Swiss Frank

Your photo even shows an airport-like utility vehicle, sure it's not an airport?! Even if a lot of the unit is based on aircraft I assume in some ways it's optimized for cost of production and maintenance over weight or size?

biggest markets for peaking units use European style 50 Hz grid frequency. As such, jet engine designers have incentive to design the N1 shaft speed to have 3000 RPM (50 Hz) as a "sweet spot I believe that TV's always got the VSYNC from the power lines as well: US TV's use 60Hz scans, Europe 50Hz. 50Hz flickered badly (not sure why movies don't?) so in the 90s "Flimmerfrei" sets that used a frame buffer and displayed it twice at 100Hz became popular. (May also explain why TV never as popular as in US.) So Japan has 50 AND 60Hz domestically, TV's always 60Hz. So they couldn't use mains.

It doesn't seem to be in his political interest to do this -- Narrowly and personally, if his voters like this action, it IS in his interest. More widely, if he feels that the US policy is broken in a way this action will get attention and correction for, again, it IS in his interest. He may be think that freezing temps are worse than the dangers of war that asylum seekers are escaping from, and as cruel as it is to make this busload a pawn, it may be to the ultimate greater good. (Note I am responding to post, not discussing with others, and am not speaking for or against this policy.)

> Times change, so do ordinary definitions. But these do not automatically make their way into the laws that were written before the change occurred. So you'd say the second amendment applies to muzzle-loading flintlocks but nothing newer?

Sure, Monty. My comment is in the context of someone naively coding the calculation right but not doing the details you mention.

"Any input that I try that is longer or shorter than 8 characters will take a tiny bit less time to complete than any other input." It's worse than that. What a caller can do is align each password letter as the last byte of a mapped page of memory and call your function. When he's guessed the right first byte, an access to the second byte page faults and crashes... Caller now knows the first byte of the password and can repeat to guess the second, and so on

@bwDraco, interesting about the SoundFont editor. I wasn't into synthesis much between 1994 and 2012 or so so missed that era. But since then I've been developing the modular-style software synthesizer Moselle (free download on moselle-synth.com). While the synth is powerful there are almost no "presets" and once I heard of SoundFonts, I thought maybe I should add support for that format...