it's better to just write new comments and downvote such that theirs get burried.
Engaging them just makes longer threads that draw attention to their comments. Everytime you reply, he comes back and adds more comments.
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I'm sure it can be bundled with office subscriptions for a discounted price of an extra 45$ a month, perfect to accelerate your office's productivity.
Don't bother. The dude is a troll.
Yup. Doesn't he still owe a ton of money to many local cities for event security that he never paid for?
I understand a lot more about this than you’re assuming.
I’ve seen this Linus video, plus I’ve seen projects like these work and have a good grasp on the cost. The Linus video can’t explain any of that, And he’s pretty clueless in general.
There’s a reason google and other companies use wireless and cell for this exact reason. Building ands maintenance is cheaper than satellites.
Your estimates assume totally new infrastructure, but that’s not the case for most rural communities. They have existing infrastructure that can be upgraded. You’re also wrongly assuming they’re going to put up towers across this distance. They would only put them where needed.
More importantly this is in comparison to satellites, which are even more expensive and this particular low orbit has a short lifespan.
It’s not a solution for the cabin in the top of Mount Everest or the middle of the ocean, but as i said in my original reply they are best for the vast majority of people.
There is a need for satellite communication comms, but we have it already today. I’m just not convinced this particular project is worth the cost.
Again most importantly, there’s not a ton of evidence that people living in remote areas want broadband.
I get your point, but I suspect there's more here than just lifespan. I don't think we know the reason but the article says this:
As a comparison, only 248 satellites had burned up at the start of this year, so the number destroyed during the last two months is higher than the figure for the first seven months of the year.
If 200 over the span of 2 months is "normal" then I have questions about the financial viability of the project.
First, no one is talking about standard home-grade routers, though there is technology to make those work at longer distances. We're talking about say a cellular network, which is considered broadband in most of the US and has an existing infrastructure. Many of these areas are already going to have cellular access, and upgrades to existing networks are significantly cheaper and easier to maintain. There are long-range wifi solutions, and those work too, but most require line-of-sight, so as i stated, aren't suited for say mountanous area.
Name one community that is stretched out over 1000k. That's not community, that's a fucking state or territory. Seriously, that's more than 10x the width or height of Rhode Island.
Again, as I said, it's questionable whether those people even want high-speed internet in the first place. You're probably not living remotely to be on-the-grid.
Governments generally fund the buildout for this, so it's rarely on citizens anyway.
The LMG video is irrelevant. Linus is far from an expert.
There's a really interesting discussion in here link (~34:59) around native 4k raster performance and beauty versus AI generated data. Here's a snippet:
yeah it's super interesting it's almost like a paradigm shift and it goes a bit into that discussion about fake frames but what are fake frames is is are all frames fake in a way because they have to be rendered
I would say that cyberpunk frames using dlss including frame generation are much realer than traditional Graphics frames. You know, if you think about all of the graphics tricks like you know like all the different kinds of occlusion, shadows, fake Reflections screen space effects...
Raster in general is just a a bag of fakeness. So like we get to throw that out and start doing path tracing and like actually get real shadows and real reflections and the only way that we do that is by synthesizing a lot of pixels with AI because you know it would just be far too computationally intensive to to do you know rendering without tricks.
So we're we're changing the kinds of tricks we're using and I think at the end of the day we're getting more real pixels with dlss than without it's weird to say.
Terrestrial includes wireless solutions, which are better suited for many last-leg hookups in situations like these.
Sure, there's a lot of places where these won't work (eg. mountainous areas), but there are also questions about whether people living that remotely even want broadband or wireless.
I don't know what's been tried in a real retail market, but I remember Walmart or perhaps just designers trying all sorts of ideas from carts that scanned them to people using their phones. It starts to get really complicated when people want to remove things or you have multiple people putting stuff in carts (eg. children sneaking items in)
I'm sure it's solvable, it's just a question of whether it's worth the cost for shoppers and the stores.
There's another challenge that the self-checkout poses where people cover the UPCs with UPCs for cheaper items (either self printed, or by taking off stickers from cheaper items). Most of these RFID things are also stickers so that also becomes a problem.
Sadly, not a surprise.
Somewhat recently, there was a drunk driver who hit and killed a cyclist and fled the scene and got 20 months. According to this, that's at the upper end of what state law allows.
They also have fun with it. Their goal is to waste your time. So even if you have fun with it, you're still boosting the behavior so they can go back to their corners and share it with others, who then also come back.
There's a reason so many spaces just rely on banning. Your time is better spent sharing reasonable articles for the people who actually are semi-coherent, and you're going to have more effect doing that.