Thank god. The only remaining failure mode I’ve seen with LE certs recently is API key used to manipulate DNS records for the DNS-01 challenge via some provider (Cloudflare etc.) expiring or being disabled during improper user offboarding.
According to videos published they still seem to be flying drones manually, so won't additional latency introduced by the cellular network & repeaters make this really hard / impossible?
I don’t have a link handy but one of the videos I saw on Twitter looked like there was pretty bad latency. Once they got to the target aircraft they went into a hover and very slowly set it down on the wing before the FPV feed froze.
In most of the videos I've seen there are failsafe warnings on the screen indicating a loss of GPS, which I'm not surprised at all about. Russia's well-known for having GPS jammers, and having them on-site at an airforce base when the enemy they've been fighting is using drones is just common sense. The video I linked to really looks to me like it's being stick flown with IMU stabilization but probably without Pos Hold.
Exploding on impact is a mature tech for things like shells, but it requires building a mechanism into the shell so that it won't explode before it is fired.
If the drone will be controlled by a human operator till the end, then it might win for the drone design to avoid the complexity of a sensor to detect impacts and of the aforementioned mechanism.
Also, landing on an airplane wing is easier to train for and to test than a mission plan that involves a drone that explodes on impact.
Have you checked the latency on modern cell networks lately?
I had a friend who was gaming on his phone that was tethered to his desktop about a decade ago and after he disabled some power saving stuff in the settings on android he was getting a reasonable 100ms ping that had negligible jitter.
Japan Post represents only a portion of shipping providers in Japan, for our idea to work others will need the same privileged access to the system: Yamato, Sagawa etc.
This will also require to alter the package label on the last mile because requiring the courier to scan every package or letter before they could even see an apartment number will slow things down to a crawl.
The relabeling to show the actual address is something that carriers are already doing for C2C marketplaces and their anonymous shipping features already.
It solves an issue of Japanese addressing system being a total mess. There is basically a wild wild west when it comes to the address part on most of the ecommerce sites in Japan: some offer address auto-complete via zip code, some don't; some require a building name, some don't; and the address itself may be written down in different ways. Having a source of truth in a form of a provider which has vested interest in keeping the address uniformly correct on entry is god sent here.
> almost all employers will pay for employees to commute by public transport but not by car, because the government heavily incentivises them to do so
Could you clarify this? To my knowledge only 2 things that could qualify as incentive exist:
- commuting allowances are not considered taxable income for employee
- commuting allowance could be used to reduce tax base for the business
But this is not something I'd call 'heavily'.
My understanding is that commute is universally covered as this is an expected job benefit in Japan, and commuting by car is disencouraged in cities due to the increased insurance liability (as commuting time could be considered work time and injuries incurred to 3rd party will expose the company to liability as well).
> To my knowledge only 2 things that could qualify as incentive exist:
> - commuting allowances are not considered taxable income for employee
> - commuting allowance could be used to reduce tax base for the business
> But this is not something I'd call 'heavily'.
They do both those things, so commute costs are a free tax discount. But they also just tell companies directly that they want them to act in a certain way, and the companies generally fall into line. While the zaibatsu have nominally disappeared, there are still very close ties between the politicians and big businesses in Japan.
Not only more expensive to produce and recycle, but the gates have to be extremely complex to handle paper tickets (some railway museums in Japan have them cross-cut on display!).
Please don't read too much into it. Outside of the peak demand at least here, in Kansai area, gates will close when they sense you approaching to indicate that you actually need to touch the card or insert a ticket. They stay open only if there is a continuous flow of passengers going one after another.
Another interesting fact is that gates' actuators are not super rigid and it's completely possible to force enter not realizing in time your card has failed (you will be approached by station attendant though).
To summarize, culture may play a role but the main differentiator is the high traffic volume.
It's nowhere near the 'same form factor'. I'm taking switch to me in almost every trip and I have taken steam deck once and had regret it deeply (too bulky, too noisy, hot and barely lasts a couple of hours).
I had a (dis)pleasure of running multiple Synology units in a business setting. They do die out on you like everything else if not more frequent, the QC is generally non-existent.
Synology's biggest reliability issue was when they used the Intel Atom C2000 CPUs. Designs with those CPUs have a 100% failure rate on the longer term (not just Synology, everything with it, Cisco was hit hard too). There's a workaround by soldering on some resistors to pull up some marginal line that will fix dead units.
It never really went away. Last decade is truly a golden age marked by the *arr suite of tools, most of them are better maintained than an average streaming app.
As with many tools there are forums (reddit, etc) and wiki's - you might start with an arr-wiki: https://wiki.servarr.com/en/radarr, your mileage may vary (I've been aware of the suite for years and talk with people that use them, but haven't felt the need myself so far).
