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send an unending chain of them and you solve the transmission problem _and_ they don't have to slow down as you'll always have another on the way past whatever you're targeting
couldn't it be different when scanning becomes very cheap and quick and it's the delta over n scans that gives signal?
Could you explain more? It appears economically self evident to me that it would improve the situation but I'm not in the industry and there's probably much I don't understand.
I would say that improving transmission seems like a much better solution but again I think zonal pricing can help there as it could then be more easily sold to the public as being able to import the cheaper (say) Scottish energy to your local zone, whereas at the moment there's no apparent direct cost associated with blocking pylon projects forever.
it is insane to me that they rejected moving to zonal pricing. zonal pricing would give incentive to move power demand closer to production, create costs to nimby-ism, and give the benefits of lower costs to those who live closer. but it might make energy cost more down here in the south east and (in particular) London while benefiting the North and Scotland so we can't have that
0 based is much simpler for any mathematical calculation done with the indexes. only reasons I can think where you need to handle it is when getting the last index from the length of the array or when interacting with the user. With 1-based you'll need to subtract or add 1 all over the place when doing almost anything
I will always have a case that has a cut-out for the camera so it still lays flat and it's otherwise thinner (or the case is thicker and thus more protective) than it would be if the camera didn't stick out slightly
yeah I had a deep fake Kier Starmer tell me about some investment opportunity with guaranteed returns.
the best author-read audiobook I've listened to recently has been Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky[0]. He did a really good job and I would never have guessed it was the author himself. As you say, it's a very different and difficult job.
it's 2 hours
I had a joint account with an ex who now lives abroad and I no longer have contact with.
I talked to the bank and there was no way to close the account without both of us present.
Recently they released a chat bot on their app and so I asked it to close the account and the bot did it for me! That's the best success I've had with a CS bot.
Possibly the policy changed in the mean-time or the lack of activity in the account for several years allowed it to happen (though the humans never told me after x years of inactivity I'd be able to close it)
"if you multiply by 1 it's always the same so that's pointless - I should remove that"
Dual failure of the locking mechanism is extremely unlikely. These are not switches that are regularly used so a muscle memory issue also seems very unlikely (but is still the most likely non-suicide scenario)
I played this a few years ago.
Despite being born in the UK to a British father my character wasn't previously British due to parents being unmarried and being born after 1983 but before the 2006 rules update.
I'm not totally sure when but I think some time in the 2010s the 2006 update became retroactive so my character was allowed to play. Didn't have to do too many side quests - the main one was retrieving father's birth certificate.
My character also had to attend the endgame ceremony and swear allegiance to the queen, which seemed odd for someone born in the country and lived here all his life
pretty sure it's just a hash of some text they can reveal later, to prove that they had something at this point in time. not referring to any release or commit
Very nice but I keep losing my progress on a game with swipe gestures on android accidentally triggering back functionality when I pull a card from right to left, even with installed PWA version
I'll stick with my hoverbarrow, don't need all this AI stuff. https://youtu.be/OmJ-8JMw_l4
it took me a moment to remember where I knew that name from. I only knew of him from his science fiction, co-authoring the Rama sequels with Arthur C Clarke
I always thought that desalination of sea water was too energy expensive to be worth it but apparently it's only about 3 kWh/m^3, meaning for an average water consumption of 150l/day you're looking at under 0.5kWh per person per day - about 5c (us) at Mexico's electricity prices.
Obviously it's not something that can be implemented in the next month in Mexico, but the long term outlook for water supply in a future hotter world is not as dire as I thought.
The UAE gets the majority of its water already through desalination: https://u.ae/en/information-and-services/environment-and-ene...
I remember convincing my dad to get a 3dfx voodoo2 because I really wanted to run UltraHLE. That was a seriously impressive emulator
I think it's just the "s" that got added: "the air is unable to [...] stay attached"
surprisingly there is a very similar precedent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiter_(simulator)
something about space fight simulators perhaps
Nice rogue-lite, got to level 10 before dying multiple times and giving up
Some of the earliest experiments in this area were for the US army in the 1950s:
Wikipedia has a quite detailed history section: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
https://360gigapixels.com/london-320-gigapixel-panorama/
Reminded me of this super high resolution panorama photo from it. I think it was a quite impressive achievement at the time (2012)
ground speed doesn't matter. if something comes off the aircraft it'll be in the same relative air current
the display would also need to show what's getting sent to other aircraft, because that's useful situational awareness for the pilots that would be lost if the messages were directed. accidents have been avoided by pilots noticing conflicting instructions being given by ATC
with this kind of spinning display you'd need to multiply the frame rate you want by the angular resolution you want. So if you're happy with only 20 different angular views and only a 20fps refresh rate of the 3d display then that's 400fps required of the flat display
that happened during the first test I believe
yes this was my observation, since the ones outside my house were replaced I have much less light into my house and I can see the stars. I assumed it must be some factor of the LED design that makes it easier to direct downwards though