also, for google maps I know you can respond to interactions with the supplied points of interest like buildings, including homes, and from that point you can obtain an address via reverse geocoding or some other technique. I expect other mapping tools may have similar abilities but I don't have any experience with anything other than Google.
one of the cases something like this is useful for is when you have user configured saved 'filters' - you can simply pass the stored object into the where clause. I agree if you're doing hard-coded queries on arrays of objects, this may not add a lot. That said, a consistent syntax for doing searches and mapping is useful - projects like lodash have that as part of their api too.
Why does it need to be perfectly accurate? These are examples intended to communicate the principle, not instructions on how to do frequency analysis. This description may be incomplete, but it does make it pretty clear how frequency analysis works in general terms. This criticism seems misplaced to me.
I did the same thing - thinking if I entered a radio frequency, it might find stations with that frequency, perhaps ordered by distance from my location. It would have been fun to see what another radio station with similar frequency to my local (or childhood) favorite, in another part of the world.
One of the individual loads was at this scale. There are multiple 'super loads'. The article doesn't say that a single 'super load' was split up into 18 parts.
I think the suggestion was to use a type of beacon that the automation could lock into for positioning, just replacing the GPS part of the location service, not the driving part. I imagine that would be technically possible, but not worth anyone's time for such an exceptional circumstance.
I don't disagree with the thought that large companies are going to try to use these technologies too, with typical lack of ethics in many cases.
But some of this thinking is a bit like protesting the use of heavy machinery in roadbuilding/construction, because it displaces thousands of people with shovels. One difference with this type of technology is that the means to use it doesn't require massive amounts of capital like the heavy machinery example, so more of those shovel-weilders will be able to compete with those that are only bringing captial to the table.
I can think that better quality audio content generated from text would be a killer application. As someone else mentioned, pipe in an epub, output an audiobook or video game content. With additional tooling (likely via ai/llm analysis), this could enable things like dramatic storytelling with specific character voices and dynamics interpreted from the content of the text.
I can see it empowering solo creators in similar ways that modern music tools enable solo or small-budget musicians today.
I think it's worse than that - as far as I can see it's only moves wealth from one pocket to another. Usually many pockets to few pockets. I've not heard of how it's increasing labor efficiency or enabling completely new capabilities for anyone, with maybe a few minor exceptions. So its really a pretty successful parasite.
I'm too lazy/busy to confirm/test this, but providing a new stacking context on the parent by either by adding a position: relative (or whatever) or adding transform: translateZ(0) (or X or Y) avoids the need to specify every parent's height. Someone less lazy than me could confirm :)
I have a similar experience. About 10 years ago, I had some time on my hands for about 6 months, and answered a bunch of questions, with a small handful of them (3-4) getting a lot of upvotes. I haven't answered a question in years and years, but those same few questions keep getting new upvotes every month, so my progress continues to climb sort of linearly. I'm in the top 7% of contributors this year, while contributing exactly nothing new...
the question I'm replying to was about why the need for fuels at all, not specifically Hydrogen. I'm not big on hydrogen. I like the ideas around ammonia based fuels. Biofuels have other environmental costs that concern some people. Synthetic fuels could serve a purpose, but yes energy cost has to be really low for that to make sense. But they might be the only viable option in some cases.
Obviously costs change the demand side of the equation - it may be that we wind up with very expensive airfare, and have a lot more somewhat slower modes (say high-speed rail) that can more easily use the cheaper energy forms.
This is my approach too. I only ever measure the liquid - water or sometimes water with a bit of milk. And measure is a strong word - I just fill 2 cup measuring cup I have because that gives me enough for two large loaves. It doesn't seem to matter much how much starter you put into the batch, as long as it's 'enough'. I usually almost-empty my partly full quart jar of starter. A glug of oil or a pat of butter, a small palm full of salt. As long as you add flour gradually until you get the desired consistency, you're fine. Maybe you get longer/shorter rising times, but I usually do cool and slow rising for hours and hours so I don't really notice much of a difference there.
Some people wonder how people will adapt to our Mars/Luna underground settlements. These types of places in our northern environments are pretty good examples of people acclimatizing pretty well. Several northern cities have a lot of their downtown area connected by tunnels as well, although not so sure how many residences are connected to those areas.
Efficiency of wind turbines increases with height above 'ground'. I expect for this purpose the top of the tree canopy would be the ground, so turbines would have to be higher by the amount of the forest canopy height, at least. I expect there are more issues with wind flow over tree canopy vs a crop field, but I suspect the height issue alone is enough to make the economics pretty bad.
I suspect many homeowners with a bit of equity would adjust their ammortization period to keep their payments affordable, and then re-adjust it again if rates drop a few years later. When it's time to renew your mortgage you usually have quite a bit of flexibilty.
The people that get hurt the most with increasing interest rates are new home buyers with high-ratio loans, with their amortization already at the maximum. There are definitely some people who get caught in that squeeze and are forced to downsize or right out of the market by those conditions.
Edit: sorry that was a bit snarky. The point is that there are other ways to ensure people have a reasonable lifestyle once their 'working days' are over. Those schemes are probably best to be tied in some way to contributions, but they certainly don't need to be simply a savings plan, they can be a means to provide social support for those that cannot contribute to the same degree as others.