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I've seen this linked before, and unfortunately the specs are very mediocre on their TVs. I don't know how they can claim a TV is HDR when it has a meh contrast ratio, no dimming zones, and can't even do 100% of the sRGB color space.

I don't know how much of the price of other TVs are subsidized by ads, but these Sceptre TVs are pretty bad value when looking at panel specs alone.

Chances are they'll have some antenna line going to the edge of the TV. The box on the back of the TV already has a bunch of shielding over it inside. If you were to go to the trouble of opening the TV to find it, you may as well disconnect the antenna and ground it so there's no chance of a signal.

The US specifically does spend tax money on foreign aid (or at least they used to). I have no problem with that. If you're struggling to get by, then you should be paying effectively no taxes. If that's not the case, then we should be fixing that, not cutting funding to things that make the world better.

As for the fee suggestion, a library does not charge for entry or for every book. There is a "free tier" that everyone can use as long as you return the books on time. You only charge the people making too many requests to make sure the service stays available to everyone.

If it has value to a larger community, the larger community should be able to fund its operation.

Up until very recently it seemed perfectly reasonable to fund this sort of thing with taxes, because it benefits everyone even if they're not directly using the database. An open source developer probably isn't going to pay to look up vulnerabilities in the open source dependencies they use, so the database being free makes software more secure on average.

What is wrong with having free public services? If someone is abusing it, block them, or charge fees like a library.

It's been common for a while for Canadian doctors to move to the US because they can make higher salaries. I suspect part of the shortage is "brain drain", but also, COVID news coverage has really highlighted the working conditions to the public, so that could be making potential students reconsider.

For NASA, data types don't matter when you're programming Voyager 1 and 45 years later it gets hit by an energy burst causing 3% of the RAM to become unusable, and it's transmitting gibberish. It's awesome they were able to recover it.

This still isn't specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.

The problem with this argument is it's preventing infrastructure improvements for everyone else who CAN bike/walk/take the train/bus/whatever.
I don't bike because it's just not safe to do in my area due to car traffic and a lack of bike infrastructure. I would bike and take public transit more if I could.
The maybe 20% of people who are disabled or have other reasons to need a car (like moving large items) can continue using the now much less congested roads, while the rest of people are on alternative transportation.

Personally I think Toronto should focus on finishing their damn light rail expansions instead of proposing a giant new tunnel for cars under the city that will cost billions and solve nothing.

Based on some rough calculations... no. A precision of 0.0000000000001 ohms is 1000x less than the resistance of 1um of copper with a diameter of 1cm (A piece of wire 10,000x wider than it is long). I'm sure a few molecules of air between your contact points would cause more noise in the measurement.

This is exactly how high precision resistors are calibrated. A laser is usually used to notch out bits of the resistor to tune it after it's made.

You could get exactly 6.1854838709677 for an instantaneous moment by heating up a 6ohm resistor.

What the "middle class" can afford has changed quite a bit in the last few decades. Owning a home is arguably "upper class" at this point. The median US income was only $80k in 2023. Pentions are also getting increasingly rare. What used to be considered middle class is now struggling to get by. Middle class is defined by the income of the middle third of the population, not by a particular lifestyle.

Idk, I kind of like knowing how many layers of clothes I need to put on before I leave the house. Especially when the wind chill can make it feel like another -10°C pretty easily.

I agree with this, but I don't think we'll ever be able to have that again. AI slop is drowning out all the genuine content regardless of monetization. What's the incentive to put hours of effort into something if nobody will ever see it because every hour another 1000 AI versions were generated and they're all "close enough" to fool someone not paying attention?

I'm not sure Sam Altman even knows what labor is.

I've seen pretty much the same thing happening in the programming space. In another 10 years there's going to be a massive shortage of senior programmers who are capable of doing anything more complicated than the AI, and able to sort out the messes everyone's creating with it.

All the companies not wanting to hire entry level programmers right now is also a big problem for those starting now. I can only hope companies realize AI is not a replacement for a human's learning ability.

Better content?
Lol
Lmao even.

I think they've got 1 person watching dozens of cars though, it's not 1 per car like if there was human drivers.

It's easy to think of libraries as evil if they've never stepped foot in one.