Biggest problem with fiber to an individual room is the lack of fiber interfaces on devices.
Oddly enough, my 30-year-old stereo amplifier has one. I'll finally have a use for it!
I just submitted bug report FB18359754 for this.
>On 6/24/25, wallet pushed a notification for movie tickets. This is in error because both:
>1) wallet does not have permission for such notifications, and
>2) this should have been blocked by the privacy system.
>Public financing or 1% loans will almost entirely cut that cost.
no, that doesn't change the cost *at all*.
It simply changes who pays that cost. It may or may not make sense for the public to pay it, but it still gets paid.
Last I heard, Apple sales haven't plummeted and thrown them into bankruptcy, so it sounds like they learned the lesson just fine: it's fine to show people ads. People might complain a little bit, but they won't stop buying. Cost is $0 and ad revenue is presumably more than $0.
If someone is stuck with your proprietary software and you aren't showing them ads, then you're leaving money on the table. What're they gonna do, fork it out?
Who needs protection from academic attacks that no-one on earth has ever used anyway?
Every bad actor is looking for a zero-day exploit to keep in their back pocket; why would you provide them with one for free, and assume they'll never use it on you?
Your comment is marked as "Funny" but you are not far from reality. I work for a gov't and more than one new college grad has come to us for a position that has never touched an actual computer, somehow skating by 4 years using a phone and a tablet...
So called "green" tech like solar panels actually do produce vast quantities of incredibly toxic waste at every stage of their lifecycle that we have no viable way to deal with, unlike nuclear.
Sounds like copium to me. Nuclear fission has lost the PR war, the economic war, and the tech war, and now you're hoping you can bring it back from the dead by slagging the competition with baseless hyperbole. Well, good luck with that; but it sure looks like that race has already been called. I still have hope for nuclear fusion, FWIW.
actually, running them on bus routes at bus prices might be a practical options.
Run a half dozen of these at five minute intervals rather than a bus every half hour and mass transit suddenly becomes more practical and attractive.
One key question is how many you can run for the cost of one bus.
The long intervals are a major factor in making bus travel practical in all but the densest cities in the US.
So is the inability to automatically electrocute disruptive morons, but that's for another topic.
Where did I say I was expecting similar performance? But Python is slow even for an interpreted language especially given its usually compiled to bytecode first. I would expect similar performance to Java , not run at approx 1/100th the speed of compiled C!
1/100 the speed of compiled languages is typical for interpreted languages.
Non-ancient implementations of Java are fully compiled. Toy benchmarks and Java programs carefully written as if there were no automatic memory management (and don't call standard libraries) can run just as fast ac C code.
Java can't directly support features that depend on dynamic typing and similar flexible run-time behavior that interpreted languages. However, many Java developers sorely miss those features, so they heavily use the reflection APIs and various "beans" frameworks to work around the pre-compilable static typing. This can actually end up running *slower* than Python because many of those Java features are dog slow.
You can already get implementations of Python that do JIT compiling like Java. They often run in the ballpark of about 1/10 the speed of C.
I'm glad someone remembers how Gates has tried to whitewash his ill-gotten money. There is a long list of companies destroyed by MS and Gates from very early on in the 80s. Once a scum bag always a scum bag and no amount of "charity" work will buy him into the pages of history as a "good guy"
We already know that statistically, modern AI cars get into far fewer accidents than humans do.
We know that the self-driving car companies have provided us with data that they say indicates that... but it's in their economic interest to convince us of that, and it's straightforward to lie with statistics if that is what you want to do.
Surely Tesla's supporters could debunk the whole thing by setting up their own tests that demonstrate FSD successfully detecting and avoiding the 'kids'? It's not terribly a difficult test to perform, and positive demonstration of correct functionality would be more convincing than just accusing other peoples' tests of being rigged/flawed/dishonest.
Self-driving cars don't need to be perfect, they just need to be a bit better than humans.
The exact values of "a bit" and "humans" are worth examining. Is it enough for them to just be better than the average human driver, or do they need to be as good as or better than the best human drivers? And if so, how much better is "enough better" to offset the social cost and complexity overhead of integrating the new technology into the road system?
Capitalism has failure modes where "Private property" makes "Competition" and "Freedom of choice" irrelevant. Some of these failure modes are called monopoly and cartel.
Most of those statues were propaganda. For music it depends on what you mean by "commonly available". The actors and musicians weren't usually around. So while there were available to the commons, they weren't usually available, except to patrons and friends&family. This only changed with the rise of cities, and even in the early steam era about 90% of the population lived in rural areas.
With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
