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As soon an number porting is available, I'll be signing up for a Pro plan.

Been using Google Voice for _years_ and it's only gotten worse.

I know that the whole schtick is that you don't need an app, but is one on the table for Android? Things like native integration with the Dialer and Notifications are a strong candidate for a native integration.

Oh. And JP phone numbers, but that's a stretch goal.


> native integration with the Dialer and Notifications

“Native integration” as in?

Notifications on webapps aren’t a foreign concept today, either.


Native integration with the dialer would mean that when I dial a number in the _stock_ dialer, then it allows you to select the dialing-account/SIM to use.

Notifications are cool, but having the ability to filter the categories of different types of notifications, or from different users, is also something that can't be done via Webapps/PWA.


> is also something that can't be done via Webapps/PWA

It can be offered by the settings of the PWA,

and the way things are going,

will be required as part of a PWA manifest for major vendors’ browsers (Chrome, Edge, Safari) soon.


The app is in the making, and it turns out it's needed for some customers.

Will put the number porting on our radar very soon.


Man, they're having a hell of a time up in Boulder.


I mean, have you seen "TF Card" slots?


I’ve been waiting for the “TF card” version of HDMI for a while.


Given the swath of sensors that Japan has, and the long history of a lot of them. I do wonder what the result of training off their datasets would be.


Welcome to the world of NIMBYism.

It's not impossible to do things, but people (in the US) are extremely resistant to any kind of perceived change or self sacrifice.

It's a common story for any kind of infrastructure project in the US.


Why does it cost so much though?


There's lots of reasons, among them:

Overhead distribution wires are insulated primarily by air and distance; wires in the ground need more material and cost to be insulated from the ground and each other. That insulation and the ground is likely to trap heat; in urban settings, it's common to have fluid filled underground cables to manage heat, but I don't know how necessary/viable that is in rural areas.

Construction is more expensive and invasive. Rather than clearing to ground level every so often for towers and then managing (or not) tall trees between towers, you've got to clear to ground level for trenching. I'm pretty sure you can't lay distribution lines with directional drilling like you can with communications cables; you've also got to do a lot of specialized fill around the cables themselves.

Maintenance is more expensive; you need to keep the ground above the cable clear, so that it's possible to access when needed, and so tree roots don't mess with your cable.

Repairs are more expensive and time consuming: damage could be hidden, and anyway you need to dig to repair breaks or replace sections of wires. This one trades off with the expectation that underground wires will require fewer repairs.

Connecting is more expensive; underground utilities may require digging to access.


> Maintenance is more expensive; you need to keep the ground above the cable clear, so that it's possible to access when needed, and so tree roots don't mess with your cable.

They tend to keep the ground cleared under high voltage transmission lines too.


California - everything is too expensive



Wouldn't removing the watermark be a ToS violation? Not only that, it's explicit goal of "social posts without the AI generated label" is kinda the reason why the watermark is there, to allow users to understand that the content _isn't_ real.


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Disc: Foreigner in Japan

I'm personally not a fan of her policies. Tax cuts won't solve the fact that Japan still has one of the highest debt to GDP in the world, and will only make the Yen weaker in the global economy.

Sometimes, you have to rip off the band-aid (Low taxes) in order to get better (stronger Yen).


Japan low taxes?


Not really an L for web services, since the caches would just end up near the VPN locations (and sometimes inside the same DC).

Disclaimer: Former YT Engineer.


Would be interested to see a cost breakdown for the ECR vs S3 and compute cost.


Unless I totally misread it, it's their own S3 cluster


ECR is kind of hard to beat if you're ok with being in the cloud.

The last time I used it earlier this year for a company already on AWS, it was ~$3 / month per region to store 8 private repos and it was really painless to have a flexible and automated life cycle policy that deleted old image tags. It supports cross region replication too. All of that comes without maintenance or compute costs and if you're already familiar with Terraform, etc. you can automate all of that in a few hours of dev time.


It depends where the the compute resources using these images are located.


So, I do wonder.

Daikin's Japanese units have support for EchoNet, a "source available" protocol.

Is anyone able to test if any of the international units have this enabled?

EchoNet Home Assistant: https://github.com/scottyphillips/echonetlite_homeassistant


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