I tried that a while back. It's not a great option just for builds. It only supports dedicated instances, with a minimum lifetime of 24 hours. That means it'll cost you a minimum of about $15 to use one. In addition, you can't stop and start them. If you want to stop paying $15 - $37 per day for it, you have to delete the instance.

For accuracy, it was written in FOCAL, not BASIC.

Thanks, my mistake!

10.x.x.x has over 24 million addresses. Nobody has that many IoT devices.

Doesn't 10.x.x.x only have 255x255x255=16 million addresses? Still a lot through.

Yes. In between thinking about it and writing it down I confused “24 bits” and “16.78 million.”

NAT is a workaround, not a fix.

“640KB ought to be enough for anyone”

…if you find it?

DOCSIS?

The Pacific Science Center in Seattle, WA, USA has a Tide Generating Machine[1] attached to their Puget Sound Model[2] - it calculates the tides, and then runs pumps/opens drains to make the physical model act like the predictions.

[1]: https://www.flickr.com/photos/ideonexus/5970013589/ [2]: https://pacificsciencecenter.org/exhibit/puget-sound-model/

> pile

I see what you did there

I don’t understand why it’s taking the “legacy” automakers so long to respond. This is basic Innovator’s Dilemma strategy - and yet none have a cheap EV yet?

presumably you don't get to be 'legacy' if you are big on selling cheap products

The way innovators erode a legacy company’s advantage is by attacking an area they aren’t worrying about. Usually, that’s cost (“Japanese cars”, x86 supercomputers), but sometimes it’s speed, power, or convenience (Amazon.com in the 90s). Car companies have had plenty of warning about cheap EVs, but the only relatively cheap ones I know about are the (discontinued) Chevy Volt, the base Tesla Model 3, and the Volvo EX30 that just came out (surprise! it’s Chinese).

This podcast is for a later-stage competitor (Form Energy), but it explains a lot of the broad strokes around the size of the problem, and why iron-air is a good solution for multi-day grid-scale energy storage: https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/whats-your-problem/the-cutti...