This is about the 50th time studies have shown moderate drinking doesn't help.
I don't hope that moderate drinking will help me. I just want to be sure that my alcohol consumption (3-4 glasses of wine per week) is not bad for my health. You know, I really like to have a glass of red wine or two with a good meal.
Third, RF today is much harder than it was even a few years ago. Every form of digital wireless is more complex and is operating on more bands than ever. Establishing parity with existing vendors is a monumental task and shortfalls are highly likely.
This is probably true if you intend to support all previous technologies (2G, 3G, Edge, and so on).
It may be much easier to do if you "just" plan to implement 5G (and maybe 4G also?). This requires patience, until the coverage is good enough.
And it would be very Apple-like to pull the plug on ancient technologies. Do I need to make a list ?
France has good railroad coverage, but it also has very frequent railway strikes. I was trapped in Toulouse for several days trying to get on an outbound flight during one of these -- the trains all were stopped.
And you think that air traffic in France is not also plagued by strikes
I even had a flight from Switzerland to Spain that was canceled because of a strike in France (air traffic control)
Besides that, TGV has its own luggage search with metal detectors and additional safety theater so you get to stay in line again.
I have taken the TGV a few times a year during the last few decades and never saw any lugagge search.
Hopefully someday, we will get all of our electricity from the sun and wind. Until then, despite the myriad of problems with nuclear energy, it's either that or violent wars over fossil fuels. So, uh, yeah, build baby build.
If you decide today to build a nuclear reactor, it might take 15-20 years until it produces electricity (although the pure construction time might be shorter). Probably much less in a country like China, but here we are talking about Sweden.
When you see how quickly solar energy has been progressing in the last few years, there is a fair chance that in 15-20 years it will be your "hopefully someday". Starting today a nuclear project is a huge (and risky) bet.
They don't want to be assaulted by the diversity.
This says a lot about you, and nothing about french trains.
My normie friends are making Signal groups like mad
Most of my "normie" friends also use Signal; however, making Signal groups is much harder, because nearly everybody has a WhatsApp account. Bottom line : I use Signal for most of direct messages, and WhatsApp for group messages...
This is the situation in Europe, it might be different elsewhere.
FWIW: jabber is still around, you can stand up your own server and use a gpg enabled client if that's what you need.
And Signal will more conveniently do the job for "normal" people.
You've obviously never done any serious astronomy.
Time is far harder to get right in systems than many people assume. You have the time zones, daylight savings problems that everyone knows about. Then you have the event logs from multiple systems where the order of events makes no sense if someone's time stamps drift. And what if your time has drifted and you have timers and events that are supposed to go off during the drift interval. And don't get me started with events that go off during the shift in daylight savings. Or hourly billing when a day has 25 hours in it. And then there are leap seconds. I have to have a table somewhere saying which days they occurred so that my time since epoch matches human billing time. Except that table needs to be updated when a new leap second is added. Will I even be employed at the company the next time there is a leap second so as to create an over the air update. Will the update servers still even be reachable? Time is far far harder than most people realize. Anything to make it simpler is welcome.
All what you said is correct, and it can be even worse : some time calculations in the future (for instance "add 10 years to the current timestamp") simply can't be made, because you can't know that far in advance where leap seconds will be added. Performing such computations produce an "impossible to evaluate" result when using a leap-second aware library.
I learned this the hard way on a project for the European Space Agency.
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