I’m using Firefox, and are often doing stuff in Private Mode, where I’m not logged into Google, and am using uBlock, and Firefox’s strict tracking protection. CloudFlare and Google doesn’t serve me any CAPTCHAs.
One issue in hi-fi audio is the surprising lack of good source material given the passage of time.
For example - 20 years ago it feels like you could by a SACD with some classical music on it - and the quality was pretty darn impressive. I remember multi-channel audio in these.
Despite 20 years of tech - when I try to stream or even buy some multi-channel audio for my HiFi rig it's basically super annoying as far as I can tell. No clear disclosure of actual channels / format etc.
Am I missing something? SACD had 5,000+ titles out, you could just grab one and it worked.
What's the current approach here for high quality multi-channel audio?
My home setup is Klipsch 5.1 if that matters, but I'm happy if things play 3.1 if needed.
for the last 3 years I've been reading of these breakthroughs. They are not just 2x Lithium Ion, they are usually 10X!! or in this case 60X creating an "EV Range Breakthrough" to quote the title exactly.
You have a 60x EV Range breakthrough - and you are still a small company not snapped up by some monster. How in the HELL is that possible. 60x range is 20,000 miles for the tesla Model 3. How is this amount of energy even carried safely?
I've become jaded to these announcements. Glad someone is coming out with a checkbox for them.
Note that for EV's COST has become a key driver - 315 miles range is "good enough" if you get to leave your house every morning with a full charge. Hopefully the 60X improvement creating this "range breakthrough" translates into a 60x cost reduction given you can use a much smaller battery for the 315 miles.
I was watching an episode of Nova on PBS about "Search for the Super Battery" and it was pretty enlightening. The basic lithium battery can store a lot of energy but due to dendrite formation it can short circuit and fail catastrophically. So they made some modifications to improve its safety while compromising other parameters and we get an lithium ion battery. But scientists are learning how to improve its safety without degrading other properties too much. They play around with different anode and cathode formulas and the separator membranes between them.
So, if you are interested in lithium ion batteries, their problems, and current industry solutions, I can think of no better youtube channel then "the limiting factor".
Even the battery techs that show the most promising (in-lab, no guarantee of ever coming to fruitition) stats like lithium-air only have energy density roughly equal to or a bit lower than fossil fuels. Anything that actually blew that away by such huge would be worth billions if not trillions.
The article title and within the article clearly state "60x faster charge" which still means a hypothetical 315 miles of range until which point they also claim "60x more battery capacity."
Same experience - I also went all in on tile - it really does not have the density of reporting and I'm also pretty sure lacks privacy protections apple has.
1) Where would you put it, there are already TONS of options for wifi / bluetooth / audio etc. This is where I would expect it.
2) You can just disable this stuff when you first get your phone it walks you through these prompts there. If you don't enable it - it is not enabled.
3) Spam should be opt-in - most people don't want it. But a lot of Apple stuff should be opt-out, because people do want it. Ie, turn on GPS / location features - folks really want weather, maps with turn by turn etc. Apple already over prompts on setup for my tastes.
Perfect - this is exactly what I want vs paying $15K.
Running errands, no need to it. But I drive to clients and other longer trips, this is game changing if I could go full hands off and work during that time.
Uber runs about $100/hr I think - so if I could use my own car and not have to take uber (I often take uber precisely so I can work) then it's perfect. If price is 1/10th of the the marginal cost even better.
I've actually worked in govt systems. If you think the whole endless threats of jail make for more secure systems you are truly clueless.
These systems are RIDDLED with the WORST outdated crap you can imagine. Absolute insane hoop jumping so plenty of pressure to work around security just to get jobs done (seriously - start with the help desk if you want access - they are so used to password resets the procedures become a joke - literally - what's the username and that's it, because if you have thousands of folks on 30 day password rotations with insane complexity all you do is password resets endlessly). Password sharing can also be crazy so passwords float all over.
The govt has had it's top stuff leaked. Office of personnel management leaked insanely sensitive stuff. They contract with the WORST folks in security. It's really crazy.
Google has never asked me to rotate my password. I have non-SMS two factor authentication options, they do pretty sophisticated rate and geo monitoring so you are not annoyed but pretty secure.
Cyberattacks, mechanical failures, weather disasters, meteor strikes, terrorist bombs, stupid construction workers ALL could affect this pipeline. People on HN have no risk perspective. Make the system resilient to a proactive few day outage. Why does this system have to run 365 / 24 / 7? Have you mitigated EVERY possible issue - including disgruntled employees? No - then instead of over doing one corner, design some give in the system.
I want to add that the physical limits of how the design is done is as much as corruption/stupidity.
By physical limits I mean us, the wet ware in the middle of all this. These systems can be designed years if not decades before they are actually brought online. By simple temporal placement they get the materials and techniques of that time span. By the time these things are ageing out of the system they will have some old tech on them.
Their approach makes a lot of sense. Corp network hacked - so to be careful shut down pipeline until you've really made sure that you are fully safe pipeline side as there now may be more attack vectors.
