Frankly no, don’t even take advice directly from research universities unless you’re a qualified doctor or have cleared it with one. Just because a paper is written in the same language you speak, does not guarantee you will understand it completely, and you may not even realise you’re missing something important.

Your doctor will be able to tell you what is right for your body, a random medical researcher has no idea you even exist. Everyone is different and there are plenty of changes to your lifestyle you can make that could cause problems if they’re not right for you.

In the UK, where I believe VDSL and G.Fast both are achieved by putting the equipment in your local “green cabinet” which is the sub distribution between you and your local telephone exchange.

My cabinet is about a 200m straight line from my house, so I was lucky enough that I always got pretty close to whatever speed the telco was selling me.

My parents’ place is about 500m or so from theirs and I think they typically got about 70-80% of the “up to” rate on VDSL before they switched to fibre. It used to be more like 50% on regular ADSL/2/2+

I think you have to be kinda rural before you’re much further than that from a green cabinet (which of course isn’t an insignificant number of people, but I believe per capita it’s not typical)

Satellite TV was much more popular compared to cable generally in European countries, so phone lines make up the bulk of wired networking in a lot of places, making DSL a pretty practical option without having to lay a whole network. I get the feeling in countries where cable is much more common, DSL is reserved for the last resort level of service, whereas in Europe many of the telecoms make sure to deploy the latest standards.

I finally swapped to 1gbps fibre a year or two ago, but before that I was on about 250mbps with G.Fast DSL that honestly wasn’t bad at all. I believe the theoretical limits go much higher than that too

Helps if you read past the headline

It’s a place that lets people charge subscriptions for blogs.

It also is a nazi bar

Avoid it and encourage others to do the same

FOR. A. SINGLE. CHANGE. Yes. For a single change. Like having an editor with 2 minute save lag, pushing commit using program running on cassette tapes

Am I reading this bit correctly? Are they complaining about testing a CI change and it only taking a couple of minutes to verify?

And this person’s using a compiled language?

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Magnets mostly messed with tapes, floppies and hard disks. I believe you could also mess up a CRT’s calibration with one.

None of those technologies are particularly commonplace these days, especially not in those glasses.

I mean an MRI level magnet could crush them, but you’re gonna struggle to move that around

I mean… You can still technically use Eclipse if you’re a masochist… Android studio is head and shoulders above it despite all of the Jetbrains nonsense though

If you want to make a website, you still only need a text editor

If you want to make a C++/rust/go/python/Haskell/brainfuck application for something that isn’t a phone? You still only need a text editor and a compiler

All sorts of weird precedents are being set in the shameless kowtowing to the deluded traffic cone

Lawyers are going to be making any kind of weird argument based on some precedent set during this presidency for decades

Great gameplay, but also a great soundtrack and general world aesthetic too

All neatly packaged in a game that doesn’t outstay its welcome

Hard to imagine EA making anything like this today

I mean, they do this kind of stuff anyway, just in broader strokes.

Ice cream is a classic example of something that’s always on offer in the middle of winter because it’s less in demand

If you do root cause analysis on most of society’s ills, you pretty much always eventually arrive at “the economic and political system we use, is actively harmful to the vast majority of people”

Literally I can’t think of a single big problem we’re facing where this isn’t the case.

I wish I still had time for advent of code…

I think a lot of people have tvs that can’t handle darks well, so things like the dark knight, game of thrones, I remember the departed especially, if you have a lot of shadow it won’t show at all. So there was already a push from consumers to make things “easier to see” at the expense of good cinematography.

This is the thing that kills me, and it took that game of thrones episode for me to realise. I watched it just fine on a mid-range 4K from about 5 years before it came out. 80% of the people I talked to that week about it said they couldn’t see a thing.

People are out there getting scammed into buying the shittest panels available and now the media itself is being compromised because they’re the biggest market.

NK is safe because trump admires it. It’s the deluded model for how he wants to reconfigure the US with him at the top

Conversely, venezuela has oil and wasn’t giving it to America. They have a left wing government. Trump wants to keep the Epstein stuff out of the news, lest the final few people out there who still don’t realise he’s a human trafficking pedo, find out.

I don’t think nukes prevent this one. Frankly I think he would have done it anyway, despite the risk.

I don’t really use music notation software but rather DAWs, however if they can play using VSTs, I really like Noire from Native Instruments, the samples used are recorded from Nils Frahm’s own custom felt piano.

It’s not free (or even particularly cheap) but it’s popular enough I’m sure you can find it from not-so-legitimate sources if you knew where to look.

I don’t know any free felt pianos off the top of my head

I mean, it’s gonna ultimately have to work everywhere

People don’t like having cards they can’t use when they travel

It’s not gonna happen right away, but I don’t see how it doesn’t end up that way

Edit: although reading more it might not be equivalent to the existing kinds of cards as it seems to be a debit only provision (i.e. potentially lacking a lot of the protection you get from using a credit card as your main purchasing card). Will be interesting to see how this evolves

When there is a finite amount of something and someone with more money wants it, it makes the price of it for everyone go up to make it so that some people can no longer afford to compete for the resource, making it available for the higher spender. (Yes there’s also infrastructure being built, but they will out compete us for that too)

Same thing with land & property on it, the working class can’t afford to buy housing now, because rich people want to use housing as an investment vehicle.

Food is another (though also tied to land ownership)

Ultimately it’s the same problem across the board and the solution is generally a wealth tax to prevent densely concentrated capital from distorting the market.

Specifically for these companies, they’re simply too big. They need to be broken up and need to be prevented from getting this size again. If they truly cannot be broken up, they should be nationalised.

Failure to address these issues will result in these companies and people holding a total monopoly on all the resources available. More expensive electricity is only the beginning.