As long as it will be pixel-exclusive, it will remain useless to the vast majority of android-capable phone users.

For astronomy bigger pixels is also better.

It depends on sampling and sky conditions. My only point was that some astronomy cameras have smaller pixels (like 1.45um).

Airlines are not public transportation. Usually they're all privatized.

>TSA pre-check, Global Entry, and Clear _infuriate_ me

And these additions are the opposite of privatization, they are federal requirements, de facto socialization.

Implementing 'fast lanes' is not a federal requirement and is the opposite of fair access to commonplace services.

The whole thing gave off a feeling that the author was desperate to prove something.

In quantum chemistry, you decide where the bonds should be drawn. Internally, it's all an electron density field. So yes, you can model chemical reactions, for example by constraining the distance between two atoms, and letting everything else reach an equilibrium.

If I'm hiking or cycling alone through the woods with high bear populations, I will often play some music to alert them to prevent an unpleasant encounter.

Nothing about time series-oriented databases?

> Nothing about time series-oriented databases?

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/2026/01/2025-databases-re...

Not much happened I guess. Clickhouse has got an experimental time series engine : https://clickhouse.com/docs/engines/table-engines/special/ti...

QuestDB at least is gaining some popularity: https://questdb.com/

I was hoping to learn about some new potentially viable alternatives to InfluxDB, alas it seems I'll continue using it for now.

I'm running an experimental side project where I doing some kind of glue between various time-series APIs and storage engines.

For example it has an InfluxDB compatible ingestion API, so Telegraf can push its data to it or InfluxDB can replicate to it. It also has a Prometheus remote read and remote write API, so it's compatible with Prometheus.

The storage can be done in various systems, including ClickHouse, SQLite, DuckDB, TimescaleDB… I should try to include QuestDB.

> Someone could ask a question, an LLM could take a first stab at an answer. The author could correct it or ask further questions, and then the community could fill in when it goes off the rails or can't answer.

Isn't this how Quora is supposed to operate?

Maybe my experience is unique - but Quora seems to be largely filled with adverts-posing-as-answers.

Quora, sadly, is a good example of enshittification.

Is the vertical banding due to the camera being unable to have a fixed exposure gain configured? Or just due to slight variances in the sampling times due to unstable oscillator frequency?

The gain is fixed. I think the column variation arises from unstable oscillator frequency and maybe some electrical bug/crosstalk between pixels. Not sure exactly.

People expect their router to act as a firewall too, via NAT. If you take this away and force people to buy an additional piece of hardware to restore the expected functionality, they won't switch. Simple as that.

All modern NAT routers include a firewall. They don't "act as a firewall too, via NAT", they have both NAT and firewall functionality, even for IPv4. It has been like this for a long time now.

> All modern NAT routers include a firewall.

AFAICT the ER7212PC is not a "NAT router" but just a "router".

Even some switches have ACL functionality for the IP layer, but they're sold as switches and not as firewalls.

Sure, but people still use NAT as a way to secure their internal network, so it's effectively acting as a firewall.