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Perth, Australia too: https://www.education.wa.edu.au/mobile-phones - phones are banned from the start to the end of school. Primary students cannot have them on them, secondary students can but they must be off and out of sight (even at break times).

Some other videos I enjoyed from him.. many non Tesla related videos, and many with some math/research/engineering explanations showing up.

When to shift gears for the best Fuel Economy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNspNdVkslA)

The Unfortunate Truth About Toyota's Hydrogen V8 Engine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJjKwSF9gT8)

Here's The Proof... Tesla Cybertruck vs Porsche 911 Drag Race (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE)

How To Ruin Your Electric Car's Battery - NMC Edition! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4lvDGtfI9U)

How To Ruin Your Electric Car's Battery - LFP Edition! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1zKfIQUQ-s)

What Is Koenigsegg FreeValve? Camless Engine! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJXgKY2O4po)

Lots of people claiming it's not possible, etc.. I always appreciate someone with decent knowledge throwing some math and engineering at it to get a ball park idea of how realistic it is. Or as he called it in this video.. legit or nonsense :)

I personally find him over many years a healthy combination of car/math/physics knowledge, referencing research, skepticism and .. whatever you call excited about things without being dogmatic or a fanboy.

Can't say he's infallible, but certainly seems better than 99% of the people that either claim it must be fake, misleading or perfect and wonderful.. both would be on par for Tesla.

Worth mentioning he has both loved a Tesla in the past: (19 video playlist on the Model 3): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ir4svMoaYicTBWWTJra...

And certainly should be considered to have some bias due to: Elon Musk Fired My Wife - I'm Selling My Tesla (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLrDaV6nkE)

That said, spoiler alert, he finds the demos largely credible (but has debunked many things in the past, including some of the older Tesla demos like beating a Porsche with a Cybertruck while towing a Porsche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J3H8--CQRE).. what combination of these things make it into production is another story.

There are both ISOs and apt packages all the way back to the first release here: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/

They used to support iPads as HomeKit hubs before matter. I think because there is no thread radio in iPads?

I love the idea of local only apps woth no network comms. I do wish macOS had some way you could enforce that out of the box though. Rather than trust the claims of the developer.

Another app I love that does the same. Queryable which lets you natural language search your photos on device on iOS and predates most of the current AI craze (2022) and also apple adding this themselves to photos: https://queryable.app/

Why not leverage Apple Foundational models?

Downloads will already be on the machine.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundationmodels

There’s similar support from many banks in many countries. But obviously will be a bunch of work to support them all.

It also requires you generally to trust some third party with your data.

Here’s an API one for Australia / New Zealand / USA: https://redbark.com/developers

GuitarML is the other one I know: https://guitarml.com/ https://github.com/guitarml https://youtu.be/TWLIUIKHtUQ?si=GvoBWc-iL22GXm96

There is also ARM SystemReady which is an existing spec for this mainly intended for servers. But it’s not being followed well.

It’s crazy to need a million device trees on server or laptop class devices.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45086346

And for the full fail story behind it, fail0verflow hacking the PS3 presentation is great and covers the bug: https://youtu.be/DUGGJpn2_zY

Most of the console hacking talks are great, both informative and entertaining.

Almost went past looking at this option, it has a far bigger ecosystem of both storage and auth plugins and otherwise looks to be more mature than I might have guessed from the passing comment.

I think for phone calls this only works on Facetime and for calls maybe only on Wifi.

SMS syncing is true. But if you have a phone and you're out and about you also need mobile data, so would otherwise need a second mobile plan. Or to swap the SIM over, which was easier with a physical SIM, more difficult with eSIMs.

“Post Hoc Rationalisation”

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r...

LTT Labs are writing up a lot of nice content of late.

Long before AI, I used the domain sixlabs.org for many years from about 2002-ish through 2012 when I managed to lose the domain and someone has had it registered and parked ever since with no active services and no obvious for sale sign. Still registered now.

At the time it was a reference to a combination of IPv6 (which I was fond of) and that my birthday is on the 6th. Was like a little mini self-hosting project for web+email that had me and other friends on a real physical box (was also early days for VMs :)

In any case, this write-up is amusing.

