On the other hand: it's nice to see the march of pixel density increasing which makes this problem go away entirely.

I used an LG C2 42" as a monitor for a few years. The color fringing was particularly bad for me because I like yellow text and LG uses RWBG. 4K 42" and 1440p 27" are about 110 DPI. This is not enough. 4K 27" is about 160 DPI. That is enough. We've already pushed past needing to care about subpixel layouts if you properly weight pixel density in your selection.

The president said the reason we toppled Venezuela was for oil. We're past false pretenses. His apparatus still comes up with the false pretenses, but it seems like it's more out of habit and stemming revolution more than acting on the president's behalf.

Almost feels like they're not paying their fair share to the society that made them.

This is the the underlying reason why AI is unpopular. In a vacuum the tech is neat, but if you change the names and ignore all merit then this looks like a hostile takeover.

This is excellent. I hope the market rewards them. Do manual transmissions next.

This is also a minor thing, but I also long for galvometer-based speedometers and tachometers. They're charming. You can keep the screens in the cluster, but just give me a mechanical dial and show me the engine RPM at all times even if it's a PHEV.

As someone looking for an automatic why do you want them to make more manuals? Or was it sarcasm?

I'm not a "for the love of the drive" type of fellow, especially after living with an older 6-speed manual for many years, so I'm curious where the enthusiasm for manual comes from.

It comes from the love of the drive. Driving automatics and CVTs is simply a chore, but driving a manual is an activity. It's fun and engaging. It's an activity that requires coordination and gives control.

And, importantly, it's going away. Nearly no vehicles sold in the US are manual because it would be such a small market that it wouldn't be profitable to support it. I don't understand why Corvettes and BMWs don't offer manuals. Are they trying to offer engaging driver's cars or not?

That's why I was happy to see Kria on the supported hardware list: it's a SoM priced for mortals. I'm not going to run out and kit every one of my personal networked boxes with these, but at least it makes playing with one reasonable to consider.

Good electrical conductors are also good thermal conductors. It's a fun system challenge to minimize what needs to be hot, but some things will have to get hot. It could be reduced to a photodiode, transistor, and a relay.

But how do you get the power to the heater in a compact way?

One notable exception to this is superconductors. One might naively think that because superconductors have zero electrical resistance, they also have zero thermal resistance. But this is wrong (sorry, Larry Niven)! The superconducting charge carriers (Cooper Pairs) have zero entropy, so they can't carry heat. Thermal conductivity of a superconducting material drops when it becomes superconductive.

I believe high Tc superconductors have been used (or at least proposed to be used) as current leads for carrying current into low Tc superconductors from somewhat higher temperature normal conductors.

Diamond is my favorite exception to this, one of the best thermal conductor and insulators.

Boron nitride too. I guess the thermal vibrations transmit well through a stiff microstructure.

Do gravity-based defects outweigh displacement defects from fast particles?

Also, there are large headwinds from having to ship up a large quantity of raw material and have to deorbit a payload so fragile that any amount of shock is unacceptable. Maybe a high purity silicon boule pays for these headwinds with room for profit on top. I'm skeptical, but time will tell.

It would be pretty easy for them to have done the math in advance and I’m sure they’re aware that space travel is expensive.

I'm sure they've done the maths and determined that it's not economically feasible at all.

But if it works as a proof of concept, in three or four generations time perhaps they'll have a scalable process which pays for itself.

This exactly. At scale there are a lot of things that are profitable that are idiotic when done Ad Hoc. To get to scale though you need a particular kind of bullshitter who can hold on to the idea that what they say is true and also on some level understand that they have to idea how to do the bullshit they're promoting.

IPv6 eliminates the possibility of proxies / VPNs. Being tracked simply by IP becomes non-optional.

This is factually wrong. I have a VPN between my VPC and my house so services can communicate securely without configuring each one separately with TLS.

Wat?

It, um. No, it doesn't do that. You can use proxies and VPNs in v6, and you're about as trackable by IP as you are on v4.

Name one VPN service that supports IPv6. Perhaps the most existential reason IPv6 was invented was to make proxies obsolete.

Either you use address translation or you don't.

VPNs as a technology, gre/ipsec and wireguard. I assume others.

VPNs as a youtube sold service. Mullvad/mozillavpn for one

I get an IP of fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1 and it uses NAT66 to place me in New York despite being in the UK

  1.|-- fc00:bbbb:bbbb:bb01::1                                                        0.0%    10   78.6  80.2  78.6  82.0   1.2
  2.|-- 2607:9000:a000:34::1                                                          0.0%    10   80.1  80.3  79.3  81.2   0.7
  3.|-- ???                                                                          100.0    10    0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0
  4.|-- 2607:f740:70:101::1                                                           0.0%    10   82.2  83.9  79.8 104.3   7.2
  5.|-- 2001:550:2:d::4a:1                                                           90.0%    10   80.1  80.1  80.1  80.1   0.0
  6.|-- be3448.agr22.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (2001:550:0:1000::9a36:1a9)            60.0%    10   80.4  81.0  79.2  82.9   1.5

and on

Proton VPN?

And no, proxies were either never obsoleted or they were obsoleted by routing. Nothing to do with v6.

My bar for "support" is higher than "linux only and you need IPv4 to initialize".

https://protonvpn.com/support/prevent-ipv6-vpn-leaks

That's a valid criticism of Proton VPN, but if it works even just on Linux it's sufficient to demonstrate that v6 doesn't eliminate the possibility of VPNs.

I used to like the idea of an IPv4 replacement, but I've come around.

A large number of my devices and websites I visit use IPv6. Its success has highlighted the fact that I don't want it. Just today I disabled IPv6 on my router because I suspect it as a vector for tracking.

IPv6 offers nothing of value to the user. It might as well be shelved forever.