infrastructure.
Bitwarden have in my opinion is one of the BEST business models a user can ask for.
It's open-source, and I can self-host (100% free) and the free version is really, really good too, and then a premium version is $20/year which is very reasonably priced.
Also for cloud hosted password manager, you're always going to have attacks no matter what, but at least they are transparent about it .. (unlike say LastPass, Norton LifeLock, Keeper and possibly others).
For self-hosting it might be better security, solely because no one cares to attack it, but it's not going to be more secure form engineering best practices POV (but again I might be wrong .. I'm not a security engineer of any kind)
Not sure why, but they did cooperate with the government on such matters
Facebook previously gave private Messenger chats to Nebraska police, these messages were used as key evidence to charge a mother and daughter over an alleged illegal abortion[1]
I switched to zero sugar about a year ago, but all the zero sugar sodas use aspartame (yeah yeah not proven to cause cancer, but still not a great sweetener)
for now (out of laziness), I just grab plain sparkling water and add Stur drops
Also didn’t expect to be pulling recipes off GitHub, but I’ll take that any day over those paywalled sites
I don't know if I get you're points because lobster farms are tied to certain external factors in a way things like data centers aren’t.
but either way, the argument feels very NIMBY: it’s not ‘no housing,’ it’s ‘just not here.’
so when someone say ‘let someone else host them,’ it really comes across as: I want the internet, just let other communities pay the environmental cost.
yeah, another way to put it: if you don't want factories, that's fine; just don't buy manufactured stuff .. the same with data centers, if you don't want data centers then don't go on the Internet because by doing so you're becoming part of the problem.
idk what it is about them that every "tech bro" type guy around me follows them, but I never followed them myself, so I was surprised to know they only have 300k on Twitter.
yeah we use an LLM for the grading .. (for the free form questions)
the flow is basically:
When practice questions are generated, the model generates the question + the reference answer together, but the user only sees the question. then on submit, a smaller model grades the learner answer against that reference answer + the grading criteria.
I benchmarked a bunch of judge models for this on a small multi-subject set, and `gpt-oss-20b` ended up being a very solid sweet spot for quality/speed/structured-output reliability. on one of the internal benchmarks it got ~98.3% accuracy over 60 grading cases, with ~1.6s p50 latency, so it feels fast enough to use live.
for math, it’s not just LLM grading though:
- `SymPy` for latex/math expressions, so if the learner writes an equivalent answer in a different form, it still gets marked correct; so `(x+2)(x+3)` and `x^2 + 5x + 6` can both pass. (but might remove that one since it might be easily replaced by an LLM? And it's a niche use that add some maintenance cost)
- tolerance-based checks for the JSXGraph board state stuff; so on the graph if you plotted x = 5.2 instead of 5.3 it will be within the margin of error to pass but will give you a message about it
I also tried embedding/similarity checking early on, but it was noticeably worse on tricky answers, so I didn’t use that as the main path.
From okla's Speedtest Global Index:
Fixed broadband (median download): US: #9 306.86 Mbps Switzerland: #10 300.70 Mbps
Mobile: US: #11 205.71 Mbps Switzerland: #42 118.93 Mbps
the "25 Gbit" is top tier prodcut that while avablie in the US (sure not the whole country) it's not sometinhg the avg in both coutnries actully buy/use...
> why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price
also on prices the per 2023 (couldn't find any newer resoruces) [2] 100 Mbps in the US seems a bit cheaper in the US than swizerland (but the diffrnece is honestly neligable to begin with)
> Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways.
form a quick serach, this seems to simply be not true, FTTP coverage is 50% in swizerland (comapred to 69% in europe) and 27% in rural areas (compared to 58% in rural europe) per 2024 [3]
> The United States prides itself on free markets
boradcam is one of the most regualted/restricted markets in teh U.S (for better or worse) so it really isn't really free market ...
Local governments grant the cable/telecom franchise and levy franchise fees up to 5% of gross revenue (Cable Act 1984, 47 U.S.C. §542). Entrants also need government-controlled pole and right-of-way access; pole/permit fights are what stalled Google Fiber. And ~16–17 states legally restrict or ban municipal broadband.
Section 301 China tariffs (10–25%) since 2018 (Trump) hit optical fiber, routers, and network electronics. Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Act (IIJA) also restriected using some certin chinesse technology when buidling internet infrastructure.
[1] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index
[2] https://www.picodi.com/us/bargain-hunting/internet-prices-20...
[3] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/57c...