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SpaceX apparently doesn't like to give definitive numbers (perhaps there are too many configurable tradeoffs and/or dynamic adjustments to variable environmental conditions for that to make sense), but the downlink throughput of a Starlink V1 satellite is reportedly about 20 Gbps over an area of several square miles. Putting that on a single fiber wavelength is mature enough to be firmly in SOHO/homelab territory these days (e.g. QNAP and Mikrotik both have 25Gbps switches that are about $1000). It looks like commodity CWDM mux/demux boxes can cram 16 of those into a single fiber. It's safe to assume that the big guys like Comcast and CenturyLink/Lumen can get equipment capable of far more than that.

In my experience, this is a common enough usage variation that I'm not sure how helpful it is to treat it as an error. In particular, "assembler language" seems to have been IBM's preferred phrasing at one point.

I don't think the AP made an error here. Unless I'm misreading those articles, the situation is:

- Republican early voting has increased since 2020.

- Republicans have more in-person early votes, while Democrats have more mail-in early votes.

- Nationally, Democrats still have more overall early votes because early voting is dominated by mail-in votes.


> US was designed to have a true republic (not a democratic republic) but with a democratic lower house as a counterbalance to a non democratic upper house. The 17th amendment screwed us as it made sure that all the drama from the lower house spread to both houses, and now our congress is entirely captured by lobbyists as every legislator now has to worry about financing campaigns. It wasn’t supposed to work that way.

That's a pretty rose-tinted description. The 17th amendment came about because the Senate was cartoonishly corrupt under the previous system. It should tell you something that it was ratified by the very state legislatures whose power it diminished.


> And risks nothing because the product was technically sold by “INXBDBA”.

The kicker is that this is a classic "cobra effect" [1] that has bogged down government offices. Those useless brands exist because Amazon tried to cut down on counterfeits and no-name junk by implementing a policy of requiring the brand to be a registered trademark. Instead of cutting down on junk products, it led to an explosion of junk brands [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/11/style/amazon-trademark-co...


There were SRAM-based home computers, they just weren't very competitive when DRAM-based ones could offer 4x the RAM for the same price. VIC-20 did well for its day, though.


I don't know about punishment being the norm, but I'd like to see an agency (perhaps a better-funded and more independent analog of the FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection) that is competent and efficient enough to legitimately earn a lot of deference. That is, they could issue a quasi-C&D "here's a handy step-by-step guide to avoid doing this the hard way (you dumbass)" letter and have any competent lawyer's default reaction be something like "they're almost certainly right and you'd be an idiot to fight this" instead of "here's how we can fight this".

Of course, that implies a system that places the interests of citizens at least on par with the interests of capital (and can conceive of those as distinct concepts in the first place), which is clearly communist crazy-talk.


I guess you're probably joking, but in case there's any actual confusion:

ARM7 is fully pipelined, and GBA connects it to 32K of on-chip zero-wait-state SRAM, so it's possible for optimized code to approach 16 MIPS with 32-bit operations. The original 68K is a multi-cycle processor and Mac Plus runs it at 8 MHz, which tops out at more like 2 MIPS for 16-bit operations, less for 32-bit operations (the ALUs are only 16-bit).


Are the (non-Nvidia) GPU drivers still years behind mainline Linux? I might be misinterpreting the release scheme, but it seems like FreeBSD 14's drivers correspond to Linux 5.15 and FreeBSD 15's will correspond to at least Linux 6.1. Is that right? 5.15 should be new enough to have decent support for my GPU (which "worked" out of the box on Linux but didn't really stabilize until 5.12 or so).


You can install drm-6.1:

https://www.freshports.org/graphics/drm-61-kmod/

It even in the quarterly repo.


Thanks. I think I was somehow looking at an outdated description for drm-61-kmod that said it was only for -CURRENT, and only found mentions of the needed linuxkpi changes possibly being merged into 14-STABLE in the future. Judging by the drm-kmod git repo, it looks like they're currently working on bringing it up to 6.6.


I think we desperately need to answer the question of why GLP-1 agonists are so effective, and particularly whether it's counteracting something in the environment that has been acting to reduce GLP-1 (or other glucagon-related pathway) activity without us realizing it. The obesity data practically screams that something happened in North America ca. 1980 that messed up our metabolisms, and it may have spread to Europe after a delay. Unfortunately, it seems like one of those things where there are various people with pet theories and little substantial effort to get to the ground truth. Perhaps the inevitable search for "me-too drugs" will uncover something.


Europe has been climbing at a steady rate since at least 1975.

https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/cp_data_news/europe-fa...


Coke and Pepsi started using HFCS in 1980.

I’d be curious about side effects of the Depression and WW2 that took an extra generation to show up.


> I’d be curious about side effects of the Depression and WW2 that took an extra generation to show up.

While there might be a time span involved that could be described that way, as far as I've read there weren't any statistics that were "generational" in the usual sense of the term. Obesity rates started rising among all age groups at roughly the same time.


Hormones in meat. And I expect the women's pregnancy pill plays a part in this as well to why we have over emotional disorders. This has all originated from the 70's both.

The demand for cattle are so high that they force feed them growth hormones. You eat the meat, you end up with injected mutations and then over generations you then end up with people with growth hormones and obesity because of.

How can hormone bated meat not affect the human body?

As well, women have been taking a pill, since the 70's, it does its thing, they pee. That mixes with the water and overtime pollutes the generations.


Glyphosate was introduced around that timeline.


One aspect is that the US food system as a crap ton of UPF.


UPF means "ultra-processed foods", in case anyone else had to look it up like I did.


How does that cause the rest of the world to also have decades-long steadily increasing obesity rates?


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