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atyppo commented on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus apple.com/newsroom/2023/0... · Posted by u/mikece

isatty · 2 years ago

I’ll take the better water resistance/proofing/reduced engineering cost from not having user replaceable batteries any day.

Had to replace an iPhone battery exactly once over the last 3-4 years and it was done for free with applecare, in and out in 30 mins.

atyppo · 2 years ago

My iPhone's battery health has been stuck at 83% for nearly 15 months. It was only 9 months old (purchased brand new) when it reached 83%. Apple will not replace with Applecare unless it is below 80%. Something doesn't add up there.

atyppo commented on To make dishwashers great again? (2020) greenbuildinglawupdate.co... · Posted by u/MichaelZuo

sneak · 2 years ago

I don't think Miele has any special loophole that will allow them to bypass the new 2023 energy/water requirements for dishwashers sold in the US.

Perhaps I will ship a German SKU Miele from Germany, and figure out how to get 230V/50Hz to it. I wonder which 60Hz market has the highest power/water limit Miele SKUs.

atyppo · 2 years ago

Are there new 2023 requirements? In the past, the only thing that DOE requirements applied to was the "Normal" cycle. All others can use as much water as they want since DOE regs don't apply.

atyppo commented on AI bots are now better than humans at decoding CAPTCHAs qz.com/ai-bots-recaptcha-... · Posted by u/geox

mewpmewp2 · 2 years ago

What's the challenge in already having this? There could be an aggregator service that has all the news sites joined with it and pays out on your visits to those news sites? Is it that it would be hard to get all news sites or content providers to accept this single one universal service?

atyppo · 2 years ago

Apple tried with Apple News+ and hasn't exactly succeeded. If they can't succeed, I fail to see how anyone else could. Maybe a few media incumbents?

atyppo commented on Aeroflot deactivates brakes on nine aircraft, relies solely on reverse thrust aeroxplorer.com/articles/... · Posted by u/nixass

ssabev · 2 years ago

This is probably going to be just the tip of the iceberg. There was already articles around cannibalisation of planes so that you can service and repair an ever dwindling number of aircraft. If it keeps going on for another year or two it's not going to be good

atyppo · 2 years ago

There’s a huge industry of leasing jet engines to avoid downtime since most shop time is spent waiting for engine repair. The lessors hot swap engines and avoid downtime for an entire jet just so an engine can get serviced. This is a perfectly normal practice in the aviation industry.

atyppo commented on FCC imposes record penalty against transnational illegal robocalling operation docs.fcc.gov/public/attac... · Posted by u/kimi

Waterluvian · 2 years ago

In that example, would the person not have just left a message, “Hi it’s Name, please call me back right away”?

I just don’t understand how we got to a place where the way things worked for decades suddenly doesn’t work anymore. We would leave our homes and not be reachable. Most urgent calls aren’t actually “emergencies.”

atyppo · 2 years ago

Your second point is very interesting to me as someone born in 2000 who's only really known a world where this is true. It seems so distant and novel from where we are today.

atyppo commented on Nvidia’s CEO Is the Uncle of AMD’s CEO en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/rlprompt

FirmwareBurner · 2 years ago

The wiki does a bad job of clarifying what the relationship is (wth does "first cousin once removed" even mean?). Here's a family tree:

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jensen-huang-and-lisa-su-f...

Still, I always loved how immigrants to the US always ended up in high level positions, starting or leading top US companies, something that never/rarely happens here in Europe where maintaining the status quo and the "natural order" gets priority at all cost.

atyppo · 2 years ago

I agree that it appears externally that immigrants to the US tend to succeed more than those to Europe, but what's the cause? Higher wages and a stronger economy certainly play a role, but I suspect there's more at play here. A more selective visa program? It's one I would argue is overly selective especially when considering that one can be born here to illegal immigrants and be a US citizen.

atyppo commented on Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet? · Posted by u/POCKET_SANDO

kunwon1 · 2 years ago

I have worked professionally with access control and surveillance. I can give you two manufacturer recommendations: Axis and Geovision.

Axis cameras are high end and expensive, but they will, in my experience, do anything an IP camera could reasonably be expected to do, and they will do it well. They are European in origin and are available from various retail outlets to ship this week.

Geovision cameras are low end and not expensive. They are Taiwanese in origin and are pretty easy to find.

I have personally configured a wide range of cameras from both of these manufacturers and I have never needed an app or internet connectivity. It's been a few years since I looked at Geovision's product lineup though, my information is not 100% current. I don't have any specific camera recommendations. If I were setting up a home NVR today, I would buy Geovision cameras and put them on an isolated network.

Both of these manufacturers are nominally ONVIF compliant (ONVIF compliance is a mixed bag and can't be fully trusted from any manufacturer IMO) and have readily accessible RTSP streams

atyppo · 2 years ago

Geovision has had a ton of security incidents. Perhaps they're easy to set up, but they definitely aren't secure.

atyppo commented on Goodbye, San Francisco yolken.net/blog/goodbye-s... · Posted by u/bhyolken

maerF0x0 · 3 years ago

> Thankfully, I escaped with only scrapes and bruises, but that was really upsetting for me, and I felt that it was only a matter of time before something worse happened.

Lately, with my observation that much of American life is getting much much worse. I often think about leaving America entirely, attempting to hold my breath a little longer to get what America most has to offer these days -- superior compensation/salary.

That being said I also have had a very minimal slice of living in America, for all I know there is some amazing pocket somewhere that I can have it all. But I have yet to find it in California or Texas.

atyppo · 3 years ago

Germany's new citizenship law looks extremely compelling. Moreover, they have a relatively easy visa system to navigate with straightforward immigration rules. There's a very useful subreddit with a very dedicated moderator. [1]

[1]: reddit.com/r/germancitizenship

atyppo commented on Why does nuclear power plant construction cost so much? progress.institute/nuclea... · Posted by u/scythe

arcticbull · 3 years ago

Listening to Jigar Shah, head of the DOE loans program, indicated part of the reason it's so expensive to build NPPs is that each nuclear power plant is a bespoke operation and requires a ton of custom work, planning and certification, etc. The suggestion he made was to create a basic design that you can just copy-paste where suitable, allowing you to leverage economics of scale. This would seem at least at first glance to align with the recommendations in the article.

[1] https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/jigar-shah-on-the-does...

atyppo · 3 years ago

I have no problem with this personally. But I fear that nuclear fearmongers would capitalize on this as a possible "worst-case scenario" if we tried to deploy such a plan. Is this thought misguided?

atyppo commented on Farming technologies tackle climate-change threats wsj.com/articles/climate-... · Posted by u/lxm

Ekaros · 3 years ago

I still don't get why vertical with all the support(probably concrete) needed versus just going with green houses. Maybe with semi-reflective surfaces.

atyppo · 3 years ago

Is all that much support needed? Maybe for crops grown on trees or something, but in videos I’ve seen about indoor farming [1], there hasn’t been much other than basic metal cages with containers spaced out.

[1]: https://youtu.be/gW-21CHDkIU