I have an N95 mini PC (32GB DDR4, 250GB SSD, 1TB NVMe), a 4 disk USB enclosure, an access point, and a 16 port switch plugged into a UPS.
The UPS says 35W for all of it, but I’ve always been too lazy to unplug devices to see how it breaks down. I’m also not sure how accurate the measurements are, especially under a load that low.
I’d be willing to believe the mini PC draws less than the other components at this point.
This site[0] claims a Prius Prime XSE gets 1.42 miles/kWh. Or (1.42 miles /1000Wh)*2 = 0.0028 miles. Which is ~14 feet, which is significantly more in line with my expectations (though still high)
You are missing a factor of 24, which comes in because they said "0.155 miles per day on battery power".
The easiest way to do the calculation would be, assuming a Prius Prime can do M mi/kWh on battery power, is to calculate 0.155 mi/day x 1/M kWh/mi x 1 day/24h = 0.0065 kW = 6.5/M W. That gives us W which can directly be compared with the 2 W he gave.
Also, 1.42 mi/kWh seems way low for battery power operation. I'm pretty sure that is for mixed gas/electric operation, expressed in MPG-e (47.9) and mi/kWh for convenient comparison to pure EVs. (You can convert between MPG-e and mi/kWh used the conversion factor for 33.7 kWh/gal.
It has a 13.6 kWh battery and a 39 mile all electric range, which suggests M = 2.9 mi/kWh. Plugging that into 6.5/M W gives 2.2 W.
M is probably actually a little higher because the car probably doesn't let the battery actually use 100% of its capacity. Most sites I see seem to say 3.1-3.5 mi/kWh.
On the other hand there are some losses when charging. On my EV during times I've the year when I do not need to use the heating or AC the car is reporting 4.1 or higher mi/kWh, but it is measuring what is coming out of the battery.
When calculated based on what is coming out of my charger it works out to 3.9 mi/kWh. This is with level 2 charging (240 V, 48 A). Level 1 charging is not as efficient as level 2.
If we go with 3.1-3.5 mi/kWh, and assume that is measured on the battery output side and that the loses during charging are about 8%, we get 2.9-3.2 mi/kWh on the "this is what I've getting billed for" side. If we use the average of that and plug into 6.5/M W we get 2.1 W.
From the pharma side, I have heard discussions with other technology companies who insisted on a share of discovery revenue. Nothing has ever killed discussions so quickly.
- New candidate drug molecules identified by pharmaceutical companies through AI;
- New alloy formulas discovered by material laboratories;
- Optimized circuit architectures developed by chip design teams;
- Even new products incubated by startups based on AI-generated ideas.
This will tank adoption in high tech fields that live and die by IP.
No, for every established company that may be hesitant, there's up and comer with nothing to lose who will jump on the opportunity, and the industry will continue moving forward.
Microsoft is known for regularly altering the deal. Just because you configure the OS to not upload keys today, does not mean that setting will be respected in the future.
Canary traps have been popularized in a few works of fiction. Seems trivial to do in the modern era. The sophisticated version I heard is to make the differences in the white space between individual words/lines/wherever.
> The sophisticated version I heard is to make the differences in the white space between individual words/lines/wherever.
That would be a naive way to do it.
Here is an example of a more sophisticated way:
A canary trap is a (method, way) for (exposing, determining) an information leak by giving (different, differing) versions of a (sensitive, secret) (document, file) to each of (several, two or more) (suspects, persons) and (seeing, observing) which version gets (leaked, exposed).
I can now include 9 bits of a watermark in there. If I expand the lists from two options to four it would be 18 bits. Four to eight would double that again - so diminishing returns after 4. The lists can vary in size too of course.
The sentiment of an entire paragraph can serve as single bit, it would have a chance to be robust to paraphrasing.
In the example above, if two or more leakers get together you might think that they could figure out a way to generate a clean version. But it turns out if there are enough watermark bits in the content and you use Tardos codes (a crafted Arcsine distribution of bits) small coalitions of traitors will betray themselves. Even large coalitions of 100 or more will betray themselves eventually (after 100s of 1000s of watermarked bits, the scaling is a constant + square of the number of traitors). The Google keyword is "traitor tracing scheme".
