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New comment by leecb in "Grok Outage"

leecb — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:46:18 +0000

ChatGPT here has been giving me Cloudflare errors, and Cloudflare reports that it is having issues: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

Not sure if they are linked.

New comment by leecb in "Making regular GPS ultra-precise"

leecb — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:59:05 +0000

> The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) (Japanese: 準天頂衛星システム, Hepburn: juntenchō eisei shisutemu), also known as Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a regional navigation satellite system (RNSS) and a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System

New comment by leecb in "Alleged M4 MacBook Pro unboxing video"

leecb — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 05:08:36 +0000

I wonder how much of this increase is solely enabled by TSMC process upgrades, either through higher clock speeds or increased number of transistors per core? It's kind of interesting that every iteration of the M series has corresponded to a change of TSMC process.

M1: 16 billion transistors at 3.2 GHz on TSMC N5

M2: 20 billion transistors at 3.7 GHz on TSMC N5P

M3: 25 billion transistors at 4.05 GHz on TSMC N3B

M4: 28 billion transistors at ?? GHz on TSMC N3E

New comment by leecb in "Telecom Industry Is Mad Because the FCC Might Examine High Broadband Prices"

leecb — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:24:20 +0000

AT&T ran fiber to my house (and everybody else on my street). 15 months later, the highest speed option we have is still 50/10 Mbps DSL from AT&T.

I wonder why they put it in if they aren't going to bother offering service with it?

New comment by leecb in "New Loongson chip matches Intel's 14600K in IPC tests, overclocked to 3 GHz"

leecb — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:48:05 +0000

What operating system would be run by PCs using this chip? Are there existing operating systems that support LoongArch?

New comment by leecb in "Braid, Anniversary Edition trailer [video]"

leecb — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 15:37:29 +0000

Very excited that this unique game continues. It's too bad they aren't supporting the Mac, like the old game did.

New comment by leecb in "Server-side rendering is a better choice for many applications (2020)"

leecb — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 17:53:06 +0000

> taking over 500ms and a complete page reload

For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close to "instantaneous" for the "complete page reload."

EDIT: I'm in Texas, so most of this time is probably just round trip time to the west coast.

New comment by leecb in "Tesla repossessed my car due to an extreme oversight on their end"

leecb — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:24:54 +0000

This was not paid with a check, but a cashier's check, and so the money would have already been gone from their account:

From the post:

> The car was paid for with a combination of card and CASHIER’S check. Cashiers check means the amount of money is withdrawn from the bank when it’s ISSUED not cashed. so no, we did not notice extra money sitting in our account because it had already been withdrawn.

New comment by leecb in "Apple dives into display-making to cut reliance on Samsung"

leecb — Thu, 18 May 2023 22:57:48 +0000

> MicroLEDs are still just LCDs with a better backlight but LCD Tech has evolved quite a lot and pixel refresh time (< 3-4ms) is not much of a problem anymore.

You're thinking of MiniLED, which is just better LEDs behind an LCD.

MicroLED is a whole different ball game, with no LCD at all. It's just red, green, blue LEDs, one for each pixel.

New comment by leecb in "CSS Paged Media Module Level 3"

leecb — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:09:43 +0000

Weasyprint is an excellent tool for converting HTML to PDF. It has supported CSS Paged Media Module for a while; this has been very useful for making printable PDFs from web pages.

Weasyprint seems to be one of the few HTML->PDF engines out there that doesn't depend on a browser engine. It's impressive just how much works (HTML, CSS, SVG, etc), given that this is a relatively simple project compared to a full-featured browser. Performance isn't bad, considering it is implemented in Python.

New comment by leecb in "Volkswagen’s ID. 2ALL Is a $26,000 EV Hatchback You’d Want to Drive"

leecb — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 13:04:54 +0000

What is an FF car? Do you mean the Ferrari FF? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari_FF

New comment by leecb in "Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership"

leecb — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 20:35:58 +0000

Eclipse?

New comment by leecb in "iOS 16 Available September 12th"

leecb — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 23:27:25 +0000

This is a great idea; unfortunately now I have dozens of voicemails a week from these numbers instead of just calls. Any option to prevent them leaving voicemail?

New comment by leecb in "Firefox 96"

leecb — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 14:47:41 +0000

The improvements seem to be in which thread WebRTC does work: moving more work to workers and off the main thread.

The release notes for alpha builds (e.g. [1]) link to this bug [2] "[meta] Update libwebrtc to new stable branch 2H2020", which as a number of comments about WebRTC using the main thread as its worker thread.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/96.0a1/releasenotes/ [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654112

New comment by leecb in "Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware"

leecb — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:29:05 +0000

> those inane licenses no one reads, do we really want them to legally binding?

What all would be possible if software EULAs weren't legally binding?

One thing that EULAs typically do is reduce liability for the company producing the software. Imagine if Google/Apple were liable for damages from all the miscommunications caused by autocorrect?

New comment by leecb in "Plunge in lithium-ion battery costs"

leecb — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:37:14 +0000

> The element is cobalt, Kobalt is a brand of tools

Kobalt is the name of the element in German; @jillesvangurp's profile says he is based in Berlin, perhaps he also speaks German. (German also capitalizes nouns.)

New comment by leecb in "U.S. lawmakers call for privacy legislation after Reuters report on Amazon"

leecb — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 18:28:12 +0000

Skyhook started doing this in 2003; their technology was used in earlier iPhone models to determine location without using GPS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyhook_Wireless

EDIT: used by iPhone OS until version 3.2: https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-16945

New comment by leecb in "Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters"

leecb — Sun, 21 Nov 2021 19:24:07 +0000

Tesla has demonstrated that their batteries can be removed and replaced in a matter of a minute or two, given the right equipment.

https://www.tesla.com/videos/battery-swap-event

Since the batteries cost an order of magnitude more than a catalytic converter, this could justify criminals developing more sophisticated equipment to pull it off.

New comment by leecb in "FOIA requests show Apple’s emails pitching state agencies on IDs and Wallet app"

leecb — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 19:51:25 +0000

Is the end Goal to make conversation only accessible via the telephone and kill off in-person conversation?

New comment by leecb in "Samoa Scraps Daylight Saving Time"

leecb — Thu, 23 Sep 2021 16:46:16 +0000

Several Pacific island nations adopted DST so they could be the first into the year 2000 for tourist purposes. As a result, some countries are only in DST for a month or two out of the year.