What a mess.
Fortunately, the frequency thing is less of an issue with modern power supplies, like my laptop charger is rated for 100-240V 50-60 Hz, so it Just Works. But I imagine that was more of a pain before these were widespread.
I have a Google smart speaker that I got as a freebie. I used to use it (>3 years ago) for timers, alarms, etc. and had few problems, I just stopped when I moved and didn't set it up.
I put them back up a few months ago and it sure seems worse to me. Always triggering on random conversations, or to dialog on TV. Anyway they are permanent residents of the closet now. They suck.
Still better this than to be the person who weaves across three lanes of traffic to go after their exit, or who sees the exit lane diverging and chooses... Neither, then they just stop there.
That name may be taken, depending on how you look at it! Game developer Tim Cain wrote an OS abstraction library called GNW (GNW's not Windows). That allowed games like Fallout to be built for DOS, Windows, and Mac without major changes.
I highly recommend his Youtube channel!
Uhhh, magnets, I assume. I've gone through the physics courses, scrapped through intro to electrical engineering, and I still don't get magnets. So we'll just go with those.
I just woke up with my phone on this. My assumption is that remembering that optimal packing thing just caused me to pass out, presumably to protect myself.
I feel like it may be more visually poetic - standing there, as a breeze blows dust past you, a dollar bill flies into your hand, somehow inexplicably preserved. Any archeological record of paper currency is long gone, so even if there was a human civilization, this strangely ornamented picture of a man's head with various shapes around it would be alien.
Clearly the better choice. (Edit: vs. $5m in a year, not paper vs. a server.)
It's been reported that a lot of cuts to Xbox studios were due to losses in MS's AI business.
I had always viewed Xbox game studios and game pass as a platform dominance thing. Like, keeping players on Windows/Xbox products and keeping a large amount of the games industry under their control.
In general, just trying to keep players on the Windows ecosystem.
Spaceship Georg, whose body is 5.7×10⁹ miles from Earth, is an outlier and should not be counted.
(A portion of Clyde Tombaugh's remains are on the New Horizons spacecraft about this far from Earth).
Edit: but this of course is useless for place of death statistics.
Scooters definitely need more regulations. My experience as someone walking in a city with them hasn't been very positive.
They've been frequently tossed on the ground after their use. It's a rental, and people don't care what happens to it because it's not their problem.
They frequently block curb ramps for wheelchairs. Sometimes it's even the company putting them there (all lined up nicely, just to block the way). Sometimes it's just people tossing a scooter there after use.
My partner uses a wheelchair so scooters have been a pain in the ass for them.
Safety wise there are problems. The scooter app will tell you to wear a helmet and never ride on the sidewalk (to cover their asses) but no one wears a helmet on them.
A scooter rider hit my partner, then a stationary car once. At another time a scooter hit me and knocked me over (they were speeding down the sidewalk late at night).
But "stupid drivers" also applies to bikes, and cars. And the potential for harm with an F-150 is a lot greater than a scooter
Since you're in a roundabout, you just need a large funnel into the gas tank. Every time around, someone standing at the side pours a bit of fuel in while you pass, so you get a splash of fuel per lap!
Based on the few hours I have in this game, I feel like this conversation would be right after the player steals Kim's shrimp fried rice. Like he's waited for you several days, then you emerge, steal his food, and start joking about how a shrimp fried the rice and he's just very patiently waiting for you to investigate the body.
At some point you realize that the slushee has melted in the face of your system's 1000 W TDP...