One of the big things this article fails to mention is that TDP/heat budget is way more of a constraint than number of transistors - at small feature size, silicon is (relatively) cheap, power isn't.
There's no way you can use 100% of your CPU - it would instantly overheat. So it suddenly makes even more sense to have optimised hardware units for all sorts of processes (h264 encoding, crypto etc) if you can do a task any more efficiently than basic logic.
There's a couple of factors at play here. One is that AC suffers from capacitive losses over long distances (high power multi-megawatt underground/undersea cables are often HVDC for this and other reasons).
The other more interesting one is that the repeaters in this kind of fibre optic cable are usually powered from both ends, from completely separate electrical grids (so one side sends -5000V and the other sends +5000V, for example). This allows for some level of redundancy as well as thinner insulation. With AC, keeping the phases on both sides aligned would be impractical, as well as the inherent inefficiencies of AC transmission.
Not sure why AI agents wouldn't also be connected to an ad platform eventually. Google does this currently.
While the author says that they are bypassing Google, that's not most people, and Google's results are front-loaded with AI answers, so Google results are already giving you specific answers, hallucinations and all. Not sure why average users would long-term switch to not-Google if Google can give them the amount of AI assistance that want or don't want.
Has anyone managed the opposite feat, i.e. made a piece of hardware that can recognise an iPhone over NFC? I'm trying to design control system that relies on you touching your phone to various hardware readers (with some kind of unchanging key/identity), but off-the-shelf MFRC522 etc don't seem to work, and the 'official' Apple way requires an NDA...
And iOS as well as iPadOS now also support USB smart card readers. iPads can actually use them to access NFC FIDO tokens. (Why iPads don't have native NFC is completely beyond me, there are so many obvious use cases for it)
> And iOS as well as iPadOS now also support USB smart card readers.
Oh, that's very cool!
Apple seems to silently be implementing more and more features to make iOS/macOS a full-fledged smart card OS; I've also noticed that FIDO over CCID is now available natively on macOS, and by extension in Firefox and Safari via WebAuthN (which finally lets me use my smartcard form factor FIDO authenticator).
I think you're supposed to make a "Pass", load it on Wallet app, then load the card with double press of side button. You can't just tap a blank iPhone and get its raw hardware ID.
At least Suica train cards(based on FeliCa/NFC-F) on iOS can be read from third party Android apps, and Apple do advertise iPhone feature to store corporate IDs, so the idea of using iPhone for gate tap-in card should be completely fine.
Without getting into the weeds of programming for the secure element (some non-EEA markets only, NDAs, tons of certifications etc.) or restricting yourself to HCE (available only in the EEA), you could also "flip the model around":
ISO 14443 reader access has been available globally, so if you're fine with having to open an app before an interaction with a reader, you could have the reader perform card emulation, and the phone "read/write" it like a tag, i.e. send APDUs which the device behind it then interprets.
Is hyperfocus a state you want to avoid? In my experience I spend most of my time (as a developer) hoping/trying to induce hyperfocus as that's when I get most productive work done...
I fairly regularly hyperfocus on something that isn't the thing I should really be hyperfocusing on and end up spending hours fleshing out a less-than-supremely valuable idea without meaning to. Hyperfocus in the wrong direction can be a real problem!
Yeah, in Europe it's pretty standard to extract wisdom teeth under local anaesthesia only (and perhaps mild sedation). You're pretty lucid throughout.
As a (former) neuroscientist I'm a lot more terrified about going under general anaesthesia with the risks and the long-lasting cognitive changes that sometimes occur afterwards!
That said it's pretty fun to watch all those videos of Americans with all the symptoms described in the article after going to the dentist...
Why? General anaesthetic is fun! The last time I was under for 6 hours. For a few days afterwards I saw the most incredibly interesting, detailed persistent hallucinations whenever I closed my eyes. They completely vanished when I opened them.
As someone who's had several of these artist visas in the past... especially when you're a small band with limited budget and need to get several of these - this is going to be cost-prohibitive for a lot of smaller artists.
FWIW, a lot of countries, including Canada / Australia etc allow artists who perform under a normal tourist visa which is essentially easy and free for much of the Western world. It always amazes me that I can perform in Canada by just flying over but I need to spend $1000+, hand in my passport for a week, go for an interview and wait several months just to do one show in the US.
To be fair. Canada is stringent about Americans coming over the border and teaching anything, even in a non-professional capacity, without a work visa.
