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silotis commented on Pixel 10 Phones blog.google/products/pixe... · Posted by u/gotmedium

zamadatix · 5 days ago

It's interesting how this type of feedback always comes up for phones yet smaller phones have an extremely hard time actually selling enough units to justify making more of them. It seems part of it may be folks remaining in this group seem much more willing to stick with old devices anyways, helping drive less priority for small sizes on top of already being a smaller market segment. Perhaps there are some other big factors beyond those two things too.

silotis · 5 days ago

The problem is for many years now the smallest phone available has been getting larger and larger. This has lead small phone enthusiasts to cling to their old phones as long as they can stand it until they are forced to step to a larger model.

silotis commented on I tried living on IPv6 for a day xda-developers.com/the-in... · Posted by u/speckx

ghusto · 23 days ago

What are the advantages of IPv6 if I don't want direct routing (NAT is a feature for me, not a workaround)?

silotis · 23 days ago

If your ISP issues you a routable IPv4 address then not much. Otherwise IPv6 lets you avoid CGNAT and all of the issues that come with that.

silotis commented on Fast catherinejue.com/fast... · Posted by u/gaplong

joshvm · a month ago

For ACH, it's the scheduling and batching that makes it slow. The transfer itself should be instant but often my bank sends it out around midnight. This is why Venmo and Zelle are so popular. You can also modify/cancel a bank transfer before it goes through, which is nice.

This is the same in Switzerland. If you request an IBAN transfer, it's never instant. The solution there for fast payments is called TWINT, which works at almost POS terminal (you take a picture of the displayed QR code).

I think BACS is similarly "slow" due to the settlement process.

silotis · a month ago

These days ACH settlement runs multiple times a day. The biggest source of delay for ACH transfers is your bank delaying release of the funds for risk management. ACH transfers can be reversed even after they have "settled" and if the receiving bank has already disbursed the funds then they have to eat the cost of reimbursing the sender. Reversals are more likely to happen soon after the transfer completes, so delaying release of the funds makes it less likely the bank will be left holding the bag.

silotis commented on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance glp1digest.com/p/how-glp-... · Posted by u/alexslobodnik

massung · a month ago

I don’t know if your topic switch was intentional - if so, my apologies and this is just for people outside the US who don’t know…

The article is about life insurance, which is very different from medical insurance.

Medical insurance companies often already go out of their way to pay early to save in the long run (e.g. free preventative care, checkups, etc.). I can’t speak to GLP-1s, but it’s possible that right now there are still active patents when used for obesity that make them crazy expensive for a few more years.

Life insurance is all about models and predictions about when you’re going to die. Any sudden change that massively impacts those models suck, because life insurers are basically gamblers with gobs of historical data they use to hedge their bets.

silotis · a month ago

> Medical insurance companies often already go out of their way to pay early to save in the long run

Literally LOLed when I read this. Health insurance companies might pay lip service to this and make some token gestures like free preventative care, but in my experience health insurance companies frequently shoot themselves in the foot by denying care that later ends up costing them even more when the patient's untreated condition worsens.

silotis commented on Windows 10 EOL solhsa.com/oldernews2025.... · Posted by u/zdw

CursedSilicon · 2 months ago

>Instead, they made some arbitrary reason to deprecate "old" hardware

The criteria was based on hardware mitigation support for Meltdown and Spectre patches. Because at the time those vulnerabilities could be exploited by executing malicious javascript in a browser to steal passwords

silotis · 2 months ago

> Because at the time those vulnerabilities could be exploited by executing malicious javascript in a browser to steal passwords

"could be" is doing a lot of work here. AFAIK there has never been a PoC or active exploit which actually exfiltrates sensitive data from a browser using these vulnerabilities. Anyways, browsers have long since implemented software mitigations.

IIRC the real criteria for W11 support has to do with TPMs. Microsoft really wants to have secure boot on all Windows systems.

silotis commented on Being fat is a trap federicopereiro.com/fat-t... · Posted by u/swah

wiseowise · 3 months ago

> I have extremely lucky genes and have managed to stay just within the green BMI range despite eating all the carbs and fats you can imagine and at times consuming 200-300g of milk chocolate a day.

You’d be surprised just how little you eat. I’m also like that, thinking that I eat shitton and don’t get fat at all while my friends can’t lose 5 kilo. When I’ve started counting, even with all the junk food, I’ve been barely pushing above 1,5k.

silotis · 3 months ago

Yep. I have IBD and have to track calories to keep my intake _up_. It's shocking how much food you have to eat to get much more than 2k a day.

silotis commented on Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a bus grist.org/transportation/... · Posted by u/Improvement

mentalpiracy · 3 months ago

public transportation is a service, a public utility, not a business. it should not need to be profitable, and framing it terms of profit at all is wrong imo.

silotis · 3 months ago

It doesn't need to be a cash cow (and probably shouldn't be), but public transit should be able to break even because that is the only reliable signal that a service is providing enough value to justify its cost.

silotis commented on The Academic Pipeline Stall: Why Industry Must Stand for Academia sigarch.org/the-academic-... · Posted by u/MaysonL

jasonhong · 3 months ago

This post is a great example of whataboutism and distracting people from the big picture: science funding works and has led to a large number of innovations that many of us here on HN use every day.

The original article talks about several of these, including RISC, out-of-order execution, speculative prefetching, vector processing, GPGPU, and multicore.

It's easy to cherry pick and find things that you might personally disagree with. That's true with any system created by us humans. That doesn't mean that you should burn the whole thing down, which is what this administration is doing.

I feel like I've been making the same post over and over on threads like these. NSF-funded research has led to innovations like the above, as well as multibillion dollar companies like Google, Databricks, Duolingo, and more (and that's just in computer science). NSF-funded research has had an incredible Return on Investment in terms of jobs, economic growth, and national security. It took generations to build the American scientific enterprise, and the system has worked incredibly well as is. It's incredibly short-sighted and a massive self-own to destroy something that has advanced the USA and the world so much.

silotis · 3 months ago

Did you look at the linked list? This is the opposite of cherry picking, nearly 100% of these grants are absurd.

silotis commented on Not a three-year-old chimney sweep (2022) fakehistoryhunter.net/202... · Posted by u/nixass

sethammons · 3 months ago

I am not remotely aware of this case. How does those words, or any words, on a gun case/cover relate to mental health issues? This isn't a manifesto; it is more like "guard dog? Beware of owner!" decal, or a Calvin pissing on a coexist sticker. Or truck nuts. These might be distasteful to some but is unrelated to mental health. I'd be more worried about my former neighbor who had an unhealthy love of maglite flashlights and owned like 50 of 'em. _That_ was strange.

silotis · 3 months ago

The "you're fucked" was written on the inside of the ejection port dust cover so that it would become visible after the weapon was fired. The implication is that he was eager to shoot someone.