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The USAF thing was a thought experiment, nothing based in actual reality.

Net neutrality would have prevented this kind of pay to win

How would it have helped? Net neutrality doesn’t mean you can’t sell your customers different bandwidth guarantees.

Net neutrality is only about the connections between a provider and external networks, not about how a company handles bandwidth contention amongst its customers.

Net neutrality would fix a problem like “only Facebook is accessible inside crowded stadiums” not “AT&T customers who pay more get better connections in crowded stadiums”


Net neutrality as generally understood says nothing about being able to pay more for a higher service tier from your ISP.

It's entirely on the publisher side: net neutrality was an attempt to avoid ISPs getting paid extra---costs that would be passed onto you---in exchange for making your experience on site A be better than your experience with site B (or service, vs site).

Think: "Oh, yeah, Netflix 4k works great on your new Comcast plan! But if you want Hulu 4k, you're gonna need to pay us more, because Netflix pays us to make their shit work better than Hulu's if you don't!"


Net neutrality means that providers don't discriminate based on the kind of traffic, that you get internet access, not just access to particular services.

They can absolutely meter and limit your connection as long as one byte is one byte, no matter its origin. They can also discriminate based on the technology they provide (4G, 5G, fiber...). Net neutrality is not about preventing "pay to win", obviously, you can get a better connection if you pay more. It is about fair competition between online services.


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People still believe this? Google pays their ISP. I pay my ISP. Google does not pay my ISP. Why is my ISP's response to the amount of traffic I use demanding to bill someone other than me?

To be clear, Google was doing this out of self-interest. Paying user ISPs for access to those users is not a cost they want to pay. But it's the same as any other protection racket. A local shopkeeper has personal reasons to not want to pay off the mob, but that doesn't mean their position is wrong.


ISP's spent $$$$$ against net-neutrality cause they wanted to get paid twice (Google already was paying for their side of the bandwidth as the source).

When you add the second line---pretending that that nobody funding all the anti-net-neutrality let-big-ISPs-do-what-they-want stories that pro-legacy-company Republicans ate up---it makes me think this is some astroturfing, since it goes from "maybe this person fell for the ISP claims" to straight-up dishonest intentionally-misleading-fallacy.

Google was obviously on the side of "don't get charged twice" but ultimately net-neutrality was a tech enthusiast consumer position that came out of a desire to avoid getting charged more on the basis of what sites you did or didn't want to watch, and ISP's trying to influence where you visited by cutting deals to get paid to prioritize A vs B.

(Hell, ISPs were already getting paid "twice" for the bandwidth in some ways, e.g. when your "100Mb" plan only works at that speeds if your neighbors aren't using it much. That's a different sort of incomplete-advertising trickery that helped create the whole "too many people using Youtube are saturating the network!" "problem" in the first place.)

(And high-bandwidth publishers already were making private peering/colo-of-servers deals with ISPs and CDNs that I don't believe would've been prohibited by net neutrality, so the 'protection racket' aspect of the ISP's game was maybe more arguably wanting to be paid thrice? Or wanting to be paid without providing that colo service?)


Where are you all finding these for sale? I couldn’t find anything other than “kits” or on eBay for $400


Linus Tech Tips dropped a video on this an hour ago, so the prices are already skyrocketing sadly.

Link: https://youtu.be/lmLh29LE2W4?is=QdRwtQS3xyyPt44E


Yuck... They increased a bit ($150+?) after the GPU unlock came out, but they're nuts now.


Dotnet minimal APIs plus mssql is fine for simple crud apps… I would do Postgres, but that’s me.

Swapping mssql to SQLite would also work perfectly


Consider underclocking/undervolt it a little, especially if you aren’t using the GPU to its full potential.

It will last longer and hopefully the GPU prices will recover in a few years.

I hope


I'm still running a 32GB V100 ...


Wasn't that lowkey state of the art at one point? I'm running RTX 2070 lol


You are replying to a comment about AI slop with an AI generated comment? Bold move.

All of your comments seem to be AI generated.


"You're right to call me out on that. It's not just a bold move, it's a complete failure to read the room, and honestly, I need to do better."


Google 100% was wardriving and all of your other items.

However, you can increase gps accuracy using wifi. GPS is not that precise (part of which is government regulations) and WiFi does help immensely with accuracy.


Yes, you can increase accuracy. However, I always turn it off and still get an accuracy of a few meters, which is plenty accurate nearly all practical purposes. Even in cities.

The difference used to be larger, but with the multitude of satellite systems now available and the advancements in receivers the difference is way less than it used to be.


Skills and MCPs CAN bloat the context window. Some harnesses do more progressive loading of skills/mcp depending on how many you have. Check your harnesses docs.

Personally, I feel skills+CLI is better, since only the description of the skill enters the context window until it’s required and CLIs should support help flags which will allow you do have progressive discovery.

And a CLI is also easy to use yourself.


Meat is already tracked to its origin. They can track a specific box to the farmer and supplier.

Anytime there would be a recall, they would include the lot number and manufacturer dates.

Source: I worked in meat packing and boutique butcher shops.

Edit: even things like ground beef from trimmings, we would write down every lot that went into it


Thanks for the correction. I think the issue here is that none of this information is public (like I can’t call the company and ask where lot 11956 came from), so it’s impossible to know as a consumer.


I don’t get the point of these.

Ghostty has tabs which show the icons for the terminal TUI. You can just look at those for the status.

Same with windows terminal, and you can use either of those to have tiling.


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