The sad part is how expensive it is (I’m in Australia too). Seems up front like a cheaper alternative to pavers but both the moulded plastic and the soft plastic that fans out versions are a solid $40-$45/sqm AUD.

Can buy brick pavers for that and you still have to purchase the pebbles to go in it…

Not to mention it’s built into the OS: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/digital-color-meter/we...

Much of the Canonical & Ubuntu documentation uses it now. I am not sure which are the best examples though.

https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/

I am so very happy to have a 2010s Samsung TV with no Wi-Fi and an AppleTV.

I do not lock forward to needing to upgrade the TV.

Yikes.

Going to need containerised vscode in this world.

Apple includes these in digital purchases from the iTunes Store. It’s part of “iTunes Extra”.

But I never see them anywhere else. Especially streaming. A real loss.

The problem with asserts is that they are pretty dramatic and you crash the entire program.

We generally did this in the avahi libraries, be fairly liberal with asserts that "shouldn't happen", it is a source of complaints though because basically you can be using a third party library that uses avahi and have your program crash due to a bug in that library, or in avahi. It's extra fun when using some historical libc systems such as "NSS" and you load a plugin to do hostname resolution, which nss-mdns does.. now you can have any program on the entire system crash if you are assert happy.

On the one hand I agree that if the result is going to be memory un-safety then perhaps you should assert, but more ideally you'd just fail gracefully and throw or return an error. That can sometimes be tricky though, if there is no good way to return an error or return a NULL value or similar. Depending on the API.

Of course, this is the entire reason behind the error return traditions of Golang and Rust, e.g: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch09-00-error-handling.html

Which basically says what I said above :)

But in the case of curl_getenv, returning NULL seems a valid possibility (https://curl.se/libcurl/c/curl_getenv.html) as that is indicated to be done if you don't find the requested environment variable. Arguably the NULL environment variable is not found. so, this feels likely to be acceptable. Though I could see an argument for you now assuming the environment variable you were actually looking for not existing, but you didn't actually ask for one, and now your logic is broken and maybe you introduce a different class of security bug because you change your behaviour based on some environment variable not existing.

As always everything is a trade-off...

Most of the ARM Servers support this, in any case.

Currently my biggest problem isn't ads, it's all the apps now will find ANY excuse to send you a notification in order to keep their "Daily Active User" count high.

You turn off more and more categories and they'll still find a reason.

Right. Sydney is at 33.9 S and Darwin is 12.4 S

Quote from the article:

In Sydney, south-facing panels typically produce around 30% less energy than north-facing ones. The steeper the roof, the less they’ll produce. They’ll also produce much more energy in summer than winter.

In the far north, the difference isn’t as great and in Townsville south-facing solar panels will only produce around 15% less energy overall than north-facing ones. Because Queenslanders generally use more electricity in summer than winter due to air conditioner demand, the fact that south-facing panels have considerably higher output in summer can improve self-consumption.

In Darwin, south-facing panels produce about 17% less electricity overall than north-facing ones, and, like in Townsville, they have considerably higher output in summer than winter.

This is sort of over stated generally.

In Australia where North is “optimal”, even South facing panels produce only 20-30% less and East/West about 15%. It does vary a bit by latitude but it’s not at all pointless to install them in other orientations in many places. I have not done the math to see how much of the world this extends to, but it applies to a fairly large chunk of Australia. Source: https://www.solarquotes.com.au/panels/direction/

Tesla’s system also had non solar tiles so you could just skip the panels in whichever parts you wanted.

Roof construction is quite different here to the US though. We never have the plywood layer, it’s either ceramic tile or Colorbond steel directly onto usually wooden sometimes steel beams.

First heard about this I think on the Penn’s Sunday School hotel. I hope to visit one day.

This hotel and the one which has a red phone “Popsicle Hotline” at the pool to order a waiter to bring your kids a tray of icy poles: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/power-free-popsicle

I remember the talk about the Wii/WiiU hacking they intentionally kept the early boot code in cache so that the memory couldn’t be sniffed or modified on the ram bus which was external to the CPU and thus glitchable.