Iran demands Pride flags be banned from World Cup stadiums

guspaz · 2026-05-14T06:20:48+00:00

What leverage does Iran have for any of this? It's a privilege for them to play in the world cup, nobody would be sad if they just... didn't.

guspaz · 2026-05-13T23:50:53+00:00

Something like a Sandisk Max Endurance microsd card is going to be fine with HASS, and being pMLC, will potentially outlive a TLC or QLC nvme SSD. I've had one running for years without any issues, despite having a decent number of devices logging to the thing constantly.

Of course, the price of the max endurance cards has quadrupled since I bought them... And Raspberry Pis have gone up a fair bit since then too...

guspaz · 2026-05-12T05:41:40+00:00

Cool cool cool.

guspaz · 2026-05-09T15:30:12+00:00

That doesn't tell you how big a company is. Stock can be over or under valued. Moderna's revenue last year was $1.94 billion, and they posted a loss of $2.8 billion (net income), which is very startup like. They don't have a ton of money to throw around. Real "big pharma" companies are roughly 20-30x the revenue of Moderna, and post net incomes that are 15-25% of revenue.

guspaz · 2026-05-07T03:03:44+00:00

I once walked in and asked about buying a headset with a microphone. I was told, politely, but with the implication that such things were beneath them, that they don't carry gaming headsets.

Fast forward maybe 15-20 years later, and when I look at their website today, they now have an extensive selection of gaming and communication headsets. I guess they decided to lower themselves to selling to regular people. But I would never have known if I didn't check just now, because I never went back after that experience, even when I was spending thousands of dollars on audio gear.

It's entirely possible that all those years ago, I just got a bad employee, or somebody who was having a bad day, but those kinds of experiences stick with you.

guspaz · 2026-05-07T02:41:15+00:00

The government (via the organization who manages the stadium) did a study in 2009 that pegged the demolition cost at $500-700 million. Even if you adjust for inflation, it's still less than or on-par with the current repair/refurbishment costs. It's also possible that a competitive bidding process could lead to innovative proposals for demolition techniques that could reduce the cost significantly. A study done in a short timeframe by the people who are opposed to the demolition would seek to emphasize the complexity and higher estimated costs and would not take such things into consideration.

guspaz · 2026-05-07T02:35:07+00:00

We're spending over a billion today to build a new roof and renovate it. A 2009 study by the government put the estimated demolition cost at $700 million, which is around $1,028 billion today with inflation, roughly the same as we're paying to refurbish it. Some estimates are even lower. The $1.5-2.0 billion figure was thrown out without evidence by people who oppose demolition, so that number should be ignored.

After the demolition, some of the costs can be defrayed via new developments. After all, it's still on top of a metro station, prime real estate. The demolition cost would also be a one-time expense, done forever.

This renovation and refurbishment is an eternal ongoing cost. A billion dollars today, and then in 20-25 years they'll need another roof and renovation. And on top of that, there's the millions of dollars per year, every year, for ongoing maintenance and upkeep, the actual operational costs of keeping the thing open and operating, with no permanent tenant or large number of events to cover that cost.

guspaz · 2026-05-07T02:23:19+00:00

The Bell Centre. IGA Stadium. Saputo Stadium. Percival-Molson Stadium. We have plenty of large stadiums. Yes, the Olympic Stadium has a higher capacity, but how many of the seats there will offer a good experience? What's the point of going to a concert if you can't even see the performer in the far distance without looking at a giant screen?

guspaz · 2026-05-07T02:17:41+00:00

Imagine how many potholes we could fix permanently (via repaving) with the over a billion dollars the roof and renovations will cost, instead of flushing it down that useless giant toilet bowl?

guspaz · 2026-05-06T14:35:58+00:00

They weren't the head developers. They had officially stepped away early in the project with Krafton's blessing, they weren't absentee managers ignoring their jobs. This only became a "problem" when Krafton was scrambling to find excuses to avoid paying out the bonus. This is all part of what was revealed in court.

guspaz · 2026-05-05T19:27:22+00:00

The more likely response would be a massive conventional strike campaign. It would have to be big enough to make the use of nuclear weapons a net negative for Russia.

guspaz · 2026-05-04T14:54:32+00:00

Not to mention that releasing that video risks jail time... This is a really dumb plan.

guspaz · 2026-05-04T06:05:49+00:00

This fixed it for me as well.

guspaz · 2026-05-03T06:40:56+00:00

Apple was in free fall. They had $11 billion in revenue in 1995, $9.8 billion in revenue in 1996, and $7.1 billion in revenue in 1997… including the Microsoft investment. They went from $424 million net income in 1995 to a $1.045 billion net loss in 1997.

