Your EDIT. The first thing it suggested is actually very similar to ensembles in meteorology. I actually find myself doing that often if it's something extremely important. Just feels natural to cross-check with other models or with reality. The disclaimer says it may make mistakes after all...
Like you don't predict the weather or a hurricane track with a single model. The NHC uses many.
It's still probablistic, but if multiple models are independently in agreement, then it's at least worth investigating further.
Business account though. Everyone else is just a waste of time to provide support to.
I'm a regular consumer who bought a Dell Precision laptop (which still kicks ass btw, to their credit for all their faults) and they bent over backwards because I purchased through their business side. A shipping delay got me a 100 dollar discount, and another hiccup got me 150 dollars to spend at Dell. Bought a business grade 4K monitor from them that also kicks ass and has imperceptible latency in CS:GO/CS2 with the laptop.
Sometimes even in a bleak corporate world there can be good customer service. It's the exception rather than the rule too often.
I can also attest to horrific lagspikes on an Optimus laptop even if Intel is driving the desktop. Memory pressure is definitely the problem here. Lagspikes actually lessened when I switched to Wayland Gnome. I think they lessened further with PREEMPT_RT on kernel 6.12. Nvidia requires an environment variable to build on real time kernels but it plays surprisingly nice as of driver 570. But if you have this config, you need at least 11th gen Intel iGPU or AMD APU, because i915 does not build for real-time kernels. Only the Xe driver works and only if you force_probe the ID if it's Tiger Lake.
...Which I don't get because the Xe driver is said to explicitly support, at minimum, Tiger Lake. I played Minecraft on the iGPU with Xe and it was perfectly fine. It... drew 3D graphics at expected framerates.
BSP is a technique for optimizing visibility calculations on convex level geometry. You're still making a 3D model and that's exactly what's stored as part of a .bsp file. So the point isn't BSP being outdated.
Just Trenchbroom and tools like it have more of a Minecraft creative mode simplicity to them, with click and drag snap to grid rapid prototyping of basic level geometry, and even more advanced geometry and details (including creating slopes and cylindrical structures, rafters, vents, general architectural details), than Blender's out of box generic UX presentation intended for all use cases of 3D design.
You can kinda do that with Pixels and Sony Xperias only, because last I recall, they implement Android Verified Boot correctly (or non-draconianly), specifically avb_custom_key.
From a security and freedom perspective, I actually like the restrictions of the Android platform if implemented as Google intended, which means allowing you to roll your own ROM and relock the bootloader with your own keys. Android itself has among the strongest security models for a consumer platform, again if implemented as Google intended (which is why GrapheneOS only supports Pixels). You're actually not supposed to root your phone because that opens up a large attack surface.
It's inconvenient for customization, sure, but you can still wipe the phone and roll your own system. It's a matter of the workflow to do it.
> Bridge maintenance is sorely needed across the whole country.
Not just that, but also to rethink how we reinforce them in major waterways or even minor but navigable waterways, if any heavy enough boat can just crash into a support column and take the whole thing down... albeit accidentally in that case.
I think I see an underlying point though. What other Internet protocol or service requires the user client to supply endless additional arbitrary metadata to even gain access to a resource, let alone receive information? Not even email is that cumbersome for the clientside. Although it is the way it is for better or worse.
At that point, nonacquiescence is the only remedy, for the FAA to simply ignore the ruling. The executive branch also has more guns than the judicial branch. I would love to think that anyone in any position of regulatory power involving public safety with any shred of sanity would simply ignore the recent ruling, continue business as usual, and have the backing by the sheer monopoly on the legitimate use of force that the executive branch always had since the civil war (where nonacquiescence was invoked, because what was SCOTUS going to do about it? Lincoln had many more guns), but everything I just said implies some really... uncertain times ahead.
I think it was the ballot box, the jury box, and then the ammo box? Not that I think something is going to give violently per se or I mean to scaremonger, but it's hard to feel confident about the country's future in my lifetime with everything that's unfolded so far.
Personal anecdote: that actually saved an important doctor appointment. "URGENT MESSAGE WHEN FLASHING". Well, lights were flashing, guess we could tune to it and hear what it has to say. Sure enough, it announced a traffic jam on our route a few miles ahead that Google Maps vastly underestimated (usually it's been good about that) and we were able to avoid it. Thanks TNDOT.
It was because a chemical truck crashed apparently, on our drive back home it was still there with specialized hazmat emergency vehicles around.
I THINK it is FM, narrow FM. My SDR receives some attenuated incomplete-sounding signal when switched to AM on 162.55 MHz even if I widen the bandwidth, and switching to narrow FM gets me the same clarity and volume as my actual weather radio provided I lower the gain a little.
Makes me think that TikTok and YT pranksters are accidentally producing psychological data on what makes people tick under scenarios of extreme deliberate annoyance. Although the quality (and importance) of that data is obviously highly variable and probably not very high, and depends on what the prank is.
As another layperson, I understand it as the physics equivalent of solving for x, but far less trivial. We figure it must exist because it's a missing puzzle piece in the mathematics that accurately predicts everything else. This is reinforced by observations of indirect effects that aren't accounted for in the current math.
That's the case for cable Internet, which I wager is a large plurality of Internet connections in the US. At least Charter for the past few years has been rolling out equipment along their cable network to support more uplink bandwidth for symmetrical service, called "high split" I think. I'm still waiting on my area to get the high split treatment.
Would be interesting to see how minimal they could make the overhead, since that's one of their goals. I wonder what the lower limit might be. That would have broad implications for basically everything else in userspace.
Like you don't predict the weather or a hurricane track with a single model. The NHC uses many.
It's still probablistic, but if multiple models are independently in agreement, then it's at least worth investigating further.