"What, precisely, does your employee handbook say about sexual harassment?"
"Well you see, your honour, we have 1000 slightly different employee handbooks, but they all say employees may not, must not, should not, can not, are not permitted to, must refrain from, or are forbidden from committing sexual harassment"
Sure. I was probably trying to be too polite and didn't want to use the word "abandoned", but that's probably a better term for the library at this point. There's a good amount of open issues and PRs in many of the component gems that haven't been addressed in years and requests to help maintain it have gone unanswered[0].
What is the point of stringrays anyway? It's a thing that exists, so I believe it does something, but I can't figure out what exactly.
They can go through the area, catch a whole bag of IMSIs and then.... what? What capability does it enable? Knowing when a certain person of interest shows up in a certain locality? Can't they get it from the phone company without a warrant anyways, just by asking nicely? If it's not targeted, what the data is even used for theoretically?
Stingrays are use to intercept calls in real time. They are used by police and foreign intelligence agencies. It allows them to listen in on political calls. Washington DC is a haven for fake cell phone towers.
I found out the LEO in the area I was in had at least one. I saw a police car parked in the area I was in. Very out of place and would only be there if there was a house call. Decided to test the waters, went out side, paced back and forth, and kept talk. His face and body language changed dramatically which let me know he was using a Stringray and I was the current target without a warrant.
Ignoring the terrible world order destroying implications of this, I do have a question.
Being assigned to the "premier Arctic and cold-weather formation" sounds like the worst possible posting a young soldier could get. Is this drawing the shortest straw, or do people have any flexibility in getting deployed here? For something so remote/frigid/generally terrible, do you get shorter rotations?
No. Alaska is a three year tour. If you are an outdoorsman or a skier though, JBER (Anchorage) can be a dream post. Garrison life is pretty relaxed when you're not in the field. And you get all the latest best cold-weather gear.
1000%. The Alaska lifestyle has been aspirational for 100 years. "Deadliest Catch" and other shows brought that notion to the masses. Alaska has the single best fishing, hunting, skiing, climbing in the Western Hemisphere. And (like salmon canning and crab fishing) great economic opportunity for hard workers - think of the roughnecks from Landman. But people seem to have already forgotten. Now we get "Life Below Zero" which is .... a little more on the edge to be kind
> Personally I'd love to go to the Arctic or Antarctic as a civilian as it would be an interesting challenge.
This is actually possible! Friends of friends have done it (with NSF I believe).
Research expeditions to the arctic sometimes take civilians as support (janitors, IT, cooks, medics, etc). It can be a cool way to spend a few months aboard a boat in the arctic.
If you compare them to Finnish or Norse arctic troops and if it ever came to combat, yes, this isn’t the place a US soldier would want to be.
(Hehe, ow, sowwie about triggering someone’s feelings. Fun to see that jingoism should have safe spaces even as the same electorate railed against it on college campuses).
> If you compare them to Finnish or Norse arctic troops and if it ever came to combat, yes, this isn’t the place a US soldier would want to be.
Thanks for coming out.
These are the Arctic Airborne folks (11th division) — above average (which isn’t saying much), but not elite. They are tasked with rapid deployment, and they are good at that, but they aren’t the point of the spear.
There are elite arctic troops who I am confident would sow fear into any opposition troops (arctic or otherwise). If you know any elite Norwegian or Finnish arctic troops, then they have either worked with or know someone who has worked with highly competent US counterparts.
You do have some influence in where you get posted, but that is mediated by several factors including most importantly how desirable a posting is.
While I'm not certain of how desirable an Arctic posting is, I do know that Antarctic postings are heavily oversubscribed (more demand than spots available), and I rather suspect that the Arctic stuff is in the same boat. It's not like there's a huge amount of spots that need to be filled, so even if getting an "Arctic soldier" tab appeals to only like 1% of the soldiers, well, that's enough to fill all the slots.
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