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New comment by siod in "iPhone Duo Teardown"

siod — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:52:03 +0000

Ifixit do? Their whole shtick is building repair guides, tools and selling spare parts...

There is definitely an incentive for content makers to discover the next Xgate and some are going to extreme lengths because drama is popular. That being said destructive testing is part of testing a product, it's not like the engineers at apple weren't doing the same sort of things internally.

New comment by siod in "Jury finds Boeing stole technology from electric airplane startup Zunum"

siod — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 01:35:26 +0000

The facts seem kind of light here. Sounds like Boeing essentially did further "due diligence" using privileged information, decided the whole concept wasn't viable and wasn't afraid to share that information.

Given that buying companies is the only way such a calcified company can expand its product base, you'd expect them to be better at it...

New comment by siod in "Can confirm a current Broadcom VMware customer went from $8M renewal to $100M"

siod — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:47:13 +0000

There is nothing polite about this, it's predatory behaviour. If you can't make a 8m saas contract work your then company is broken.

New comment by siod in "Heat pumps of the 1800s are becoming the technology of the future"

siod — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 23:46:36 +0000

The Queenslander house style was built for large blocks that had sufficient airflow, they were built to be cheap and don't work properly with modern block sizes. While they are iconic, and have some great design features, the lack of insulation is not one of them. A modern well insulated house with a heatpump + solar is extremely energy efficient and comfortable in all weather.

New comment by siod in "Disney surpasses Netflix in global paid streaming subscribers"

siod — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 22:39:06 +0000

It honestly feels like the technology advantage Netflix enjoyed has all but disappeared.

Content is now king and all of the other production companies have been making content for decades, Netflix is in serious trouble if it doesn’t lift its game.

New comment by siod in "Colombia shares unprecedented images of treasure-laden wreck"

siod — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:57:42 +0000

Honestly by that logic the British have a stronger claim, they sunk the ship.

(Both claims would be/are farcical)

New comment by siod in "The Air Force Has Been Trying to Kill the A-10 Warthog for 14 Years"

siod — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 13:53:13 +0000

It might have been originally designed to kill tanks, but it's incredibly well suited to current asymmetric warfare.

- Massive Payload capacity; it's a missile truck, 5x what a reaper can bring.

- Cannon can hit infantry in closer quarters than any explosive missile/bomb.

- Armoured and extremely tough, designed to survive small arms fire, loss of wing, loss of engine.

AC-130 might be the king of CAS but it's also crewed by 13 people and has a top speed half that of a hog... which is important when people need support _now_.

The US airforce don't like the A-10 because it's a platform that primarily does grunt work for the army and they'd rather spend that money on their own missions.

New comment by siod in "Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings"

siod — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:38:30 +0000

Yeah a mast or tethered transmitter probably they way to go, but now you have the problem of operating both a submarine and a pseudo surface vessel.

Nothing insurmountable, but it's not as simple as running under everyone which is what the article implied (to me atleast).

New comment by siod in "Unmanned submarine earmarked for Irish Sea freight crossings"

siod — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 19:11:47 +0000

I love the concept of submarine cargo ships but there are three main issues that make them less appealing than ships.

Subs require significantly more thrust per cubic metre of cargo.

Communication and navigation are more difficult because GPS and satellite comms don't work underwater.

Loading and unloading in comparable times to a standard container vessel.

New comment by siod in "Stop Death Shaming"

siod — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:04:30 +0000

People are angry. They see vaccine refusers as prolonging the pandemic and putting their loved ones/everyone at risk for nothing.

New comment by siod in "Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building"

siod — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 16:59:10 +0000

This looks like yet another aluminium composite panel fire...

New comment by siod in "Sony cameras can now be used as webcams for Mac"

siod — Fri, 16 Oct 2020 02:20:19 +0000

I thought the same and went looking recently, Black Magic gear looks well suited.

Camera:

- https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/blackmagicpocke...

- https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/blackmagicmicro...

Capture card:

- https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/au/products/atemmini

- https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/cam-link-4k

- Generic eBay capture card

New comment by siod in "Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation"

siod — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:41:49 +0000

Australia has free bank transfers and our credit card fees are regulated to be significantly lower (amex = ~1.5%, visa/mc = ~0.5%).

New comment by siod in "Microsoft Surface Duo"

siod — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 17:02:37 +0000

That explanation makes sense, if it's been in work for so long it's probably difficult internally to get the resources to bring it into line with current expectations.

Unfortunately v1 will probably bomb in its current state and we won't see the proper potential of the device.

New comment by siod in "Microsoft Surface Duo"

siod — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 15:26:49 +0000

Conceptually and form factor wise this looks good, but those bezels just make the whole device look outdated.

New comment by siod in "Elroy Air’s autonomous hybrid aircraft can pick up cargo containers on its own"

siod — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 02:33:04 +0000

It seems pretty disingenuous to show two totally different models in the same video like this, the model that gets airborne doesn't have a back prop/shaft nor is it carrying a cargo container.

No one expects a prototype to carry the full load, but it looks like it can't even get itself airborne at this stage...

New comment by siod in "Ask HN: Best Static Site Builder?"

siod — Sun, 24 Nov 2019 01:01:50 +0000

I'd probably recommend Gatsby, it's super flexible, has great documentation, tons of plugins and includes good defaults.

I've previously used hugo to build some customer sites. It's super quick to build, but we ended up replicating a bunch of work that Gatsby has support for like image optimisation, minification, etc.

Netlify is a good hosting option if you're not married to S3.

New comment by siod in "Mac Pro Puts the Pedal to Metal in Apple's Race with Nvidia"

siod — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 17:01:42 +0000

It's fairly standard for rendering/games engines to support native graphics apis, they're built to be cross platform.

Not to mention machine learning is a totally different market, using OS X on workstations would be counterproductive as there isn't any feasible server solutions to run production data on.

Also the Tegra chips aren't irrelevant, they're powering the switch and extremely popular for drone/robotics application processors.

This entire article is biased beyond belief.