Not relevant but I assume these are, like, bush pilots, not “flight attendants please prepare the cabin for arrival” pilots.

You are an incredibly patient and polite person. I doubt I’d make it past the first failed attempt. If he kept up with the patriots after that I’d suggest we “discuss it some other time,” or even walk to a nearby section with “brb.” Either way, I’d never make it to 45 minutes and multiple failures with my blood pressure intact.

Ah just like me babushka used to make

“High risk covert taking“ from your girlfriend isn’t very high risk. Fries stolen from someone else’s girlfriend taste way better.

What’s PDO?

Power Data Objects are sent by the device to the host (in this case your power supply) containing information about device capabilities and requirements.

The problem is that a laptop could be designed to /need/ PPS

This would be highly unusual, especially for a Dell workstation laptop. Some laptops can use PPS for better internal power efficiency and battery charging rate, but I know of none that require it. The feature is also leveraged far more often in small sealed devices where waste heat has basically nowhere to go, so if any device were to actually require it, I would look to small wearables. In fact, while I haven’t checked and don’t know, I’d wager many smart watch chargers are PPS enabled, which would explain their oversized connectors.

Democratic socialists don’t play ball the same. They’re true progressives cut from a different cloth than the status-quo Dems like Biden and the rest. Get enough of them in office, and we’ll actually see a bonafide history-making sea change the likes of which the US hasn’t seen in nearly a century.

That includes everything you could wish for and more. It includes permanent and long-overdue reforms to our horrifically broken government and electoral process, an end to the institutionalized corruption of the citizens united era, expedient and public trials to round up all of the treasonous fascists, pedophiles, and billionaires given unchecked license to trample democracy and ignore every law while enslaving, brainwashing, brutalizing and murdering the population.

All that and more, if only people continue to show up and vote for true progressives

lol love the springs that do nothing. Sorry about the cooties.

The bullhorn on their car looks exactly like a long range anti-surveillance EM cannon

He never uses /s and I’ve seen him eat way more downvotes than this. But yes, he’s playing on a Robert A Heinlein quote.

Good riddance. Let’s get some progressives in there.

Arguably those sections are exactly where LLM use would be least problematic; i.e., summaries, future work, etc. Those sections are also where language proficiency tends to have the most outsized effect, where LLMs might be used to achieve a degree of clarity and brevity that’s otherwise out of reach. The fact that there was less evidence of use in methods and results would be a good sign WRT usage trends, I would think.

lol yes. Ours will ride flailing legs like a rodeo bull, knowing that we’re half asleep and will eventually give up. How does one teach a cat cuddle consent?

Not the commenter above but can answer this. Film is nearly always applied to the inside of the glass. Most film types, if placed outside, are quickly destroyed by the sun and elements; i.e., will eventually peel or flake up and fall off. Exterior films are a specialized and generally more expensive product, and likely not necessary for the application described here.

Individual photos could be transferred. And most of their recent SOCs can do on-device image interpretation. That’s how their Photos app captions and labels pictures. It’d probably work OK for large objects even at low fidelity So I think that’s possible.

Still not really sure how they would capture video. At nearly any resolution it would heavily tax the grain of rice size battery, on top of the processing power needed for encoding a video stream, and that’s assuming their new chip includes P2P WiFi capability to solve the bandwidth issue.

What I expected they might try was passive spatial mesh construction using either SLAM or LiDAR to integrate with their spatial computing and accessibility or indoor navigation. But if all it’s doing is describing what can be captured in a photo, that sounds plausible.

I’m a little confused by the “USA/Israel funded” part, considering it’s ISIS-inspired and she was picked up by the FBI, according to the video. It wouldn’t be the first time the US has indirectly backed terrorist groups, but usually it’s kept secret until many years later. It’s a historically significant event for both the federal government and an international ally to be immediately implicated in a homeland terrorist attack that the FBI itself thwarted in its early stages. What am I missing?

Old Dems? Yes probably. But get more AOCs Bernies Mamdani’s and El Sayeds, and other progressives who won’t play by the rules, and I think we’ll see change.

People need to not give up though, for that to happen. They need to show up and vote.

Maybe BS, but I’d wager only partly true, because the kind of sensors needed for basic local environment awareness aren’t “cameras” in the usual sense even if the have an array of photoreceptors like a camera uses. It might be better described as a higher resolution version of the IR light detectors currently used.

Regardless, given a few undeniable technical realities, like ridiculously tiny batteries and the bandwidth requirements of video vs available BT throughput, there is 0% chance of these earbuds becoming pervglasses-like surveillance wear.

Reactionaries and sourgrapists don’t give a rats ass about truth, however, so prepare for sensationalist headlines no matter what.

I use LTO4 tapes.

• Bare LC drive eBay $~60. Pulled from a library so I had to switch the operation mode. Missing the bay door and kinda dinged up but worked.
• Celerity FC81en HBA card was $~30.
• 1.6TB tapes sold in packs of 5 around $11/tape. Probably can do better than that at higher volume.

Overall take: slow noisy writes but viable for cheap stable long-term storage.

Note: for each of the components above I set price alerts and waited. If in a hurry, maybe skip tape storage lol

Isn’t that nonconformant?

::: spoiler Not to my knowledge. PPS remains an optional protocol in the standard. Why this is reasonable…

PPS offers the most granular realtime PD adjustments of not only voltage (in tiny 20mV steps) but also of current delivery (at I think 50mA increments but don’t quote me).

This is why it’s typically required by manufacturers for their fastest device charging speeds. PPS allows the most precise matching of power delivery to what BMS reports cells can absorb with little to no onboard power conditioning and minimal waste heat.

It’s a premium rating beyond standard compliance. :::

ETA: Confirmed. A potentially interesting follow-up question would be whether the laptop’s mainboard PDO tells you the laptop supports PPS even though its power brick doesn’t.

Honestly this is why I stopped teasing shutterbugs and selfie takers. Just realizing that (a) not all selfies are necessarily destined for social media, and (b) the regrettable alternative might be no pictures of friends with you in them, or even no pictures of those you care about, for long stretches of life that memory tends to eventually consolidate.

The shutterbug in the friend group might be the one reason you remember so well the time you spent with them many years later.