It makes sense to me to have low power chargers on a UPS. Once your power comes back online, it needs to deliver enough juice to power everything plugged into the UPS plus the battery charger. A fast charger would be more likely to trip a breaker.
Requests per second getting higher, and higher, then they level out – but the server is just barely hanging in there, frantically serving as many requests as it possibly can, and then all at once they come crashing down into warm, gentle waves of relaxing human pings.
Scientists are often criticized for giving prosaic names to the things they discover but I think they really knocked it out of the park with time crystals.
Arizona’s Health department reports an average of >400 heat related deaths every year; I think 400 tornado related deaths would be more likely to be understood as a natural disaster because you get footage of damaged buildings, on the ground interviews, etc. Heat deaths are quieter but I don’t think that makes them less of a disaster.
Fun side note, I was checking figures while I was writing this and Wikipedia cites NOAA when it says the US has an annual average of about 80 tornado related deaths nationally, which I thought was surprisingly low, but the noaa.gov link that wikipedia cites 404s 😕
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornadoes_in_the_United_States#Injuries_and_fatalities
I don’t even think a benevolent dictator would be all that great. Dictators are always at the mercy of the information they receive, so you’d also need a cabinet full of benevolent secretaries, who in turn would need agencies full of benevolent directors, who’d need benevolent managers, etc. I just don’t think autocracy is an efficient form of government regardless of intent. Checks on power exist to limit the damage that those entrusted with power can do, regardless of their intentions.
Around 2000, graphene was a very hot material. I was pretty excited by it and thought carbon-based high-Farad capacitors would essentially replace lead acid and lithium ion batteries in most consumer electronics within a decade, maybe two.
I can’t find a link to the study from the article but I think this is the publication they’re referring to.