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I get 550Mbps on 5 ghz (80Mhz wide) with my iPhone 13 and I get 800-850Mbps on an iPad pro on 6Ghz (160Mhz wide). When in the same room as the AP. When not in the same room speeds are a bit all over the map.

This is via the speedtest.net app on a 1Gbit fibre connection.

I am using new U7 Pro Wall APs.

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You do know that nearly all fuel cell vehicles also use lithium and a battery pack, as well the fuel cell it self uses a number of rare earth metals.

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The FCEV is going to be fueled from fossil fuels for the foreseeable future

Today, about 95% of all hydrogen is produced from steam reforming of natural gas.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-fuel-basics#:~:text=Today%2C%20about%2095%25%20of%20all,steam%20reforming%20of%20natural%20gas.

EV battery packs however can be nearly fully recycled back into more batteries.

https://blog.ucsusa.org/jessica-dunn/how-are-ev-batteries-actually-recycled/

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but there’s evidence that this shift is already happening.

Shift? Dude that article has been debunked already.

https://thebusinessjournal.com/blog-harris-ranch-sets-record-straight-on-diesel-powered-tesla-supercharger-allegations/

BEV is effectively running on coal.

Funny thing is that EVs are still cleaner than ICE even when powered by a Coal grid

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikescott/2020/03/30/yes-electric-cars-are-cleaner-even-when-the-power-comes-from-coal/

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There is no clean, cheap, efficient source of hydrogen. You still need to transport it around burning more fuel to transport it all around.

There are already multiple ways to get clean electricity for BEVs and the supply chain is cleaner.. Plant, grid, car.

Also coal is already a TINY TINY % of US power production, https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/ , going to natural gas sourced hydrogen would be a step backward.

When source to consumption is considered BEV is the cleanest option so far.

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Electrolysis is at least 25% less as efficient than just storing the electricity in battery’s as it produces both oxygen and hydrogen and then you need to spend some more of the power compressing it…. Even before you get to transporting it. Otherwise we would just have electrolytes plants all over already.

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Likely has more to do with the cost of 1-2million per station vs 250,000 to 500,000 for a typical EV fast charging station

McDonald’s Gives Up On ‘AI’ After Comedy Of Errors, Including Putting Bacon On Ice Cream (www.techdirt.com)

LLMs certainly hold potential, but as we’ve seen time and time again in tech over the last fifteen years, the hype and greed of unethical pitchmen has gotten way out ahead of the actual locomotive. A lot of people in “tech” are interested in money, not tech. And they’re increasingly making decisions based on how to drum...

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Mc Donald's already has customer self serve kiosks and mobile apps with the full menu that limit you as to which items you can add or remove.

How did they screw this up and leave things open ended for the LLM?

IE why was the LLM not referencing a list of valid options with every request and then replying with what the possible options are. This is something LLMs are actually able to do fairly well, then layer on top the EXACT same HARD constraints they already have on the kiosk and mobile app to ensure orders are valid?

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An LLM can somewhat smooth over variances in language without having to have all possible variances known just the valid options and the raw input.

  • I would like a Big Mac, no lettuce, no tomato, no cheese.
  • I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, hold the cheese.
  • I would like a Big Mac, no vegies, no dairy
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Natural language is really messy.. Could go through many variants on things. Then you get text to speech issues due to audio quality / accents.. And you need an engine that can "best guess / best match" based on what it has or ask for clarification.

Similarly you can ask for TWO of a complex thing: I would like Two.... meals, with,,, XXXX

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The self serve terminals and apps actually work well. I prefer using them over ordering at the counter.

So ya I am surprised they rolled this out so poorly.

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What version of windows and what mouse and keyboard. 99% of them work out of the box and the drivers only add extra functions if there are special features.

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All software eventually gets deprecated / unsupported, including free open source projects.

I think the update cycle on MySQL and Mongo is more aggressive than MS SQL.

The only difference is you pay for MS SQL.

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And how many years do they support a specific release before making you upgrade.

Looks like MySQL standard releases are one year and LTS releases are 5 or up to 8 with extended support.

So somewhat similar to Microsoft

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  1. Book a swap in the app
  2. arrive in the lineup.
  3. serves one car at a time like an oil change
  4. the station has to constantly be charging the used batteries.

