So in other words; Mercedes-Benz was the peak, and he was estimating a decline trajectory slower than the rise.
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Back to the drawing board.
Seeding is opt-out, not opt-in… but it is usually a default that has to actively manually overridden. Most users never touch those settings. The average pirate downloading a torrent is seeding whether they know it or not.
The protocol absolutely does not enforce seeding. A client can lie to the tracker, cap upload to 0k. BitTorrent has no mechanism to compel one to share. Leeching a file, downloading and sharing no forward packets is possible. While the "social contract" of seeding is entirely a norm enforced by private trackers and community shame. It is not the protocol itself.
Unknown compound ATM.
After reading the article, it appears clear that the the administration advisers are saying the new housing plan would let buyers tap 401(k) funds for a home down payment without the usual early-withdrawal penalty. Germany has something very similar to this policy and it has been widely lauded as a success.
My take: For median-income households, the plan under discussion would let individuals pull money from a 401(k) for a home down payment withoutl penalty or taxes, helping buyers overcome the big upfront cost that often stands between them and their first home. Because 401(k) loans or withdrawals today generally trigger substantial taxes and penalties if you’re under 59.5 years old, this change could meaningfully reduce that barrier and broaden the access to homeownership immediately upon enactment. Beyond just tapping savings, the advisers are speculating the administration might include a mechanism to reinvest home equity back into the 401(k) retirement account over time, for example, by allowing a portion of home value growth to count as an asset inside the 401(k) so that the account “grows” alongside the house, offsetting retirement savings losses caused by the withdrawal. Those mechanics, like how much can be withdraw, whether there are caps or limits, how repayment would work, or whether it applies only to first-time buyers, are still being worked out and haven’t been finalized so Caveat emptor; this is speculation on my part based on the read. I like the idea and I'll be contacting my US state representatives with my endorsement and recommendations including the proposed first-time buyer restriction.
My personal world changed when I discovered Nix On Droid and cloned my personal Claude Code flake which uses pnpm to keep a rolling bleeding edge version with revision controlled dots. I started using Nvim /avante and open router shortly after that, also via Nix on Droid. Game changer for those long subway rides.
I was working in studios around Europe in the late '90s and if you said "Logic" in a studio context, you were certainly talking about Emagic Logic, and "PC" didn't mean a Windows box. In that era, particularly in France, "PC" was often used colloquially to mean any Atari ST or Falcon, which had been the backbone of European electronic music production for a decade. Given Daft Punk's roots in the French house scene and the timing of Homework's production (1996-97), there's a strong chance they were running Emagic Logic on Atari hardware, because at the time, the ports of this program to other platforms were garbage and were not to be trusted.
The lineage of the software is an entire saga unto itself. What became Apple Logic started life as C-Lab Notator on the Atari ST in the late '80s which dominated Euro electronic music. In late 1992, after a dispute with C-Lab's owners, the core developers, one of whom was Apple's own Gerhard Lengeling, walked out and founded Emagic. They rewrote everything from scratch as Notator Logic, which eventually dropped the Notator prefix and just became Logic.
Around '02, Apple came knocking and swallowed the whole operation. They immediately killed the Windows version, and dropped the Emagic branding entirely with Logic Pro 7. Like I said, Gerhard Lengeling is still at Apple, now their 'Senior Director of Software Engineering for Musical Applications' according to his LinkedIn.
> > So we've never actually made music with computers! [laughs] Neither Homework nor Discovery nor even Human After All were made with computers.
> Was he contradicting himself from 12 years before? Or did he forget? Or maybe it's a terminology thing?
The thing is—and this is coming from someone who has been making electronic dance music daily for over 35 years and counting—when Bangalter spoke earlier in their career about a PC (likely an Atari ST or Falcon) it was being used as a MIDI / SMPTE timepiece and master sequencer, nothing more. Later when he speaks about never making music with a computer, the context of the discussion has changed, as by that time computers were becoming more accomplished at DSP. The comment he is making is that they didn't use computers for audio domain tasks, like Pro Tools, Digital Audio Workstation type action.
That said, computers were still deeply embedded in their workflow just not in the way most modern producers would recognize. Even the SSL 9000 J console at the heart of their studio relied on an onboard computer system for total recall, automation, and channel configuration. The distinction Bangalter draws is really about where the actual audio lived: in 12-bit sampler memory, on tape and through analog audio circuits, not as samples and waveforms being crunched inside a CPU. The computer was a conductor, not a performer.
Interface stats are cumulative since boot (eg: not real-time), mDNSResponder traffic includes all historical Bonjour activity. utun tunnels are standard iCloud/VPN infrastructure. Shannon-Hartley math proves WiFi can move data, not that anything covert is happening.
“It resembles a normal hammer but is outfitted with an little motor and an flexible head part which moves back and forth in a hammering motion, sparing the user from moving his or her own hand to hammer something by their own force and by so making their job easier”
Carbon fouling is also a major block to scale. 15-20% of carbon deposits as soot on reactor walls. At a 1MW scale thats 15-30 kg/h of crud degrading the catalytic heat transfer. Continuous cleaning or scheduled downtime would drive OPEX out of possible realities.
Hot hydrogen loops are a son-of-a-bitch and equal continuous embrittlement of pipes, valves, pumps. Seals that work at temperature. H2 Leak detection. Some real heavyweight process safety engineering here.
The reactor chemistry is solved. The paper proves it works.
The scale-up is where clean-tech startups go to burn money and die.