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I definitely think this is a valid question.

ICE engines and every type of motor have a Power Curve. Many things go into the power curve including the construction, configuration, fuel and general type of motor. The power curve graphs engine power output as it relates to engine rotational speed. Every one of these different motors and transmissions out there including electric as well, have differing characteristic curves which effect the handling of the vehicle to great effect. This affects their possible applications.

Controlling the power and efficiency curves of motors is the entire story of the very well known "VTECH" Variable Valve Timing technologies, super and turbo chargers or other forced air intake, and even the way that Tesla electric motors arrange the magnets in their electric vehicle motors.

Inventing a new way to operate an ICE is good for many things. This patent looks cumbersome, and a bit complex. In my mind the long-term future of ICE for vehicles is in more specialized use cases as fossil fuels reach the long tail. Certain highly reliable, or certain types of safety prohibiting voltage or battery chemistry, types of standby vehicles, certain rugged vehicles, industrial equipment, small motors, these might be better off being petro-like. It might be better to make corn-gasoline than to stash a huge battery onto your lawnmower all year in this case.

But please do not discount: They are enjoyable.

Even during the end-of-days, we can process something like biofuels into "gasoline replacements". We can use waste vegetable oil to create biodiesel today. Small volumes are pretty easy and although we desperately must reduce fossil fuels to near zero (I dont need to have a blast gunning my Porche in bumper-to-bumper traffic, for example...) I don't see a reason why people can't still buy a motorcycle, even if we are living under sci-fi-like domed cities.

All else, people would simply make them themselves in their own garages. For Fun.

Hi--wordy response, interesting subject. Thanks.

tl;dr answer is "Eh, its not so simple." but you're right on a basic level.

No, the North Korean ballistic missiles have from my non-classified top-of-the-head understanding a range of around 1000 to 3000 KM. The best-case scenario ranges that are sabre-rattled are certainly theoretical. They do not have ICBM capability and are not capable of launching an ICBM or exiting the Earth's atmosphere, but they do threaten Japan.

Strike capabilities reaching North Korea do indeed exist. All three legs of the nuclear triad may strike a North Korean target, but airplanes must sortie from the Pacific (leaving them vulnerable to detection, interception or suppression) or follow the course of a land-based ballistic missile strike which by necessity must pass over Russia, China, or much less feasibly, India.

As you mention we do have ICBMs that are capable of striking basically and literally anywhere on the planet. This is not really enough, because those ICBMs must pass through many, many layers of enemy strategic defenses.

From a nuclear arms point of view, its likely that our longest range reach-out-and-touch-ya' weapon systems really need to carpet-bomb entire regions and cities to achieve their designed operational objective. In effect, we're going to lose too much accuracy as well as ordinance to shoot-downs, reducing our effectiveness in the vicinity to a near minimum. Minimum lethality is quite lethal, but considering a maniacal super-villain's armored bunker really and truly is what we need to begin constructing a realistic view of the challenges set forth here. This analysis completely disregards the possible side effect of poisoning Seoul, South Korea with nuclear fallout as well as triggering a chain reaction of thermonuclear retaliatory strikes in a horrific reprisal of the 1914 assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo.

In short, its in a tricky spot. Luckily, the most danger they (North Korea) pose is to local Pacific naval operations, intense cold-war era artillery bombardment of South Korea (Seoul) or the possibility of a regionally effective ballistic missile. In addition to these threats, they also pose cybersecurity, money laundering and counterfeiting risks and of course, their people are starving in a totalitarian hell-hole regime.

I hope that one day there is an end to the pointless suffering of the people who live in North Korea.

I disagree, in brief because the practical side of psychiatry is medication-dominated, mostly because medical research is difficult and expensive.

There are some non-medication treatments for some psychiatric symptoms such as those caused by trauma (Prominently, EMDR) that some hail as actual cures, and even maybe depression (I am clearly not a doctor.) but in the case of depression I think you'll find its quite medication-heavy.

The reason for this is that psychiatrists are Medical Doctors and Psychiatry is a medical field which is of course bounded by the means of medical science. This is not to say there is some "magic" at work which science could never understand--not at all. It is merely the case that medical doctors are a research paper oriented bunch, and most of the medical research which makes it into practice is either relating to anatomy or pharmaceutical interventions.

Most of the treatments we have are pharmaceutical medications because most of our research dollars have gone into pharmaceutical research.

I decided to edit this comment to add: In my personal opinion, is probable that psychiatrists et all, writ large as it were, have already figured out how to cure depression. Only, we cannot really manage to employ it because it isn't a pill, therapy, device or surgery.

NK can't strike the United States. Their low-quality "ICBM" probably can't even target another continent. They really have poor ballistic missiles. On the other hand, NK can't be targeted except from a sub in the ocean, or over Russia by ours.

