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But, there is no fixed quantity of money in modern finance. It's created every someone or some business takes out a loan from a bank, and every time the government spends money. It…

Why would any of those compounds come from fossil fuels? Sulfur is mined, hydrogen peroxide is water with some oxygen taken off, and sodium carbonate is made from salt and limeston…

For PCB design 5.6 Sol/Terra is streets ahead of 5.5, and uses fewer tokens, so I'm not sure it can really be the same model.

The problem is the assumption that in most debates there are sides to be taken, and that there are 2 of them. It leads to shoddy journalism where "balance" means finding someone to…

It's almost certainly meant to be 27%, not a factor of 27.

So you’re wanting to bet that we’ll get humanoid robots capable of driving a dumb car at L4 before we get cars capable of L5? When we have no humanoid robots driving cars, and many…

Only by embracing solipsism, in which case why are you here debating things, since your entire truth is derivable from your existence alone with no other observations or interactio…

Philosophy can be perfectly effective as a tool of thought while still being unable to resolve self evidently unsolvable “ultimate questions”

The theistic schism? I had to look it up, and was not cleverer after. Nobody can ever know an ultimate why, for obvious and well established philosophical reasons. At least the sci…

Oh it's worse than that, for distribution and playback sampling at more than 48kHz is likely worse in many ways due to unwanted ultrasonic noise and increased intermodulation disto…

The analog input will use separate ADC modules, just as the analog output uses separate DACs. DSPi itself is purely digital (OK, excepting the PWM based sub out). These modules are…

I2S input is on the roadmap, and hardware modules from AliExpress are being tested by Troy, so yes you will get plenty of analog inputs!

It's for the pico. RP2040 works fine, but RP2350 has a hardware FPU and much more processing capability, so supports more channels and filters

We throw away food because we are so good at making it cheaply that the problem has shifted to distribution costs and fair wages. Also high productivity economies need to deal effe…

You might enjoy the book "Red Plenty" by Francis Spufford, which traces the consequences of this thesis ("Capitalism already is a poor allocator") through the Khrushchev years of t…

At best it’s checking available credit. All the other stuff is done after the fact. The idea that any banking transaction involves “subtracting one number from another” is so wrong…

Since when were payment networks latency sensitive? It’s usually 2 or more seconds to even get a payment up on the card terminal from the merchant POST system, then 2-5 seconds mor…

Thank you! Spy looks brilliant, especially the comptime-like freezing after import.

What's nuts is that the language doesn't guarantee that successive references to the same member value within the same function body are stable. You can look it up once, go off and…

Let's not get started on the cached shared object refs for small integers....

It's still ridiculous. A hypothetical Python4 would treat function declarations as declarations not executable statements, with no impact on real world code except to remove all th…

Allowing metaprogramming at module import (or another defined phase) would cover most monkey patching use cases. From __future__ import python4 would allow developers to declare th…

Performance is one part of the discussion, but cleanliness is another. A Python4 that actually used typing in the interpreter, had value types, had a comptime phase to allow most m…

Oh, and while we're at it, fix the "empty array is instantiated at parse time so all your functions with a default empty array argument share the same object" bullshit.

To clarify, it is nuts that in an object method, there is a performance enhancement through caching a member value. class SomeClass def init(self) self.x = 0 def SomeMethod(self) q…