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The turbines/generators set the grid frequency itself.
Having the batteries disconnect/connect would cause the generators to slow down and then speed up (or vice versa) which makes the rest of the grid frequency fluctuate as well.
It may also trigger the FCAS part of the grid that is paid to keep the frequency within the required range which is +/- 10mHz-200mHz.
There's really no reason not to.
Unlike the "pure" AI players, who rely on NVIDIA and others, Apple is relying on its own capabilities, vertically organized, to maintain its lead in consumer space.
They are using the "cloud" to again, vertically integrated, to preserve their "privacy first" consumer marketing, their hardware to maintain their "premium product" lead, and they are usually second to a market after a first-mover advantage has been reduced by ongoing development.
They make and sell the hardware that will actually make AI something everyone can used without needing to rely on OpenAI/Anthropic et al.
Apple has never had a moat, anyone else could have built this sort of hardware but they haven't.
So they don't care which model wins, because it will always move out to the edge of the network, and they own a large chunk of that edge.
Took at least 5 minutes to set it up and add the apps, then I forgot about it until now.
Just went and removed some apps that I used but don't anymore.
What on earth does that mean and how is it relevant? Are you trying to say that there is no more "[P]rogress of Science and useful Arts" left to be made?
One of the founders of our industry.
I misread.
Thanks for the correction.
Really good politicians work with their speechwriters to get across exactly what they want to communicate.
The purpose is to provide an incentive to creators to reveal their inventions and make them available to the public and other creators, instead of keeping them as trade secrets.
AS: American Samoa
GH: Greenland
SL: Sierra Leone
If CCs were the system of the last 75 years to allow quick transactions, these systems are the next generation.
The US is a specific banking market that has a very embedded structure, regulation, and players. Other nations have a more flexible financial system that allows for services to develop that are better than the existing Visa/MC duopoly.
This is just the next step of allowing them to operate cross-border/jurisdiction.
The fact that you have zero interest does not mean there are many small merchants and customers that find the ability to easily transfer money instantly with very low fees and the same safety as cash is a very useful service.
UPI now interoperates with other equivalent new payment platforms in Asia.
The change is that newer financial systems, using ISO20022, run at bank level, allow instant net settlement between individual accounts, not just settlement at the bank level.
So the benefits to merchants/customers compared to Visa/MC:
Merchants
* Interchange is much cheaper, because the banks transact via the central clearing house which is usually sponsored by the country's reserve bank
* It allows for the merchant to set up direct debit payment structures that allow for things like subscriptions and other payments to be made with similar network and transaction fee savings
* It has all of the advantages of EFT and CC payments
* It can use QR codes, email addresses, and mobile numbers as identifiers, so it is much easier to pass on payment details. Merchants can operate with just a printed QR code, verifying payment on the customer's mobile.
Customers
* Banks can offer all of the same "perks" of credit cards, like lines of credit, branding, account holder offers.
* They can offer things like product insurance and return protection and similar consumer protections.
The "rails" are much cheaper to run and suits a 21st century financial system and is easier and more secure for consumers.
In Australia the system is the NPP, and the public face is Osko/PayID, so you can use an email or mobile identifier to instantly transfer money between people's accounts. Australia is rolling out PayTo, which is a B2C form of direct debit, which is revocable by the customer but allows for subscriptions and other payments.
The next step will be offering a bank account with PayID/PayTo, a contactless form of payment stored in a Google/Apple/Samsung Wallet, and a line of credit.
Which is all that a credit card is.
This announcement is about similar national systems evolving into cross-European payments. So an instant payment from a French bank account to a Spanish bank account via contactless payment terminal without using the Visa/MC "rails". In Thailand it's promptpay
If there was an interruption to services on that night in particular, that's a serious public safety issue.
We had tested our system, and integration tested with all the other systems we connected to directly, but any FMECA analysis would show you that there were failure modes that we couldn't mitigate.
So people on planes falling out of the sky? Probably no.
People being crushed in a railway station on NYE? Possible yes.
To be fair that was more of a time sync problem.
If you think of the Pope as a stratum 1 NTP clock, with bishops in each diocese acting as stratum 2 and parish priests as stratum 3.
The break between Julian and Gregorian was sort of like a UTC leap second.
There were 8 address modes for each register.
So a src/dst instruction used up 12 bits for the src/dst+modes, a single register instruction used 6 bits.
You could load the registers directly at addresses 177770 through 177777 on the front panel. So if your program was 5 words long, you could load that into registers R0-R4, then load R7 with the address 177770 and execute.
So you programmed the front panel with 3 fingers for octal instead of 4 for hex.
Bootstrap was a small set of octal instructions on a piece of paper stuck to the front panel.
That was enough to load the "absolute loader" from paper tape on one of the ASR-33s, which then loaded blocks of BASIC from paper tape.
It was a "multi-user" BASIC that dropped string functions (except CHR$()) in exchange for allowing 3 users.
The charging network is still being built out, but for these type of services, it's a no brainer.
Just saw my first FedEx EV truck (inner city Melbourne) and all the posties use EV trikes.
They worked on the same principle as the old mechanical signs at airports and train stations.
So it was mechanical first with the motors, then the LED display and then LCD and then the current TFT etc.
There was a bit of snark from the SpaceX guy Dave about whether or not the go/no-go decision had been made and not to listen to "other broadcasters" and he was right.
But the NASASpaceFlight guys are the right kind of nerds to be commentating, because they don't have to keep up the "steel jawed rocketman" image and can just geek out on the launch.
His lordship announced this to the world at the UN.
The licensing laws around copyright have been developed over the last few centuries. They can be changed.
But until they are, the limits are what they are. Currently, Oracle can put conditions on benchmarking and publishing the results in their license and its not only legal for them to do so, but they have prevailed in court when enforcing those conditions.