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Mazda has a super interesting way of doing this. When paired with an electric motor/generator, they can speed up/slow down specific parts of the combustion cycle to essentially get vvt. I think they can only really do this as a range extender due to the fact it makes power delivery a little bit weird.

https://carbuzz.com/news/mazdas-new-rotary-engine-variable-v...

It can sound significantly better but there’s a couple hoops you have to jump through - and even then it’s decent, but not the same as Siri.

You need the user to download ‘enhanced’ or ‘premium’ voices in the settings app. (Settings -> Accessibility-> Spoken Content -> Voices -> [Language of choice] -> [Voice of choice] -> Enhanced or Premium)

In the app you have to search for the enhanced or premium voices when doing TTS.

Heres an Objective C example, I’m sure there’s an easier way to write it in Swift. https://github.com/osmandapp/OsmAnd-iOS/pull/1156/commits/0b...

I’m not sure if you’ll find this acceptable from a UX point of view but there’s an option to play with if you’d like.

iCloud was down a couple weeks ago for most of a day. https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/01/icloud-mail-down/

It definitely happens to other providers.

As Mark Twain once said "If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed."

I guess it's up to the individual to choose what they prefer.

And yet there's a large light festival that was allowed to run whilst telling people to turn off their lights. Granted lights are not the highest usage items, the sheer volume of bright outdoor projectors probably uses a fair amount more than people's house lighting. https://www.news.com.au/finance/money/costs/sydneysiders-sla...

And just like that, all the www.* domain names have been bought.

I've found that prepending "Flight" i.e. "Flight LH173" works when it doesn't detect the flight number by itself

Not really relevant to cordless ones but I know Dyson removed their pre-motor filter on their latest corded vacuums. If the dust chamber is too full excess dust is blown through the motor and then stopped from coming out into the air by a post motor filter. This will lead to premature motor failure over time.

The Dyson 'bagless' idea is a bit of a sham. Yes they work, but they don't work that well. They don't make as much suction as their bagged competitors so they cheat and use smaller orifices to increase suction instead of by having a larger motor or alternative design. Then in order to have 'like new' performance all the time you have to continually wash (which doesn't really clean well enough) or replace filters.

Some people love them but they don't make sense to me. If I'm emptying my vacuum I'm going to empty it into a bag anyway so I may as well use a bagged vacuum that works more consistently and doesn't throw dust everywhere.

Most keyless start systems have a backup physical key[1] hidden inside the remote fob and will use very short range RFID [2] similar to older physical turn keys and their immobiliser chips to authenticate with the car ECU and allow the engine to start.

[1] https://static.cargurus.com/images/site/2016/03/21/20/42/pic...

[2] https://www.mazda3revolution.com/threads/if-the-battery-in-t...

I've got a Zallus reflow controller off an old kickstarter - finally installed it this weekend into an old oven but haven't had a chance to try it properly. They seem quite a bit cheaper than the whizoo controller although it's much more limited. Mine doesn't control the door or heating elements independently.

Apparently a popular use case for these is roasting your own coffee beans.

http://www.zallus.com/

There certainly is a way to make it so an app can ‘add photos only’ on iOS. I have only seen it used a handful of time and some apps like Facebook Messenger where I’ve somehow got that permission setting set in the past actually ignore it and demand full access despite just trying to save a photo.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46341694/detect-add-phot...

A couple of the old Priuses used to have a solar powered fan. I can’t find any good info on it at the moment but IIRC it was basically a computer fan coupled to a small solar panel so don’t think it was too effective.

https://priuschat.com/threads/solar-powered-fan-is-it-workin...

It's also not all about 0-60 (at least for the motorsport market). Tesla's seem to still have issues under sustained high performance driving[1]. There's many cars with significantly slower 0-60 times that smash the Model S around Nürburgring due to batteries overheating and being put into limp mode. As the technology improves no doubt this problem will go away, but it doesn't look like we're there just yet.

For perspective the Model S made it around the track in about 10 minutes, an old diesel Jaguar S Type with a 0-60 time of 8.5~ seconds did it in about 9 [2 & 3].

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/323053/tesla-model-s-fails-to-lap...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_N%C3%BCrburgring_Nords...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaguar_S-Type

I believe GP may have been referring to this line (emphasis mine) in the article suggesting Apple will now be using Qualcomm chips again.

  Companies have reached a global patent license agreement and *a chipset supply agreement*

Unless I'm missing something, the user can set this to all zeroes.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/adsupport/asidenti...

A sane default would be nice but there's a lot of other information that can be used to fingerprint a user from their device, device names and carrier names along with a bunch of other device settings are accessible without asking for permission. Unfortunately there's no current way to limit these.