It's already happened, people just haven't realized. iCE40-UP5K costs a few bucks, needs minimal support circuitry, and is supported by FOSS toolchains (yosys). Fun packages like the pico-ice bring it all the way down to the entry-level arduino crowd. It just doesn't have the marketing mindshare.

Now imagine if you paid for a giant wind project that never produced a Joule. Great for energy prices.

It's a matter of national security that the public not know the government is illegitimate.

My spidey sense in this tingled many years ago and I pulled back from most social media platforms. This is a fun reminder that I'm still very visible.

I do enjoy its predictions.

https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/willis936

>Your frustration with LGA socket reliability will finally boil over, leading you to move to a cabin in Mexico where you only communicate via GPS-disciplined atomic clocks and ham radio SDRs.

Not at all obvious. I'm not sure why HN comments are overlooking that the killer was the same age, from the same country, and studied at the same undergrad university as the MIT professor while starting a graduate degree in the same field. We don't know the exact nature, but it is difficult to believe that these points are not highly involved with the motive.

But pretty high on the list that NIST NTP is important for (since it leaves the building through the internet).

If NIST NTP goes down, the internet doesn’t go down. But atomic clocks drifting does upset many scientific experiments, which would effectively go down for the duration of the outage.

Also, I forgot to mention that NIST offers (and many institutions use) a service that provides a local rubidium reference that is GPS disciplined and they give you monthly reports that tell you the offset of the timestamps that were reported so they can be corrected. These services did not suffer interruptions.

This is the reason GP listed out all the alternative robust NTP services that are GPS disciplined, freely available, and used as redundant sources by any responsible timekeeper.

What atomic clocks are disciplined by NTP anyway? Local GPS disciplining is the standard. If you're using NTP you don't need precision or accuracy in your timekeeping.

Assuming some pass through non-empty media, isn't it technically possible?

What about entangled qubits?

Where do profits fall? In several quarters when users vote with their wallet and let you know about your decisions to disrespect them and reduce their trust in you. It isn't about maximizing profits, otherwise they wouldn't make shortsighted choices. It's cashing in on goodwill that took decades to build. We are a far cry from "only the paranoid survive".

If you lower the standard to such a level that every “wallet vote” would actually be worse, how does one cast ones vote then?

Does Android have less ads? Which company does hardware integration so well? What are the alternative to an Apple tech stack?

So in the end, the consumer is left to sucking it up, counting their shareholder profits and suffering on a remote island in the sun.

Buying a used pixel and flashing grapheneOS is the only refuge for now. We'll have to hold out for the SteamPhone.

I use this one. I've witnessed so much time wasted on broken shit being shipped. Tie your shoelaces and you won't trip on them.