Great book on the early industry:
https://www.amazon.com/Makers-Microchip-Documentary-Fairchil...
Readit Newspayne92 commented on Ask HN: What books are recommended to learn the semiconductor industry? · Posted by u/allie1
This is true in many, many places: as zoning, safety, access, and environmental rules evolve most older buildings become not buildable under current rules.
Our national housing stock is FULL of places with narrow winding stairs, lead paint, full flow toilets and shower heads, untempered glass, single pane windows, uninsulated walls or ceilings, ungrounded outlets, undersized plumbing, sketchy chimneys, springy floors, etc.
I'm surprised the number isn't closer to 80-90%, especially with the recent energy efficiency rules.
payne92 commented on Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? krebsonsecurity.com/2021/... · Posted by u/parsecs
Security is relative, NOT absolute.
Involving SMS in the authentication process raises the bar significantly for script kiddie attacks using password databases. It also forces a larger and more detailed forensic trail for any attack.
How can a currency that is so volatile be used for actually buying and selling stuff? If you were going to put your car up for sale today and you had to set a price in bitcoin how could you possibly choose a number? Will bitcoin ever settle down to a stable currency?
You advertise the price in the fiat currency you want.
Bitcoin is only used in transit.
Building something useful on something that is primarily used as highly volatile financial speculation instrument always rubbed me the wrong way. The whole crypto scene is just about making quick dough with a technology, that for some reason remains hyped through and wrapped in mysticism.
Face it, there is no sexy killer app for the masses. Wait. There is one: Crypto trading to... make quick dough. And the cryptonerds seeing the high trade volume then go and call this a success of crypto. lol
There is a killer app for crypto: international money laundering and untraceable transfers.
payne92 commented on Why blockchain is not yet working (2018) as1ndu.xyz/2018/05/why-bl... · Posted by u/max_
I think the #1 reason blockchain doesn't work is very simple - the technology is broken beyond fixability. This article is two years old, but the same variations of these excuses always come up when the crypto ideologues are grilled on why their utopiaic vision hasn't come about, for all of blockchain's existence. Blockchain is awful for most things compared to a centralized or distributed database: it is inefficient, untrustworthy due to decentralization, a huge resource hog, and morbidly complex to implement.
The only good use cases that come to mind is if there is some particular reason for you to evade the conventional and easier systems of communication and storage. The lesson is: you should evaluate technology on its merits, not its politics. Three classic sources on the blockchain question immediately come to mind:
http://doyouneedablockchain.com/
My personal favorite:
> "The only good use cases that come to mind is if there is some particular reason for you to evade the conventional and easier systems of communication and storage."
* Nailed it *
I've long said the killer app for blockchain already exists: international money laundering and untraceable transfers.
This also happens to be the precise use case where folks want to "evade conventional and easier systems".
payne92 commented on 25 Years In Speech Technology and I still don’t talk to my computer matthewkaras.medium.com/2... · Posted by u/samizdis
This is a great example of "it's not my preferred mode, so it must not be anyone else's."
Dictation is widely used in medical transcription.
Dictation is a killer way to write a first draft quickly, transcribe rough written notes after a meeting, etc. Also, about half of my emails are dictated, and I know I'm not the only one. It takes some time to get used to, but once you're there (like touch typing!), you can't go back.
..etc..
The 620n and 635n EIO cards support Bonjour: https://h10057.www1.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provision... and
http://www.hp.com/ecomcat/hpcatalog/specs/provisioner/99/J79...
Awesome, thanks! I didn't realize that the newer EIO cards were so backward compatible.
See about replacing the network card on the printer, or updating its firmware. Newer firmwares frequently support Bonjour, and have various security updates.
Replaceable NIC in printers are pretty great, especially when you can buy them for 1/10th of original cost on the used market.
They stopped manufacturing the HP LaserJet 4000 over 21 years ago, and the jetdirect EIO network card (J3111A) not long after that.
If there is a newer network card or firmware that supports this printer, I’d love to hear about it.
Utilities (generally) have a universal service obligation.
If someone can cherry-pick just the denser areas with lower distribution costs, of course they could "undercut" the utility with the requirement to serve everyone.
(I'm not saying that PG&E couldn't be better managed. I'm saying that there's a much, much deeper policy issue at stake here.)