Yeah basically you can only signal "on-off" so many times a second in a vga cable before the ons and offs get blurry and unusable. So you can trade lower resolution for a higher frame rate as long as you keep the total number of on-offs below the limits.
dgriffith
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Maybe mention the fact that this recent alarming jump is very likely due to us doing accidental geo-engineering for the last 80 years and we've only just stopped it.
We finally banned sulfur-laden bunker fuel globally for shipping last year. Dirtiest fuel in the world basically, all the left over crud from refineries straight into your cargo ship's engine. Sounds like a good environmental move but, oh shit, guess what? Those sulfur aerosols the ships were pumping into the atmosphere worldwide were actually keeping surface temperatures down.
Climate scientists were shitting themselves over the temperature jump until someone made the connection. They're still shitting themselves over it now, but at least it's an explainable jump now.
It's proof that fairly "trivial" changes by humans can have measurable effects on climate.
This was a binary configuration file of some sort though?
Something along the lines of:
IF (config.parameter.read == garbage) {
Dont_panic;
}
Would have helped greatly here.
Edit: oh it's more like an unsigned binary blob that gets downloaded and directly executed. What could possibly go wrong with that approach?
You're never going to live in a world where you're allowed to fly without photo id amigo
Move to a different country.
Eg in Australia I can book a domestic ticket and have two interactions after that:
- x-ray/security where they scan my carry on
- boarding at the gate where they scan my pass.
No photo ID - or any ID really - needed. Now there's enough dribs and drabs of information when I book the ticket and etc etc that they can identify me, but there's nothing stopping someone from booking a ticket for someone else under their name.
I have a Samsung A71. It permanently lives in its protective case which gives it good bumpers around the easily-breakable edge-to-edge screen. It's now 4 years old and has survived numerous tumbles and drops over the years.
Occasionally I have to swap the SD card in it and I am always astonished at how thin and light and fragile it is when not in the case.
I would quite happily have an actual similar size phone to what "I have now" if the battery size was bumped up another 50 percent.
Click Here And Try This One Weird Test That Boeing Hates On Your Malfunctioning Thrusters!
I work in OT. The number of "best practice" IT mantras that companies mindlessly pick up and then slavishly follow to the detriment of their mainly-OT business is alarming.
Make your own damn best practice that suits your business best, don't copy and paste something from a megacorp. Sure, include elements from megacorp's best practice if they are applicable, but don't be a slave to the entirety of it.
I can read and skim documents for salient details at 500 - 800 words per minute.
And then someone links me to a twelve minute video on YouTube where 800 words are spoken in total , 300 of those words are "um,so", and all we're looking at is either the narrator , or possibly a static slide with a few paragraphs on it... and also an inset of the narrator, narrating.
Send them a letter via registered mail stating that upon receipt of said letter they waive their right to waive your rights.
Firstly, the US launches over the ocean. Some other countries can't / don't bother, and often drop bits of rockets near people which is generally considered a bit rude.
Secondly, there is an exclusion zone underneath the rocket's flight path and they won't launch if they pick up a ship or plane in that zone. Governments publish that exclusion zone through specific channels - Notice to Airmen, and Notice to Mariners - with warnings to steer clear of the area at specific times.
Pilots and ship's captains should check for notices before heading out - for commercial operators this is part of their everyday checklist.
It's right there in the name:
Basic Input Output Operating System
It's the first stage of whatever os you run.
If you don't think the BIOS is part of your operating system, just remove it and see how far you get on the next boot.
Edit: I was always told the I in BIOS was "I/O". WAS I DECEIVED FOR ALL THIS TIME!?
Your rods and cones in your eye and the nerves that transmit the information to your brain have signalling limits, they can only fire so fast and they have a time to reset. It depends on lighting and what you're focused on as well.
Which is why film can get away with 24 frames per second because in a dark theatre and a bright screen 24 fps is enough to blur that signalling so that it looks like decent motion. Only thing cinematographers had to watch out for is large panning shots as our peripheral vision is tuned for more rapid response and we can see the juddering out of the corner of our eyes.
I could see the 60Hz flicker of crt monitors back in the day if I had a larger monitor or was working next to someone with 60Hz. Not when I was directly looking at it, but when it was in my peripheral vision. The relatively tiny jump to 72Hz made things so much nicer for me.