I was about to remark how this data backs up the events we’ve been watching unfold in America recently

Was just thinking this

A single LiDAR sensor prevents this kind of issue

Big thanks for providing this extra context, that made it a lot clearer for me

I’ve not really touched radio stuff in a long while now but here’s my attempt.

Single sideband (SSB) is a radio transmission technique for sending audio (often voice, but many data modes use SSB too) whilst being pretty efficient with the use of radio spectrum. Think like FM and AM modes on a consumer radio, except those approaches take up a bit more bandwidth compared to SSB, so you can’t pack as many stations into a radio band without interference.

And this is where I might be completely off the mark, but this novel approach is interesting compared to the more conventional approaches due to the reduction in the complexity of the components needed to do this and a reduction of waste power. As the other approaches involved essentially generating a double sideband signal (I can’t remember what the technical term is, but part of me thinks this might be standard AM) and filtering out the (typically) lower mirror band.

Not really in a situation where I can watch a video without potentially annoying someone right now, but

A municipal mesh network isn’t a bad idea, but I worry about what security measures are in place, effectively securing a wireless network with hundreds of independent stations feels like it wouldn’t be trivial.

And surely this will need a WAN gateway to the internet somewhere, so it’ll only be as reliable as the route to that uplink.

This might have all been addressed in the video though, I’ll see if I can find an article about it.

The linked article is a jargon festival, but that’s to be expected given the topic. I still found it pretty interesting despite not fully understanding it

Is it actually missing the engine? That looked like it was there when I skimmed a couple of the repos

Missing assets is pretty common when they open source commercial games, the rights of the art is often more complicated than just doing the game code.

Why? If they’ve not done anything wrong, they’ve got nothing to hide

I don’t think I’ll be renewing

It’s desert island discs? It’s a show where a radio DJ asks what music someone would be marooned on an island with.

There’s no journalist involved in the conversation

Is there an extension of Betteridge’s law of headlines for tech blogs?

If the title of a tech blog poses a problem, the solution is “the product I work on/sell”

PhysX has just been a CUDA application for a long time, there’s not been a dedicated PPU on any card in a very long time

Welp here’s hoping something pops up to replace gravity sync soon, can’t really upgrade until it does.

I just found https://github.com/mattwebbio/orbital-sync but it’s not apparent if it’s compatible with v6 yet

This is just one of many reasons, for example

The FAA head pushed out by Musk before all the planes started crashing had fairly recently fined spaceX for safety issues.

It’s just pettiness and entitlement. He’s going after everyone who has ever said no to him.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/14/youngsters_in_foss/

Read this a few days ago and it feels pretty relevant here.

I bet you can run 10base2 over it

Further evidence that a Republican government in the USA results in private organisations pushing the bar as far as they can.

In Reagan’s time it was Wall Street. Now it’s Silicon Valley.

You want private organisations working for your benefit and not that of their shareholders? You need a government that actually has the gumption to challenge them. The current US government is 4 years of a surrender flag flying on the white house.

Or we could bin off this fucking failed neoliberal experiment, but that’s apparently a bit controversial for far too many people

Yeah that was kinda my point

Well, that’s kind of intuitively true in perpetuity

An effective gate for AI becomes a focus of optimisation

Any effective gate with a motivation to pass will become ineffective after a time, on some level it’s ultimately the classic “gotta be right every time Vs gotta be right once” dichotomy—certainty doesn’t exist.

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn’t even aware of the problem