The microcode in integrated CPUs took care of routing your inputs and outputs to where they need to be, and triggering the various arithmetic operations as desired.
In the transition from plugboards to programmed sequence control the thing that took over the task of routing values between registers, through the ALU, and to/from IO ports was the control unit. Microcode being one way to implement functionality in the control unit.
One other approach was to use what was basically a finite state machine, implemented physically in-circuit. The output of that FSM was fed into a series of logic gates along with the current instruction value, with the output of that combination being connected to the control lines of the various CPU elements. Thus the desired switching/routing behavior occured.
Modern chips are really complicated hybrids of microcode and a ton of interacting finite state machines. Especially in x86 complex or less commonly used instructions will be implemented in microcode, whereas simple/common instructions will be implemented by being "hardwired", somewhat similar to the FSM technique described above (although probably more complicated).
Although Valve apparently already takes anti-scalping measures with the Steam Deck, so maybe it could work out in that way (as in, each steam account gets a limited number of purchases, TOS against trying to bypass that limit, etc).
I thought this was some sort of tier list of drugs at first. Like "which ones would are most important for a hospital to have", and I was trying to work out the logic behind the colors.
it’s not hard to earn in-game money and buy ships with that
If you can skip that process by paying real money, and the things you unlock are gameplay-effecting upgrades, then that's pay-to-win. That's what the phrase originally meant before being diluted. Non pay-to-win microtransactions are purely cosmetic.
Not that people should be playing any game that's infested with a microtransaction funding model. Let alone one with a base price of $45, let alone one with absolutely absurd "micro"-transactions meant to prey on mentally ill people, let alone one that's already taken people's free money only to implement all of the above.
At one point in time horse armor was enough cause controversy. How did it all go so wrong?
I didn't bother to read the paper, but the article says the system produced "10s of nanoamps at 10s of microvolts". I'll just assume each of those values are "100", since that's the highest value you could describe as "10s" of something.
That works out to 0.01 nanowatts. For comparison the tiny solar panel on a solar powered calculator might produce 0.0075 watts, or 750 million times that amount of power.
In reality, since wattage is a multiple of volts and amps, lowering both of those figures from my highball estimate would massively decrease the wattage. The solar calculator probably produces billions of times more power than this 1 foot long cylinder.
So, i think its neat that they were able to measure an effect, but the article really should not even be mentioning power generation.
For yuri authors that choose to list a gender the vast majority of them, 80%+, are women. While it varies by distributor the audience for yuri works is made up of close to 50/50% men and women.
Furthermore, if you look at the tag numbers on sites like MAL or mangagao you will find that yaoi manga outnumbers yuri manga by more than 5x:
This sort of thing is really common in video games where you're able to move in zero G.
In the few games that have accurate zero G movement people get really confused. They'll hold a movement key the entire way to a destination then smack into it because they didn't realize they'd have to hold the opposite key for an equal amount of time to stop. Or they'll fly a certain distance like that, then want to make a 90° turn, only to keep careening off in the direction of their initial travel with a slight bend to it.
Philips Ultra Efficient bulbs use only 4 watts, and they have a glass bulb and metal base, so they might feel cool to the touch anyway. Or at least feel plausibly the same temperature as the room, depending on how hot it is in there.
huge fucking place basically 50 mini countries who mostly hate each other.
First, stop with the 50 countries crap.
Next, the size of your country has zero, literally nothing at all, to do with transportation within an individual city. Get the "america special" shit out of your brain, please.
New York does 8 million transit trips a day and it’s just a Lil state
If US cities really were so big and busy and extreme compared to the rest of the world like you seem to think, they would have a larger need for rail transit, not a lesser one. A rail line has a higher capacity than a highway lane, by at least an order of magnitude.
I am asking you again, please get the "we are so special and big and extreme nowhere else is comparable at all, no one else could even comprehend it" crap out of your head.