He was sentenced. The sentence was effectively a judicial shrug.

Well as of tomorrow, weather modification will be illegal in the state of Florida. As such, Democrats will be powerless to help in the state most likely to see a hurricane.

So comply… maliciously.

Keep the doors open with the plants no longer in operation. Turn the facilities into museums chronicling archaic power generation. Retain the staff as curators and tour guides.

I don’t want to alarm you, but we’re now 22 years past your graduation. “Almost ten years” and then some.

I was interrupted before I submitted this comment, and I see you’ve gotten some replies since I wrote the draft, but my comment goes a little deeper, so I figured I’d still add on.

FALD and mini LED are similar in function, but mini LED has a couple advantages. Since the actual LEDs are smaller, you can place a larger quantity of them behind the LCD panel than traditional LEDs. This allows for more dimming zones to reduce the halo effect, and also enables higher peak brightness which means better contrast.

IPS and VA refer not to the backlight system, but to the actual liquid crystal display panel that sits in front of the backlight. The LCD itself is like an array of microscopic window shutters that can turn clear or black. By placing this LCD behind a color filter layer, the LCD can control light passing through each subpixel (red, green, blue) of the filter layer to produce the appropriate color for each pixel. Each panel type (IPS, VA, TN, etc ) has its own set of advantages and disadvantages when it comes to cost, response time, image ghosting, viewing angle, color accuracy, contrast, etc. Each of those panel types could be paired with an edge-lit backlight, FALD backlight, or mini LED backlight.

OLED is a completely separate technology altogether. Instead of putting an LCD filter layer in front of a backlight, OLED puts individual white LEDs behind each red, green, and blue subpixel of the color filter layer. That means instead of a liquid crystal layer blocking out backlight (which is imperfect and still bleeds light, hence the FALD halo effect), an OLED simply does not emit light for that pixel/subpixel, allowing perfect blacks and better color accuracy.

QLED and QD-OLED trade the white LED backlights and white OLED panels for blue light and discard the traditional color filter layer, replacing it with a sheet of quantum dots that use some kind of black magic optical fuckery to change blue light into red and green as well.

But we did recently invent a new color, or at least a new way to perceive color.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/researchers-discover-new-color-thats-impossible-to-see-without-lasering-your/

Ecoflow DELTA 3 Plus

My Cyberpower UPS started going to shit last year and I ended up replacing it with a LiFePO4 power station that advertised a switching time fast enough to use as a UPS. I spent about $630 for a power station that can handle 1800W for an appreciably longer runtime than the lead acid battery backups, essentially one kilowatt hour. So far so good. My only complaint is that the outlets are on the front, which isn’t an ideal form factor for UPS duty. Plus, LiFePO4 is supposed to be good for ten years or so.

DOOM Dark Ages. I’m about halfway through.

“All code paid for by taxpayer dollars should be open source, available for comment, for feedback, for people to build on and for people in other agencies to replicate. It saves everyone money and it is our [taxpayers’] IP,” she said. “This is just good government and should absolutely be the standard that government technologists are held to.”"

Nice sentiment, but bad take. Open-sourcing the software that runs our military equipment would be a fantastic gift to the bad actors of the world.

Not a CEO, he’s the president of Panama.

The only text on that page that states the origin of the dev’s code is Mazda’s claim that the relevant code is Mazda’s. If their claim is true, then it would seem to me the DMCA takedown is valid.

The reason the DMCA takedown notice is malicious is that code from Mazda’s official app is not required to develop a tool that works in a similar way. The API of the server is freely accessible and figuring out how to interact with it can be done completely without infringing on anyone’s copyright.

Okay, it doesn’t matter how it could have been done, it matters how it was done, and again, the only claim made on the page is that it was stolen code.

I’m all for actually owning what you buy and being able to integrate it with your other stuff however you please, but distributing someone else’s work is a valid claim for infringement. And as with any other cloud-based stuff, don’t expect it to work forever. Support and push for local device access without the need for cloud services.

While it’s nice to finally have closure on this, it’s also depressing that they removed that.

Not just you. I feel like search modifiers like “NOT” or “OR” haven’t been working for a good long while either.

Same. And I’ve bought many UGreen chargers and cables since that whole ordeal. Since then I’ve seen some Anker chargers, batteries, and desk power strips that looked really appealing and that I would’ve bought if I wasn’t avoiding them.

“your’re”

Hmmm…

Eco Tank is a good choice if you print with regularity or need a photo printer, but not if you print maybe once or twice a year. It’s still an inkjet, and the head will still clog if sat unused for a couple months, requiring a lengthy head cleaning cycle and possible replacement of the maintenance box. If you almost never print, but need your printer to just work without fuss that one random day you need to print, it’s gotta be a laser printer.

A sane president who values geopolitical allies would just work out a deal with the host country to install more military bases in the region of concern, rather than burning every partnership we have by being aggressively expansionist.

While I can appreciate that it might be getting hit with DDoS, I really hope it’s deeper and causes data loss or something permanent. I want to see the world take everything away from Elon.