I was going to say, sounds like my college experience decades later. Still a very congested laser link, and I had a headless minitower instead of a rack (though I wasn't a CS student).
That's basic knowledge in civil engineering. You can look up every text book.
* Lack of curvature control
Catmull-Rom splines pass through all control points, which sounds great, but the curvature between points is determined automatically. For roads, you need precise control over minimum curve radii for safety and vehicle dynamics - tight curves require reduced speed limits and proper banking.
* No arc length parameterization
Catmull-Rom splines are parametric (0 to 1 between points), not arc-length parameterized. This means equal parameter steps don't give equal distances along the curve, making it tricky to place lane markings, guardrails, or calculate exact distances.
* Curvature discontinuities
While the curve itself is smooth (C1 continuous), the curvature can have abrupt changes at control points. Roads need smooth curvature transitions for driver comfort and safety - sudden changes in steering wheel position feel jarring and can be dangerous at speed.
Better are:
* Clothoid/Euler spirals - Linear curvature change, standard in highway design for smooth transitions between straights and curves. I prefer clothoids
* Cubic Bézier curves - Better curvature control with tangent handles
* B-splines - Smoother curvature, don't pass through all points but more predictable
* Circular arcs with transition curves - Traditional civil engineering approach. Nice, but not for fast speeds. And I struggled with it constantly algebraicly.
The lack of a black iPhone 17 Pro... has me dumbfounded. I might skip this year.
I'm really happy with the camera features, but there's less differentiation between base iPhone 17 and 17 Pro this go-round. Probably enough for me to still get the Pro, but the iPhone 17 is looking like a pretty cool option this year.
They're removing black to force people to either upgrade, or make it painfully obvious to their peers that they're using an old phone. That's what you do when there is nothing new in your phone this year. Status signaling and fashion.
Or it could be like the white iPhone 4... delayed because of problems with the finish.
It's obvious to anyone given the radical new design that you have an iPhone 16 Pro or not. That's not the reason for removing black. They'd have removed silver for the same reason if it was.
I think that for each variation of treatments and finishes they do, the white models tend to look dated the quickest. But I'm a case guy, and I like black carbon cases, so the contrast between white phones and carbon cases is too stark.
If you are just putting it in a case, white will more visibly show the accumulated grime. But the color doesn't matter as much in that scenario anyway.
I've always preferred clear cases, and I notice when I get the white iPhone it definitely stays cooler (especially when used as navigation in the car).
Just because I’m curious, why the issue with reading GPL code? My understanding is that you would have to essentially directly copy and paste the code for the GPL license to apply to it.
I wish this article recognized that there is a cost to maintaining the grid, both in transmission infrastructure, but also in maintaining the dispatchable generation capacity to smooth out solar's variability. As frustrating as this policy change sounds for consumers, I can see the case that the utility has variable && fixed costs related to net metering that warrants a sub-retail rate of exchange. In point of fact, roughly the rate that Dominion is willing to pay for solar energy in commercial PPAs.
The SREC situation is more complicated. I'm not familiar with Virginia's program, but I could see a case that Dominion doesn't deserve those credits... or one that says if they're building/operating their grid around accepting rooftop solar, some of those tax credits should accrue to their operations. I don't know. I wonder if commercial PPAs also transfer credits in exchange?
This was my immediate thought when I saw the ring light. Very very likely a CRI of 90 or below, which doesn’t even weight much in red shades. Not uncommon to see 92 CRI with a R9 (red) score below 50% of sunlight or tungsten illumination.
Not a typical orange. “Sumo Citrus” / dekopon / shiranui is a hybrid tangor/tangerine cross. Very fragile, specialty fruit, only recently available at scale in the eastern US. This is on the high end per-fruit but I’ve seen higher. I usually buy in cases at ~$1.25 per fruit.
As I deployed Starlink in an extremely obstructed spot last year for a few weeks, where multi-second dropouts were quite common... it impressed me JUST HOW MANY satellites they have up there, and just how usable my dish was despite only having ~60% of its field of view clear. It's switching satellites much more often than every five minutes.
The built-in obstruction mapping tool quickly demonstrated that though each satellite represents a tiny slice of sky... over the course of the day you're seeing a vast number of satellites at a high variety of spatial angles and orbits.
I wouldn't recommend that obstructed situation to anyone (and it's going in a much clearer location this coming summer) but the users I was supporting reported it a far far better solution than the 4G LTE they'd been depending on prior. Not a patch on fiber, but a great solution for an awkwardly remote property.
