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New comment by eigen in "iPhone Duo"

eigen — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:55:18 +0000

> Ford makes the Bronco Sport anyway, and they make money on it.

The current Bronco Sport generation was introduced in 2021 with minor changes in the ensuing model years. Ford USA sold 134k Bronco Sport in 2025, of 783k SUVs (17.2%) and 2.1M total USA vehicles (6.4%). the Ford E-series truck with 3.2% Ford Truck sales or 2.0% total vehicle sales may be a better comparison. It also is a design introducted in 2021.

phones are more likely mostly new designs in each model year, but we can wait for the teardowns to see.

https://www.best-selling-cars.com/usa/2025-full-year-usa-for...

New comment by eigen in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

eigen — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:56:43 +0000

are these videos larger than the iphone SSD or TB SSD DRAM buffer and will need to drop to NAND erase/write speed?

New comment by eigen in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

eigen — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:15:33 +0000

isnt that how the modern telephone system works? digitize your voice, encode, transmit, decode, convert to analog audio. with buffering or keeping bits in memory all along the way?

is a telephone call a recording?

New comment by eigen in "Apple Watch Series 12"

eigen — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 02:45:00 +0000

from the video I thought the wearer had to enable it, just as today where the wearer has to enable the audio recorder app.

New comment by eigen in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

eigen — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 03:50:46 +0000

its not unheard of for large public companies to do spinoff. a few examples that seem to have worked out fairly well

Phillip Morris / Altria / Kraft / Mondelez

HP / HPE / Agilent / Keysight

New comment by eigen in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

eigen — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:59:14 +0000

I assume for something like a phone these things are non-linear. going from 2 PCIe lanes (nand, radios) to 3 (another radio) may cause an SOC to jump from entry-level to mid-level, larger PCB and increased layer count, more antenna for simultaneous use, etc. so its not just the cost of the chip but all the secondary effects.

New comment by eigen in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

eigen — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:10:33 +0000

I think the Rd pulldown options are for 0.9/1.5/3A without PD negotiation.

New comment by eigen in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

eigen — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:47:06 +0000

> Grocery stores have very small margins, as little as 1%.

Looking at the Kroger 2024 Annual report shows that they have 22.3% gross margin . they pay dividends, had a stock buy back, etc so its entirely possible that they had a very low margin but gross margin seems to be similar to a home builder.

Sales $ 147,123

Merchandise costs $113,720

Rent, Depreciation, Amortization $655

Gross profit $32,748

for a gross margin of 32.7/147 = 22%

New comment by eigen in "MacBook Neo"

eigen — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:19:15 +0000

> certain cables won't charge certain devices

not sure how you can make a cable that doesnt connect power from end to end. I can see if it doesnt charge as fast as others if it doesnt have the bits required for higher current support. and if a device requires >5V to charge, thats on the device not the cable.

> other cables won't transfer data

again, not sure you can make a cable that doesnt connect the USB2 pair from end to end. but if device doesnt use USB2 and requires something else without mentioning it then that again seems to be on the device not the cable.

New comment by eigen in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

eigen — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:40:26 +0000

> Year over year price hikes with minimal improvements

did you have a specific example in mind? It seems that the price of the hardware generally stays the same from year to year.

for example, from iphone 3g to iphone 6s was $199. and iphone 12 through today's iphone 17 is $799. I think the change in the middle was due dropping carrier subsidies and going to full-screen with face id.

New comment by eigen in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

eigen — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:35:02 +0000

> 1000Base-T uses two pairs per direction, actually. It's full duplex. Each port sees two TX and two RX pair.

you may be thinking of 1000Base-TX (TIA‐854) which uses 2 pairs in each direction, similar to 100Base-TX (IEEE 802.3u). whereas 1000Base-T (IEEE 802.3ab) uses all 4 pairs in both directions.

basically, the -TX are dual simplex with a set of wires for each direction and -T are full-duplex with the same wires used in both directions at the same time.

New comment by eigen in "Immigration Agencies Are Openly Defying Federal Courts"

eigen — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:10:05 +0000

> For example, consider a president who dies in office a few days into the term. The VP becomes president, serves out the remainder of that four-year term and then be elected for two more terms

text of the 22nd amendment covers that. serving more than 2 years of someone else's term means you can only be elected once.

Section 1. No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.

New comment by eigen in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

eigen — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 04:32:22 +0000

random web correlation calculator shows it has deviated since around May this year and is currently around 0.3

https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/asset-correlations#analy...

New comment by eigen in "The Economics of Duke University"

eigen — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 19:00:58 +0000

I mean this is an issue in private industry as far as I've seen as well. as a company grows layers of middle management are added to translate and implement policies from other management layers

New comment by eigen in "USPS announces changes to the postmark date system"

eigen — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:47:50 +0000

from the IRS (https://www.irs.gov/filing/individuals/when-to-file)

Your return is considered filed on time if your envelope is properly addressed, postmarked and deposited in the mail by the due date.

New comment by eigen in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

eigen — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:28:50 +0000

> Windows XP sold for $200 in 2001. In 2025, that's $364

I assume you used the overall CPI rate rather than the software rate. but using the Software CPI its more like $58. and that seems like an easier sell (for the user, maybe not the developer).

http://data.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/CUUR0000SEEE0...

Software CPI-U

2001 Oct 77.0

2025 Nov 22.182

New comment by eigen in "X-59 3D Printing"

eigen — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:39:47 +0000

lots of other 3D models available at https://science.nasa.gov/3d-resources/

Hubble 3D Models

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/3d-hubble...

Curiosity Rover

https://science.nasa.gov/resource/curiosity-rover-3d-model/

New comment by eigen in "High-income job losses are cooling housing demand"

eigen — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 04:26:41 +0000

I'm sure you read the footnote that goes along with the spike in 2020 where the definition changed.

and looking at the numbers, I see declining increaes over previous 5 year periods

39.1% increase from 2010-06 (8628.1) to 2015-06 (12004.6)

30.8% increase from 2015-01 (11787.8) to 2020-01 (15416.3)

21.0% increase from 2020-06 (18140.6) to 2025-06 (21942.4).

New comment by eigen in "Ground stop at JFK due to staffing"

eigen — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:09:20 +0000

> But it seems like certain jobs are funded for the duration anyway (infamously, members of Congress are one).

I think thats due to the 27th Amendment [1]

> No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.

can't change (or stop) congressional pay until an election. guess it's a double-edged sword they can't give themselves in immediate pay raise, which I think was the point of ratification in 1992, but also can't cut their pay for failing to pass a budget.

[1] https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-27/

New comment by eigen in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

eigen — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 02:35:48 +0000

technically, he is currently scheduled to be president for the entirety of 2028 because the election is in November 2028 and the presidential term ends on January 20, 2029.

but that's probably not what he meant.