I’ve bought and activated several prepaid phones over the years, paid cash, fake name, no ID. Last was several years ago, idk if you can still do that.

Not news, though important as history.

$25 is too much for a used 1gb pi 3. A new pi 5 with 1gb is $45 and way better. But, most ppl start with a vps.

I see, yeah there is something about it in the blurb. How do you like the tablet? Is it responsive? Is it full of Android bloatware? Do you know if it is rootable?

I see there is a 14 inch version that’s about $300 and that starts to get interesting. It’s not “2nd gen” though. And, I had thought of TCL as a lower tier manufacturer with quality issues, but I hadn’t looked into it much.

I like that the tablet has an SD (probably microSD) slot. Don’t like that there’s no headphone jack. There’s plenty of space in those things compared to a phone.

If anyone was wondering: https://www.tcl.com/us/en/products/mobile/tcl-tab/nxtpaper-11-gen2

11 inch display with 60 hz refresh, but it sounds like regular lcd rather than e-ink? It has an 8000mah battery that it says can run the tablet through a full day, so that’s nothing like an epaper tablet. It sounds more like a drawing tablet, as it has a pressure sensitive pen.

Anyway, I’ve been using Librera FD for reading epubs on Android. Its blurb mentions annotations but I’ve never tried that feature.

I have an Inkplate 10 e-paper tablet but haven’t been using it.

I didn’t realize Hetzner had referral codes. I see https://www.hetzner.com/legal/referrals and think I qualify but am not sure. I’ll see what I can do.

Yes Hetzner has virtual networks. I don’t know how similar they are to AWS or GCP. You should probably check the docs before signing up

Also for cheap processing power, you’re better off with an auction dedi than with their cloud stuff. See hetzner.com/sb . But, I think the referral codes don’t work for that. Also, all the dedi hardware is in EU. US stuff is cloud only.

Added: ok, I have a referral link and will PM it to you.

At minimum there should be a good description of what the video is about, with no clickbait.

Currently known forces splitting at low energies, and hidden 5th force: nobody knows. Physics is an observational science and right now there aren’t any observations that suggest such forces, but never say never.

Star wars force: come on, it’s fiction.

Gravity incompatible with QM: basically, quantum field theories are developed by starting with classical field theories (say electromagnetism) and doing some mathematical transformations called “canonical quantization” and “second quantization” (these have wikipedia articles). In the 1920s through mid-1940s this worked well for electromagnetism, and made good predictions except it broke down at very small scales, giving “infinity” as the answer to calculations that should have been finite. In the late 1940s a scheme called renormalization was developed, that allowed cancelling out the infinities and getting very precise answers. That was called quantum electrodynamics (QED). Later this was extended to the strong and weak nuclear forces, giving the standard model (SM). That was harder, but same basic idea.

The trouble with gravity is that when you perform quantization and then renormalization, the infinities still don’t go away. That’s what the incompatibility means. There are a lot of alternate proposals like string theory to quantize gravity, but it’s all very speculative for now.

As for detecting gravity waves but not gravitons, it’s similar to the situation with visible light. As far back as the 1700s(?) it was possible to combine light beams and see interference patterns, thus confirming the existence of light waves. Light “particles” (photons) are much harder to detect and I think this was first done convincingly by Einstein’s explanation of Brownian motion around 1900 (before relativity). Current gravity wave detection works by measuring interference, if I understand correctly.

Disclaimer: I’m no expert and I haven’t made any progress in understanding this stuff beyond the handwaving level that you see above.

Added: you might like John Baez’s videos about the standard model, https://www.youtube.com/@johncarlosbaez_edinburgh

There are some suggestions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38879188

Here too: https://github.com/zepingyu0512/awesome-llm-understanding-mechanism

As for intelligence, that’s complicated. I can’t find the URL I want right now but maybe later.

Stack exchange?

Magnatune still exists but they want you to buy a one time all you can eat membership.

I cared about audio more as an inexperienced listener than I do now that I can play stuff in my head.

“The FCC this week released its latest totals. There were 4,730 licensed noncoms or “educational FMs” at the end of September,”

Yeah college stations usually just want local coverage. I don’t think non-commercial AM has ever been much of a thing. Among other things AM likely costs more to operate because of the higher transmit power required. Also, FM is better for music because of better audio. AM is fine for news, traffic.

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Not privacy and tbh kind of creepy.

You mean the person can read and write, but is bad at voice communication? Maybe a hearing problem?

No you can’t. Only the top level comments are sorted, not the nested ones.

Is this blurry on purpose?

digital photo frame seems like an ideal way to do that.

What? What’s wrong with either just putting them on a web album and letting the family browse them, or else sending actual physical prints? I certainly wouldn’t want a digital frame in my living room with someone else controlling what it was showing.

I used to think Progresso was ok, and sometimes went on sale relatively cheap. The main thing I still get in cans now though is TJ corn kernels.