jyoung8607
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- The controllable shutoff valves are already a thing, on the market. They even measure flow rates and look for slow leaks and notify you in an app.
Draining the pipes isn't that simple, and even if you did, you still have things like a water heater, toilets, softeners, filters, and expansion tanks. You also wouldn't get the water sitting in drain traps; winterizing a house or RV involves pouring a little RV antifreeze down each drain.
- It's genuinely a very similar problem. The max round trip latency before polite humans start having trouble talking over each other has been well studied since the origins of the Bell Telephone system. IIRC we really like it to be under about 300ms.
AI has processing delay even if run locally. In telephony the delays are more speed-of-light dictated. But the impact on human interactive conversation is the same.
That's hand-waving away quite a lot. The task changes from serving a copy of a file on disk, as every other image format in common use, to needing a transcoding pipeline more akin to sites like YouTube. Technically possible, but lots of extra complexity in return for what gain?