clickbait article, really useless content. chinese people overseas can’t access their favourite apps and music. they use a vpn to regain that access. is this even worth an article, yet alone a topic on HN?
OP here. Yes, the article itself it somewhat vague but I found the implications relevant and thought others would also. We tend to view and focus on the use of cryptographic privacy tech like VPN's as a way to escape or bypass a more restrictive environment to a less restrictive one but the inverse is just as societally significant and necessary.
He says 35k km over 3 years so nearly 12,000km per year. He claims gas is $360 per year. That would get you about 5,000km in a small car like he describes. He’s obviously understated the gas cost, probably by leaving out the larger than normal costs when taking the longer trips to the beach/wife’s family. $30 (400km) of usage a month driving to the shops/short trips sounds about right.
In particular, serie 36 is for the LTE RAN (radio access network) while series 38 is for the NR (~5G) RAN. But other series are relevant, for the core and services parts among (many) other things.
All the specs are publicly accessible, and also the change requests (CR) submitted for discussion at the standardization meetings, as well as the minutes. From a spec page you can get to its history and the related CRs. Now of course, there are side discussions but the process is still very open in practice. But it's really huge, don't really expect to make sense of it with a little casual looking around. It takes some real time investment and commitment.
Another point to keep in mind: the cellular industry has one of the most demanding certification process for consumer grade devices. And operators often add on top of this. You don't want buggy devices messing up a shared medium, particularly when it's a scarce resource in many places (high density urban area at peak time). If designing a cellular modem is hard, making it go successfully through certification and also work well in the field and pass the tiers 1 operators field trials (drive tests in particularly harsh locations) and interoperability tests is even harder.
A lot of people miss this part. It takes millions in test equipment just to get ready to enter certification, and that's not the main cost. Even if it's painful, it's also important to make sure things work reasonably well in such complex, multi-parties systems. Which is why certification is legally required to operate in many places (e.g.: Europe requires GCF certification). There are open implementation of LTE, but none certified and legally usable in the field because of this.
At the beginning of my corporate career I was working on implementing LTE layer1 (PHY) in internal testing tool. It sometimes took us weeks to understand a single page from the specification - those were fun times ;)
I struggle with the last one, I make time for family and two somewhat close friends but I have a really bad tendency to cut off/not keep relstionships that have no obvious immediate or even long term benefit be it similar interests etc. I always have to change gyms every 8 months because it after that it becomes too awkward further avoiding conversations with people you see most of the week. If I talk to him once, that means I would have to talk to/greet him everytime i visit. If i did that for just a dozen people thats 25% of the time spent in the gym gone like that. This thought process takes over in many other situations including the workplace. I once avoided this guy at an agency I worked on a clshort term contract, he wasn't on my team/area so I used to kind of ignore(?)/not strike a conversation. I found out 4 months later he was the CEO on the project retrospect meeting. All four of the other contractors were given extensions except me. I know 100% it wasn't performance related because my team lead fully expected me to be back but told me it was a decided by "top management".
I am in my late 20s and have asked one women out, a few years ago (fwiw she turned out to be a lesbian). For me to approach a women she would have to be wife potential. Why would i waste time & money with some women with no potential (with me)? I have friends that do this and it confuses me, they they theyd never wife her and complain about wasting a whole weekended wasted together, but do it just for the sex. I've tried sex and it was unbelievably and depressingly underwhelming. Sex with condoms is a huge scam on men. I'd much rather jerk off at home.
This cavalier, selfish and aloof attitude is one I am 100% limit my career and happiness but I really doubt I will change.
> I always have to change gyms every 8 months because it after that it becomes too awkward further avoiding conversations with people you see most of the week. I
Just say hi and talk a minute in the beginning. Put your headphones in.
When you go heavy on the bench, you can ask someone at least.
-- I think a long time ago, I used to be like you ( not that extreme). But I started going out and quickly changed my behavior. The small overhead of saying hello and being nice in general, makes it less obvious that you filter out successful people ( sometimes).
Or the small talk with other people, when something is happening. You are the point of reference. Not someone who never says hello
I don't think enquiring about the welfare of the kid is out of line. A simple 'he is living with a relative', 'foster care' would have sufficed and would not be a breach of privacy. You told an interesting story and it's completely natural people are curious how the situation unfolded.
The story is about the father, the fact that he had a child figured into his reasoning (and in the wrong way) which is why I mentioned it.
It's a small world and not all curiosity is good, the basic story does not change and the whereabouts of the child are about as private a piece of information that I possess.
I'm interested to try flutter out on chromeos, I might get a chromebox, the acer and hp i5 U series are the recommended ones for Android development.
Developing flutter without the need for a simulator or a phone connected via usb, is cool. Maybe the next step is develope android flutter apps on android.
With regards PWAs, maybe more so on mobile, flutter apps are AOT, Ahead Of Time, compiled for release so they should have better start up times than apps that run on a vm.
I have a habit of continuing to drink when I have a glass of water in my mind. It refreshes my mind. So everytime I pick up the bottle, I drink nearly half of it just because it completely refreshes me.
So, its not really sipping but massive gulps every 10/20 mins or so.
I've seen them drop the name numerous times before. I have no problem with Polar (other than it not working for me at all), but constantly seeing the link dropped makes it feel a bit Ad-y and, especially on HN, people tend to distrust /be annoyed by people doing this.
