True most motherboards, even the normal ones, now come with 2.5G included. But upgrading to 2.5 G feels like a wasted middle step if the next tier of external connectivity is at 10G, so I’ve not done that either haha

The price explosion? Yeah it has started for some of them. Anthropic seems to be the first.

It’s only more profitable if there isn’t competition. He lays it out quite well in his blog post. It’s not like the Swiss ISPs are all publicly owned.

Just for reference Init7 offers 25 Gbit/s for 65 CHF a month. Thats about 83 USD.

They have the same monthly price for 1 Gbit/s 10 Gbit/s and 25 Gbit/s. Only the initial install for the higher speed optics costs 77 CHF or 222 CHF more respectively.

I’m still on their 1Gbit/s service because I’m too lazy and cheap to replace my router and LAN with 10 Gbit/s equipment.

There’s no reason for that sort of planning, because AI can’t do shit. Especially not reliably and dependably. The CEOs who claim to have replaced people are lying. A price explosion for LLMs is also necessarily coming, because currently they are all burning through privat equity funds like a strawfire.

I think kids are always excited by new stuff, and if it’s big or complex stuff the excitement generally increases accordingly. Buses, trams, excavators, trains, planes, firetrucks, road rollers, cranes. And then as they get used to them the excitement either subsides, or it just keeps getting more and more specific.

So for a European kid who at some point starts traveling by train regularly, it either subsides quicker, or it has more of a chance to get specific, because they start noticing the differences between the trains they use, and possibly the tracks if they use multiple kinds. This eventually results in lots of train nerds among grown ups.

By the way, now I’m wondering, is the hobby of building and maintaining and running model trains on model tracks in a fixed installation at home common in the USA? I know at least three people who do that here in Switzerland, it’s not like sports or something, but for the large effort it still seems relatively common to me.

One colleague at work has all the train models ever used by Rhätische Bahn in his collection now. That’s a regional train company that only serves mountainous regions by way of narrow (1m) tracks in one corner of Switzerland, but it’s still a big collection.

Thanks for that link, that’s so cool. I know of otaku in general, but densha otaku are new to me.

By the way the perfect kiss, that’s referenced in the first paragraph there, looks like this:

I believe the error was in the AV1 license NOT having a “if you enforce patent-license-fees on this codec, THEN you can’t use this codec” type of coercion…

I thought those provisions were usually enforced among the members of a patent pool, to ensure that any licensing customer can trust in the pools word to not be shaken down a second time by an individual pool member later.

So since AM1 isn’t forming a patent pool to sell licenses, and Dolby isn’t part of the Alliance for Open Media, it wouldn’t really apply either way, no?

Oh wait, actually there is something like this, see point 1.3 here: https://aomedia.org/license/patent-license/

webm can contain VP8, VP9 or AV1 video streams. I guess if you mean webm with VP9 inside it could be one solution, though less efficient. Also Google donated VP9 and what they had for VP10 to the development efforts of of AV1, so if AV1 is found to be infringing it’s a negative signal for VP9 too…

Edit: Sorry I was a bit off-topic. I was thinking of the action that Dolby is currently taking against Snapchat for their AV1 use.

BRT on a separate lane. Also nice I guess :-)

I wonder how a city decides between BRT and trams, if they are going to build specific lanes anyway. Guess BRT is cheaper to build?

Oh boy I hope its electric buses with monstrous saws that form their path through congestion by cutting personal vehicles in half.

Holy shit that’s low. So to get even just 8 weeks you need to have worked there for 5 years. And this from a rich company.

I work for a small company of 150 people. I’ve got 3 months of notice period in my contract, though it’s going both ways. This protection started immediately after my trial period ended, which was also 3 months long. That’s considered normal here in Switzerland for office jobs. The minimum by law after your first year of employment would be 2 months.

Just for reference, in the European context the Swiss labour laws are considered quite weak. Market liberalism is comparatively strong here.

That’s not what they said in the quote in the article.

“Per the Plan, you are eligible for Enhanced severance pay benefits of: four weeks of base salary for your first year of employment, plus one week’s salary for each additional year of employment, based on your most recent hire date, up to a combined maximum of 26 weeks of base salary.”

I remember editing the hosts file to prevent an online license check after applying a crack for Adobe back when I was a child. Seems Adobe decided it is payback time lol.

We use rack mounted LiFePO for some of our network nodes that don’t have local facility provided UPS. But I do notice Lead Acid often as I visit various small datacenters. My guess would be that Lithium is still more niche

Yea there is a lot of bad translations out there including movie subtitles. Here in Switzerland they usually have double subtitles in the cinema if you want to watch the original dub. So you can be annoyed at both the French and German translations at the same time.

Games and Websites tend to be worse though. Yesterday I followed a link to a Heise article, and linked was the English version. It was genuinley hard to grasph in some paragraphs. Switching to German made it much clearer. Not because I understand German better, my grasp of English is good. It was because the English writing was just bad, and didn’t convey the original intent of the German version.

Most often it’s not that the translations are wrong in content, but just contain very unnatural use of the target language.

That the various new and inventive grid scale energy storage solutions people are trying out won’t end up being better than just building big chemical batteries. Sodium Ion will probably be good enough and cheap enough.

If I had driven a truck, tgere would’ve been laws for me to drive normal hours. This was a cowboy job.

This year the EU rules on driving times and rest times start applying to delivery vans too. I guess the sort of time abuse you experienced was quite common.

I’m not sure the janitor would encounter those less than the radio operator…

Whoops that version was slightly out of date… by 5¾ years.

But I can now confirm it’s still in there in modern versions