The point is that, your "investment" was pure gambling. See how I can replace bitcoin with lottery ticket.
> I am going to buy $1000 in lottery tickets one time and leave it alone because there seems to be some potential here.
> I made the choice basically saying OK this $1000 I am putting in will either be worthless in 10 hours or it will be worth a lot.
But it's more than just a binary. Do you not think that the chance that bitcoin blew up big was more or less than my chance at winning a million on a $1000 lottery gamble?
I bought bitcoin because I perceived more potential around blockchain tech becoming either useful or at least drawing hype to explode the value. I wouldn't buy a lottery ticket because the odds of winning are astronomically low. I perceived there to be a far greater chance in bitcoin blowing up than winning the lottery, or even winning big at a casino.
Do you think I really over-estimated bitcoin's odds early on? At least with blockchain there were some potential real-world possibilities to it and that was a big factor in my choice to gamble on it. Is that kind of thought not at least somewhat more sound than buying a simple lottery ticket? To me it was.
Maybe the EU shouldn’t have transformed themselves into US vassals then.
Nobody respects weakness, not even an ally. Ironically showing a spine and decoupling from the US on some topics would have hurt more short term, but would have been healthier in the long term.
>Maybe the EU shouldn’t have transformed themselves into US vassals then.
I share the same opinion. If you're (on paper) the biggest economic block in the world, but you can be so easily bullied, then you've already failed >20 years ago.
But I don't think it was bullying, but the other way around. EU countries were just buying favoritism for US military protection, because it was still way cheaper than ripping the bandaid and building its own domestic military industry of similar power and scale.
Most defense spending uses the same motivation. You're not seeking to buying the best or cheapest hardware, you seek to buy powerful friends.
Much of existing European F-35 fleet predates Trump's first term. In fact now quite the opposite happens: other options being eyed from reliable partners, even if technically inferior.
The pilots might have reassessed after Pakistan seemed to have shot three of them down from over 200km range. Intel failure blamed but likely many factors of which some presumably may be attributed to the planes.
I poorly worded it. Rafales allegedly shot down. After that happened, perhaps the pilots wanting them over F35s might have a different opinion. F35s might be harder to get a lock on at that distance and might have better situational awareness capabilities.
That is not always possible for genres with fast gameplay like most shooters. It's quite common for player movement to be able to put an enemy in view before the light could've round-tripped from the server.
This is generally the anti-cheat problem. Certain genres have gameplay that cannot be implemented without trusting the client at least some of the time.
This is correct, the correct amount of over-sharing by the server is non-zero, because otherwise you give a HUGE advantage for slight ping differences.
It's even worse, the lowest theoretical latency possible based on speed of light alone is not low enough for the speed of movement in many shooters, if the server hid all immediately invisible information.
What do you do with footsteps and other positional audio? On multiplayer shooter games that's very vital information to let you know an enemy is somewhere behind a wall but cheaters can use it to draw visual markers to pinpoint the enemy player.
> But when AWS went dark, the system locked into that toasty preset, disabling any cooling override. Browne spent the night marinating in his own perspiration, tweeting updates like a man betrayed: "Backend outage means I'm sleeping in a sauna
It might not be easily reachable? Some people put the wire inside the drywall for aesthetic reasons for stuff that you rarely unplug, like a TV. A matress can fall in that category.
Power goes to an external pod that has the water reservoir, pump, heating/cooling elements, etc.
It has to be user accessible to refill water, it needs space for airflow, and has to be next to the bed because the mattress water/data/power lines run to it on a limited length umbilical.
It uses a standard IEC C13/C14 power cord. There's no sane configuration where it would be anything more than trivially easy to unplug the power.
But you'll get more retweets and social media engagement if you just stew yourself in your smart device hell and let everyone else know how its going.
People do that perhaps - but it isn't allowed by any code I'm aware of - at least not by default. wires in walls have strict standards that mattress manufactures would't want to meet.
Or sleeping on the couch. Better than a pool of your own sweat.
TBQH I don't even see why heated mattresses exist when heated blankets are so effective and doubtlessly cheaper. Now, a cooling mattress is another story..
Heated mattresses are more effective on a cold night since heat rises through you into the blanket. But you can get pads that work with your existing mattress.
A cold mattress with a warm top blanket is one of the irrational joys of life. A warm blanket is more satisfying when you have something cool to contrast it with.
I'm curious as to why this would have a heating element and why that would be the default.
I thought that a cool/cold bed was better for getting to sleep, since the body lowers its own temperature at night as part of it's natural circadian rhythm and because cooling helps produce melatonin.
And when you are asleep, cooling gives you a deeper sleep and can reduce insomnia. So instead of a £3000 mattress that heats up (and by default does so), you just need a thin duvet (or even just the cover in summer).
In the US, garage door openers have a big red handle that you can pull to disconnect the garage door opener and open it manually.
Multiple people have died, because the power went out during a fire, and they couldn't figure out how to evacuate without a working garage door for opener.
This whole article feels like majorly overblown. I mean yes would be nice if the 2 mattress has an offline mode, but I'm sure everyone was fine for a day without it.
There's an ancient joke about liberal arts majors who, when presented with a malfunctioning microwave that's throwing sparks, desperately try to turn it off; eventually an engineering student wanders by and pulls the plug.
I play on dvorak. All keybinds are adjustable in the menu, even in this web version.
If you care to compile from source, I have a patch that makes SDL input by scancode which lets you type in dvorak in the chat box etc, lmk if you'd like a link.
I did not!* Through many Pis serving many years and experiencing many power outages.
But I'm using CanaKit power supplies (which supply 5.1 volts, Rpis are notoriously flaky if the voltage dips just a little below 5v) and ATP industrial automotive-grade flash cards (not a big premium in absolute terms, I think 32 gig cards are $13 on Digikey).
* Okay okay, before I switched to those accessories I did have problems.
Just to add to this train, I've run at least 10 Pis on microSD cards averaging 3 years each (mostly Pi 4s, added a couple Pi 5s), and have not had one issue on any of them... it's mostly down to using a good microSD card (I settled on SanDisk brand), a good power supply (good PoE+ HAT or official PSU), and not writing tons and tons of data to microSD (use NVMe or USB SSD/HDD if you need that).
I put an NVMe SSD in a USB3 enclosure and boot my Pi 4 from that, just to be safe. But I've never actually experienced Pi SD card corruption. I don't know whether it's because I choose good power supplies, good cards, or both.
> I am going to buy $1000 in lottery tickets one time and leave it alone because there seems to be some potential here. > I made the choice basically saying OK this $1000 I am putting in will either be worthless in 10 hours or it will be worth a lot.