> The Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) (Japanese: 準天頂衛星システム, Hepburn: juntenchō eisei shisutemu), also known as Michibiki (みちびき, "guidance"), is a regional navigation satellite system (RNSS) and a satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) developed by the Japanese government to enhance the United States-operated Global Positioning System (GPS) in the Asia-Oceania regions, with a focus on Japan.
I wonder how much of this increase is solely enabled by TSMC process upgrades, either through higher clock speeds or increased number of transistors per core? It's kind of interesting that every iteration of the M series has corresponded to a change of TSMC process.
M1: 16 billion transistors at 3.2 GHz on TSMC N5
M2: 20 billion transistors at 3.7 GHz on TSMC N5P
M3: 25 billion transistors at 4.05 GHz on TSMC N3B
For me this is 45ms to transfer the 2 kB (compressed) of HTML; the whole process takes under 60ms total, which is pretty darn close to "instantaneous" for the "complete page reload."
EDIT: I'm in Texas, so most of this time is probably just round trip time to the west coast.
This was not paid with a check, but a cashier's check, and so the money would have already been gone from their account:
From the post:
> The car was paid for with a combination of card and CASHIER’S check. Cashiers check means the amount of money is withdrawn from the bank when it’s ISSUED not cashed. so no, we did not notice extra money sitting in our account because it had already been withdrawn.
To assist people with disabilities, you can request a little electronic reader that clips over the corner of the bill:
> the iBill Talking Bank Note Identifier, is now available free of charge from the Treasury Department to any US citizen who is blind or visually impaired.
> It can speak the dollar amount; it can produce a different pattern of tones for each denomination; or it can vibrate silently
> The United States is the only country that prints all denominations of currency in the same size. The US and Switzerland are the only two countries that use the same colors for all of their various bills.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-Zenith_Satellite_System