Yes.

Which is why it's bad that the only 3 companies with capacity currently are colluding.

If we can reduce the shockwave from sonic booms that could directly lead to more efficient plane engines. The main current impediment they have is the tips of the turbine blades can only get so close to the speed of sound before they explode from the forces they're experiencing.

Which could have knock-on effects for anything involving an airfoil moving through a fluid. Helicopters, boats, wind turbines, hydro-power, etc.

Better understanding and control of the physics / materials science at the sound barrier would be very good news.

They're publicly traded companies. Their investor meetings point out that HBM is not more profitable.

It is in theory more guaranteed profit because it's a smaller number of bigger contracts. But that's the gamble they're making.

It literally sounds like he'd never seen Texas before. Especially around the big cities it's a car centric hellscape unless you're in some very specific neighborhoods.

I get a lot done with physical buttons and time / condition automations but sometimes it's nice to just do a one off action from the couch.

I've built some md5stack little speaker things and they work okay. Weird audio artifacts sometimes though.

They're trying to say that the guess of the "prediction market" will give early warning to evacuate.

It's been one of their "We're not gambling" defenses but applying it to wildfires really highlights how bonkers it is.

GPS is a passive receiver.

There's processing going on, but you dramatically decrease energy use by just updating less often.

It's not like you're sending a signal to space.

The Honeywell ones are nice and simple and have instructions for whichever number of wires you already have. With stickers for easy labeling as your removing the old one. They have a few models for whichever network you prefer.

The different wires can be intimidating, but they're all standard colors. And your dumb thermostat is already wired with everything you need. The smart one mostly just adds a radio.

The wires are basically: power to the thermostat, ground, and a number of different signal wires for "AC on", "furnace on", etc that when the respective wire gets 5v(?) that device turns on.

Thermostats are very simple devices that just regulate when the high voltage devices should turn on. Things do get a bit more complicated if you have a bigger house with multiple HVAC zones and stuff but most people don't have those. And even if you do, that's mostly just more wires to connect that will already be there.

I agree they're overblowing it for comedy, but holy hell do I hate 'magic links'.

Have them as an option sure. But for everyone with a password manager they're multiple extra steps that make the sign in process clunkier.

If you have 2FA they're actively useless security theater.

Even without the FOMO, some people just want a working device.

It's why leasing cars is attractive to some. They don't care about the specs, they want one that works "well" and looks nice and are willing to give up nebulous "ownership"of a device that they don't know or care how it works, that they can't repair, so they can stop thinking about their choice and just always have a one available.

Thankfully this one is built of many redundant layers instead of just one layer of metal.

It should be. But I would be extremely surprised if everything in the terms of service isn't worded something like "you're buying a license to view this content that can be revoked whenever".