I drove into Canada with a friend a few years ago. The border agent asked if we had any guns with us; fair, I expect that. I expected she would then ask to search our car, but she didn't. Instead we started getting grilled about which guns we owned at home, how long we owned them, why we owned them. I owned none so my answers were easy but she was asking very pointed questions to my friend who felt compelled to be honest by a suspicious that she had access to some databases and would know if he was lying. After about 30 minutes of this we were allowed to enter, without the car being searched. Utterly bizarre. My best guess is she just felt like harassing somebody.
We got extorted out of $300 to cross the border for three days over a just barely over the limit DUI my wife had something like 10 years ago. Funny thing is, neither of us drink now and wouldn’t be driving anyhow, so it would have been impossible for us to drive drunk. Victoria was nice but we won’t be back.
European lad who've traveled to the various places in US and Canada for both business and leisure. Customs officers were never rude or similar to me in Canada, but Miami airport (KMIA) probably had the worst customer facing employees I've ever encountered in an airport, loud, rude and unhelpful. Asked for directions and got told I should learn how to search for information myself...
Miami is something else. I had an officer threaten to deport me because I answered his question "do you have alcohol with you?" with "no, but I have some in my check-in luggage", which was apparently a great show of disrespect. The actual dictatorships and enemy countries I've been to had friendlier welcomes. Baffling.
They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.
That's the theory yet we had so much immigration that the pro unfettered immigration prime minister¹ was forced to acknowledge that is a significant factor in the current housing crisis afflicting Canada. The federal accept immigrants faster than the GDP can raise, so the GDP per capita of Canada has shrunk². Yet the immigration minister is on record saying that the solution to temporary immigrants overstaying their visa is to make them permanent residents³.
1- He is a member of the https://centuryinitiative.ca , a group that want to see Canada having a population of 100 millions in 2100. And the only way it's possible is by having unsustainable immigration.
At a 1.5% fertility rate [0], what's the alternative?
It's fair to gripe about the effects of immigration, and policies to handle those, but it's disingenuous to gripe about immigration as a policy in a <2+ country.
Demographics is a zero sum game. Either you have a growing population and smooth age brackets or Very Bad Things happen.
>They have to be to preserve their culture. The us population vastly outnumbers them and most of populated Canada is within a couple hours drive from the US. If there wasn't a strong border they'd end up being assimilated quickly.
You seem to be under the impression that hordes of Americans are gathered at the 49th parallel slavering to rush into Canada, and that only Canadian border patrol is preventing Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver from being overrun by Americans. Quite the opposite.
As frustrating as the US visa system is, large numbers of people are still applying for visas which is funding USCIS. Until either the numbers drop, or congress changes how USCIS is funded, I unfortunately think this is not going to change.
I don't think this is quite what's happening here. Overall USCIS is funded by fees, but operates a system in which some kinds of applicants subsidize other kinds of applicants. So, applications for asylum are free to make even though they cost USCIS a lot to adjudicate. To make up for this, USCIS charges extra for applications in other categories, like employment-based visas.
I'm not sure what exactly is happening in this case, but by saying "Because the US can’t seem to get a handle on its borders" the article author seems to be claiming that artist visa fees are subsidizing asylum claim applications.
I'm glad you love your career! I found myself getting increasingly unfit, sad, daylight-deprived and in need of doing something - anything! - else that involved me moving my body. (Bandaids like a standing desk or regular breaks or gym work or a SAD lamp couldn't really detract from the fact I was spending 8 hours a day (the brightest daylight hours too!), in the prime of my life, cooped up at a desk. After a career in live sound, I now design and install high-end A/V hardware and I love it.
my understanding of most blue collar jobs is the first 5-15 years are great, but as your body starts to break down, you physically can't do it any more.
My first 3-4 years were meh in terms of income, but great in terms of fun (could hack long hours, and I got excited for every little thing). My next 5 years were great in terms of income, and meh in terms of fun (I just wanted to get paid and leave at 5pm). Nowadays, the money is still good so it’s hard to give up, I don’t like software engineering (doing software with a team, with deadlines, with oncall, with managers, etc) anymore. I still love doing side projects.
There's no way you can use 100% of your CPU - it would instantly overheat. So it suddenly makes even more sense to have optimised hardware units for all sorts of processes (h264 encoding, crypto etc) if you can do a task any more efficiently than basic logic.
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