>30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, I
the more interesting question is why it took so long for someone to place this bet: Trump's reaction was rather predictable; why did noone move faster?
>Why though?
for the same reason the Enterprise makes swishing, sounds of course!
>How many people know what 100hp gets them?
Probably not very many, given that it's peak output of about seven horses . . .
>Personally, if im bound by law to make loud
>sounds on my efficient and quiet vehicle, Iâ(TM)m
>inclined to make it the Peter Griffon awkward l
>laugh track.
Actually, I'm holding out for the Enterprise's main phasers (from Start Trek, not it's spinoffs!)
Possibly interspersed with photon torpedoes as it accelerates.
As an economist, I cringe at the typical IPO and related culture and expectations.
A huge runup in price on your IPO does *NOT* mean you've done well, or were a good choice.
It means that you *SCREWED UP*! You sold pieces of your company for less than people were willing to pay!
I would much prefer to see the new equity issued in a treasury style auction (price set at the highest price that sells them all, with everyone bidding that price or above receiving stock), a transparent direct sale into the market on an announced schedule, or one or more "dutch auctions", in which the price counts down from an initial high price until someone accepts (variants include anyone else being able to buy at the price before the clock resets).
And there's really no reason for investment bankers to be taking a fat seven or eight figure cut of the proceeds. The could either be done in house, or by firms that do it regularly. None are rocket science!
doc hawk
>I'm guessing that they are using the screens and
>some novel and clever way to make the puzzle
>more interesting and complex.
hmm.
high voltage electrodes and needles on recessed solenoids would go farther than screens for this.
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In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.
I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?
I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).
(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)
It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.
It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition...
The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.
the only think that doesn't "work" as vivo claims, at least that I can remember at the moment, is that season passes got sloppy on rescheduled programs--sometines it catches the reschedule, and other times it doesn't.
The rest are dropped features--some outright, like suggestions and continuous recording, and others hidden behind an "upgrade", like the ability to record all series premiers.
They've dropped everything that distinguishes a tiro from any other dvd--well, except for needing to pay them for s subscription, I suppose. And their rf remote control is nice; hopefully I can get it to talk to the pi for mythic (although realistically, I'd usually run it through my appletv and that remote)
They abandoned everything *in* the software that mad a Tivo desirable well before this. It had been just another DVR for some time.
Season passes that worked? Gone.
Subscribing to things like series premieres? Gone.
Suggestions? Gone.
We had a roamio with a lifetime subscription, and dumped it at yet another cox cable price increase.
By that time, we realized that pretty much everything we watched was on broadcast.
We got an orange pi (what a disaster! don't!), an hdhomerun quattro, and a terabyte disk.
we've been using the Quattro's dvd functions, and they've been "good enough" that other projects are ahead of getting the raspberry pi running.
I use these on everything as well, unless I'm updating all the music folders on my phone. They also act as dust/moisture covers for the jack.
they need to go further.
As I drive off to dutifully buy the wondrous stuff from the last commercial, the current commercial should jump to my phone so I don't miss it!
Music & Sound effects shouldn't even be on the same channel as voice!
Adding channels on a digital distribution isn't as complicated as what it takes to broadcast & decode stereo audio, whether AM or FM.
And then add a "relative volume" slider so that regular volume controls both (or even let the user choose a curve so that music doesn't increase as much as speech [or more, if the user prefers])
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