Or

Install 4-6 high speed chargers in the same spot and clear more cars faster .

Essentially the swap station is only better if you arrive without a lineup. The swap takes 7-10min and is manned. If you are one or two cars deep waiting you are better to have just found a charger

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An EV6 on an capable fast charger can do 10% to 80% in 17 min

They need to make the swap faster / higher throughput or charging is still going to make more sense .

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neo is the ONLY company doing swap stations, and that is how they work.. I also described current, available EVs with available chargers.

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For years we invested in better microphones and noise canceling to CLEARLY hear the closest / primary speaker and remove all other noise and distractions.

Now introducing, car noise. Get immerses with the kids fighting in the back seat in surround sound..

No important conference call is complete without you providing your weekly update while your dog licks his balls on the way to the vet for everyone to hear.

Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email.

We are writing to inform you about changes to your Google Pay experience. As we continue to provide safe and seamless payments to users around the world, we are also simplifying the app experience in the U.S. For years, Google Wallet has been the primary place to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores,...

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So use google wallet..

Instead of rebranding / upgrading one product, Google continues to make new products and have awkward migrations between them.

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Internet is dominated by Netscape, then crushed by MS giving its browser away.. Firefox steps in for a while and is great but starts to suck / get slow, google steps in people start to shift to google, everyone is on google... Wonder who steps in next.

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There’s a lot more vendor lock in than there has been in the past. I don’t see there being a major change without legislation

LOL no.. ActiveX on IE was the ultimate lock in, and that is gone now.. Also we have A LOT of chromium based clones that don't have these restrictions.. It will still be a popularity contest.

Firefox however is limited by its in ability / unwillingness to license or implement some DRM features / Codecs which kind of sucks.

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True.. but you can install content blocker plugins on iOS now from the app store and as far as mobile goes Android offer an alternative.

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There wasn't any h265 support until recent nightlies for windows.. so there is that issue. Which is important for watching movies ore even some NVR / Security cameras these days for anything 4K or higher.

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Or just use a chromium fork that allows ad block plugins...

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ELI5 due to my smooth brain with these concepts

Database is a broad term, nearly any computer system that stores structured data like lists of names or transactions has a database of some kind. Dedicated database platforms like MySQL just make it more efficient / faster / easier to query and store data.

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I would be MORE surprised if they where still there.

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I was recently looking at new vehicles nearly all have push button starts.

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Interesting how MS is the reasonable one here where all their copilot stuff clearly separates paying business from free consumer stuff for training / not training.

However slack has gone and said they will train on everything, and ONLY the paying companies can request to opt out.

Too bad so sad for all those small dev teams that have been using the "free" version of slack.. No option to opt out.

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To save you going 5 min into the video.. He was using an adapter with zigbee2mqtt that was listed as experimental.

It is less about the network adaptor and more that he switches from zha to zigbee2mqtt with the skyconnect / homeassistant adaptor that is still not fully supported in zigbee2mqtt.

Using a coordinator more central to your network can help but as long as a large number of your powered relay devices have a strong connection there isn't anything wrong with using the USB ones.

The ONLY issue with the USB ones is that it is recommended you put them on an extension cable as the USB port it self can cause interference, and putting a little distance from the antenna helps.

So his solution DOES all that, and is a good solution, but I wouldn't just go toss your USB stick in the bin..

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If you are using a supported NON experimental adaptor / chipset and you have powered devices with strong connections to it, you should be fine. The only optimization I would do is put your USB stick on an extension cable and get it a little ways away from the computer as when they are jacked directly into a pi/computer the USB port can actually cause a little interference.

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He opens the video with "over the years I have used ZHA and Zigbee2mqtt" so I made a little assumption. but that makes it worse if he was already using Zigbee2mqtt when he picked up the Sky Connect and didn't check compatibility.

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There is a way to get carplay into the testla browser on the existing screen

https://carlinkitcarplay.com/blogs/news/how-to-use-apple-carplay-in-tesla

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As per the Ecobee notice this only impacts the two original models and they still function as regular thermostats still, they are just not providing any of the smart / cloud features anymore.

Newer units support local homekit control, which can also be paired with open systems like Home Assistant for full local control for automation.

