This reminds me when I got a “survey” email from ERCOT, the entity that oversees Texas’ “deregulated” energy provider racket. I was ready to lay into them hard, but starting with the second or third questions, it was clear that all they were concerned about was to _sell_ new products — ZERO interest in hearing feedback of how terrible the system for end users, they just want to sell some sort of outage insurance product (“would you pay $5 to be protected from a 30 minute or less outage one time?”).
I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a less than noble ulterior motive behind this push, although I’m hoping for the best. Sounds like the main reason it may actually make sense to bring it back from their PoV is because ISPs have to deal with individual state laws.
Which ones are you seeing with M.2 slots? I've clicked a good 5-8 of the top listings from that list for which it would make sense to have such slot and they're missing it.
> My kids are being taught a lot of critical race theory concepts in their middle school which, to put it charitably, don't have a whole lot of objective data behind them.
Can you give examples of the concepts you mention your kids are being taught in their middle school?
I feel like I'm asking the obvious, but.. is it that hard to mention a date when you're going to break a bunch of stuff, so those affected at least know how long they have to look for contingency plans? For those who don't know how long it takes for a Chrome version to move from dev (v90 is there now) to prod it would be nice to have an idea, is it a week/month/90 days?
Can someone explain to this non-EE how current alone, as specified in milliamps in the absence of a specified voltage, can be used to specify a lethal condition? In other words, from here and other sources I'm inferring that 100mA can stop the heart, but does it not matter if it's from a (at?) 9V battery vs 1.5V AA battery?
> a Raspberry Pi is not quite powerful enough to handle a gigabit connection
To clarify, you're referring pretty much exclusively to the PiVPN part here, correct? I have a 3B doing lots of other things and it's serving Pi-Hole duty as well w/o a hitch.
> I mention all this free of ethical opinion. Just want to clarify that it is almost certainly not just a simple act of goodwill. Despite this, we can all—at least for now—benefit from such generosity.
I agree. It's still refreshing to witness as it's not something you see every day (ever?). Things are impossible to do a certain way until they're not. If everyone shared patents, we could focus on innovation. Yes easy to say, and easy(er) to do in a new field like Tesla's when they started, but again, it's a refreshing respite from the status quo, that is all.
Tesla’s mission is to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy[1]. They even have an "open source philosophy to patents[2]." I believe, based on what I've seen, all this makes Elon happy to see -- it's the world he envisions and, at least in [no small] part, helped spur on.
I have one of the simplest toy services you can envision and am already running into a problem. Basically, I'm logging a temperature from a sensor to a SQLite db every minute or so (whenever it sends the reading). Sometimes I run a query manually thru the SQLite CLI to look into the data -- the query tabulates about 1.5 years' worth of data, by month and with averages, and can take about 20-30s as it's all running on an RPi3. As far as I can tell SQLite locks the entire table instead of just the records involved in the read, if one of my readings, new data to be inserted, happens to come in during me running the query I get "database locked" and the write fails.
Yes this is a heavy query that would not make it to a production system, still I am surprised that load placed on a sqlite db by "hundreds of thousands of concurrent users" would not surface problems due to this simple detail.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there isn’t a less than noble ulterior motive behind this push, although I’m hoping for the best. Sounds like the main reason it may actually make sense to bring it back from their PoV is because ISPs have to deal with individual state laws.