"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible."
Fair, lol. But they were better than Westerners today. We redefined the SI standard reference for the volt a few years ago, in a way that makes it worse (more complicated and less accessible), simply because the original reference involves cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. And someone might eat that, you know...
Fair enough. One megapascal exerts a force of one million newtons per square meter, or about 100 tonnes per square meter on Earth at sealevel. Or 100 grams per square millimeter.
Mass-force assumes very specific conditions in American Customary Units. In reality, a pound operating at a distance of one foot does not exert as much force in Fairbanks as it does in Los Angeles. Newtons, OTOH, are always the same, no handwaving or standard test location required.
Contemptible of Toyota, but unsurprising. Don't overthink your solution, though. 1. Find antenna 2. Snip antenna 3. ??? 4. Freedom! If you're not using its always-online features, you lose exactly nothing. And given that the car must lose comms regularly already (road tunnels, "black spots", underground car parks) it won't have been spitefully set to brick.
FeRAM should have supplanted Flash in the early 2000s for anything that would need to be written to - but suddenly ran into physical limits around 55nm. Physics is so unreasonable sometimes... :D
100%. I was inspired by this madman playing Quake on his CRT oscilloscope: https://hackaday.com/tag/darkplaces/ But the screen is so small! I've acquired a few CRTs - 4", 9" and 27", plan to strip out the analog drive circuits and rewind the yokes to be vector displays, but taking it step by step and building up my skills.
The first CRT display was made in 1899, in a small workshop. Monochrome, of course. Required technologies: glass casting, wire forming, vacuum-pumps, sheet metal fabrication. Required materials: glass, copper wire, a fluorescent pigment, a conductive coating, and any alkali salt with thermoionic properties. If anything "happens" to global trade flows from China's gigafactories, artisanal-built CRTs gonna come back like the 1990s never ended. RE: https://pkteerium.xyz/objects/7a8ce731-c951-4a26-9b04-5d9fe096a158
People think of Standard Definition TVs when they think of CRTs, but there's actually no necessary connection. Those beautiful, crisp, sharp, white lines in Asteroids are much older than television - the very first CRTs were vector-based not raster-based, and technically-capable of amazingly fine resolution. Oscilloscopes FTW! But there were no computers around to make use of their full potential. Any modern computer with stereo audio output can drive a vector CRT, with resolution hundreds of times sharper than a modern OLED or LCD screen. The limitations are not resolution per se, more around the rate of change your op-amps are capable of, and leakage of storage capacitors.
Japan has 101 problems, but deliberately constructing a dependent underclass is not one of them. Median income in Japan is still lower than in Russia, but their big corps do build cool toys!
He who wishes to prevent peace negotiations between his capricious frenemy and his proud enemy is well advised to blow up a school. And the Gandhi Hospital. And the old royal palace. Have to box that capricious frenemy in good and proper, to prevent him declaring victory and going home after the first day like last time...
