What you describe is called indirect TPMS. It works by measuring the differences in speed between wheels through the ABS wheel speed sensors, and triggers if it detects an outlier. It doesn't require an additional sensor inside each wheel, instead using existing sensors and some arithmetic, so it costs less, but cannot indicate the pressure for each individual wheel, plus it requires the reset procedure that you referenced when new tires are installed or after you've corrected whatever caused it to trigger. My 2004 BMW has that, and so did Mazdas into the current decade.

Nokia proper doesn't make phones anymore -- that's done now by HMD Global, a separate company who license the Nokia brand.

From the exploded views I've seen, the swash plates have races above and below the rollers on the connecting rods, so that the pistons can only move according to the curve on the plates. The pistons cannot lift off from the swash plates.

As for roller wear, we already have rollers on valve lifters and rockers as used on engines with camshafts, and wear is not a concern there given proper lubrication and maintenance (change the oil per the recommended schedule). Wear on the swash plates might be an issue, but again something that has already been addressed on crankshafts or eccentric shafts (on Wankel engines), where journal wear isn't much of a concern with proper lubrication.

If you RTFA, you will find out that the scheme will be funded by a new windfall tax on banks and other megacorps, i.e. those directly profiting from inflation. Those corporations can then choose to cut their margins and avoid the windfall tax, or not do that and pay the tax.

It's indeed optional -- assuming that unchecking it in settings does actually disable the feature. However, I had not known about this feature until reading it here, so I checked my search settings, and found that it was turned on. FWIW, Firefox never prompted me if I wanted to turn it on when I upgraded. So I'd say that any claims by Mozilla that the feature is off by default come from a spox who doesn't have all of the details or are deliberately misleading.

Normally USB has a limit for keyboard (and other HID (Human Interface Device) gear) of 1000Hz, because the lowest polling rate you can specify is 1ms.

It's possible to go higher with a special driver, which is what Razor are doing.

And that's really the root of the problem, having to poll the device because, last I checked, USB doesn't do interrupts (maybe a new standard does, IDK). If gaming freaks want immediate response to their key and mouse button presses, they should use PS/2 ports.

Yes, they were called the Opteron A1100, and there were a few servers built with them -- with 14 SATA3 ports and dual 10Gb Ethernet, they were perfect for storage appliances. But it used ARM Cortex-A57 cores, while its successor was planned to be an in-house design.

Given how broadly the CFAA gets applied, that's pretty typical. It's basically accusing him of breaking and entering, but with a computer. I guess he should've thought of it ahead of time and patented it first.

In the 1970s we had this thing called Sprint, an anti-ballistic missile designed to intercept re-entry vehicles as they dropped into the atmosphere. It could accelerate to Mach 10 in five seconds, which was necessary because the RVs only left a window of a few seconds before it reached its target. So, not only is it possible, but we've had the capability for a long time.

Funny that, someone at Microsoft must've agreed with you long ago. MS-DOS aliased MKDIR and RMDIR to MD and RD, respectively, a feature that still lives on in Windows.

That policy applies to the userspace ABI. Google wants a stable kernel module binary interface, which the userspace ABI doesn't cover.

I visited Dad this summer and while there he asked me to look at a TV in his house that could not receive OTA signals. It was an LG smart TV, maybe four or five years old, with built-in wifi. It errored out whenever I tried to do the automatic channel scan. Some online searches mentioned that it required Internet access (?!?) in order to do the channel scan, so I hooked it up to my cellphone's hotspot, but it still produced the same error after that. Further investigation showed that LG decomissioned the servers that the TV needed to download a region file before it'd run the channel scan.

This, having a non-upgradeable embedded computing device dependent on the grace and goodwill of its manufacturer, is why I don't intend to buy a smart TV ever. The issue with these Samsung TVs, while not as bad, still represent a loss of service for owners.

There was some experiment in ternary logic in the beginning of computer history, but it made circuit more complex, so it stopped soon.

Per the Wikipedia page to which you linked, balanced ternary "cuts down the carry rate in multi-digit multiplication, and the roundingâ"truncation equivalence cuts down the carry rate in rounding on fractions. The one-digit multiplication table has no carries in balanced ternary, and the addition table has only two symmetric carries instead of three." And because integers in balanced ternary have a self-contained representation of positive and negative numbers, "the distinction between signed and unsigned numerals no longer needs to be made; thereby eliminating the need to duplicate operator sets into signed and unsigned varieties." That to me sounds like it'd make ALU circuits simpler, not more complex.

Congratulations you invented LOGO!

Or, they could've dug through their own software catalogue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

C does not have a boolean type. Instead it tests for truthiness by checking whether the value is zero (false) or non-zero (true). That bit of code might not make sense, but it will compile.