The top secret stealth formula they could possibly be privy to is not publicly traded. I was making the point that you're going to have a board filled with people who in some instances could be hand-selected to say the quiet part loud, and the list of companies who makes some of this stuff has one item in it.

Its military stuff.

A bit of fun ... but my opinion is that a war with decades long ceasefire is common-law armistice. At the very least, stopping shelling is some sort of détente.

I'll admit that "War" is a somewhat colloquial term nowadays, for better or worse.

That is totally absurd.

You can surely do this and more! The device presents as a panel, however.

You need to use an array of transducers to form a coherent sound beam, but it will possibly sound through the window and gain the attention of an occupant, or enter the vehicle and seem to come from inside the car its self.

You can also just point them at someone.

Its quite interesting. The directional ultrasonic array broadcasts a carrier frequency, not unlike am radio. You can read about the function of this sort of device at hackaday.

https://hackaday.com/2019/02/14/creating-coherent-sound-beam...

I would appreciate it if the title included some indication that this article is a Mac specific article. Though it may be hard to belive, I was unfamiliar with the publication.

Maybe so, but I would say cars are different than aerospace.

It’s clear that Boeing was able to squeeze costs centers at the expense of quality and business investment all while keeping the coin under shell in the form of regular old stock buybacks.

But if/when Boeing goes under who is going to vet all this NDI sitting in their portfolios? They’re just gonna spin it off to another buyer—consisting of who exactly? McDonnel Douglas? Elon Musk? Tencent?

Seems like a nightmare for someone, not sure for whom.

This is an experimental game. CCP inc. is owned by a venture capital firm Pearl Abyss, and are occasionally funded a moonshot game here or there.

tl:dr: I'm an EvE Online Veteran of many years having participated in many game-defining events from a variety of levels. I think this game has a near-zero chance of surviving, but maybe the contract language will be interesting enough to generate some interest.

EvE Online gameplay is defined more by an interaction of social, economic, organizational and strategic interactions than a particular gameplay loop. This is kind of unusual in my opinion and as a result CCP inc. is not very good at creating the kinds of arcade or MOBA experiences that people are used to.

From my position it looks like CCP inc. is kind-of sort-of trying to create a game with aspects of Second Life, and the "hardcore" feel of EvE Online or its sister company's property, Black Desert Online.

One of the reasons I can see that a "blockchain" "smart contract" might make sense is that CCP inc. prioritizes interoperability and third-party functionality. For example, we have an Official MS Excel Plugin. they are quite serious, with very fine grained APIs and players have many, many complex software suites ranging from mapping, (GIS), communications, organizations (SAP-alike systems) forecasting suites, analysis, intelligence gathering, it is endless.

There have been many issues with the maintenance and interoperability of these APIs, so its possible that they see the blockchain smart-contract as a way that they can enable a similarly vibrant third-party development community around another game in a way that will put people who are interested in doing so in a first-class position, being integrated directly in the game.

Sigrok is a really valuable project. Thanks!

The greatest issue I see is that this is a fairly niche field for open source software historically due to the difficulty of acquiring the actual logic analyzers for a personal or student lab at times. People in general see older projects as establish and will often guide their focus to their own greenfield interests.

There are now a growing number of people entering this area of development however and more projects are being founded every month as availability and support for good-quality, stable hardware is increasing!

This is an exciting time for open source analysis, and given the availability and maturity of older 24mhz logic analyzers, on-demand manufacturing and supporting protects (kicad) I expect this to continue.

Hopefully sigrok takes on some new contributors who can engender even greater cooperation from this extremely relevant and exciting project!

No, it is due to the game theoretic phenomenon called "The Attacker's Advantage" which is usually interpreted to simply mean "An attacker has to only succeed once, defenders must succeed every time." but in general refers to the strategic landscape of infosec.

Frankly, the thought of "Actively Coming At" infosec threats is personally appalling.

Feelings aside, you couldn't "actively" "come at" APT actors from the future with unknown techniques, and the way to "actively come at", so to speak, entire categories of "cyber threats" would be to fund detailed white box security testing on your IoT devices or VoIP handsets, for example.

Much cheaper to oppress your workforce. At least that will shorten the checklist. Worst case scenario, you can catch the next wave of offshoring if you push it too far and they unionize.

If it were the government, it would be quite.

>Easing into the mechanics, minutiae, and overall obscurity of the game is a different beast entirely, but a lot of things in there [...] have a handworn feel like none other

Oh, yes. A greenfield game can just decide on mechanics, but UO is of course a continuous title with evolving technology and capabilities over decades! I never played the classic OSI (Official) server in the 90's or early 2000's and was introduced to freeshards directly nearly 15 years after the original launch. It feels a bit like digital archeology or anthropology from that perspective.

I was interesting in the scriptable clients, and endlessly tunable character development, as well as the idea of risk vs reward gameplay. To my great surprise, there seemed to be a vibrant and thriving social community in this thing that I and everyone else would have pointed to as a Dead World. Recommended.

