Published by Nighten on September 15, 2022 IMPORTANT NOTE: I found this article on my hard drive. It was probably written around April of this year. Even at the time I wasn't really comfortable with the form it took, but I'm too tired to rewrite the whole thing, and I still think the message is valuable. Let it be...

It's common for hifi amplifiers and speakers to have a power rating expressed in terms of "RMS watts". Although RMS amplitude is an important concept in electronic engineering, it's meaningless here, and should be avoided.

Read on the website: Security tip: You should use meta-programming abilities of your technology (I mostly mean programming languages there) as much as possible, and you should allow your users to program your program by exposing programming languages to them.