MW Propagation is a lot of fun. You can get stations that are thousands of miles away. Too bad younger generations haven't bothered to experience it.

It's a huge PITA for AM stations. Many AM stations actually have licenses that say they can broadcast from sunrise to sunset and must shut down for the night. Others have "reduced power operations" where they must reduce their transmit power overnight.

And others are lucky to have the full license that lets them go 24/7 at full power. The regulatory bodies have to consider propagation when dealing with AM radio licenses. When an AM radio station goes off the air it presents more headaches because the other stations nearby might have to juggle their power settings.

But AM radio being in the HF radio band means you only need a few stations to cover an entire country. In an emergency, you cannot tell how many transmitters you have available so the AM network means you still have a way to communicate even if stations so down. And some AM stations do not operate at full power as full power operation is reserved for emergencies.

In a scenario where a major city is impacted, nearby AM radio stations can often have coverage into that major city despite being far away (and thus not experience the issues) making it the ideal communications medium.

Plus, it also means the EV makers can't cheap out on radio shielding. ICE vehicles have huge issues as well with EMI causing radio issues, but they have had years to shield the radio from interference caused by the engine. ("Alternator whine" is a common one). The only reason EVs want to ditch AM radio is because their electronics interfere with AM reception and they want to save the $5 of metal to shield components.

Gone With The Wind made all that money with $6 tickets, adjusted for inflation. Average ticket prices in 2019 were $9. And there were a third as many people in the US at that time.

Not really. When GWTW came out, movies were basically the only entertainment option out there as we would recognize it. TV was still experimental and radio was the only thing you would do at home. Beyond that you have books and hobbies.

Spending a Saturday at the movie theatre (the "nickelodeon" because it was 5 cents for entry) was a popular pastime - you'd get a few cartoons, a newsreel, then a couple of movies. This was popular as it was a way to catch up on the news and watch the latest movies that came into town.

Gone With The Wind was extremely popular because it was a good movie for the time so it would often be a feature that showed week after week because people kept demanding it.

You also have to realize the "new movies" were whatever pulp Hollywood came out with because they knew they were just going for the nickle movies.

These days, we have far more entertainment options so getting a dollar at the movie is actually much harder. After all, you can watch a movie in the privacy of your own home nowadays, something you couldn't with GWTW. If you wanted to see it again, you had to pay for another viewing.

EDK is the EFI Developer Kit. There was one released by Intel which wasn't open-source, but there have been several EDKs that are open-source. But they are for developing UEFI applications that run in the UEFI environment. You don't use the EDK as a replacement for UEFI.

LIbreBoot/CoreBoot and now GNU Boot are a BIOS/UEFI replacement. And they're actually all derived from from CoreBoot (which started as LinuxBoot). It basically is a BIOS/UEFI replacement that booted into Linux and served as the boot environment.

CoreBoot evolved from it but it has binary blobs, which is why the GNU folks created LibreBoot. Not surprisingly the compatibility list of LibreBoot is far smaller than CoreBoot, and CoreBoot is pretty small already. Remember this has to initialize the hardware the provide the tables so the OS can perform certain operations like sleep and suspend by telling the OS what registers it needs to access.

LibreBoot has a sordid history because earlier this year or last year, the developer of CoreBoot got fed up with LibreBoot being years out of date, so the CoreBoot dev basically pushed an updated version of LibreBoot (minus the binary blobs). Apparently the LibreBoot dev didn't like that, which is why it's GNU Boot. It was a pretty messy thing because the CoreBoot devs wanted to update what was a completely outdated fork.

This doesn't make sense on the surface for a number of reasons. The Starship second phase cannot launch most of the things that Falcon 9 launches. I'm assuming they are going to have two large shuttle-like doors on a Starship eventually that can release larger payloads?

The next thing that doesn't make sense is simply payload size. Certainly it is not more economical to use the Starship stack to put something into orbit that is only a small fraction of its cargo capacity? And yes, I know it could carry multiple satellites / spacecraft at once, but it is very rare those things all need to be in the exact same orbit at the same time. So it seems Falcon 9 would be more economical for launching a single smaller thing?

Maybe the economics of the Falcon 9 second stage not being usable totally makes the case for Starship? It's estimated a second stage costs between $7 and $10 million. So perhaps right there economically it makes more sense to fly a 100% reusable Starship even for a small payload. I guess the liquid methane Starship burns is a relatively cheap, being derived from natural gas that the USA already has in abundant supply.

Riot isn't identifying a Ryzen by staring at TCP packets. Vanguard runs on the PC, where it can collect hardware information or request TPM attestation and send the result to Riot. CPUID identifies a processor model, not an individual chip; a CPU-bound firmware TPM is a more plausible explanation for a ban following a used CPU.

TPM wouldn't work because you'd have to transplant it from one motherboard to another. The CPUID instruction gives a lot of information (including serial number) if you ask it the right way. It's how the CPU-Z application gets all that information - there's tons of information available via CPUID on a modern processor depending on what you load EAX/EBX can call it.

How will you get the ROM once everything is "digital"?

Hack the PS5.

There's a new jailbreak on PS5 that handles basically up to firmware 15.5. Use it to get access to the PS5 filesystem and grab your files from there.

I'm sure there will be other ways that probably involve simulating the PS5 and downloading the files directly.

I can't recall the last time I ate a burger at McDonald's that tasted better than the wrapper it was served in. A while ago I tried the McRib as well and was left wishing it had stayed in the 90s.

These homeless shoppers are likely to get poached sooner rather than later. With the deep knowledge they build up of any given Walmart store's layout, they'd make good candidates to get hired into the store's online grocery pickup (OGP) department.