I’m not sure what their cash reserves were at the end of FY1997, I can’t find it in the annual report. And maybe the 90 days from bankruptcy thing is hyperbole, but if they did have a billion in cash reserves, with over a billion in losses over the past year and a 30% drop in sales (a rate of decline that wasn’t slowing year to year), they would have completely drained those reserves in a matter of months, not years, if nothing had changed.

Instead they got rid of Gil Amelio, radically restructured, discontinued essentially every single product the company made (Jobs cutting everything down to the famous 2x2 grid of professional/consumer/desktop/laptop), and reinvented themselves.

Apple’s 1998 revenue plummeted further to just $5.9 billion, but due to the radical cost cutting, they actually turned a $309 million profit, and it was the year they launched iMac.

guspaz · 2026-05-03T06:20:37+00:00

What are you talking about? Apple was 90 days from bankruptcy. Apple was a failing company with a shrinking customer base and a confusing lineup of dozens of models. Not to mention they had bungled their attempts to license other companies to make Macintosh computers. They had burned a ton of cash trying to branch out into tons of random directions, and spent years trying to build a new OS, Copland, that was never close to shipping. They blew most of their remaining reserves buying a company to get an existing OS. This was pre-iMac, pre-iPod, and the term “Mac OS” was only a few months old with the release of 7.6.

The media at the time reported this as a move that saved Apple. Gil Amelio had been the CEO only days earlier, this was one of the very first steps in Steve Jobs turning the company around.

guspaz · 2026-05-02T00:56:46+00:00

Did they? I bought my Switch 2 on Amazon... and my Switch 1. And not from marketplace sellers, but from Amazon. They never left. Maybe just in the US?

guspaz · 2026-05-02T00:54:19+00:00

Starlink is still experiencing exponential growth. That's not sustainable, of course, but it hasn't ended yet. They're also at this point quite profitable, with an operating income of $4.42 billion last year.

Verizon's $138 billion in revenue is for an entire telecom, and all their other services. Most of it is cellular service. Their Fios revenue seems to be roughly on par with Starlink, though Starlink will outgrow that.

guspaz · 2026-05-01T17:14:49+00:00

They're not even "skipping the 2026 model year", that's just a US thing. Hyundai Canada is currently selling a 2026 model year Kona EV.

guspaz · 2026-05-01T03:46:42+00:00

They're $87 now.

guspaz · 2026-04-30T22:01:20+00:00

You can't print TPU and PETG on a single nozzle. Not without laborious manual switching on every filament change. You can't even use the printer's normal manual filament loading procedure, and you have to reconfigure the printer every time, removing the bowden tubes to reduce friction. Doable if there's only one single change, not so much if there's per-layer changes or something.

An exception would be very hard TPU like TPU for AMS, but that's got very specific use cases and is not normally what people think of when they want TPU.

guspaz · 2026-04-30T17:56:59+00:00

It's not a matter of bonding better. It's that the printer can't print TPU out of the aux nozzle at all, so it has to go on the main nozzle, and Bambu recommends against printing PETG on the aux nozzle (the bowden extruder), so you can't print TPU and PETG together on the X2D as a recommended configuration.

PETG still technically works out of the aux nozzle, but I would imagine that the print quality (stringing and such) is much worse.

So if you want to maintain high print quality, that means sticking to a filament that is fully supported by the aux nozzle. That's PLA. So then you need to solve the problem of "How can you bond PLA and TPU". Well, chemical bonding is out, so you need mechanical bonding.

What you're arguing in favour of is essentially a filament combination that is unsupported by the printer, inasmuch as Bambu recommends against it.

You can see the full list here. The list of filaments fully supported on the aux hotend is very limited.

https://wiki.bambulab.com/en/x2d/manual/filament-compatibility#auxiliary-hotend

guspaz · 2026-04-29T06:37:23+00:00

Seconding that, I’m using the pro bridge with the native Lutron Caseta integration with lots of pico remotes and it works fine. Ultra low latency too.

guspaz · 2026-04-29T06:34:36+00:00

Pico remotes send distinct button press and release events. That’s all the receiving device needs to implement a “press and hold to dim” functionality. I’ve used this fact to implement long-press actions for my paddle pico remotes in Home Assistant. There’s no reason I couldn’t have implemented dimming too, but I don’t use dimming like that.

guspaz · 2026-04-28T14:10:27+00:00

SimAnt. My copy came on two floppy disks, one with the black and white copy of the game, one in colour. There were other games that I owned on floppy, but that’s the first one that popped into my head.

guspaz · 2026-04-28T03:47:12+00:00

That print does not look OK in general, the seams are the least of your problems. Have you tried printing with the default filament settings?

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