Have we decided when are we deprecating it? I'm already cultivating another team in a remote location to work on a competing product that we will include into Google Cloud a month before deprecating this one.
Nothing is really going to protect you from a direct lightning strike. Lightning strikes are on the order of millions of volts and thousands of amps. It will arc between circuits that are close enough and it will raise the ground voltage by thousands of volts too. You basically need a lighting rod buried deep into the earth to prevent it hitting your house directly and then you’re still probably going to deal with fried electronics (but your house will survive). Surge protectors are for faulty power supplies and much milder transient events on the grid and maybe a lightning strike a mile or so away.
So I'm still left with int0x29's original question: "Isn't this [an electricity spike that a UPS could protect against] what a surge protector is for?"
Yes. In most cases, assuming you live in a 220V country, a surge protector will absorb the upwards spike, and the voltage range (a universal PSU can go as low as 107V) will handle the brownout voltage dip.
I addition to the incentive to hide it and not stir up any obvious evidence, anyone with enough money to throw at the problem probably doesn't want to wreck the current financial system
Firefox isn't really making enough in donations to maintain a major piece of web infrastructure. So it gets search revenue from Google, which people complain about (and may not be long term sustainable). So they go make other paid for things looking for revenue, which people complain about.
If the user donations aren’t enough, surely their main revenue source—the 100s of millions of dollars they get from Google—is? Or do they need billions just to maintain a competent browser?
Thank you! I was so confused, reading the article and scratching my head wondering why there were no pictures. In the end I started doing image searches to see what the buildings looked like for myself.
It depends on the display type. When run on something with low per pixel lighting it can flicker a bit due to how quickly the average light changes frame to frame. Anything with local dim zones may struggle. I looked at ways to fix this but could not come up anything other than running a blur filter which ends up looking terrible.
Not sure how regenerative braking works if it doesn't disengage the accelerator when the brakes are pressed. Yes in this case the brakepads would be used, but I'd also expect the motor to be off.
