But what makes you think the DoJ allow Google to continue paying Chrome to have Google as default? Google is already not allowed to pay Apple to be default.
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You're right, but GPS antennas already have some rejection from the "bottom" hemisphere. So they're already rejecting not-sky.
CRPAs (of the type contemplated by ITAR) are electronically steerable antennas (phased arrays), that allow you to steer one or more nulls to the direction of the noise source(s). That gives much better rejection of point-source noise.
Chrome's non-iOS market share is probably larger than Safari's market share, so any monopoly considerations about Safari apply equally to Chrome.
Is it though?
Wikipedia says [1] an M3 Max can do 14 TFLOPS of FP32, so an M3 Ultra ought to do 28 TFLOPS. nVidia claims [2] a Blackwell GPU does 80 TFLOPs of FP32. So M3 Ultra is 1/3 the speed of a Blackwell.
Calling that "a vanishingly small fraction" seems like a bit of an exaggeration.
I mean, by that metric, a single Blackwell GPU only has "a vanishingly small fraction" of the memory of an M3 Ultra. And the M3 Ultra is only burning "a vanishingly small fraction" of a Blackwell's electrical power.
nVidia likes throwing around numbers like "20 petaFLOPs" for FP4, but that's not real floating point... it's just 1990's-vintage uLaw/aLaw integer math.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_silicon#Comparison_of_M-...
[2] https://resources.nvidia.com/en-us-blackwell-architecture/da...
Edit: Further, most (all?) of the TFLOPs numbers you see on nVidia datasheets for "Tensor FLOPs" have a little asterisk next to them saying they are "effective" TFLOPs using the sparsity feature, where half the elements of the matrix multiplication are zeroed.
Perhaps "high signal" means not "conditions where the phone reports high RSS" but "conditions where the phone is transmitting at high power".
Do you have a source showing that Safari makes money from ads?
2. It is usually the case that the university then owns a share of the equity in your house, and is owed a share of the profits when you sell.
Er, no...? I'm not sure where you get that idea. Access requires a warrant, and companies are not compelled to build systems which enable them to decrypt all data covered by the warrant.
See, for example, the Las Vegas shooter case, where Apple refused to create an iOS build that would bypass iCloud security.
* Facebook was offered the option of either cutting their EU profits to zero or facing equivalent fines.
* Very Serious People were having Very Serious Discussions about whether Google should be allowed to run auctions for ad space on their own home page. At the same time, the two sides of the Atlantic cannot agree whether to make the web a Chrome monopoly or to only allow Google offer its services through 3rd party platforms controlled by competitors.
* Apple's whole brand proposition is being actively undermined. Apparently their monopolistic 30% market share does not demonstrate that consumers want a choice of something different from the competition (and legislators know consumers better than they do themselves).
* Amazon is somehow subject to expensive-to-comply-with restrictions, yet none of their similar-size in-market competitors are. Because reasons.
Surely it was predictable that they would all support a politician who offers to deliver them from regulations that not just limit profit but actively erode ongoing viability of the business, no? I guess you could call it the "Brussels effect".
* They could measure the forward voltage of the LED when driven by a known current. Bonus points for measuring at multiple currents. Remember that the forward voltage depends on color.
* They could measure the reverse leakage current at a known voltage, and compare that to the illumination from the camera’s exposure feedback. Remember that every LED is also a photodiode.
* They could vary the LED driver current to heat it up, then measure that both of the above measurements are compatible with the higher temperature. Remember that most semiconductor properties have a strong temperature dependence.
So it would be pretty easy to detect most simple mods if they really wanted to.
Take a step back and look at how complex brake systems have evolved at the present date:
On one hand, sure, it's just a foot-operated hydraulic pump and four hydraulic actuators.
On the other hand, the ABS module has valves to both cut off each brake caliper and to drain hydraulic pressure from each brake to prevent lockup. In an emergency braking scenario, the foot pump will quickly go the floor as pressure is drained, so the ABS module also has an electrical pump to put fluid back into the system.
All US-legal cars have some form of electronic stability control (and often have lane keep assist), which can use the same components to pressurize one or several brakes to make the car follow the driver's intent (as measured by a steering wheel angle sensor and a body yaw rate sensor. Europe-legal cars also usually some form of emergency brake assist which again uses the ABS module components to apply the brakes automatically.
To keep this all safe, you need pressure sensors to monitor valve and pump functions, sensors to monitor driver input, and sensors to monitor vehicle dynamics.
When you look at the system holistically, as it exists today, it is bandaids on top of bandaids and you realize that you no longer have just a simple hydraulic system.
I would make an analogy to the 737 Max vs. Airbus FbW here: We started with something very simple, and then incrementally increased complexity in (seemingly) appropriate ways. Then, many years later, we realized that our "simple" mechanical system is actually more complex and prone to more complex failure modes than a system which started out complex and rigorously managed that complexity.
Otherwise, you will very quickly vaporize the water near the heater and the resulting lack of contact will inhibit heating the rest of the water volume.
> What's the most efficient for modern grids and electronics?
I do not think it is possible to answer the question as posed. It is a trade-off. Higher frequencies permit smaller transformers in distribution equipment and smaller filtering capacitors at point of use. On the other hand, the skin effect increases transmission losses at higher frequencies.
If you want minimum losses in the transmission network, especially a very long distance transmission network, then low frequencies are better.
If you want to minimize the size and cost of transformers, higher frequencies might be better. Maybe the generator is close to the user so transmission loss is less important.
If you want smaller end-user devices, high frequency or DC might be more desirable.
You have to define some kind of objective function before the question becomes answerable.
Electric cars (by far the biggest consumer of lithium) have been experiencing a an average compounded growth of something like 50% per year for the past 10 years. Li production is still catching up. The earth has plenty of Li deposits but there is a lead time to purchase the heavy machines needed to turn those deposits into productive mines.
Once electric car growth hits the inflection point on the adoption curve, and growth becomes sub-exponential, we'll start to see major downward pressure on Li prices.
How is that a criticism? It is always possible that someone could invent a better test.
In any case, the second citation directly refutes your point in another sub-thread with AnthonyMouse, the assertion that higher-performing applicants above the cutoff do not perform better on the job:
"If all applicants scoring 70 or above on the AT-SAT are selected, slightly over one-third would be expected to be high performers. With slightly greater selectivity, taking only applicants scoring 75.1 or above, the proportion of high performers could be increased to nearly half."
Also:
"The primary point is that applicants who score very high (at 90) on the AT-SAT are expected to perform near the top of the distribution of current controllers (at the 86th percentile)."
Garmin is undoubtedly already aware that you need cloud login for their devices to download almanac and ephemeris over the internet.
So, like, if you found a 50%-off sale on a car, you're telling me you wouldn't test drive it because it's not a very good deal?
What color is the sky in your world?
Sure, and Apple could have shipped a free pony to every child on earth. But expecting them to do so is childish.
I don’t think there is any general expectation among the American public or military that American aircraft will never be shot down.