(Home) batteries are quickly becoming cheap and per-hour electricity rates can be implemented at a reasonable time. With that, the grid owner can influence the grid stability without having to build capacity or generation itself.
With debian and KDE (both personal preference), but no snap or flatpak, it works wonderfully. Power/sleep-management has become better than a default windows install. All hardware, including the fingerprint sensor, just works.
There are EV's which have drum-brakes. That's only possible because the regenerative braking takes most of the load. Also, there are stories of brake-discs rusting out on EV's. Both point to less (friction)-brake use on an EV compared to an ICE.
There has been some testing within llama.cpp, which supports both Vulkan and ROCM-Blas. When it works, the latter is about 2x faster than the Vulkan version.
ISA cards, like the soundblaster had the MIDI and joystick on the same connector. The joystick had up to 4 analog inputs, maybe that's what's meant here.
If there's a chain of dependencies (libraries depending on other libraries), a single process might end up with different versions of the same library in it's memory.
That's not going to work, since the interface/API of the library is typically not versioned.
Yes, I know of friends and coworkers who have had to change career because they couldn't do their old job anymore. This after a year long recovery.
They aren't happy about it, they really want to do their old job, if only they could.
Then there are a few more who where home sick for 1 or 2 months. They all seem to have recovered.
In the Netherlands the same happened with the railway and healthcare coverage. The motivation was that market pressure would lead to increased efficiency.
In practice, there's a tendency towards monopoly and a forest of product variants leading to more confusion and people buying sub-optimal.
The net effect over here is negative, in my opinion.
In the 70's, the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands was renovated from car central to bike central.
That only took a few years, bike paths aren't that expensive.
The last few years ASML's problem was not supply chains, it was a very high demand. Production was ramped up successfully, but not enough to meet that demand.
With regards to Peak IC: atoms aren't getting smaller, Feynmans' "Plenty of room at the bottom" might indeed run it's end.
reflection is coherent, a single physical process. The light keeps it's phase and polarization.
Re-radiation is incoherent, caused by multiple particle interactions (physical processes).
So there's quite a difference in physics.
The first CD's were not that great, being effectively around 14-bit. Better D/A converters and noise-shaping during mastering greatly improved the sound quality.
After that, the loudness wars destroyed it again.