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This. Lived in Santa Clara. SVP is the best utility in California.
Put a tax on the value of land instead of the property improvements. Then you'll start to see some wealth flow away from the UHNWIs.
If you have a mixer at 48KHz you'll get minor quantization noise but if it's compressed already it's not going to do any more damage than compression already has.
Yep. Sure. Going to let a Russian utility fuck with winlogon.exe. Excellent idea.
There are also other ways to store energy. For polar regions sand batteries are capable of storing heat for months. High grade heat to the point they can siphon off that heat for power generation.
Yes you can. If you had an array of ultrasonic transducers around the body you could have each of them in phase targeting a single spot. Beamforming is a thing we've been doing for years with RF. It's even more trivial with sound.
18 year old me couldn't appreciate how beautiful a language it is but in my 40s I finally do.
Yes! I would kill to get Ada's number range feature in Rust!
Some of us are able to navigate the minefield through a lot of hard won experience acquired over years if not decades. I lived through the J2ME era with compromised JARs, premium rate scams, carriers monopolizing things, and all the bullshit that came along with it. The App Store, for all its MANY faults basically solved all that for normal people in one fell swoop.
A lot of people aren't going to realize what they might be giving up until it's too late. Apple is at least trying to mitigate this by keeping as much processing as possible on device and trying to secure those devices as best they can. For a lot of people who aren't technically inclined this is a godsend. DMA somewhat counteracts that because it forces Apple to give up some of the control that is keeping these bad actors at bay.
Perspective is always so interesting. I’ve never thought of anything 130 million light years to be nearby but on a universe spanning scale it kind of is.