Ultima Online is a very unique social experience compared to today's landscape of multiplayer games, and there are different "Eras" of the game which can impart a particular flavor to the experience, eras like: UO: Renassaince, UO: Lost Lands (aka T2A mechanics), and others.

Its a sandbox game just like Arcage, Neverwinter Nights, Albion Online, Everquest, Star Wars Galaxy, Eve Online, Black Desert Online, etc in which the game's goals tacitly produce a local society, typically from players' in-game avatar "Characters" just playing the game. PvP is emphasized on many of the servers.

Right now there is a very good UO Freeshard server called "UO Outlands" with hybrid rules that are quite satisfying and with updated maps/dungeons/landscapes designed to encourage the classic vibes you've heard about and aren't really available in other, modern games.

If you just want to take a look, there is a Youtuber named "Trammie", he prefers to play a pure-thief character and he semi-regularly records streams of live play. Its a good look at one high-level play style that is nearly unique to UO and still available.

Strongly disagree, but for JS.

Current web stack is very complicated, HTML and CSS DOM is a rats nest and that's a superficial example. Adding asynchronous rpc pushes that way over the top. Luckily HTTP has been through the production crucible for 30 years. What I see is not a cost center but a reflection of basic truth:

- UI and data representation is hard.

- Developers use the tools they know about.

But about micro-libraries, the first point isn't very important because this is a social problem. There is no standard library for NPM that does what people need. There should be a curated function library of this crap.

In my imaginary vision there are several, and people would look askance when you don't use one without an obvious reason. I very much sympathize with the desire to burn-it-all, but I like that I can use LetsEncrypt and am cognizant that there is a lot of thought and raw technological progress bound up in all this.

They will never be street legal in the USA (non DOT-approved), emissions controls or no.

When people buy these things they normally never leave the farm.

I figure they tossed it into a laptop because its what Lenovo is most well-known for producing. Its a prototype tech demo, definitely cool looking but clearly highly impractical.

It did remind me of "switchable glass": https://www.smartglassinternational.com/electric-switchable-...

But as an aside, the development of Micro LEDS is pretty interesting, I've never seen it in any prototypes before.

In my opinion, its a critical feature.

Consider that in 2024 even this public forum is accessed in an encrypted form by even non-logged in users. Here's an unstructured list of some of the reasons:

­Man in the middle attacks achieving remote code execution on client or server

Surveillance and/or stalking

­Presence monitoring

Psychological analysis (Maybe a user is drunk, maybe they're in a good or bad mood today.)

Command injection or deletion

Most people use services with no regard to any of these things and most will never be subject to them. If a precocious hacker teen, controlling spouse or parent, spyware/adware company, censorship application, oppressive state regime, rogue sysadmin, rival player or any such of the endless possible yet rare actors decide that your service is best suited to these ends, it is now more or less trivial to develop a plugin for their evil device.

TERMINAL EMULATOR SECURITY ISSUES 2003 https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&q=p3

You know, its probably more cost effective and, well, effective at that point to just post an offficer across the street? A crossing guard would do fine.

Wouldn't that street be definitionally the highest crime hotspot in the area anyhow?

Techniques like these are typically for in-situ repair.

It isn’t like that at Wawa. The reason they don’t take your food order from the gas station screen is because presumably they would have to serve you at the gas pump, which is not something they will do. You can just use the app to order if you want.

They also won’t bring your online/app order to the gas pump, you have to be parked in a regular spot.

There’s also the concern of updating the menu on the gas pump which (for Wawa) is a non-trivial problem.

Ok, he's referring to the product of the giga-press as a work of art.

Too bad they didnt print the engineer's rationale, because that article isn't about that. But it is certainly referring to the product of the Giga-press being cast as opposed to being an assembly. A similar advancement happened in the aerospace industry, except this time the press is already for sale from Italy.

What I would rather see instead of one engineer gushing about a high-end manufacturing process would be Elon investing in automotive engineers who know where to route critical components and how to design maintainability instead of tanking shares on a social media vanity acquisition.

Your investment is safe forever.

Heh, the art world is full of weird bs. My favorite piece by Pablo “Tesla” Picasso is this one: https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ran-over-something-n...

Truly a work of art.

I dunno about that, from the top of my head I recall Daewoo to be the last auto make to withdraw from the states at least.

Tesla has so far to go to “wreck” anybody who didn’t already pay for “full self-driving”.

Don’t you see?

In The People vs The Elite, there are people and there are elite people.

People are people and elite people are people, therefor the people are the elite! Qed

The water vapor will precipitate around airborne particles causing them to drop out of the sky.

You don’t think acid rain is real? It will actually dissolve gravestones and buildings. Major cities in the US have dealt with it since like the 20s. it’s (one reason) why your car has a catalytic converter.