I don't know if HEB includes a tip, but I know that Walmart doesn't do tips. When I worked in the front end of a Walmart Supercenter six years ago, associates were trained to refuse tips, and if someone insists, to ring it up as a donation to whatever charity Walmart is collecting for at the time. Often that ends up being the nearest Children's Miracle Network hospital.

I'm not worried about the idea of personalized pricing. It just doesn't seem feasible. Implementation hurdles are abundant, the likelihood of complaints in-store is very high, and for not that much benefit.

Personalized pricing in store will be a nightmare for Walmart. Think of several situations that are extremely common. Like what if two people are looking at an item? When I shop at Walmart, there are inevitably other people around and they're looking at the same stuff I'm looking at. The price tag can only show one price - so whose price is it going to show?

The second problem is shoppers in general. There are people who take time to shop - they can take an hour or more shopping for groceries and stuff. You're going to have to remember what price you shown someone so when they check out you use the "right" price. Also, if you've done grocery shopping, you inevitably run into people who complain about every price as it's rung up. Imagine the fun to be had if the price changes and they're constantly checking to make sure the register shows the correct price.

And if you're going to do dynamic pricing, people are going to snap photos of the price tag and make sure they're being charged what the tag says. It's going to clog up the checkout lines because people are going to verify every price rings in properly. This just makes the lines way longer and way slower, and likely having to have more cashiers on checkout will negate any extra profits to be made if checking out takes way longer as everyone argues prices.

And yes, people will argue about things like 10 cents or less.

Taction probably is a troll, but ever since Apple sued Samsung for round corners design patent infringement, I figure that made Apple a patent troll too, and every patent fight they lose is karma. I'm on Taction's side for that reason alone.

And let the ignorance of the rounded corners patent show.

The rounded corners patent was a design patent. The Taction patent is a utility patent. If you don't know the difference, well, a utility patent is on something the thing does. A design patent is on something it looks like.

They are patents in that everything is AND - you must have something AND something AND something AND something ... If you lack one of those things, you are much more likely to win a patent lawsuit.

With that in mind, the Apple patent is simple - rounded corners, a tray with icons and a app selector that scrolls left and right. Samsung had that to a T. They literally copied the UI. Why didn't Apple go after Google? Because Google didn't. They had rounded corners, an app drawer at the bottom, BUT, not an app selector - because Android had widgets you could put up.on the screen. They had a separate app drawer that showed all the apps. Those two differences meant "rounded corners" patent wasn't valid on Android in general.

It's just like how the McDonald's hot coffee lawsuit was much more than hot coffee and once you understand that, the lawsuit made much more sense. (McDonald's purposely sold overly hot coffee to save money on coffee grounds as it let them extract more coffee from them. They were told time and time again it was too hot to serve but they persisted. When it happened, the victim asked for a mere $30,000 for medical bills. But that was rejected, despite the fact that McDonald's paid out medical expenses for previous occurrences. And while she won millions, it was reduced on appeal to under a million dollars).

It's much more than rounded corners. It's literally Samsung redesigning the UI to match the iPhone in functionality. When Samsung lost, they basically added widgets to the screen which was enough to work around the patent. Eventually they decided to make TouchWiz their own.

Lots of keyboards ditched more useful keys to fit a copilot key,

Actually, the key the Copilot key took over was the Context Menu button on most keyboards. If you pushed it, you got the equivalent of the right-click menu. Unlike the Windows key, it likely never got much use, so it remained a mostly useless key.

It's so useless many keyboards chose to omit the context key or put other keys there. Some replaced it with another Windows key, others used custom function keys.

It's possible that this article is less than honest on the matter, but it certainly appears that Trump had a license in NY issued at least as recently as 2012 .

Their reasoning sounds plausible only if read from a "business weasel" perspective. If there's a market for RPis with more lower quality RAM, nobody is "undercutting" RPF; they're selling the products they want to, at the price they want to, and choosing not to offer big/slow/cheap OEM RAM configurations. And even if someone could undercut them on the exact same components - So what??? RPF may be a non-profit, but I am not!

The problem isn't resellers undercutting RPi. It's someone buying a 1GB RPi, doing the mod with 8GB of poor quality RAM, then selling it as an 8GB RPi at a modest discount.

The problem is that you buy the board and because the RAM is bad, you perform a return and find out it was a counterfeit RPi board that doesn't work for you.

Despite the AI issue, you can find RAM. Often poor quality recycled RAM with errors are stupidly cheap (and used in many products as-is). The board can boot with bad RAM, but run stable it might not, and you'd be more likely to blame RPi than on the reseller you bought the dodgy unit from

The fact that RPi took this long to do it would mean they're actually seeing a bunch of returns with the RAM swapped out.

It could also be that people are buying the 8GB units, swapping them with 1GB units and selling them as fake 8GB units, like those $20 "1TB" USB sticks you can find easily on Amazon.

Changing the RAM on an RPi isn't a trivial procedure - I believe it's PoP RAM so it's not something a hobbyist would easily do without a lot of specialized equipment and experience in being able to separate PoP RAM from the base CPU and reballing and such. So hobbyist wise, they aren't likely to be ones affected since few would have the expertise or equipment. But those trying to sell counterfeits do.

He would only ask it for things that result in an improved situation for him, personally. There is nothing at all for him to gain by seeing lower gas prices. He hasn't bought gas himself in many years - and will never have a reason to buy gas again for the rest of his life - so the price is completely irrelevant to him. If the price fell and the MAGA party lost part of congress he would still blame it on other people. If the price stays the same and the MAGA party loses part of congress he'll blame that on other people as well.