But that only works if you already know the exact movement and you basically end up playing a film on the background screen walls. You can't change anything of this on set anymore. Using real-time rendering with Unreal or whatever gives you more flexibility in exchange for visual quality.
> Airbus would have been a terrible idea: no one had built commercial airliners before, and only the US had the know-how.
That's just plain false, Airbus started as a cooperation between a lot of european aerospace companies, which had different a lot of know-how in different fields. For example Sud Aviation (later Aérospatiale, now Airbus) was the French part of the Concorde, they also had the Caravelle.
Lithography is one of many steps, but probably the most important one. You use it to expose a photoresist to create a mask for further processing. After exposing the photoresist you need to develop it, remove either the exposed or unexposed photoresist. The remaining photoresist then is the mask and you either etch or dope the surface that is not covered by the mask or you deposit material on top. And then you need to remove the mask and start all over again for the next layer. The high water usage comes from repeatedly needing to clean the surface to remove chemicals and photoresist.
For submarine cables there are two things here. The first is lower attenuation which allows for fewer amplifiers along the route making it overall cheaper. The second is lower latency. There have been cases where high frequency trading people went wireless to get lower latency because of the higher propagation speed of EM-waves in air. For really long distances you can go theoretically use satellite links to get lower latency than a submarine cable even if the total distance increases.
No, at least in Erlang a variable is assigned once, you can then match against that variable as it can't be reassigned:
NotFound = 404,
case Status of
NotFound -> "Not Found";
_ -> "Other Status"
end.
That snippet will return "Other Status" for Status = 400. The Python equivalent of that snippet is a SyntaxError as the first case is a catch all and the rest is unreachable.
I'm currently using a Mac for private stuff, used to use Linux for work stuff, currently forced to use Windows. My font rendereing ranking is MacOS > Linux > Windows.
> I also learned from him that a lot German nuclear facilities are still running there generators only as weight to stabilize the network
The term for this is synchronous condenser. According to the system stability report 2023 [0] there were three of these in Germany in 2023 (source is in german, the term you're looking for is rotierender Phasenschieber). It is not clear if these are converted generators, most likely they are not former nuclear power plants, but likely located at the sites of former coal power plants because of the existing grid nodes. For the future this is a concept that is investigated to provide reactive power, in that case from former coal power plants.
I don't agree with this. Not hitting pedestrians should not just be an afterthought. Of course the car should recognise the stop sign, but there are cases in which stop signs are obstructed or missing, and in those cases pedestrians should still not be hit by a car.
Here's one that is only kind of mentioned, there are actually different altitudes. If you use ADS-B data you will only get the barometric altitude which is not calibrated to the ground pressure level. For example if you watch ADS-B data of flights into Denver it appears that every aircraft is crashing down ~5000ft during landing.
If it's not a completely new library written exclusively around templates, such code currently accepts strings and will most likely continue to accept strings for backwards compatibility.
It's not how all synths work, probably the most famous FM synth the DX-7 never had a filter, additive synths don't really need filters either, but for a subtractive synth this would be unthinkable. And the general architecture of any synth is usually not that hard, you have a source, possibly filters, an amp and some modulators.
More notes or voices playing than the player has fingers is quite common, a note doesn't stop just because you let go of the key. Sometimes you want it to ring out so most synthesizers handle that case. Some even let you configure the behaviour, for example you could reallocate the longest playing note or the closest note.
In theory yes, because you wouldn't need to copy the data, in practice it depends on the API and you might end up copying data from RAM to RAM. If the API doesn't allow you to simply pass an address to the GPU then you need to allocate memory on the GPU and copy your data to that memory, even if it's unified memory.
BEAM can't preempt native code, that's why NIFs should either be fast/low-latency to not excessively block the scheduler or be put in what's called a dirty scheduler which just means to run it in a separate thread.
> This unit cell, like an origami design, may be folded across either axis or laid flat, allowing you to physically change the direction of radiation. Because the phased array antenna on each face can steer the beam further, the antenna can be utilized to generate almost any radiation pattern using a combination of physical folding and electronic beam steering.
To me "physically change the direction of radiation" is rather explicit that the antenna isn't static.