i would imagine to make life of the statisticians downstream easier

We should have a consumer Coop for computer hardware, so that we can negotiate prices and availability.

How much more innovation can this tiny slice of 2.4GHZ spectrum support?

It’s wild to me just how much Bluetooth can do. When it was new my mental model had it binned as a “basic comms within 10 feet”.

Last week my kid got to the bus stop before “Controller Disconnected” revealed the PS5 controller was in his backpack.

I wonder if "controller disconnected" is a combination of distance and time.

Meaning he got 25 feet away when communication stopped, then there was a delay while retries/timeout happened, and then the message when 100 feet away.

Good thought. I’ll test this with a faraday cage maybe? Would a microwave work? Does it have to be on?

you could just walk slow vs walk fast?

That sounds less electrifying.

Why do you assume innovation and new frequencies are all that related. There are some things new frequencies can help with. Higher bandwidth, lower congestion, but there's also problems with penetration and range. Meanwhile, the protocol itself is packed with modes and features.

Range is a great metric to advertise. Like a cord on a tool that is 30% too short, bluetooth could air clean audio a little further. 300 feet in open air helps with field practice, yard work, etc. where transmitter is further.

It's a joke?

Excuse me?

The post you replied to is a joke

I'm continually astounded at how well it works. I've forgotten my phone in the basement and walked all the way up to the third floor of a building without having the audio I was listening to on my BT earbuds drop out.

Higher bands are coming. Probably a long time before you will see it in a consumer device though.

Sign of times; we have trained millions of MBA monkeys and they have infiltrated everywhere. just see what a cesspool linkedin is.

And we might see more organizations prioritizing substance over spreadsheets

sponsored by makers of advil and tylenol ?

Mac mini is a server?

Anything is a server long as it is not end-client frontend facing.

Raspberry Pi is a server too... For home automation.

Registered for it. it's sponsored by intel, interestingly.

It's about 230 miles from West Lafayette Ind to Columbus Oh where Intel is building their new 20B fab. I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

Purdue is an engineering school and has an existing electrical engineering and nanotechnology departments. Indiana has a stronger biotech presence but they could support chip fabs. But like the rest of the rust belt/midwest, manufacturing has been hollowed out since the 80s.

> I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant.

Not just at Intel's Ohio fab, but across the nation as part of a much broader onshoring movement[1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31756704

Can we run these computers in space using tiny nuclear reactors where water cooling won't be necessary?

Absolutely we can, nice idea - although Antarctica might be more economically viable. Not that the water concern is at all legitimate.

Interesting, but A35 is grossly underperforming, and is an efficiency core.

Interesting! I guess they might also return back to FIVR when the CPU voltage regulators were integrated into the chip silicon. (Haswell / Broadwell)