I wish inverter type microwaves were standard. The vast majority of residential microwave ovens only modulate on like a 10 second interval. So you put it on power setting 3 or 30 and it will pump out full power for 3 seconds then off for 7 seconds. This works for things like defrosting meat, but a bunch of foods will still start popping and drying out in those few seconds. Inverter microwaves modulate many times a second so they can warm much more fragile foods without searing them.

I’m surprised they have negative bouyancy with all that trapped air in their feathers.

If this is the test fit becoming a librarian, what feat do people complete to become a firefighter?

They said a used car, not a new car.

They still serve personalized ads in the podcasts. They aren’t baked in.

I don’t see the stock price not moving as evidence of the bubble collapsing.

In Q4 2025 only 5.5% of NVidia’s revenue came from gaming products. That’s revenue not profit, their other products have better margins than gaming. Also Nvidia already has 95% marketshare in gaming gpu’s. So for them to grow more, they would have to increase the number of people gaming on PC or get into desktop cpu’s or get a bunch of people paying a subscription for access to more profitable cloud services gpus.

Really I just see the stock price not reacting as an acknowledgement that nvidia and nvidia shareholders don’t care at all about desktop gpu’s. It’s a vestigial appendage to what is now an AI hardware and networking company.

I’m an animal, Greg, can you track me?

It’s not even just the price of a ship and cargo at risk. Lead times are around 2.8 to 3 yrs for crude tankers and around 3.5 yrs for LNG carriers. That’s a long time to not be able to conduct business even if insurance did pay out. It is 100% rational to sit out a few weeks to figure out how to resume operations safely rather than trying to sneak through and hope for the best.

Berger is President Pro Tempore of the NC Senate and is the highest ranking member of the NC GOP. This is like John Thune getting primaried and losing.

The install instructions for the clip on band has you cut the original pleather and foam off the band and peel away any adhesive. The irreversability of that made me nervous for no rational reason. So I opted for a cover similar to these ones from wicked cushions.

https://wickedcushions.com/products/sony-wh1000xm3-xm4-headband-cover

There also seems to be plenty of similar options on aliexpress.

It just zips on which is a suoer easy and quick install. I liked that I could just quickly try this before committing to a biggger repair. My only complaint is that the zipper pull dangles and that could be annoying. I used a dab of liquid electrical tape on where the pull meets the slider to prevent any rattling. An unexpected pro/con is that the silicone grips my hair more. That can be a slightly uncomfortable annoyance at times, but it does help the headphones stay in place better when laying down.

I already bought 3rd party replacement pads, but I’ll keep that trick in mind for the future.

Sony parts prices are insane. The urethane pleather on my headband started cracking on my xm4’s. A replacement headband was half the price of a new unit. So I ended up getting a silicone cover that will hopefully keep the pieces from flaking off into my hair. I also needed new earpads. Oem pads were around $40 for EACH side. The pleather just has a certain degradation time and once it hits, it all falls apart at the same time. Replacing all the pleather parts on my unit would have cost just as much as a new headset.

I hate having something designed to be somewhat repairable but practically speaking it isn’t due to pricing.

Thermal energy is primarily dissipated as infrared light which moves at the speed of light. There is no way for space to accumulate heat. If that were the case the entire solar system would be unlivable. The IR emitted by satellites is truly negligible in comparison to the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun.

The area of radiator needed directly corresponds to the amount of power harvested by the solar panels. It doesn’t matter what the load is. So a compute frame with the same amount of solar panels as the space station would need approximately the same radiatot area as the ISS, unless you are bringing nuclear power into the mix.

I agree that space based datacenters are a bad idea, but the thermals really are not the gotcha people are making them out to be.

Radiators in space work by radiating electromagnetic energy(light). Heat can only accumulate in matter, not in space, so that is definitely not one of the things we need to worry about.

With radiators just like with every existing satellite system.

https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI&t=12m57s

Very large scale datacenters would likely have some nasty fluid handling problems to solve.

I’ll just note that I am not a fan of putting internet infrastructure in space. I think polluting the upper atmosphere with a bunch of metals every time a satellite deorbits will certainly have negative consequences. So IMO space should be limited to things we can’t do with earthbound infrastructure.

That sounds similar to what would be called a “medical examiner” in the US.

I’ve thought about this quite a bit and really consider advertising to be a form of assault on attention. The presumption that companies are entitled to our attention without our consent feels like an attack on our own agency.

Before we get to banning advertising though we first need to figure out how to connect people to businesses that have goods and services they actually want to seek out. Word of mouth is great, but it’s insufficient. We need some sort of directory. The yellow pages were surprisingly functional, but some modern accessibility and ability to update info is needed. I think the 10,000 pound gorilla in this space is Google maps. However, alphabet is fundamentally an advertising company at this point and prioritizes selling ad placement over user experience. Could organic maps eventually serve as a searchable business directory? I’m not sure. I think any open source initiative would quickly be ruined if companies thought that rigging that system woild get them more customers.

Is a public option viable? I’m not sure. There’s a lot of equal access and gatekeeping concerns there. We shouldn’t allow obvious scams to be listed, but what’s the threshold and who makes that determination? Is someone’s Mary Kay mlm a legitimate business or scam? The potential for corruption is very high in an endeavor like this. Imagine if someone is buddies with an administrator and can get their competition completely delisted. Such an endeavor would likely face lots of litigation over claims of unfair treatment.

Many companies I think would be eager to stop paying for advertising if they had a means of connecting to customers that was effective and lower cost, but to achieve this, you’re literally trying to compete with the entirety of google/alphabet.

The link I included in my comment goes over driving one in recognizeable notes to play the nokia tune. It’s worth a read if this concept interests you.

https://www.labdarna.com/en/understanding-piezo-buzzers-how-they-work-and-how-to-use-them-in-electronics-projects

They use piezo buzzers which work differently to most speakers. I would guess that the units used in smoke alarms and microwaves generally have integrated drivers that only operate at a single frequency. However, it is possible to drive piezo discs at different frequencies. Their ouput will always approximate a sound square wave though, so don’t expect to be able to use them like a normal electrodynamic/ voice coil speaker to play arbitrary sounds.