That comes out to 0.004242 per doubled-up 2-ply sheet vs 0.004 per 3-ply sheet

How much do you guys think that is, assuming it’s all 100 USD bills? 3000 USD?

The name comes from the US WARN act through the US FCC, and originally they did call the top level alert the “Presidential Alert”, but this was changed in the meantime. Now it stands at these categories:

WEA alerts only cover critical emergency situations. Consumers can receive four types of alerts:

• “National Alerts” issued by the President of the United States or the Administrator of FEMA;
• “Imminent Threat” alerts involving imminent threats to safety or life;
• “AMBER Alerts” about missing children; and
• “Public Safety Messages” conveying recommendations for saving lives and property.

Participating carriers may allow subscribers to block all but National Alerts.

Source

This system was implemented using Cell Broadcast system which is standardized internationally. But I guess since the big US carriers were forced to implement WEA the strings from the US version made it into Android. So now some old versions of software may still show the old US specific text, even when used internationally.

When I read teen I assumed 18 or 19, because when do headlines ever shy away from using the most specific and horrifying term.

But no, it was a 13 year old. So a “minor”, rather than just a “teen”!

All I’m saying here is that Vocaloid is essentially an electronic instrument, like a keyboard, or a theremin, or a vocoder, or a synthesizer. Vocaloid is not very similar to AI generation, so there is no particular reason to assume that Spotify would them together.

I’m not trying to comment on what I find good or bad, nor to get into the fundamental debate on what music or art is.

I think the Vocaloids are more similar to weird instruments that are still played by humans, than to generative AI song synthesis.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/e/eb/Vocaloid1_-_Screenshot.jpg

One thing Eric Berger does not go into is bandwidth. There is a hell of a lot more bandwidth available in a single pair of optical fibers on the ground compared to SpaceX’ fastest ground to air links.

They claim 1Tb/s for V3 starlink satelites. If that’s true, a fiber pair provides at least 20 times that with utterly normal off the shelf DWDM components. And that’s a single pair of fibers. Optical cables are often lain with 144 fibers, or 288 fibers.

Does this person know what a break is? Not keeping any momentum going is exactly the point of it. Resting regenerates your mental capacities. A lunch break is not just for calorie intake.

using a pozidrive bit on a Phillips head

So many people don’t even know Pozidriv exists, even in technical jobs. It keeps surprising me.

Can’t be that viral if the tiktok is already two months old. I think they are just too bad at journalism to check their sources.

Queensland, Australia.

here in Australia we have cameras that detect phone usage while driving. The fine itself is issued after a person verifies the photo.

The case in the headline was actually in Queensland, but gadgetreview.com seems to be a terrible site that doesn’t give a shit what it’s even reporting on.

Since the article appears to be mostly a weird collection of badly referenced random cases, let me give you the primary source on the case in the headline:

https://www.tiktok.com/@kristakampz/video/7640403411845877012

Edit and also to save you having to go to tiktok, here’s a frame extracted from the video:

Note, this was in Alexandra Headland in Queensland in Australia. So no idea why the article cites Georgia law…

Also this is relevant: https://www.qld.gov.au/transport/safety/road-safety/mobile-phones

Illegal mobile phone use while driving includes:

• holding it in your hand
• resting on any part of your body (eg. your lap or shoulder)

If you hold your phone or have it on your body, you will be fined even if you’re not operating the phone, or it’s turned off.

The only issue is that this skeleton has no neck that could just kind of do that

Are you listening to yourself? Because a 4 cm² solar cell fits in a 170 g calculator, that means that 200-300 m² of solar cells will be fine for the 35 ton turbine blades at around π/2/s of angular momentum with the outer radius of 100m? Those concepts are barely related.

You have no idea if the fiber glass blades have the tensile force to spare to deal with 3 tons of extra weight from the panels alone, or what it will do to the bearings in the generator if you load them 10% or 15% more, or how much flat panels will fuck up your blade aerodynamics, or how expensive it will be to get custom curved panels to preserver the aerodynamics.

Just hand waving everything that stands against your idea away as solvable is magical thinking, not visionary brilliance.

Wind turbine blades have a lot of surface area that could be covered in solar panels, which solves the issue of solar panels energy output decreasing with heat because then they’d always have built in cooling.

That is a stupid idea. Blade weight is one of the biggest engineering issues for wind turbines.

Bandwidth per launch?

The important question is how much bandwidth to the base station does the satellite have, unless the dedicated coverage area per satellite shrinks, that would also help with congestion.

It doesn’t really answer your question, but this article calls the Muttsee the highest reservoir in Europe, at least that’s something.

https://www.waterpowermagazine.com/news/muttsee-dam-solar-plant-to-provide-balancing-energy-for-swissgrid/

Good shout.

Here is an older article on the start of construction from a publicly funded news organization:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/sci-tech/switzerland-builds-biggest-alpine-solar-plant/46883572

Here is the article from when it was done (September 2022!), but this one isn’t available in English I’m afraid:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/groesste-alpine-solaranlage-der-schweiz-hat-volle-leistung-erreicht/47868356

As a primary source, here’s the project page of one of the involved companies:

https://www.axpo.com/ch/en/energy/generation-and-distribution/solar-power/alpinsolar.html

Edit: Corrected the first link. Had too many tabs open and posted this one by accident: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/archive-alpine-environment/construction-starts-on-first-large-scale-solar-park-in-swiss-alps/87531886

If a V1 satellite only has 24 Gbit/s in total capacity on its links to the base station, and a V2 mini satellite only 96 Gbit/s, then it’s no wonder really.