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Haven’t had cable for like 20 years now. Shop around, don’t pay for things you don’t use.

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40 drives ? Why that is a huge amount of power , what is your space target

RAID 1 ? With 40 drives ? That would be absolutely stupid you want to use RAID 6 or 10 so you don’t waist 50 % of your space with RAID 1. Or some other N+2 disk redundancy.

Have you considered how much power such a large setup will need?

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RAID isn’t backup it is high availability.

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    i3 is just a class the generation matters a lot a current gen i3 is very fast.

    Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets (arstechnica.com)

    But of course we all know that the big manufacturers don't do this not because they can't but because they don't want to. Planned obsolescence is still very much the name of the game, despite all the bullshit they spout about sustainability.

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    Even for unrepairable, at fault replacement(you stepped on it) apple will normally sell you a reconditioned perfect replacement for 50% the cost.

    Reliable repair and ultrafast swap and restore are one off the reasons I stick with apple.

    In no case is it ever “ almost the price of a new one”.

    Wikipedia is gauging interest for an extension that uses AI to see if any claim is cited on Wikipedia (meta.wikimedia.org)

    A prototype is available, though it's Chrome-only and English-only at the moment. How this'll work is you select some text and then click on the extension, which will try to "return the relevant quote and inference for the user, along with links to article and quality signals"....

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    Sounds like Wikipedia search but with slower more expensive steps.

    Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works (gizmodo.com)

    A judge in Washington state has blocked video evidence that’s been “AI-enhanced” from being submitted in a triple murder trial. And that’s a good thing, given the fact that too many people seem to think applying an AI filter can give them access to secret visual data.

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    Suddenly thinking of someone using moon photos from their phone as evidence.

    AlternateRoute ,
    • If having dedicated interfaces / subnets is needed for improved bandwidth
    • If you want to have a network segment with jumbo frames (you often don't want this on the general network interfaces)
    • If the network protocol creates substantial network noise iSCSI / block level protocols tend to be very noisy. Vs file level ones like SMB or NFS
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    iSCSI is block level storage where NFS/SMB are file level.. When you browse a folder with SMB/NFS it is going to ask the remote service for the meta file list then cache the whole thing till it thinks it needs it refreshed.. iSCSI is going to go read a set of blocks to read the metadata off the remote file system. iSCSI can be considerably more chatty between the two hosts as it is lower level.

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    This, the all feed is a stream of garbage,porn and spam at times.

    HA + Frigate and Reolink WiFi cams - how to avoid ffmpeg crashes (github.com)

    If you use Reolink wifi cams via the Frigate integration in homeassistant, you may be used to seeing tons of "ffmpeg has crashed unexpectedly" in your frigate logs. I have 3 older reolink wifi cams in frigate (510WA, 511WA) which most in the community seems to advise against and indeed since I've been running frigate, while they...

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    Isn't this exactly what the Camera Specific Configuration in the frigate documentation tells you to do?

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    Create a helper group that has all the lights.

    Trigger:

    Helper group turns on for 30 min

    Condition:

    I used time after and before as a fixed time.

    Action:

    service turn off with a target of the helper group

    Should result in the trigger firing 30min after ANY light turns on and only turning them off at the set time.

    Is Framework actually "good" for the industry?

    Framework as in the laptop company, just for clarity. https://frame.work/. For those unaware, the idea is that these are laptops built with a high degree of modularity so that you can replace far more than a single stick of SODIMM with the goal of even upgrading your CPU and mainboard a few years down the line....

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    The point of the ports is so you don’t need to have an external dongle. They arnt really there to hot swap but provide the right port always there so they shrewdly shouldn’t wear out and usb is more than fast enough for almost any port type now. I would much rather have a laptop with an Ethernet port and a full size HDMI than one with a single USB c that forces me to also pack a chonky dongle. Would rather just pack the cables .

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    It is GREAT as an option but not as the primary. I love it for small trips for a small number of things .

    However for any medium to large shopping trip I would prefer to have someone there scanning while I unload and load.

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    Simple answer would be to attached the pi to the router via the router Ethernet port on the LAN side and learn how DHCP and DNS work.

    Pi-hole is primarily a forwarding DNS server that filters DNS requests

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