Not sure - the VGUI code in the Half-Life SDK was a bunch of header files and a .lib file but I'm not sure what actually implemented it. Back in the early 2000s I assume it was either Windows-specific or rendered using DirectX/OpenGL.
Interesting on the heels of the (supposed) failed bid from Microsoft. This would dramatically improve Playstation's cross-platform capabilities, as their games are increasingly going cross-play.
Last I heard, it still had not been determined who shot her. What makes you think the Secret Service was involved? They don't typically protect Congress.
Secret Service protect high-profile Congressmen and Senators. For example: Former first-ladies, presidential candidates, and others as appropriate. Hillary Clinton, for example, had an entourage of secret service agents wherever she went, including in the Capitol. Same with Obama leading up to the election.
TLDR: It's likely there are secret service members in the Captiol at any given time.
Does this apply to mobile app install ads? I just don't see how those products are accessible to consumers in the same way without the awareness driven by highly targeted, experimental ad campaigns. I'm thinking King.com or Supercell type companies.
Some devs from my company just recently published https://jkcfg.github.io/, building on lessons learned from many years of configuring Kubernetes. Since we are discussing JS for config management.
Heads up for your friends, the home page is not very legible on mobile and the menu doesn't work (when you click the icon it disappears and leaves no options).
My understanding of aquifers is that many of them take many years to fully replenish depending on their size and the makeup of the substrate. I remember a few years ago during the severe droughts there was much worry over aquifer depletion and land subsidence[1]. The primary concern was that certain soil types would compact permanently then no longer be able to hold water ever again. I doubt one season of heavy rainfall and snow melts solves that issue.
Many years being on the scale of tens to thousands of years. Cody did a great video on his channel showing confined aquifers, how they work, and why they recharge so slowly:
> Does this account for the massively depleted aquifers thoughout the state?
By definition, no. Though being drought free is enabling some parts of the state to actively pump water into aquifers beyond natural recovery, so they aren't unrelated.
Thank you for voicing this question. I think there's an excess of celebration for one wet year, when the long-term damages of drought are far from healed.
> “The reservoirs are full, lakes are full, the streams are flowing, there’s tons of snow,” said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist with the National Climatic Data Center at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “All the drought is officially gone.”
Yep. I personally know folks with a small ranch outside of Sacramento who had to dig down 90 feet to find water for their well. Hard to imagine that being replenished by a few rainy seasons.
Hmm maybe it was deeper. I remember being shocked at the time, but my memory of the scale may be significantly off. It was discussed in the context of "there is barely any water in this aquifer these days."
Snow is really important. It is quantified as “SWE” or snow water equivalent, the amount of water that would be released when the snow melts.
SWE is monitored by satellites, aircraft, and by in situ measurements like from snow pillows. In California, the state DWR tracks SWE to estimate reservoir influx.
I trust that the experts know the difference between permanent snow and annual melting. They use satellite pictures to determine how much water will be available after it melts.
Edit: If someone knows more about the planning process than I do, please chime in.
You say "It all melts", and then "I trust that the experts know the difference between permanent snow....".
I hypothesised satellite photos, I'm not sure if depth of snow is relevant for more than just volume, and whether you could get good estimates of depth (and density???) from a satellite.
A few years ago I read an article on Hacker news about the drought. It discussed the experts looking at satellite photos and then climbing to mountain tops to perform more detailed measurements.
Don't forget that modern satellites are topographical with a high degree of accuracy. We can use satellites to learn snowpack depth.
This is how we know that the aquifers are depleted because the satellites measure elevation above the aquifer.
